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Clubland producers form Goalpost Pictures Australia
The Australian producers behind Clubland and the upcoming Elise, starring songstress Natalie Imbruglia, have formed a production company Goalpost Pictures Australia.The outfit has UK sales agency and executive producers Goalpost Film as a minority shareholder.Long-term partners Rosemary Blight, Ben Grant, Kylie du Fresne and Cass O'Connor are the principals in ...
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THINKFILM Intl takes on sales for Down And Dirty Pictures, Radford's Mula
UK-based sales company THINKFilm International, the sister company to Capitol Films, has taken on two new projects for its Cannes sales slate. The company has taken on international rights to Michael Radford's La Mula and Ken Bowser's Down and Dirty Pictures. La Mula stars Spanish rising talents Oscar Jaenada and ...
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Maximum takes Quinzaine title Boogie for the world
Maximum Films International (MFI) has picked up world sales rights on Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean's Quinzaine selection Boogie. The story of a man vacationing with his wife and child who has a crisis of lost youth when he encounters old friends at the same resort, the film stars Dragos Bucur, ...
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Harrison Ford confirms lead in Intermedia's K-19
Harrison Ford has confirmed that he will star in his first independently distributed movie - cold war submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker to be financed and distributed by Intermedia. The film, which immediately jumps to the top of buyers' hit lists for London Screenings and MIFED, is to be directed ...
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Herbig, Wortmann and Davaa receive support from Bavarian fund
New films by leading German comedian Michael Bully Herbig, Soenke Wortmann, and Oscar-nominated documentary film-maker Byambasuren Davaa (The Story Of The Weeping Camel and The Cave of The Yellow Dog) are among 25 film and TV projects supported with $9.4m (Euros 6.1m) by Bavaria's FFF Bayern regional fund at its ...
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Films Distribution picks up Salamandra
Films Distribution has picked up Directors' Fortnight selection Salamandra by director Pablo Aguero heading into the Cannes Film Festival.The company will handle world sales on the feature debut which is also in contention for the Camera d'Or.Films Distribution co-founder Nicolas Brigaud Robert tells ScreenDaily, 'The director and the cinematography are ...
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Cannes Buzz: Out Of Competition
OUT OF COMPETITIONIndiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skill (US)Dir: Steven SpielbergThe story: The fourth instalment in the series - which arrives 19 years after the third - is set in 1957 and pits Indy against agents of the Soviet Union.The cast: Harrison Ford, of course, alongside the ...
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Iron Man soars above competition at North American box office
Iron Man battered the competition for the second consecutive weekend as an estimated $50.5m haul through Paramount Pictures raised the running total to $177.1m.The result consolidated the Marvel Studios adaptation as the season's first bona fide blockbuster and relegated new openers Speed Racer from Warner Bros and What Happens In ...
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Iron Man continues to rule in international with $32.5m in PPI grosses
Paramount Pictures International's (PPI) Iron Man went head-to-head with two new potential blockbusters in the overseas arena at the weekend and emerged relatively unscathed as the clear winner despite scorching heat across many parts of Europe.The comic book adaptation added an estimated $32.5m from 5,557 sites in 57 PPI territories, ...
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PorchLight takes on Tribeca audience winner Emmanuel Jai: War Child
PorchLight Entertainment has taken on international rights to Wilson Coneybeare's children's tale Gooby and Christian Karim Chrobog's recent Tribeca Film Festival audience award winner Emmanuel Jal: War Child.The Los Angeles-based production and distribution company will also arrive on the Croisette with James Moll's documentary Running The Sahara, on which Matt ...
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The Film Sales Company takes on Pierce's horror thriller Victim
Andrew Herwitz' Film Sales Company has boarded several new titles heading in to Cannes including the horror thriller Victim.Michael Pierce's film concerns a shadowy man who is abducted and transformed into something he never believed he could become. Pierce produced through his company Pierce Williams along with Mark Williams.The line-up ...
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Xenon Pictures buys domestic rights to Amexicano
Xenon Pictures has paid mid-six figures for North American rights to Matthew Bonifacio's Amexicano starring 2008 Grammy nominee Jennifer Pena.Xenon plans a late spring or summer release on the story of an illegal immigrant who bonds with a blue-collar worker from Queens, New York.The drama premiere at Tribeca 2007 and ...
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Flueger, Perlman, Manning, Pantoliano star in The Job
Principal photography is set to begin this week in Detroit on the darkly comic thriller The Job starring Patrick Flueger, Ron Perlman, Taryn Manning and Joe Pantoliano.Shem Bitterman will direct from his own screenplay adaptation of his stage play of the same name about a young man who undertakes a ...
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BBC Films to give UK producers 30% of its actual equity recoupment
BBC Films announced today that it will create a corridor for UK producers to access 30% of the actual equity recoupment that BBC Films receives on a project.The move comes as part of some key changes to the deal terms offered to UK film producers, and has been warmly welcomed ...
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Princess, Baise-Moi to compete at Gijon
Tom Tykwer's The Princess And The Warrior, controversial French film Baise-Moi and US indie title Chuck And Buck are among the titles that will compete in the official section of this year's Gijon International Film Festival in Spain. The festival, which takes place November 24 - December 1, is known ...
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Edko to launch Claustrophobia at Cannes
Hong Kong-based Edko Films will commence international sales at Cannes on Claustrophobia, which is one of the first films to be backed by Irresistible Films, a film fund established by Bill Kong and Japan's Avex Group Holdings. The film is the directorial debut of award-winning screenwriter Ivy Ho (July Rhapsody). ...
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Dorman, Barclayjoin cast of Caesar's Prime Mover
Australian writer/director David Caesar (Dirty Deeds) has started production on Prime Mover, starring Michael Dorman and New Zealand's Emily Barclay. Prime mover is a term used in Australia for the huge semi-trailer trucks that thunder along outback roads. The film is billed as a diesel-charged love story about a young ...
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Madagascar sequel set for IMAX release
DreamWorks Animation SKG will release Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa on IMAX day and date with its worldwide conventional release November 7, 2008. It will be the fifth DreamWorks Animation title to be released in large-format between June 2008, when Kung Fu Panda is released, and May 2010. The film will ...
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Aimee Anderson to join DDA for corporate publicity
Aimee Anderson will join pr firm DDA as account director, corporate publicity.The hire was announced by DDA Public Relations executive vice president Lawrence Atkinson.Anderson will work with corporate clients including Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group, Entertainment One, Hewlett Packard, Halcyon, Atlas Entertainment, Shangri-La, Ealing Studios and the Dubai International Film ...
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Platinum teams with Top Cow, Arclight on feature of Witchblade
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios has partnered with Top Cow Productions and film sales company Arclight Films on the adaptation of Top Cow's fantasy thriller comic book franchise Witchblade.The producers expect begin shooting in September in Australia. Plot details are being kept under wraps although what is known that the property ...