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NewsRadical Publishing takes 20% in Asia’s Storm Lion
LA-based Radical Publishing, which is busy setting up adaptations of its comic book imprint Radical Comics around Hollywood, has acquired a 20% stake in Singapore’s media conglomerate, Storm Lion.
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NewsKounen to discover The Secret Histories Of The Dalai Lama
Returning to the Far East after his foray into the love life of fashion icon Coco Chanel, Jan Kounen will head to Tibet to shoot The Secret Histories Of The Dalai Lama.
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NewsNew Moon shines as Cannes buyers snap up commercial fare
As Cannes 2009 approached its final days a clear picture emerged of the haves and have-nots, as streamlined teams of buyers focused in on broadly commercial fare with theatrical potential.
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NewsIFC scores US rights to Loach’s Looking For Eric
IFC Films has swooped on US rights from Wild Bunch to Ken Loach’s competition crowd-pleaser Looking For Eric following its world premiere on Monday (May 18).
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NewsTrustNordisk signs deals on Antichrist despite mixed reviews
Days after the stormy screening of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, a film that fiercely divided critics, two major deals have been concluded on the film.
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NewsFocus signs Ole Bornedal to direct The Husband
Focus Features has signed Ole Bornedal to direct the thriller The Husband, based on the bestselling Dean Koontz novel.
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NewsBuena Onda, Orient Group collaborate on Latin American features
Buena Onda producer Donald K Ranvaud has formed a partnership with Syrian company The Orient Group, headed by humanitarian and Unesco award winner Nabil Toumeh.
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NewsRoseblood to produce next Bret Easton Ellis project
Myriad Pictures and RKO Pictures’ genre division The Roseblood Movie Company are co-financing and producing a film based on an original screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis
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NewsSiritzky seeks new Emmanuelle for 3D feature
Veteran French-American producer Alain Siritzky is lining up a 3D version of Emmanuelle almost 35 years after he boarded the erotic franchise.
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NewsAgness Deyn trips into Matthew Greenhalgh's directing debut
English screenwriter Matthew Greenhalgh, whose credits include Nowhere Boy and Control, is making his first foray into film directing with short film Acid Burn.
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NewsUK’s Jinga closes deals on horror flick Salvage
UK sales agent Jinga Films has closed sales on Lawrence Gough’s horror film Salvage for Germany (MIG Films) Middle East (Italia) and Japan.
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NewsEntertainment 7 delivers sales on Baby On Board
Entertainment 7, Emilio Ferrari’s Los Angeles-based production and distribution company, has closed sales on the comedy Baby On Board, which stars John Corbett, Heather Graham, Jerry O’Connell and Lara Flynn Boyle
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NewsNew Films closes deals with Falcon, BBI
New Films International has sold a seven-title package to Falcon Films in the Middle East for Witch Hunt,P.V.C.-1, Mysterious Hearts,Peter And Vandy, Camp Hope, Circle, and Keepsake.
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European Film Awards to be announced at Seville
The nominations for thisyear's European Film Awards will be announced at the Seville Film Festival onSunday.The event (November 4-12)will also host the presentation of the European actors selected for ShootingStars 2005.Seville's festival is decicatedtedentirely to European cinema, with 160 films and $290,000in prizes for the Spanish distributors of winning titles. ...
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Celluloid boards Oz mockumentary Razzle Dazzle
A newmockumentary Razzle Dazzle promises to lift the lid on the spangle-clad world of children'sdance troupes. The project, just added to Celluloid Dreams' AFM slate, is beingscripted by Carolyn Wilson and longtime Ricky Gervais collaborator Robin Ince.from an original story by Daren Ashton and Carolyn Wilson.The $1.5 millionfeature will shoot ...
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Star stalls on joint venture with HKT
The future of a pay-TV and Internet joint venture between Star TV and Cable & Wireless HKT has been cast into doubt after Star TV questioned the viability of the proposal.Star TV, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and a leading provider of satellite programming in South-East Asia, said ...
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Chris Davis adds Infection, Shock'n'Awe to slate
Chris Davis International (CDI) has added five new titles forbuyers at AFM, headed up by Filmwerks' bio-terror picture Infection from director Albert Pyun, which isclose to a domestic deal.Ron Perlman is attached to star in the $5m Shock 'n' Awe, a story of three brilliant teenagerswho test the boundaries of ...
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2929's Magnolia launches US home entertainment division
Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban have slotted in the home entertainmentpiece of their 2929 Entertainment distribution jigsaw with the launch ofMagnolia Home Entertainment (MHE).Former Miramax vice president of home entertainment Randy Wellswill head up the division, which will handle distribution for Magnolia Picturestitles, HDNet Films projects, select projects from HDNet ...
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Dream picks up international on Sorry, Haters
Dream Entertainment has picked up international rights fromCinetic Media to Jeff Stanzler's psychological thriller Sorry, Haters starring Robin Wright Penn.The InDigEnt production was produced by Stanzler, Jake Abraham,Karen Jaroneski and Gary Winick, and received its world premiere at Toronto.The post-9/11 tale stars Penn as an anxious professional whoselife takes a ...