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Trust picks up Selby's latest cult adaptation
Zentropa's international sales arm, Trust Film Sales, has picked up worldwide rights excluding Scandinavia to Fear The X, the English-language debut from Danish writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn.The thriller shoots in the US and Rio from February 2001 on a $6.5m budget. The script is written by Winding Refn and cult ...
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Toronto International Film Festival news and reviews
The latest news and reviews from Screen's team at the Toronto International Film Festival.Updated daily Toronto StoriesUpdated daily Toronto Reviews Updated daily Toronto Sales
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Goldwyn acquires US rights to Rachel Samuels' Dark Streets
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Rachel Samuels' stage adaptation Dark Streets, which won a special jury prize at CineVegas earlier this year.Gabriel Mann, Bijou Phillips, Izabella Miko, Elias Koteas and Toledo star in the tale of a 1930s playboy and nightclub owner caught in a love triangle ...
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Paramount Vantage picks up sales rights to Jordan's Ondine
Paramount Vantage has boarded international sales on Neil Jordan's fantasy romance Ondine starring Colin Farrell, Stephen Rea and Alicja Bachleda and will commence pre-sales here.The film is currently shooting in Ireland and stars Farrell as a fisherman who catches a woman from the sea whom his daughter believes is a ...
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Production begins on The Butterfly Effect: Revelation
Production has begun in Detroit on BenderSpink, FilmEngine and After Dark Films' sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect: Revelation.Chris Carmack stars as a young man who travels back in time to track down the killer of an old love and winds up unleashing a serial killer on an unsuspecting world. Rachel ...
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Regent buys Mendoza's Serbis for US from Fortissimo
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Filipino film-maker Brillante Mendoza's drama Serbis, which will get its North American premiere here.Serbis follows the exploits of a Filipino family that runs a dilapidated porn theatre and was the first Filipino film to play in competition in Cannes ...
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Metrodome takes on Caine, Moore thriller Flawless
Metrodome Distribution has acquired full UK rights to Michael Radford's Flawless, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore. The deal was negotiated by Stephen Margolis of Future Films andMark WilliamsatPierce/Williams Entertainment, and for Metrodome by CEO Peter Urie, General Manager Distribution Sara Frain and Business Affairs Manager Kate Edwards.Metrodome plans a ...
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Plastic City set for new edit after Venice, Toronto screenings
Celluloid Dreams has confirmed that the version of Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City screening here in Toronto Special Presentations is an 'unfinished' version.After the post-production was rushed for the world premiere in Venice, the sales company will work with the film-makers after Toronto to recut the film.Gordon Spragg, Celluloid Dreams' director ...
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Paul Allen's Vulcan to make film on life of George Washington
Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions has signed Nicholas Meyer to write a screenplay about the life of George Washington.Nick Wechsler is attached to produce with Richard Hutton and Michael Caldwell on behalf of Vulcan.'Washington was the indispensible man, the physical embodiment of America's revolutionary ideals and identity,' Allen said. 'As ...
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Fiennes to direct River Road's Coriolanus in Serbia
River Road Entertainment will film a modern-day version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Serbia. Ralph Fiennes will direct and play the lead in the film and was part of a USAID group that evaluated Serbia as a location for shooting this film in July.The film is a tragedy based on the ...
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Keitel, Warren head up Mai's US debut
Harvey Keitel and Leslie Ann Warren head the cast of Snatch, the first film to be produced in the US by Denmark's Thomas Mai.The $4m satirical comedy is set to shoot in January, under the direction of Cecilia Miniucchi, director of Selena Remembered and Nitsch 98. The film is a ...
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Strand takes US rights to Terence Davies' Of Time And The City
Strand Releasing has picked up US rights from Hanway Films to Terence Davies' Of Time And The City.The Hurricane Films production premiered at Cannes and receives its North American premiere here on Sunday [Sept 7]. Davies narrates a deeply personal tribute to his home town and uses archival footage and ...
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Jamie Babbit to direct Breaking The Girl for Myriad
Principal photography is set to commence in Vancouver in November on Myriad Pictures' erotic thriller Breaking The Girl with Brittany Snow in talks to star.Jamie Babbit will direct from a story by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner about a young college woman's disastrous plot to kill a rival student.Myriad is ...
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UK minority film-makers join Toronto Talent Lab
The UK film industry has selected Juliet Ellis and Robert Samuels as its two black, Asian or minority ethnic film-makers to participate in Toronto's Talent Lab (Sept 3-6).Samuels is currently developing The Amazing Labours of Arthur Glass with Film4.This marks the second year that UK training body Skillset has partnered ...
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Sunshine Barry boogies with Baltics, Benelux, India
Sola Media has sold 3-D animation Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms to more territories including the Baltics (AMCE), Benelux (Independent Films) and India (VMI).Thomas Borch Nielsen's film has its world premiere here in with public screenings starting Sept 7. Sola previously booked sales for 40 countries including Brazil (Imagem), ...
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Jordan enters Oscars for first time with Captain Abu Raed
The list of submissions for the Foreign Language Oscar keeps growing as Jordan officially submits Captain Abu Raed by Amin Matalqa.Jordan's independent submission committee selected the festival hit, which marks Jordan's first entry for the Oscars.H.E. Mr. Munir Nassar, chairman of the Oscar Submission Committee for Jordan, said: 'These are ...
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The Works on board for Rachel Ward's feature debut Beautiful Kate
The Works International has taken on world sales for Rachel Ward's Beautiful Kate. Ward's feature directorial debut is based on the novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg.Beautiful Kate is a story of dark family secrets in the Australian outback - told in parallel strands of past and present ...