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Kimmel takes on sales for Paper Man with Daniels, Reynolds
Kimmel International will commence sales at AFM on the coming-of-age tale Paper Man starring Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and Lisa Kudrow.Michele and Kieran Mulroney make their directorial debut on the film; they recently co-wrote the DC Comics' adaptation Justice League for Warner Bros.Paper Man chronicles the unlikely ...
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Forward Motion acquires worldwide rights to For My Father
Toronto-based Forward Motion has acquired worldwide rights to the Israeli thriller For My Father from Israel's Praxis Films and Spring Hill Entertainment and Germany's Relevant Film. The film screens in competition at the Hamptons International Film Festival this week.Dror Zahavi's film has toured the European festival circuit and earned seven ...
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Number One With A Bullet to open Hollywood Film Festival
The West Coast premiere of Jim Dziura's gun violence and hip-hop documentary Number One With A Bullet and the world premiere of Jeremy Benson's horror film Live Animals bookend the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival, scheduled for October 22-26.Among the line-up of 70 films are the centerpiece screenings of Fashion ...
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Twilight's Rathbone joins cast of Clive Barker adaptation Dread
Twilight cast member Jackson Rathbone has joined the cast of UK-based Matador Pictures and LA-based Midnight Picture Show's Clive Barker adaptation Dread, which has begun five-week principal photography in the UK.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment holds worldwide rights and will commence sales at AFM in Santa Monica next month on the ...
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Toho reaches $600m milestone in nine months
Japan's Toho Studios, the territory's largest distributor, has reached combined box office earnings of Y60.01bn ($599.4m) in the first nine months of 2008. The figure sees Toho have its best year in history for the third year in a row, topping its previous earnings of Y59.51bn ($594.3m) last year. Toho ...
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Japan's Gaga picks up Third World Cop
Gaga Communications has picked up Japanese rights to Third World Cop from London-based sales outfit The Film Company.The Film Co also used Mifed to sell Stephen King's The Night Flier to Aditya for India, Lady Ninja to SBS Australia and Remote Control to Comedy for Australia. UK thriller Going Off ...
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Snow, Rumba and Synecdoche, New York, in Zagreb competition
The Zagreb Film Festival has announced the films in competition for its sixth edition.Entries featured in competition are first or second films by their directors, and fall into three sections: features, documentaries and shorts. The festival runs from October 19-25.Films already receiving attention from the feature competition programme include Charlie ...
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Max Payne
Dir: John Moore. US. 2008. 100 mins.As shiny and hollow as its used shell cases, Max Payne doesn't have much to offer beyond a recycled noir attitude and a progressively violent story that plays out rather predictably. Based on the popular video game of the same name, this action-thriller starring ...
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Pretty Pictures acquires Richard Eyre's The Other Man for France
Richard Eyre's The Other Man has been acquired for France by Pretty Pictures.The deal was concluded between James Velaise of French distribution company Pretty Pictures and Natalie Brenner of Ealing Studios.The Other Man has created good festival buzz, having premiered at Toronto and opened the San Sebastian Film Festival. It ...
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New York Critics to announce annual awards on Dec 10
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) will hold its annual vote on the year's best in film on December 10 and the awards ceremony will take place at Spotlight in New York City on January 5 2009.The group's outgoing chair and Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum also announced that ...
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Taraji Henson takes lead in No More Bloodshed
Taraji Henson, who recently starred in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys, will star in the quirky thriller No More Bloodshed that is set to begin shooting in Los Angeles in March 2009.The film centres on a paroled hit man determined to change his life and reclaim the son he's ...
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LongTale International picks up international on Strathairn drama
LongTale International has acquired international rights to Eithor/Or Films' off-beat drama The Sensation of Sight starring David Strathairn.Aaron J Wiederspahn directed the story about a middle-aged English teacher's search for meaning amid the ache of despair.Jane Adams, Ann Cusak, Elisabeth Waterston, Joe Mazzello, and Scott Wilson round out the key ...
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Eurocinema's Namer to give keynote at China conference
VOD service Eurocinema's head of North American operations Larry Namer will give the keynote speech along with News Corp Europe chairman I Martin Pompadur at China's first International Media And Technology Conference, which runs from October 22-25.The symposium is co-sponsored by the China Radio And Television Association (CRTA) and the ...
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Vine sells Superstition to Germany, Spain
Vine International has clocked up a handful of key sales on Superstition, its supernatural suspense thriller which is now shooting in Amsterdam. At Mifed it clinched a sale to Germany with Atlas Film + Medien, to Spain with VTF and to Poland with NVC. Vine said it was also in ...
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BSkyB on course for five millions subscribers
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is set to reach its target of five million subscribers almost two months ahead of schedule.The broadcaster has notched up more than 4.7 million direct-to-home subscribers, of which more than four million were digital customers. BSkyB had aimed to reach five million by the end of ...
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Kenny Glenaan's Summer tops BAFTA Scotland film nominations
The Kenny Glenaan drama Summer leads the film nominations for this year's BAFTA Scotland awards. Click to see Screen review.Summer is one of three contenders for Best Film and has also secured nominations for Robert Carlyle's central performance and for Best Director. Carlyle stars a a middle-aged man facing up ...
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Oscilloscope takes worldwide on Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken worldwide rights to Jay Delaney's documentary Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie and will release it today [October 17] at the Pioneer Theater in New York and on DVD in winter 2009.The film is styled as a buddy movie about Bigfoot researchers Wayne Burton and Dallas Gilbert ...
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Ricci, Neeson to star in After.Life for Lleju Productions, Plum Pictures
Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson will star in the psychological thriller After.Life for venture capitalist Bill Perkins' new LLeju Productions and Plum Pictures.ICM packaged and arranged financing for the project through Perkins and represents Ricci and writer and first time director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. ICM holds North American rights and IM ...
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Fox looks to lead international as Max Payne shoots into 32 territories
Fox International ruled the roost last weekend with Andrei Kravchuk's The Admiral and will look to hold on to its winning ways with the wide day-and-date launch of the video game adaptation Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg.The action film breaks into 32 territories this weekend, among them Australia, New Zealand, ...
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Singapore's Raintree partners with Irresistible Films
Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is to become the third partner inHong Kong-basedfilm fund, Irresistible Films, alongside producer Bill Kong and Japan's Avex Group. Raintreewill contribute a third share of the $25m fundwhich aims to invest in four to six Asian films a year, with budgets ranging between $1m-$3m, directed by ...