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Films from Reygadas and Aguilera top Bac's Cannes slate
Continuing its move into international sales, Bac Films is coming to Cannes this year with Silent Light in competition, La Influencia in the Fortnight and a stream of new offerings. The sales arm of Bac Films will be selling Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light; a love story set in Mexico. Reygadas' ...
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Pellington to direct Henry Poole Is Here for Lakeshore
Los Angeles-based Lakeshore Entertainment is teaming up for the fourth time with director Mark Pellington on the drama Henry Poole Is Here starring Luke Wilson.Joint senior vice presidents of international sales Jonathan Deckter and Elisabeth Costa De Beauregard will begin sales in Cannes next week on the story of a ...
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GSFI gets Expired for worldwide sales
GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) will arrive in Cannes buoyed by the acquisition of worldwide rights to Cecilia Miniucchi's Critics Week romantic comedy Expired.Sales chief Ariel Veneziano will introduce to the project to buyers at the market next week. Expired stars Samantha Morton and Jason Patric as diametrically opposed characters who ...
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United to offload remaining television assets
United News & Media is focusing on its core market information business as it disposes of its TV interests, chief executive Lord Hollick has announced.Hollick aims to eliminate the group's debt after an agreement last month to sell its ITV assets to rival Granada Media for £1.75bn. The move will ...
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Sundance Channel takes Film Movement's Man
North American distributor Film Movement has licensed Jose Henrique Fonseca's Brazilian crime caper Man Of The Year (O Homem Do Ano) to the Sundance Channel.Man Of The Year tells the story of an ordinary person who is propelled into destiny after the seemingly innocuous act of dying his hair blond.Murilo ...
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Smart joins Malloy in swing dance romance Love N Dancing
Amy Smart will join Tom Malloy and a cast of swing dancing champions in Trick Candle Productions and Dolger Films' West Coast swing dance romance Love N' Dancing.Robert Iscove will direct from a screenplay by Malloy about a bored English teacher and her swing dancing instructor who fall in love ...
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Venice to celebrate 75th with tribute to Kluge
The Venice Film Festival will celebrate its Jubilee in 2007 - 75 years since it's founding - on August 6, 1932 on the Lido of Venice.As the world's oldest film festival, Venice will mark the jubilee with an event dedicated to Alexander Kluge, the German director (also 75 years old), ...
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Ocean's Thirteen to open ninth annual CineVegas
The ninth annual CineVegas Film Festival that runs in Las Vegas from Jun 6-16 will open with Ocean's Thirteen following the film's out of competition screening in Cannes.Ocean's Thirteen producer Jerry Weintraub will be presented with the Vanguard Producer Award during the opening night festivities at the Palms Casino, the ...
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Little, Lightning team up to sell Fan-Demanium
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution companies Lightning Entertainment and The Little Film Company have jointly acquired international sales rights to football documentary Fan-Demanium.The parties will commence sales at Cannes next week on the project, which shot during the 2006 World Cup in Germany and follows 10 fans from around the ...
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Cotter's Continental signs option to board non-Warner Initial films
Continental Pictures, Colin Cotter's recently announced financing and sales company, has signed a deal with Initial Entertainment Group, in which Cotter is still a partner, whereby Continental will have the option to board Initial projects not taken up by Warner Bros under its first-look studio deal.Continental is Cotter's new initiative ...
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Son Of Rambow to open Seattle Film Festival
The 33rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) will kick off with Garth Jennings' coming-of-age drama Son Of Rambow and close with the North American premiere of Laurent Tirard's period comedy Moliere.All in all 405 features will screen during the May 24-Jun 17 festival. Events include the new Planet Cinema ...
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Roadside deal with Goldwyn/IDP comes to an end
Samuel Goldwyn Films announced yesterday that its three-year deal to provide marketing and distribution servicing to Roadside Attractions through its theatrical releasing arm IDP Distribution has come to an end.IDP Distribution and its staff will continue to distribute Goldwyn's theatrical film releases in the United States.Roadside Attraction co-president Howard Cohen ...
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American World signs international rights to Codeblack slate
Mark Lester's Los Angles-based American World Pictures (AWP) has struck a deal to sell foreign rights to African-American-owned studio Codeblack Entertainment's slate at Cannes.The eight-strong Codeblack roster includes The Hit starring Blair Underwood and James Russo, I Tried starring Bone Thugs and Harmony, Flip The Script starring Robin Givens, and ...
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Francois Velle to direct The Narrows for Serenade
Serenade Films has signed Francois Velle to direct the drama The Narrows, which is set to begin filming in New York later this month.The Narrows stars Kevin Zegers as a 22-year-old Brooklyn man that dreams of escaping his family's criminal roots and becoming a photographer.Vincent D'Onofrio, Sophia Bush, Eddie Cahill ...
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La Comunidad to open San Sebastian
Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's fifth film, La Comunidad, will open this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 21-30), outgoing festival director Diego Galan has confirmed.The choice is unusual as San Sebastian does not traditionally open with a Spanish title, particularly a genre title such as La Comunidad. ...
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Kitaro sets opening week box office record for Shochiku
Live-action creature feature Kitaro has become producer-distributor Shochiku's highest-grossing first week release ever. Released on April 28 on 339 screens, Kitaro earned $8.5m (Y1.02bn), achieving the standard Y1bn mark of a box office hit faster than any previous release in the studio's history. Kitaro opened in the number two position, ...
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Hong Kong's first IMAX cinema to open with Panda Adventure
Hong Kong 's first IMAX cinema, the seven-screen UA MegaBox, is set to open in June withthe screening of large-format title China: The Panda Adventure. The 50-minute film is being screened to tie in with the 10-year anniversary of Hong Kong 's reunification with China and the arrival of pandas ...
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Warner Bros signs Hong Kong VoD deal with Video Online
Start-up video-on-demand operator VideoOnline Communications has signed a multi-year VoD and subscription VoD agreement with Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) for Hong Kong rights to all current feature-length films in addition to hundreds of library titles. The agreement allows VideoOnline to offer legal downloads of Warner Bros content through ...
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India's Seven ramps up with Moser Baer backing
Mumbai-based producer Seven Entertainment is making its Cannes debut with an expanded line-up of independent pictures, just a few months after securing backing from optical disc manufacturer Moser Baer. The company is currently ramping up production after sealing a $10m deal with the industrial giant in February to produce 12 ...
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China's May holiday box office increases by 50%
Box office receipts during China 's May 'Golden Week' holiday period increased by 50%, mostly due to the date-and-date release of Spider-Man 3, according to local distributors and cinema owners. During the May 1-7 holiday period, when the whole of China gets time off from school or work, box office ...