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You Kill Me to close CineVegas
John Dahl's You Kill Me Starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni will close the ninth annual CineVegas Film Festival, which runs at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas from June 6-16.As previously announced, Ocean's Thirteen will open the event, which includes the new Mexican sidebar La Proxima Ola.'Opening with such ...
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NY-based Visit establishes boutique sales arm
Visit Films, the New York-based production company run by former Focus Features International distribution executive Ryan Kampe and commercials producer and creative executive Sylvain Tron, has launched the boutique sales agency Visit Sales.The company will specialise in finding foreign distribution channels for independent American projects and the partners will attend ...
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MPAA cracks down on smoking in films
The Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) ratings board is getting tough on smoking in film.Until now the ratings board has regarded sex, violence, adult language and illegal smoking among teens as the elements most likely to incur its wrath.However, an edict delivered today stressed than all depiction of smoking ...
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Horizon swims with shark documentary hit
Vancouver-based sales agency Horizon Motion Pictures has picked up international rights to Rob Stewart's animal conservation documentary Sharkwater and will commence sales in Cannes.The film is on course to cross C$1m in Canada after launching there recently, and follows Stewart as he highlights the threats faced by sharks from poachers ...
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Cattaneo to direct first US film, The Rocker
Oscar-nominated Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo is to direct his first US film, The Rocker. Rainn Wilson, who starred in the US version of television hit The Office, is in negotiations to play the lead role as an over-the-hill drummer who gets a second chance at fame with a new ...
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Singapore's Lighthouse enters sales with Solos
Following its withdrawal from last month's Singapore International Film Festival after being censored for its gay theme and explicit sex, Singapore drama Solos will make its market debut in Cannes through Lighthouse Pictures. As part of its aim to venture into international sales, the Singapore independent distributor will handle the ...
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Rome to premiere Coppola's Youth Without Youth
Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth has been confirmed for a world premiere at the secondRome Film Festival, which runs Oct 18-27. 'It is both an honor and a great pleasure to debut Youth Without Youth at the Rome Film Festival. I have worked in Italy extensively, both in Sicily ...
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Icon takes on international sales for The Stanford Prison Experiment
Icon Entertainment International has acquired the international sales rights to The Stanford Prison Experiment, which Maverick Films/Infinity Features will start shooting in October 2007. The feature is based on the true story of Philip Zimbardo's groundbreaking 1971 study of human psychology at Stanford University, during which 18 young men assumed ...
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NonStop picks up Irish titles Ghostwood and Speed Dating
Stockholm-based international sales agent, NonStop Films, is increasingly focusing on English-language product, and has picked up two Irish features to top its slate for the upcoming Cannes Market, including Justin O'Brien's Ghostwood and Tony Herbert's Speed Dating. 'We may be a Scandinavian company, but we are supplying a market which ...
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High Point Films takes on Greg Hall's The Plague
London-based sales company High Point Film has added Greg Hall's The Plague to its slate ahead of Cannes. High Point has picked up world rights outside the UK, where distributor Wysiwyg Films has already released the project theatrically. Mike Leigh called the film 'a remarkable breath of fresh air.' It ...
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Momentum's Suen joins Aramid as chief operating officer
Aramid Capital Partners has appointed Yu Fai Suen as chief operating officer. Aramid is the large new new film fund comprised of financiers Future Films, Screen Capital International and Stonehenge Capital. Suen had been senior VP operations for Europe at Momentum Pictures, where he had been for nine years. He ...
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Fandango, RAI start shoot for Calm Chaos starring Nanni Moretti
Principal shooting of Calm Chaos (Caos Calmo) has begun in Rome this week. Produced by Fandango and RAI Cinema the picture is directed by Antonello Grimaldi and stars Nanni Moretti who also adapted the screenplay from the award-winning book by Sandro Veronesi. Calm Chaos marks a rare turn for Moretti ...
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Tarantino on board for Venice's Spaghetti Westerns retrospective
The Venice Film Festival will feature a retrospective of Spaghetti Westerns as part of the Secret History of Italian Cinema 4 sidebar, the biennale said Friday. The sidebar - in it's forth edition has spawned parallel initiatives like the Secret History of Asian Cinema (2005) and Secret History of Russian ...
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Redbus, Warner strike video pact
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution has struck a video and DVD deal with Warner Home Video, which gives the company sole rights to distribute and market up to 25 titles a year until 2003. The deal kicks off with Academy Award-winning documentary One Day In September.Other films to go through ...
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Nordisk picks up three features including The Art Of Negative Thinking
Having sold Norwegian director Joachim Trier's award-winning Reprise to 20 countries, Nordisk Film International Sales has picked up another three Norwegian features, launching one - Bard Breien's debut drama, The Art of Negative Thinking - in the Cannes Market. 'There is currently a lot of focus on Norwegian cinema,' explained ...
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The Works to handle international sales for Bahrani's Chop Shop
The Works International has taken on several new films ahead of Cannes. They include Directors Fortnight title Chop Shop, from Man Push Cart director Ramin Bahrani. The story follows a young immigrant boy who works in a New York junkyard. Lisa Muskat produced with Marc Turtletaub and Jeb Brody of ...
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Optimum strikes UK deals for Incendiary and Rise Of The Footsoldier
Ahead of Cannes, UK distributor Optimum has picked up two new films: they are Sharon Maguire's Incendiary and Julian Gilbey's Rise Of The Footsoldier. Optimum acquired Incendiary, a Film4-backed project, from producer Archer Street Films (Capitol is handling sales in Cannes). The project stars Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor and Matthew ...
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Editorial - Screen says - dividing the spoils
Multi-award winning screenwriter William Nicholson this week related a fundamental truth he has learned about the film industry. "If you want power over your work, be prepared to take the risks and pay the money." His advice to screenwriters demanding greater financial, moral and creative power over their work is ...
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In focus - Specialty divisions - Niche labels reveal new look
These are changing times for the specialised divisions of the Hollywood studios. Over the past two years, Fox Searchlight and Universal's Focus Features have restructured their management teams, Warner Independent Pictures has replaced its president, Disney's Miramax Films has started a new life without Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and Paramount ...
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United States - From Coast To Coast
GreeneStreet Films International (Gsfi) chief Ariel Veneziano's decision to move from New York to Los Angeles last October underscores the strides the division has taken.In the last year or so Veneziano has worked furiously to beef up the sales arm of John Penotti and Fisher Stevens' New York-based GreeneStreet Films, ...