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Aja signs on to Gold Circle, Craven, Rogue horror
HotFrench horror director Alex Aja has signed to direct The Waiting, a supernatural horror thriller that is being puttogether by Gold Circle and Wes Craven and set to open in North America throughRogue Pictures in March. MandatePictures is handling international sales on the Gold Circle Films andCraven/Maddalena production about a ...
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Canada's Cianciotta leaves Capri Releasing
Tony Cianciotta has leftToronto-based Capri Releasing, the 18-month old distribution company of whichhe was founding president. A spokesperson confirmed Cianciotta resigned threeweeks ago but the company has issued no announcement. His name has been removedfrom the company website while Robin Smith, who was operations manager, is nowlisted as general manager. ...
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Damon's Foresight Unlimited deals in Captivity
Mark Damon'sproduction and distribution company Foresight Unlimited has closedmulti-territory sales on its first feature Captivity starring Elisha Cuthbert.Damon has concluded deals with TFI for France, FilmAuro for Italy,Al Munteanu and SquareOne for Germany, and New World Film for Spain.Roland Joffe directed the project, which shot at the Moscow-basedMosfilm Studios and ...
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2929 sells Soderbergh's six to France, Japan, Italy
Celebrating its firstanniversary at AFM, 2929 International is reporting brisk sales on its slate ofsix Steven Soderbergh features commissioned earlier this year by 2929Entertainment chiefs Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban.Headed up by the small townmystery Bubble, the package ofotherwise as yet untitled pictures that Soderbergh will make over the next ...
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Hyde Park to sell Warner Independent's Astronaut Farmer
Warner Independent Pictures has appointed Hyde Park Internationalexclusive sales agent on the Polish brothers' drama Astronaut Farmer starring Billy Bob Thornton, VirginiaMadsen and Bruce Dern.Currently in production and directed by Michael Polish from ascreenplay he co-wrote with his brother Mark, Astronaut Farmer centres on a retired astronaut whobuilds a rocket ...
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Fortissimo sells new territories on UK drama Snow Cake
Fortissimo Filmshas sold UK feature Snow Cake to several more territories. The new dealsare with DCA in Argentina, A Film in Benelux, United King in Israel, Media FilmInternational in Korea and Thailand, Monolith in Poland, and Lusomundo inPortugal.Marc Evans'dramatic feature, written by Angela Pell, stars Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaverand Carrie-Anne ...
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Celestial, Image pact on Shaw Brothers titles
Hong Kong's CelestialPictures has signed a long-term deal with Image Entertainment for US andCanadian video distribution of 30 titles from its Shaw Brothers library. Titles covered by the dealinclude martial arts classics such as The Shadow Boxer, Heaven And Hell and The Magic Blade, along with a range of other ...
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Initial boards Revolution sci-fi thriller Next
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group has fulfilled itspromise to bring buyers product outside the company's new deal with Warner Brosand boarded Revolution Studios' sci-fi action thriller Next.Initial is offering international rights to the film, which willbe released by Revolution partner Sony Pictures in the domestic market, andwhich has Nicolas Cage ...
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Chang boards Korean war epic Christmas Cargo
Terence Chang is teaming upwith Korean production company Blue Storm and sales agent Cineclick Asia toproduce $20m Korean war epic Christmas Cargo. Chang, who is John Woo'spartner in Lion Rock Productions, will executive produce the project. BlueStorm president Bae Yong-kook will produce in association with Cineclick Asiamanaging director Suh Young-joo. ...
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Asterix conquers AFM ahead of world premiere
Inadvance of its world premiere at the AFM on Friday, M6's Euros22m animatedfeature Asterix And The Vikingshas been selling widely. Thecartoon about the doughty, magic potion-swilling Gauls has gone to Germany(RTL). Eastern Europe (SPI), Spain and Portugal (Lusomundo), Scandinavia (ABSvensk), Greece (Rosebud), Turkey, Brazil, Switzerland and Indoneisa.Adaptedfrom the 1967 Asterix ...
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IFTA overhauls licensing agreements
Embracingsweeping changes in the international marketplace, the Independent Film &Television Alliance (IFTA) has modified all its standard licensing agreementsand included a stand-alone internet rider.Therevision will run as a matter of course on all of IFTA's Model InternationalLicensing Agreements and will offer buyers the chance to address internetrights distribution and revenue ...
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John Lesher to head up Paramount Classics
Endeavor partner John Lesherhas been hired to head up Paramount Classics in a move that Paramount isexpected to officially announce this week.Lesher has been one of several contenders linked with the job in recent monthsas the tenure of former co-chiefs David Dinerstein and Ruth Vitale lookedincreasingly shaky.The appointment of the ...
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Lesher to head up Paramount Classics
Endeavor partner John Lesherhas been hired to head up Paramount Classics in a move that Paramount isexpected to officially announce this week.Lesher has been one of several contenders linked with the job in recent monthsas the tenure of former co-chiefs David Dinerstein and Ruth Vitale lookedincreasingly shaky.The appointment of the ...
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LGI secures raft of sales on Fierce People
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has completed a raft of sales on Griffin Dunne's drama Fierce People, which makes its premiere market screening at AFMand stars Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland and Elizabeth Perkins.Lions Gate International president Nick Meyer announced sales to Filmax forSpain, Video Film for Italy, Showbox/Milestone for South Korea, Applause ...
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BAFTA
Best FilmBrokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana/James Schamus)Alexander Korda Award For Best British FilmWallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Peter Lord/David Sproxton/Nick Park/ Steve Box/Mark Burton/Bob Baker)Carl Foreman Award For First Film Joe Wright (Director,Pride & Prejudice)David Lean Award For Best DirectorBrokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)Best Original ScreenplayCrash (Paul Haggis/Bobby ...
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Academy Awards
Best PictureCrash - Paul Haggis, Cathy SchulmanBrokeback MountainCapoteGood Night, And Good LuckMunichBest DirectorAng Lee - Brokeback MountainBennett Miller - CapotePaul Haggis - CrashGeorge Clooney - Good Night, And GoodNightSteven Spielberg - MunichBest ActorPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteTerrence Howard - Hustle & FlowHeath Ledger - Brokeback MountainJoaquin Phoenix - Walk The ...
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Kimmel International takes on South African Drum
Kimmel International has picked up international rights to ZProductions' South Africa-set drama Beat The Drum and is offering to buyers at AFM.Directed by David Hickson from a screenplay by W David McBrayer,Karen S Shapiro, and Richard Shaw, the story centres on a young orphan who setsout to Johannesburg with his ...
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The Whispering Of The Gods (Germania No Yoru)
Dir: Tatsushi Omori. Jap. 2005. 107mins.An unblinking plunge into depravity, blasphemy andviolence, set in the idyllic confines of a Catholic monastery, Tatsushi Omori's debut feature The Whispering Of The Gods falls squarelyinto the love-it-or-loathe-it category.Screened in competition atthe Tokyo International Film Festival, it evoked fervent praise from some -Japanese film ...
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New Serko deals for Diot's Onoma
Pascale Diot's Paris-basedOnoma has closed new deals on Serko,the 19th Century-set Russian adventure on which it is co-producer aswell as sales agent. Italy's Lucky Red and Switzerland's Monopole Pathe have joined distributors announced at AFM such as Seville Pictures for Canada and Cineartfor Benelux. Directed by JoelFarges, the film follows ...
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Moviehouse boards UK mockumentary Exhibit A
UK-based salescompany Moviehouse Entertainment has come on board for Dom Rotheroe's ExhibitA, a psychologicalmockumentary that recently wrapped shooting in the UK.Bent Films'Darren Bender, a former commissioning editor at Channel 4, is producing ExhibitA. Mark Herbert, HugoHeppell and Sheryl Crown are executive producing alongside Moviehouse's GaryPhillips and Mark Vennis.Exhibit A, about ...