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Bogeydom takes worldwide sales on Canadian hit Camping Sauvage
Toronto-based international sales company Bogeydom Licensing ishanding worldwide sales on the comedy Camping Sauvage, Canada's biggestrelease of 2004 that grossed CA$4.3m ($3.6m) in Quebec since opening in 100theatres on Jul 9.Produced by Tony Roman for Cine Roman and Lyse Lafontaine forLeyla Films, Camping Sauvage opened in Quebec through Alliance AtlantisVivafilms ...
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Studios target individuals in war on piracy
The MPAA fired its latestvolley in the war against piracy yesterday, announcing that it will commence legalaction against individuals who trade in illegal digital copies of films overthe internet."Illegal movie traffickingrepresents the greatest threat to the economic basis of moviemaking in its110-year history," MPAA president and chief executive officer Dan ...
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Clarification: Shark Tale box office figures
Due to the All Saints Day holiday in many internationalterritories on Monday November 1, certain territories did not report figuresfor the weekend Oct 29-31 on UIP's Shark Tale.At time of posting the international chart and commentary ScreenInternational/ScreenDaily.com had not beenmade aware that figures were omitted for the weekend on Shark ...
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River Queen's DoP takes over directing duties
River Queen directorof photography Alun Bollinger has stepped up to replace director Vincent Wardon the UK/New Zealand co-production, which is on track to complete principalphotography in late November.Bollinger has had a chequered history with River Queen himself, relinquishing his role to John Cavillbecause of a back injury before Samantha Morton's ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to Somersault
Magnolia Pictures has secured North American rights towriter/director Cate Shortland's Somersault, which late last week broke all records with its clean sweep of theAFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards in Melbourne.Sydney-based producer Anthony Anderson, principal of RedCarpet Productions, said he was very pleased it has gone to the New York-baseddistributor, which ...
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Choice few set AFM buying pace
Buying interest among studiodistributors and leading territorial indies is starting to coalesce around aprized handful of projects being touted here by script packages and promoreels.Acquisition appetites have beenwhetted by a remake of the 1966 crime caper Gambit, scripted by the Coen brothers, which GrahamKing's Initial Entertainment Group is fully financing ...
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Clooney readies McCarthy era drama
George Clooney will direct and star in McCarthy era drama Goodnight.And Good Luck. for Section Eight and ToddWagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment.Clooney's directing follow-up to Confessions Of ADangerous Mind is being set up at WarnerBros Pictures for domestic and sold to overseas buyers through 2929International, 2929's new sales arm ...
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Big Dreams for Intandem
Intandem Films is renewing the relationships with US studioswhich the team behind the UK sales company built on titles such as MGM's Heartbreakerswhen they ran Winchester Entertainment.In what Intandem aims to be first project in an ongoingrelationship, the sales house is set to take on sales duties on Neon Dreams,MGM's ...
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Brodlie lands at TriStar Pictures
Longtime Miramax acquisitions executive Matt Brodlie hasjoined the exodus from the company and landed at Sony as senior vice president,production and acquisitions for TriStar Pictures.Relocating from New York to Los Angeles, Brodlie will beresponsible for all TriStar acquisitions and productions, reporting directly toTriStar president Valerie Van Gelder.In addition, Brodlie will ...
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Kaye returns with Reaper for Media 8
Maverick filmmaker Tony Kaye (American History X) has been confirmed to direct the thriller Reaper, which Media 8 will co-produce with Circle OfConfusion and is financing and distributing.Production is set to begin in February 2005 on the project,which tells of a private eye hired to work for a beautiful woman ...
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Tartan, TLA team on Skin flick
Tartan Films USA and TLA Releasing have jointly acquiredNorth American rights to Gregg Araki's drama Mysterious Skin.The deal for the controversial film was brokered by TartanFilms USA chief executive officer M J Peckos and John Sloss of Cinetic Media.Tartan and TLA plan a May 2005 theatrical release with DVDset to ...
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Berlin battles with demand for February market
Will Berlin be able toaccommodate the pent-up demand among sales companies here for a full-fledgedmarket next February'That's the question thathas been on so many lips at the current AFM, whose new November slot has joltedthe film-buying calendar out of its historic rhythm. Already a divide isemerging among those who favour ...
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Renaissance gets Creeeepy! with Araki
London-based Renaissance Films has picked up internationalrights to Gregg Araki's next film - a scary movie with teen sexcomedy elements called Creeeeps! whichis currently casting and will start shooting early next year. Araki wrote thescript and Mary Jane Skalski, who produced his last film MysteriousSkin, will produce.UTA is handling the ...
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Fortissimo boards Hedwig follow-up Shortbus
Fortissimo Film Sales haspicked up international rights to Shortbus,the much-discussed sexually frank new ensemble piece from Hedwig AndThe Angry Inch director John CameronMitchell.The film, in which Fortissimoalso takes an equity stake, is an exploration of sexuality, art and music thattracks a group of people during a power cut in New ...
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Happinet invests $1m in A Thousand Plateaux
Japanese finance anddistribution company Happinet this week committed $1m for an equity stake andJapanese rights to A Thousand Plateaux.The $2.8m Mongolian-set familyadventure by Jang Sun Woo, Korea's controversial director of Lies and Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl, will shoot in June next year.'We are thrilled to beable to continue ...
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Vampire thriller Perfect Creature enjoys strong sales
New Zealand Film, which shares sales duties with Arclight,has enjoyed strong sales on vampire thriller Perfect CreatureThe film by writer-director Glenn Standring was sold toMagna Pacific for Austria and New Zealand, Jiants for Thailand, Festive Films forSingapore and Sunny Film for Malaysia.Perfect Creaturestars Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Stuart Wilson and ...
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Japan's Artport snaps up heist thriller Chaos
Mobius International has sold the heist thriller Chaos starring Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe and WesleySnipes to Artport in Japan.Written and directed by Tony Giglio, the story involves twodetectives who team up to solve a $1bn-plus bank robbery and uncover a powerfulconspiracy.The company's president of international distributionMimi Steinbauer and Artport's James ...
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Lorber Media acquires Luis Bunuel 1950s crime drama
Lorber Media has picked up North American rights to TheYoung And The Damned (Los Olvidados), LuisBunuel's 1950s Mexican crime drama from France's Films SansFrontieres.Lorber plans a theatrical release starting in New York inFebruary 2005 and will distribute on a multi-disc DVD set next autumn. Lorberalso picked up Liquid Sky, SlavaTsukerman's ...
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AFM deals in brief
Media Asia unveiled the first sales on Korea Raiders, Jingle Ma's big-budget comedy action sequelto Tokyo Raider. The film wassold to GSC for Malaysia and Shaw Renters for Singapore. Meanwhile, Media Asiaalso sold A World Without Thieves,a gangster film by popular Chinese director Feng Xiaogang, to ComstockOrganisation for Japan, GSC ...
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Mitchell Galin resigns from New Amsterdam Ent.
Mitchell Galin has resigned from his position as president and member of the board at New Amsterdam Entertainment. Richard P Rubinstein will now assume the position of president alongside his current roles as chairman and CEO.Galin, who has relocated to Nashville to set up his own production company On The ...