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iW NEWS | Magnolia and Red Envelope Take North American Rights to Sundance Winner, "No End in Sight"
All North American rights to Charles Ferguson's 2007 Sundance Film Festival doc "No End in Sight," have been jointly acquired by Red Envelope and Magnolia Pictures, the companies officially announced Thursday. Magnolia's head Eamonn Bowles and Head of Business Affairs, Jason Janego along with Bahman Naraghi, Head of Red Envelope Entertainment negotiated the deal with John Sloss from Cinetic Media. The film will open in New York and Washington, D.C. on July 27th and expand nationwide the following week. Written and directed by Ferguson, the film, which took the Sundance best doc prize, focuses on the policy informing the decisions behind the o...
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iW BOT | "Paprika" Debuts Strong; "Waitress" A Big Hit, "Chalk" A Grassroots Standout
Size matters in terms of studio tent-pole releases. Case in point: a reported take of $142 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend made "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" a record-breaker. "Pirates" played in 4,362 sites - the widest release of any motion picture - and it made a whopp...
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iW NEWS | Weinsteins Get Woody Allen Movie
Woody Allen's latest, "Cassandra's Dream," has been acquired in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand by The Weinstein Company. The film stars Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Tom Wilkinson, Sally Hawkins and Hayley Atwell. Written and directed by Allen, the film was produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, and Gareth Wiley. Wild Bunch is handling worldwide sales of the title. Set in present-day London, the film is described as, "the story of two brothers, and how their lives and loves gradually become entangled in circumstances that lead to tragedy." Michelle Krumm and Maeva Gatineau, EVP's and co-heads of acquisitions, and Laine Kline, SVP...
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"Paranoid" Set for IFC Release in U.S.; MK2 Sells Film in 72 Territories
Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park," which has been acquired by IFC First Take for a U.S. release, has been sold in some 72 territories according to Marin and Nathanael Karmitz's French company MK2, which fully finananced the movie. MK2 said Wednesday that the film, winner of the special 60th Anniversary...
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iW NEWS | NonStop Makes "4 Months" Deal
In a deal with Wild Bunch, NonStop Entertainment has announced its acquisition of Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," winner of the Palme d'or at the recent Cannes Film Festival. The company will release the movie in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, while IFC First Take is handling the U.S. release after acquiring the film last week in France. Set in a small town in Romania, the film is the story of two university students dealing with an unwanted pregnancy during the last years of Communism. "We are very proud to bring home the critically acclaimed Palm d'Or winner '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'," said N...
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DISPATCH FROM L.A. | Boutique Landmark Theater Complex Eyes Wider West L.A. Audiences
If it works, the newest Landmark Theatres complex may truly be a landmark - to movie culture in Los Angeles as well as to the independent/specialty film business nationwide. That's because the 12-screen, 2,000-seat destination arthouse that opens this Friday, called The Landmark West Los Angeles and...
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More Deals Mark Cannes Fest: "Control" and "Paranoid Park"
Another pair of Festival de Cannes films are finding distribution in the United States. The Weinstein Company has acquired North American rights to Anton Corbijn's "Control," according The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which opened the 2007 Directors' Fortnight section, also won a trio of awards on ...
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iW NEWS | Miramax Captures Schnabel's "Butterfly"
Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) has been acquired by Miramax Films, in a deal for all North American rights to the Cannes '07 competition film. Adapted by Ronald Harwood, the film is the story of former editor-in-chief of Elle Magazine in France, Jean-Dominique Bauby. Mathieu Amalric portrays Bauby, who, after suffering a debilitating stroke, was forced compose his autobiography entirely by dictation through a series of blinks, grunts and movements. He died in France three days after the book was published. Produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Jon Kilik, the film also stars Emmanuelle Seigner a...
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iW NEWS | Roadside Buys "Caramel"
U.S. rights to Nadine Labaki's "Caramel" have been acquired by Roadside Attractions. The Cannes Directors Fortnight film is the story of five Lebanese women in a Beirut beauty shop. Roadside co-president Howard Cohen negotiated the deal with Raphael Berdugo of Roissy Films. Labaki wrote the first fe...
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iW NEWS | IFC Takes Two Cannes '07 Titles
IFC First Take, the day and date distribution label from U.S. based IFC Entertainment, has announced the acquisition of two films from the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival: Cristian Mungui's competition film, "4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days" and Hsiao-Hsien's "Flight of the Red Balloon" from the Un Certain Regard section. "4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days," set during the last days of Communism in Romania, depicts two young women facing the end of unwelcome pregnancies, while "Flight of the Red Balloon," set in Paris, is the story of boy and his babysitter in the same imaginary world where they are followed around the city by a red balloo...
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