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8 September, 2007 By Wendy Mitchell in Toronto Source: Screen Daily Liebesman previously directed 2006 hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Chloe Sevigny is attached to star and further casting will be announced soon. Manbreak is about four people who sign up for a psychology research study but discover they are actually subjects in […]

26 July, 2007 By Sheri Jennings in Rome Source: Screen Daily OPENING FILM Atonement (Joe Wright, US-UK) COMPETITION The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, US) Sleuth (Kenneth Branagh, UK-US) Heya Fawda (Youssef Chahine, Egypt) Redacted (Brian De Palma, US) The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, US) Nessuana Qualita Agli Eroi […]

2 October, 2007 The film is based on the true events of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. LaPaglia plays Australian TV journalist Roger East, who runs a local news agency but tries to find five missing Australian journalists. Connolly co-wrote the script with David Williamson. The project is set to shoot in […]

2 October, 2007 By Adam DawtreySource: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973165.html?categoryId=19&cs=1 ContentFilm Intl. has acquired worldwide rights outside Australia and New Zealand to Robert Connolly’s upcoming project “Balibo,” a true-life thriller starring Anthony LaPaglia. Movie is about an Australian journalist caught up in the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. Shooting is set for early 2008. Content is […]

4 July, 2007 By Wendy MitchellSource: Screen Daily Melling had been vice president sales at Granada International and previously worked at BBC Worldwide, Capitol Films and Pandora in Paris. He will also run seek to add new titles and libraries to the division. President of CFI Jamie Carmichael said: “We have a growing slate of […]

26 June, 2007 By DIANE GARRETTSource: Variety.com Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has picked up rights to “Outpost” for a series of territories, most of them English-speaking. Sony will distribute the ContentFilms thriller in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in addition to South Africa, Greece and Israel. Story follows mercenaries in war-torn […]

16 April, 2007 By Wendy MitchellSource: ScreenDaily John Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott and Rip Torn will star. Charlie Corwin, David Guy Levy and Clara Markowicz of Original Media are producing alongside Hartnett and Elisa Pugliese of 57th and Irving Productions. Howard A. Rodman’s original script follows a young dotcom entrepreneur in New York who […]

1 October, 2007 By By ADAM DAWTREY LONDONSource: Variety ContentFilm Intl. has picked up international rights to “Steep,” a documentary about big mountain skiing, written and directed by Mark Obenhaus, which Sony Pictures Classics will release in North America. The film had its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and also screened at […]

23 August, 2007 By Denis Seguin in Toronto Source: Screen Daily Also announced were new films from Kenneth Branagh, Paul Schrader, Sidney Lumet, Brian De Palma, Anand Tucker, Julian Schnabel, Jonathan Demme, Jason Reitman and Thomas McCarthy. Among the world premiere Gala titles are Harlin’s Cleaner, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris and Eva Mendes; […]