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Michigan moves from cars to stars
Source: Variety.com - August 27, 2009
By JACK EGAN
With its
once-vaunted automobile industry on the brink, Michigan
these days is less about
cars and
more about stars. In a
move to
diversify its beleaguered
economy, it
has embraced
the
entertainment biz and joined the multitude of states
offering
lucrative tax incentives to attract film and TV productions.
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Trio set for 'Rape' drama
Bello, Breslin, Jackson
to star in indie pic
Source: Variety.com - March 1, 2009
By TATIANA SIEGEL
Maria Bello,
Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson will star in the
indie drama "Rape: A Love
Story."
Harold Becker ("Domestic
Disturbance") will helm. Michael
Mendelsohn is
producing
and
financing through his Patriot
Pictures banner, with lensing
skedded to start in June.
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New Arclight man in L.A. Deckter on deck for 'Wretched' gig
Source: Variety.com - March 28, 2008
By DON GROVES
SYDNEY -- Arclight
Films has named Jonathan Deckter prexy of international
sales, based in Los
Angeles. One of
Deckter's first
assignments is
selling "The Wretched," a
Western/horror
project starring Chow
Yun-Fat as a
bounty hunter whose quarry is
zombies.
Produced by Patriot Pictures and the U.K.'s
Sheerfilms,
pic penned by
Joanne Reay will be directed by
Andrew Goth.
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David Slade to direct 'Unthinkable' Momentum Pictures recently acquired film
Source: Variety.com - Febuary 7, 2008
By PATRICK FRATER
"30 Days of
Night" helmer David Slade has signed on to direct topical
thriller "Unthinkable"
for Michael
Mendelsohn and
Caldecott Chubb.
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Clooney to narrate HBO documentary
Source: Variety.com - August 7, 2007
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER
"Sand and
Sorrow" follows the history of the strife in Sudan's
Darfur region, where the
Arab-controlled government has
killed and displaced much of the indigenous
African
population. It also looks at
the international community's slow reaction
to the crisis.
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Sand and Sorrow
Source: Variety.com - June 22, 2007
By JAY WEISSBERG
Perhaps it will
take a Michael Moore to ignite appropriate public outrage
over the genocide in
Darfur, but
until then, docu helmer
Paul
Freedman's "Sand and Sorrow"
will help
fill the bill.
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Velvet Octopus picks up 'Sand' Darfur documentary to close Monte Carlo fest
Source: Variety.com - May 8, 2007
By ADAM DAWTREY
LONDON — "Sand and
Sorrow," the Darfur documentary narrated and exec produced
by George Clooney,
has been
picked
up for international
sales by
Simon Crowe's Velvet
Octopus.
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Never has so much money from Wall Street been flowing into studio coffers, mixing two storied worlds. Are firms like Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase changing what we see on screen?
Source: Variety.com - January 9, 2006
By DANIEL GROSS
One day early
last year, Marvel Entertainment CEO Avi Arad, the
Harley-Davidson-riding former
toy
designer, stood at the
front of
Paramount's 200-plus seat
Sherry Lansing
Theater
and pitched a
group of executives who had little to do with traditional
studio life -- and little interest in its trappings
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Duffs are 'Material' girls Hilary, Haylie team for laffer
Source: Variety.com - April 6, 2005
By DANA HARRIS
Sibling thesps
Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff will team for the first time
in "Material Girls,"
with Martha
CoolidgeMartha Coolidge
directing.
Maverick FilmsMaverick
Films and
Patriot
Pictures
co-finance the project, with Arclight Films repping the
pic's
foreign sales. Production begins in Los Angeles
April 18.
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