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Hideo Nakata, who directed the original Japanese version of "The Ring" and the second English version "The Ring Two," has been tapped to direct Zanuck Independent's supernatural thriller "Voice From the Stone."
Mark Wheaton has written the screenplay for the project, which Dean Zanuck and Stefano Gallini-Durante will produce alongside K5 Film's Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur.
K5's Bill Stephens is handling worldwide sales at Afm for the production, set to begin shooting in the spring or summer.
"Voice," adapted from an Italian novel of the same name, centers on a female child psychologist who takes on the case of a young boy who made a promise to his dying mother to remain silent until her spirit returns.
Zanuck and K5 recently partnered on "Get Low," starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek, which screens Friday at Afm.
At Afm, K5 also is repping "Separation City,...
Hideo Nakata, who directed the original Japanese version of "The Ring" and the second English version "The Ring Two," has been tapped to direct Zanuck Independent's supernatural thriller "Voice From the Stone."
Mark Wheaton has written the screenplay for the project, which Dean Zanuck and Stefano Gallini-Durante will produce alongside K5 Film's Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur.
K5's Bill Stephens is handling worldwide sales at Afm for the production, set to begin shooting in the spring or summer.
"Voice," adapted from an Italian novel of the same name, centers on a female child psychologist who takes on the case of a young boy who made a promise to his dying mother to remain silent until her spirit returns.
Zanuck and K5 recently partnered on "Get Low," starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek, which screens Friday at Afm.
At Afm, K5 also is repping "Separation City,...
- 11/5/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- Neil Friedman's Menemsha Films has taken U.S. and Canadian rights to Erez Tadmor and Sharon Maymon's Israeli comedy "A Matter of Size" in a deal struck with U.K.- and Germany-based sales agency K5 International.
Produced by Ucm Films (Israel), MacT Prods. (France) and K5 Films (Germany), the movie tells the story of an overweight Israeli chef who mutinies from the rigors of his diet support group to set up Israel's first sumo wrestling team.
The remake rights to the comedy, a favorite on the international movie circuit, has already been acquired by the Weinstein Co. in a separate deal previously.
Friedman described the movie as one that "makes you laugh until your sides hurt."
K5 International's Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver Simon said Menemsha showed "great passion for the project and a strong distribution plan" for the title.
Produced by Ucm Films (Israel), MacT Prods. (France) and K5 Films (Germany), the movie tells the story of an overweight Israeli chef who mutinies from the rigors of his diet support group to set up Israel's first sumo wrestling team.
The remake rights to the comedy, a favorite on the international movie circuit, has already been acquired by the Weinstein Co. in a separate deal previously.
Friedman described the movie as one that "makes you laugh until your sides hurt."
K5 International's Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver Simon said Menemsha showed "great passion for the project and a strong distribution plan" for the title.
- 10/16/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Speaking of P&A which is put up increasingly by the filmmaker in a Diy scenario, if the traditional distributors are offering neither advance, mg nor P&A (Prints and Advertising): A look at international representation for territories outside the Us (or North America) shows international sales agents (aka ISAs) are also positioning themselves as no longer the source of advances or mgs and if they cannot foresee presales (which it seems, they cannot count on these days either), they are also floating balloons suggesting filmmakers pay the P&A costs...chew on that one for a while - international markets can contribute 50% to 90% of a film's revenues...Could this evolve into a new line item in film budgets for P&A allocations not only for Us distribution but also for international representation? ISAs already recoup marketing costs first, so if the filmmakers pay their own, then at least...
- 9/10/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
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