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Cannes: The Exchange To Sell Overseas On ‘CBGB’ Starring Alan Rickman

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 8:36am PDTTags: Alan Rickman, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, CBGB, The Exchange

Brian O’Shea’s The Exchange has acquired international rights to CBGB, the feature about the infamous New York City underground music club. Randall Miller (Bottle Shock) is directing the film that stars Alan Rickman as Hilly Kristal, the CBGB founder who took chances on such bands as Blondie, Television, the Ramones, the Talking Heads, Dead Boys and The Police. Malin Akerman, Rupert Grint, Johnny Galecki, Ashley Greene, Freddy Rodriguez, Justin Bartha, Joel David Moore and Donal Logue also form part of the large ensemble cast. The Exchange will offer the film to overseas buyers in Cannes; Paradigm has domestic.

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Freddy Rodriguez Heads To ‘CBGB’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday June 19, 2012 @ 5:24pm PDTTags: CBGB, Freddy Rodriguez, Movie Casting, Sons of Anarchy

EXCLUSIVE: Freddy Rodriguez has joined the cast of CBGB. The Six Feet Under star will take on one of the film’s leading roles, “Idaho,” an addict who hung around Hily Kristal’s infamous New York City club in the … Read More »

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‘Hangover’s Justin Bartha Joins ‘CBGB’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday June 12, 2012 @ 3:52pm PDTTags: CBGB, The New Normal

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Bartha has joined the cast of CBGB. The Hangover star will play Stiv Bators, lead singer of the Dead Boys. CBGB was the club in New York’s Bowery district that saw the birth of punk with bands like … Read More »

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‘Big Bang’s Johnny Galecki To Do ‘CBGB’ Movie

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday June 4, 2012 @ 2:21pm PDTTags: CBGB, Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory

Johnny Galecki is going to CBGB, with The Big Bang Theory star playing band manager Terry Ork in the indie punk rock movie. The real CBGB, which stood for “Country, BlueGrass and Blues”, was the legendary New York … Read More »

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