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Cannes Roundup: Mia Wasikowska, Richard Ayoade, Jennifer Aniston, Ezra Miller

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Saturday May 12, 2012 @ 7:20pm PDTTags: Elmore Leonard, Jennifer Aniston, Summer In February, The Double

Summer In February
Speranza13 Media, the new sales company run by Camela Galano, has taken on international rights to Summer In February starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens along with Dominic Cooper and Emily Browning. Janette Day and Pippa Cross of CrossDay Productions are producing with Jeremy Cowdrey of Apart Films. Sales will start next week in Cannes on the period love triangle shot in Cornwall, England and directed by Christopher Menaul.

The Double
Richard Ayoade’s comedy will  start principal photography May 20. The Submarine director’s second film is inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella. Ayoade and Avi Korine wrote the script about an insignificant man driven to near breakdown by the appearance of his doppelganger. Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor and James Fox star. Amina Dasmal and Robin Fox of Alcove Entertainment are producing. Protagonist is handling international sales. Studiocanal has already acquired UK rights. Mars has France, Golden Scene has Hong Kong, Rialto has Switzerland and Lusomundo has Portugal. READ MORE »

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Topher Grace Signs With ICM’s Toni Howard

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday August 8, 2011 @ 3:30pm PDTTags: Brillstein Entertainment Partners, ICM, Lionsgate, Scott Wexler, That '70s Show, The Big Wedding, The Double, Topher Grace, WME

Topher Grade, the That ’70s Show actor from In Good Company and Spider-Man 3, had been repped by WME. He’s presently starring in Lionsgate’s The Big Wedding with Amanda Seyfried and Katherine Heigl and recently wrapped The Giant Mechanical Man and The … Read More »

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Imagenation May Seal European Deal Next

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 1:38am PDTTags: Film Finance, Hyde Park Entertainment, Imagenation Abu Dhabi, Movies, Stefan Brunner, The Double

I’ve learned that the Abu Dhabi-based film financier is talking to European producers in France and Germany about investing in projects. This may turn into a longer-term joint venture, like the ones Imagenation has already sealed with Hollywood producers including Parkes/Macdonald and Participant. It’s puzzled me as to why this Arab financier has not done any deals with European companies yet. It’s announced $600 million worth of joint ventures with Hollywood, yet European film companies such as Constantin of Germany or Italian producer Cattleya have their own studio links. Europe is closer to the Gulf than Los Angeles Read More »

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