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Samuel Goldwyn teams with Disney for ‘American Violet’
Variety reports that the featherweight distribution co. have claimed the rights on a drama which was first unveiled at the Telluride film festival.
Strand spends close to a year ‘Downloading Nancy’
Variety reports that Strand have picked up the domestic and DVD rights to vid/commercial filmmaker Johan Renck's directorial debut entitled Downloading Nancy.
Rodrigo Garcia to present ‘Mother and Child’
Variety reports that Annette Bening and Naomi Watts have signed up for leading roles and Kerry Washington and Shareeka Epps have joined Mother and Child in supporting roles – in a former Cha Cha Cha deal project that plays on the helmer’s strengths of: mergiong ensemble sets of characters in a multi-narrative scenario as he did with Nine Lives.
NeoClassics chooses its ‘Captain’ for 2009
THR reports that the indie distributor picked up the North American, U.K., Australian and South African rights to "Captain Abu Raed" by writer-director Amin Matalqa.
Image Ent. sees clearly through the ‘Mist’
Variety reports that a company like Image Entertainment will test the theater exhibition business with the AFM deal that gives them the rights to Bertrand Tavernier's serial killer thriller that features a Tommy Lee Jones in the swampy backwoods.
