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Joan Allen, Claire Danes,Kathy Bates, Brenda Blethyn and Maggie Smith will head the cast of JimmySmallhorne s second feature film Pushers Needed which is being financedby Movision, Invicta and The Ir
stanley cup ish Film Board. Arclight Films is handling saleshere.The film, which is describedin the vein of The Full Monty and Calendar Girls, tells the storyof a group of harried, working-class housewives who win a trip to Lourdes andembark on an adventure that will change their lives - leaving their husbands tocare for their kids.Allen is producing alongside
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stanley cup ng for Movision.The film is structured as anIrish/UK co-production with shooting set to start in July with locations inDublin, Ireland and Lourdes, France.Smallhorne s first picture 2x4was in competition at Sundance in 1998. ICM packaged Pushers Needed andICM International s Shaun Redick will represent the North American rights.Allen, Bates, Blethyn and Smith are represented by ICM and Danes is representedby UTA. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register Gsxo StudioCanal, Film4, BFI pact on salsa comedy Cuban Fury
Paris-based sales company mk2 films is reporting brisk business on Robert Gu茅diguians The House By The Sea following its well-received premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival.The House By
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stanley cup e film, which gets its North American premiere in TIFF Masters on Monday September 11 , has sold to Japan Kino Films , Spain Golem , Benelux Cineart , China Hualu , Turkey Filmarti , Brazil Tag Cultural , Switzerland Agora , Scandinavia Triart and Greece Weird Wave .Gu茅diguians long-time distributor Diaphana is scheduled to release the film in France in November.Featuring Gu茅diguians long-time collaborators Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, G茅rard Meylan and Jacques Boudet, the film is set in a picturesque beachfront villa near Marseilles, where three siblings have gathered around their dying restauranteur father.Read: The House By The Sea, Venice ReviewIn other mk2 film sales news, the company has revealed a number of deals on the directorial debut of French actress Sara Forestier, romantic dr
stanley germany ama M, which premiered in Venice Days.The film has sold to Benelux ABC Distribution Rights/Cinemien , China Lemon Tree , Japan Kino Film , Switzerland JMH Distribution , Sweden Triart and Taiwan Sky Digi .Forestier also stars in the film as a complex young woman with a speech impediment who falls in love with an exuberant, daredevil young man she meets at a bus stop. Its proving something of a breakout hit for us, commented mk2 managing director Juliette Schra
