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“I didn’t want the film to be a filmography,” says Bárbara Paz, the director and wife of late award-winning Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco in her love letter documentary Babenco: Tell Me When I Die, “I wanted to make a film about cinema, wanted to make cinema for him, not only about him.” The doc, which…

EXCLUSIVE:  CAA has inked acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, documentarian, and philanthropist Walter Salles. A USC alum, Salles has been a filmmaker for 35 years, his 1995 feature Foreign Land selected by over 40 film festivals and being local hit in his homeland. His 1998 drama Central Station about a former school…

Here’s an international trailer for director Walter Salles’ take on Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. With a screenplay by Jose Rivera, the movie staring Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund had its world premiere at Cannes this year. IFC and Sundance Selects are distributing in the U.S. but haven’t settled on a…

Critics may have been mixed after this morning’s press screening,  but the World Premiere audience at Wednesday night’s Cannes gala of director Walter Salles’ long-gestating film  On The Road was highly enthusiastic giving the film about the Beat Generation a 10 minute standing ovation. Co-producer Rebecca Yeldham…

A week before it premieres in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, On The Road has been acquired by AMC Networks. Picking up all U.S. rights to Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation classic, AMC Networks announced that its distribution labels IFC Films and Sundance Selects will release the…

Lionsgate UK today confirmed its new distribution pact with Icon UK, saying it will handle the release of all of the latter's titles moving forward. The deal is for rights to all films to come, but, for the moment at least, the Icon library is not included. Speculation has been that Lionsgate would take over the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company, already on a Cannes acquisition spree, has emerged as the clear frontrunner for  domestic distribution rights on The Wettest County in the World, after another all-night bargaining session between Harvey Weinstein’s acquisition team and CAA. I’m told a deal is very close. Considering…

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola has been working for 30 years to turn Jack Kerouac’s seminal Beat Generation novel On the Road into a movie. It is starting to look like it was worth the wait. Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are joining the Walter Salles-directed adaptation that will begin this month, I’m told. She will…