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MoJo also finalises deal with HBO on Chateua Vato.

Morris Ruskin, Jordan Walker-Pearlman and Joseph Mellicker’s new production and management company MoJo Global Arts has licensed US rights on last season’s South African Oscar submission Knuckle City to Showtime.

Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s film follows an aging professional boxer and his career-criminal brother who is about to be released from prison. The sons of a legendary fighter-turned-gangster team up to create one last shot at fame but encounter more than they bargained for. MoJo Global Arts represents Qubeka.

Ruskin brokered the deal on behalf of MoJo with Helen Huang on behalf of Showtime.

Company launched North American sales in Tiff on South African Oscar submission Knuckle City.

Morris Ruskin and Jordan Walker-Pearlman’s new Los Angeles-based production and management company MoJo Global Arts has unveiled a slate of three projects featuring a Latinx comedy, a Jazz documentary, and an epic TV project about Harlem.

MoJo has come on board as producer’s rep on acquisition title Chateau Vato, a completed Latinx comedy starring Paul Rodriguez. Tom Musca, whose screenplay credits include Stand And Deliver and Tortilla Soup, wrote, directed and produced the film about a gardener who moves into an abandoned mansion with...

It’s been years since Edward James Olmos last saw “Stand and Deliver,” the 1988 movie that made him the first Mexican-American actor to secure an Academy Award nomination. But watching a 30th anniversary screening at this month’s Panama International Film Festival, the actor was deeply moved.

“It was very emotional. I openly wept,” the actor said, recalling his feelings about portraying the young East L.A. math teacher Jaime Escalante — and the impact the sleeper hit biopic had on audiences worldwide.

“Ninety-five percent of my life is bringing awareness to the difficulties of people’s plights,” he said during an interview at the chic Central Hotel in Panama City’s colonial-era Casco Viejo the following day. “There is such imbalance. I’ve received so much support from life itself. I live a very privileged life. I mean, I’ve been able to live as an artist my entire life.

Deadline founder and former editor-in-chief Nikki Finke is up and running with Hollywood Dementia, a new website devoted to fiction showbiz stories written by Hollywood insiders. She tells me the site gets off the ground today with offerings from Hollywood lawyer Bertram Fields, David Letterman's head writer Bill Scheft, Antonia Bogdanovich (daughter of Peter Bogdanovich and Polly Platt), and TV and feature writers Peter Lefcourt, Cynthia Mort, Jay Abramowitz & Tom Musca…...

BEIJING -- Two Chinese filmmakers are headed to Hollywood after winning contests sponsored by the MPA, local universities and media authorities to raise awareness about piracy's effect on the film industry.

"The Chinese New Year", by screenwriter Xue Xiaolu, won a nationwide contest that kicked off in 2006 as part of the first MPA film production workshop in Asia. The workshop was co-sponsored by media regulator the State Administration of Radio Film and Television and judged by "Stand and Deliver" screenwriters Tom Musca and Ramon Menendez, MPA Asia director Mike Ellis said.

Also winning was student filmmaker Liang Jinwei, whose one-minute movie about Chinese grade-schoolers who learn about theft and shame a mother who buys an illegal DVD, won the top prize in the 14th annual Beijing Student Film Festival short video production competition.

Liang's short -- chosen from entries from 300 universities across China by a jury that included director Feng Xiaogang ("The Banquet") -- will be posted for viewing to six cooperating Chinese Web sites, along with other entries.