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Anchor Bay strikes US deal for Meet Monica Velour
Anchor Bay Films has acquired all English-speaking rights to Gilbert Films’ comedy Meet Monica Velour starring Kim Cattrall.
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Chawz attracts Magnet for North American distribution
Magnet Releasing has acquired North American rights to Jeong-won Shin’s South Korean film Chawz about a giant pig that terrorises an idyllic countryside region.
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33Story tours DIY cinema to UK universities
Independent production outfit 33Story will tour its debut feature film, Big Font, Large Spacing, on a self-built cinema screen across a number of UK university campuses at the end of September.
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NewsYellow Affair spearheads distribution platform
Miira Paasilinna, MD of new sales outfit The Yellow Affair, has unveiled details of the company’s new digital distribution platform.The system can be used not only as an online screening room for buyers, but also for material delivery. “All of our CRM functions are there. Clients, press, festivals can be ...
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MIPCOM 2010 preview: highlights include Australia, Asia, cross-platform ideas
The barriers between film and TV are continuing to erode, according to Laurine Garaude, director of the TV division at Reed Midem, which organises the forthcoming MIPCOM (Oct 4-7 in Cannes).
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Weinsteins take US, UK and multiple territories on Dirty Girl
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is understood to have paid $3.2m for all English and French-speaking rights to Abe Sylvia’s road movie Dirty Girl following its world premiere in Toronto on Sunday [12].
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Jinga strikes multiple deals for sci-fi-romance Timer
UK sales outfit Jinga Films has closed a raft of deals for Jac Schaeffer’s futuristic romantic-comedy Timer.
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NewsResident Evil: Afterlife storms to top in US on $28m
Sony’s fourth entry in the horror franchise easily dominated the first official weekend of the autumn season as an estimated $27.7m as it demolished the competition.
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NewsDisney crosses $2bn while Sony's Evil rules overseas on $46.2m
Disney crossed $2bn at the international box office for the first time in its history as a weekend of strong holds pushed the company’s combined ticket sales for the year-to-date to $2.015bn.
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NewsIFC takes US rights to Midnight Madness hit SUPER
The first significant on-site sale of Toronto has closed as it emerged this afternoon that IFC had paid seven figures for US rights to James Gunn’s superhero comedy SUPER.
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NewsUniversal picks up UK and Spain for Barney’s Version
Universal Pictures International (UPI) has acquired distribution rights for Barney’s Version for the UK and Spain, producer Robert Lantos told Screen.
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Image picks up US rights to drama Every Day
Image Entertainment has acquired all US rights to Ambush Entertainment’s Every Day starring Helen Hunt and Liev Schreiber.
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Anchor Bay secures US, Australian and New Zealand rights to Tekken
Anchor Bay Films has acquired US, Australian and New Zealand rights from Crystal Sky Pictures to the video game adaptation Tekken.
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NewsWhen We Leave finds North American buyers
Munich-based sales agent Telepool has sold Feo Aladag’s feature debut When We Leave (Die Fremde) to the US and Canada.
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Weinstein Company takes US rights to Sarah's Keys
The Weinstein Company has confirmed its preemptive acquisition of US rights to Sarah’s Keys starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
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NewsProject Canvas a potential ‘game changer’ for filmmakers says John Woodward
John Woodward, CEO of the UK Film Council, said Friday that controversial internet-connected television platform Project Canvas could be a ‘game changer’ for UK filmmakers and independent distributors.
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Berlin-based EEAP signs exclusive distribution deal with Bulgaria
Berlin-based license trader Eastern European Acquisition Pool (EEAP) has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Bulgaria’s leading theatrical distributor and exhibitor Alexandra Groupholding.
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Algeria submits Bouchareb's Outside The Law for Academy Awards
Algeria will submit Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside The Law (Hors La Loi) as its foreign language contender.
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Screen Media takes North America on White Lion
Screen Media has acquired North American rights to Michael Swan’s live-action family adventure White Lion.
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NewsInception, Expendables, Airbender battle for overseas
Warner Bros Pictures International’s Inception will battle with Nu Image’s The Expendables and Paramount’s TheLast Airbender for box office supremacy this weekend.