All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 173
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Mortagne and Terryn get new posts at Benelux distributor Paradiso
Benelux distributor ParadisoFilm Entertainment has named Olivier Mortagne as its new head of international acquisitionsand Patrick Terryn as chief operating officer. The appointments come in thewake of Erich Engelen's departure from the company earlier in the summer. Asannounced earlier this week, Engelen has now joined A-Film.The appointment of Mortagneis seen ...
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Frappier prepares English-language remake of La Grande Seduction
Roger Frappier'sQuebec-based Max Films, whose The Secret Life Of Happy People is screening in AFI FEST, has announced details of aslate of new English and French-language projects.First off is hisEnglish-language remake of Jean-Francois Pouliot's box-office hit La GrandeSeduction aka Seducing Dr Lewis which is being scripted by Ken Scott.Other English-languageprojects ...
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Jinga closes Netherlands deal on Winstone-starrer Everything
At its first AFM, recentlyformed UK sales outfit Jinga has closed deals on a raft of titles.The UK-based company, run bydirector-producer-sales agent Julien Richards, Rosana Coutinho and Mike Tims,has now sold BAFTA-nominated Everything, starring Ray Winstone (The Departed) to Indie Films for the Netherlands and is fieldingoffers from the US, ...
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Trust takes on sales of Kormakur's Jar City
Danish salesoutfit Trust has taken on international sales of Baltasar Kormakur's JarCity. The film hasalready enjoyed the biggest opening in Icelandic history, racking up admissionsof over 60,000 - representing one in five of the population - since its releasein mid-October.All territoriesare open excluding Germany, where ADR has taken the rights, ...
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Others and Volver lead European Film Awards noms
German hit The Lives Of Others, which was controversially snubbed by both Berlin and Cannes, has won six European Film Award nominations including those for film, director and screenwriter. The only other title with six nods was Pedro Almodovar's widely loved Volver. Both films are considered frontrunners for this year's ...
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Celluloid banks on Asian directors, strikes studio deals
Paris-based sales andproduction outfit Celluloid Dreams is to handle sales on Camera D'Or winnerNaomi Kawase's new feature, provisionally titled Mogari No Mori. The film, in post-production and likely to be vyingfor a place in official selection in Cannes, is about an old man saying goodbyeto his dead widow. This old ...
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Six Sales sells titles to Beverly Hills, Quality in Latin America
Madrid-based sales outfitSix Sales has sold Latin American rights to Beverly Hills Enterainment for itsnew CGI animated feature Noah's Lark. The film is directed by LA-based Raul Garcia, whose previous creditsinclude Aladdin, through new company Kandor Graphics. Itwill be ready for delivery in 2008.Six Sales is also doing aroaring trade ...
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Reeve, Parkhouse launches tax credit financing group IFF
UK industry veteran JimReeve, the founder of UK film financier Visionview, has teamed with TomParkhouse to launch a new financing outfit, International Film Finance Ltd(IFF).Just prior to the AFM., IFFannounced it was teaming up with global public sector financier DEPFA Bank PLCto provide upfront cash financing of US and International ...
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Canet's Tell No One has smash opening in France
Guillaume Canet's Tell No One, which is headlining EuropaCorp's AFM slate, has enjoyed aspectacular opening in France, posting over 205,000 admissions on its openingday. The thriller, starring Francois Cluzet, was unveiled to buyers inSanta Monica at a packed screening on Wednesday night. Several territories arealready pre-sold.Here in Santa Monica, underlining ...
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NonStop reps Sandrew library
NonStop Sales is to handle worldwide sales on around 500 films from Scandinavian powerhouse Sandrew Metronome.Under the terms of the exclusive deal, signed on the eve of the AFM, NonStop will sell (outside Scandinavia) many of the best-loved and best-known titles in Scandinavian cinema history.Among them are Ingmar Bergman's Dreams ...
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Celluloid Nightmares goes Inside
Underlining its increasingappetite for genre fare, Celluloid Dreams' is to handle world sales on new French horrorpicture, Inside, through itsgenre arm Celluloid Nightmares. Starring Beatrice Dalle andAlysson Paradis, directed by duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, Inside (A L'interieur)is produced through Frank Ribiere and Verane Frediani's French distribution/production outfit La ...
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EFP may face budget cuts from EU's Media Programme
This year marks the ninthconsecutive year in which European Film Promotion (EFP) has attended theAmerican Film Market, but will EFP be back in Santa Monica next year' In the run-up to this year'sevent, there have been rumours that the promotional organisation will be facedwith budget cuts that may prohibit it ...
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A-Film taps Erik Engelen for Belgium office
Ambitious Dutch distributionoutfit A-Film is continuing to ramp up. Here in Santa Monica, company CEO PimHermeling has announced that former Paradiso executive Erik Engelen is to runthe company's new Belgian arm from the offices in Antwerp.Hermeling also revealed thatA-Film is looking to set up a production fund. The idea, he ...
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Wild Bunch boards new films from Macdonald, Roeg, Gordon Green
Ever-aggressive Frenchoutfit Wild Bunch has added new films by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald, veteranBritish auteur Nicolas Roeg, US indie darling David Gordon Green and Frenchmaster Alain Corneau to its AFM slate.Macdonald's new featuredocumentary My Enemy's Enemy,which follows his dramatic debut The Last King Of Scotland, promises to be especially controversial. It ...
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IFC strikes US deal for Brisseau's Exterminating Angels
In the run up to the AFM ithas become clear that the controversy surrounding veteran French filmmakerJean-Claude Brisseau hasn't hurt his appeal in the marketplace. Brisseau'slatest feature The Exterminating Angels, which deals in dramatized form with incidents that later landed thedirector in court, has now been sold to IFC Films ...
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Latido sells Your Life In 65 Minutes to Strand in US
Madrid-based Latido Filmshas snared a US buyer for Maria Ripoll's comedy, Your Life In 65 Minutes. Strand Releasing has taken North American rights tothe film, which is on Latido's AFM slate. "It gives us impetus goinginto the AFM. That's why we wanted to close it as soon as possible," a ...
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M6 racks up sales on Siri's Intimate Enemies
Following the success of Rachid Bouchareb's Days Of Glory, another French film dealing with thetrauma of the Algerian experience has been piquing buyers' interest. In therun-up to the AFM, Florent Siri's Intimate Enemies has been racking up deals.Since M6 began pre-sales on the project in Cannes in May with onlya ...
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Bavaria sells Sweet Mud to Canada, Brazil
On the eve of the AFM, Bavaria Film International has sold IsraeliOscar entry Sweet Mudto Mongrel Media in Canada and Imovision in Brazil. The deals were concludedduring the Business Street Days of the Rome Film Festival earlier this monthSweet Mud,directed by Dror Shaul, is the story of a 12-year-old boy ...
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EC says it will rule on UK film tax by end of year
The European Commission has offered further clarification asto what has caused its delay in EC approval for the new UK film taxlegislation. The EC now says it is aiming to make a decision "by the endof the year." In a statement to ScreenDaily.Com yesterday, EuropeanCommission Spokesman on Competition Jonathan Todd ...
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UK tax credit stranded while Europe ponders approval
Screen International's UK Film Financesummit meets today amid growing evidence that the European Commission may be uncomfortable with aspectsthe UK's new film tax plans. The UK's new tax credit was announced in March this year,further clarified in April, and has been approved by the UK parliament. UK government bodies had ...