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  • Blue Valentine
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    Hyde Park closes sales on Cianfrance's Blue Valentine

    2010-02-16T05:00:00Z

    Mimi Steinbauer’s Hyde Park International has closed a raft of deals on Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine, which The Weinstein Company acquired for North America and France following its world premiere in Sundance.

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    Momentum, Square One take Agnosia

    2010-02-16T05:00:00Z

    Filmax International has closed a pair of major territory deals on its romantic thriller Agnosia, from the producers of The Orphanage and Pan’s Labyrinth.

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    Shoreline sells Sympathy to US, latest Chopper saga to Germany

    2010-02-16T05:00:00Z

    Shoreline has announced a pair of deals, selling North American rights to the horror film Sympathy to Breaking Glass Pictures, and German rights to Fat Belly — Chopper (Unchopped) to WVG.

  • I Am Love
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    Buyers still falling for Guadagnino's I Am Love

    2010-02-16T04:58:00Z

    Buyers are continuing to lap up Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love, starring Berlinale favourite Tilda Swinton, which is being sold by The Works.

  • Teemu Auersalo’s Trolley Boy
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    European Independent Film Festival reveals line up for fifth edition

    2010-02-16T04:57:00Z

    The European Independent Film Festival (ECU) has announced its line-up for its fifth edition set to take place March 12-14 in Paris.

  • From Beginning To End
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    Wide closes further sales on Beginning To End, Gigola

    2010-02-16T04:57:00Z

    French sales outfit Wide Management has closed yet more deals on its Berlinale slate.

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    Arrow takes on Somali pirates

    2010-02-16T04:50:00Z

    Arrow Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Nordic territories, to Finnish documentary Pirates Of Somalia from Helsinki-based Hakalax Production Oy.

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    Yelchin scores royal appointment

    2010-02-16T04:50:00Z

    Anton Yelchin, riding high on the global success of Star Trek, has been cast opposite Milla Jovovich in Seven Arts Pictures’ period thriller The Winter Queen.

  • Mel Gibson
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    Icon closes big sales on How I Spent My Summer

    2010-02-15T16:13:00Z

    Icon Entertainment International (IEI) has scored big sales on its Mel Gibson-starrer How I Spent My SummerVacation about a career criminal caught by Mexican authorities who is sent to a dangerous prison and has to learn how to survive. Adrian Grunberg is directing.  

  • Cell 211
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    Cell 211 takes top honours at the Goyas

    2010-02-15T09:03:00Z

    Daniel Monzon’s thriller Cell 211 stole the limelight from Alejandro Amenabar’s historical epic Agora at the 25th Goya Awards ceremony last night (February 14), scooping eight awards including best film and best director, against Agora’s seven.

  • 3 Idiots
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    IM Global and Reliance Big forge sales alliance

    2010-02-15T05:00:00Z

    Stuart Ford’s aggressive US-based sales powerhouse IM Global has struck an alliance with Reliance Big to handle international sales on its films.

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    Arclight harnesses Beresford's Zebras

    2010-02-15T05:00:00Z

    Arclight Films is in discussions with EFM buyers on the Bruce Beresford project Zebras after picking up international sales rights.

  • Berlinale
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    Badge holders breathe sigh of relief as screenings ban is lifted

    2010-02-15T05:00:00Z

    EFM non-buyer badge holders were relieved yesterday after a stressful couple of days in which they found themselves barred from the competition press screenings.

  • Michael Haneke
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    Haneke abandons 'old age' project

    2010-02-15T05:00:00Z

    Oscar-nominated Austrian director Michael Haneke has abandoned his planned film about “humiliation and the physical deterioration of the aged” after seeing a Canadian project on a similar subject.

  • Room In Rome
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    MK2 signs distribution deal with Israel's Orlando

    2010-02-15T05:00:00Z

    MK2 has signed a distribution output deal with Israeli distributor Orlando Films.

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    ContentFilm dances off with Every Little Step

    2010-02-15T04:55:00Z

    ContentFilm has picked up international rights to Endgame Entertainment’s feature documentary Every Little Step, the critically acclaimed look behind the scenes at the Broadway smash A Chorus Line.

  • News

    Generation faces 2011 premiere rule

    2010-02-15T04:54:00Z

    From 2011, films seeking selection for the Berlinale’s Generation sidebar, which focuses on children’s and youth titles, must be European premieres.

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    Cineart swoops on top arthouse pics

    2010-02-15T04:54:00Z

    Benelux distributor Cineart has snapped up many of the most high-profile arthouse titles on offer at the EFM over the past few days

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    High Point warms to third London Microwave title

    2010-02-15T04:54:00Z

    High Point Films, the international theatrical sales arm of Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point Media Group, has snapped up world rights to Freestyle, the third feature to emerge from Film London’s Microwave stable.

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    Serkis, Cave plan motion-capture Opera

    2010-02-15T04:52:00Z

    Andy Serkis, famous for pioneering motion-capture performance in The Lord Of The Rings, King Kong and the upcoming Tintin films, has revealed he will collaborate with musician Nick Cave on a motion-capture movie of The Threepenny Opera. The Brecht and Weill musical play was first performed in 1928 in Berlin.“It’s ...