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NewsOrange signs $120.2m deal with French film bodies
Orange, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator, has signed a deal with number of French film bodies to invest $120.2m (€80m) over the next three years in French and European cinema.
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NewsThis Is It stays ahead of the pack overseas as $29m raises tally to $128.6m
This Is It continued to dominate the overseas market as a further $29m from 8,800 screens in 110 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) raised the running total to $128.6m after two weekends.
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NewsSoul Kitchen and Wild Grass to bookend 50th Thessaloniki film festival
Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen and Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) will bookend the 50th International Thessaloniki Film Festival, which opens on November 13.
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NewsORPS and Yatzy win top children’s films prizes at the Nordic Film Days
Atle Knudsen’s ORPS - The Movie and Katja Eyde Jacobsen’s Yatzy won top prizes at the 51st Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, which wrapped up on November 8.
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NewsWild Bunch takes Edge, Victoria from GK for Germany
Wild Bunch Germany, the new German distribution arm of the French film group, has signed a two-picture deal with Graham King’s GK Films, taking rights in Germany to Martin Campbell’s Edge Of Darkness starring Mel Gibson and Jean-Marc Vallee’s The Young Victoria with Emily Blunt.
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NewsIM Global sells out on alien sci-fi thriller Area 51
IM Global is close to selling out the alien thriller Area 51, Oren Peli’s follow-up to the micro-budget smash Paranormal Activity that stands on the cusp of $100m in North America.
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NewsCoach 14 to sell Castro’s Daughter from Moresco
Coach 14 has picked up foreign sales rights to Bobby Moresco’s Castro’s Daughter. The film is the true story of Alina Fernandez, who was the product of a love affair between Fidel Castro and Cuban socialite Naty Revuelta.
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NewsBavaria busy on Krabat, Liebe Mauer
Bavaria Film International has been racking up sales on its AFM slate. The company’s Thorsten Ritter reports that Australia’s Accent Film has picked up Marco Kreuzpaintner’s Krabat and Maren Ade’s Everyone Else.
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NewsRibbon, Prophet, Slumdog lead EFA Award nominations
Cannes favourites The White Ribbon and A Prophet and last year’s Oscar sensation Slumdog Millionaire both figure prominently in the 22nd European Film Awards nominations, which were announced this weekend.
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NewsIFC acquires all US feature rights to Olivier Assayas' Carlos
IFC Films has picked up all US feature rights to Olivier Assayas’ Carlos, a mini-series about the terrorist Carlos The Jackal that will air on the Sundance Channel in spring 2010.
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NewsBeta Cinema takes on sales rights to Stolz's Goethe!
Blue-chip German outfit Beta Cinema has taken on international rights to North Face director Philipp Stölz’s next feature film, Goethe!, which comes billed as a “modern pop fairytale” biopic of Germany’s most celebrated writer in the vein of Shakespeare In Love and Amadeus.
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NewsBright Star shines in UK, France and Spain open The Box
ScreenDaily’s weekly round-up of the local and independent releases in key markets this week.
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NewsFilms Distribution closes US, Japan deals on The Horde
Films Distribution has sold French zombie movie The Horde to IFC Films in the US and to Showgate in Japan
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NewsTurin to honour Coppola's American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope will receive an inaugural Torino Grand Prix for its contribution to revitalising the US film industry. The director will attend the 27th Turin Film Festival, which runs November 13 – 21, to collect the award.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund supports 27 projects with $571, 357
The Hubert Bals Fund, part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), is handing out $571, 357 (€385,000) to 27 film projects this autumn.
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NewsParanormal Activity lingers as Jackson reigns
Michael Jackson’s This Is It was the undisputed champion of the global box office this weekend (October 31 to November 1), grossing more than a $100m over a staggering 12,391 screens.
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NewsMichael Jackson dominates the international box office
Sony’s This Is It topped international box office charts this week as the Michael Jackson documentary grossed a total of $68.9m in 74 territories.
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NewsMetropolis, Timeless board six new films for sales at AFM
A slate of six titles for the AFM has been announced by the two newly formed international sales companies, Metropolis International Sales and Timeless Films.
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NewsCelluloid Dreams boards films from Gansel, Wiseman
Celluloid Dreams is entering the AFM with a pair of sexy new films. We Are The Night comes from The Wave director Dennis Gansel and Rat Pack Filmproduktion. The Berlin-based female vampire drama stars Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer and Max Riemelt.
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NewsAlain Goldman mounts French Holocaust epic with Gaumont
Producer Alain Goldman has reteamed with Gaumont for his latest production, La Rafle (The Roundup). The $29.5m (€20m) film, directed by Roselyne Bosch, is what Goldman calls “the French Schindler’s List.”