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Funny Balloons bats for Blue Eyelids
Paris-based sales agent Funny Balloons has announced the acquisition of Critics' Week title Parpados Azules (Blue Eyelids).The film, by Mexico's Ernesto Contreras, will be handled by Funny Balloons in all territories excluding Mexico.Eyelids has secured French distribution with Colifilms Diffusion. It was a top winner at the Guadalajara festival.
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Telepool books deals on Way To The Stars and Arn
Germany's Telepool has announced sales on several titles including the 3D feature animation Way To The Stars.That film, directed by Michael Hegner and Kari Juusonen, went to Turkey (Tiglon), while epic adventure Arn The Knight Templar by Peter Flinth went to Russia (Barnhill). Finally, Telepool has also sold the comedy ...
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Germany's Splendid takes on Jaa's Ong Bak 2
Germany's Splendid has become the first distributor to pounce on Ong Bak 2, starring and directed by Tony Jaa, since The Weinstein Company surrendered international rights to the project. TWC acquired all rights excluding Asia and the UK to the film last year, from Thailand's Sahamongkolfilm International, but recently renegotiated ...
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New Line takes North America on Darclight's Sick House
New Line Cinema has acquired North American rights from Darclight Films to the British horror film The Sick House.Directed and co-written by Curtis Radclyffe, the film tells the story of an archaeologist, played by Gina Phillips (Jeepers Creepers), who becomes trapped in an abandoned hospital and is preyed upon by ...
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Abu Dhabi announces inaugural film festival and new film fund
The Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi announced that it is launching an international film festival in October 2007, and also launching a film fund to support local, regional and international films, supported by an 'unlimited' government budget.Postioning itself as the burgeoning cultural hub of the Gulf, Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon ...
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World Cinema Foundation launch to open with Moroccan Transes
Martin Scorsese's May 22 Cannes launch of the World Cinema Foundation will include a rare Moroccan film entitled Transes, shot in 1981 by director Ahmed El Maanouni and restored by Italy's Cineteca di Bologna.The film focuses on the musical ensemble Nass-El Ghiwane.The World Cinema Foundation is set to follow similar ...
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Shoreline closes several deals on Man In The Chair
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has closed a slew of deals in the first few days of Cannes.AB Groupe took French rights to three films: Inside Out starring Kate Walsh from TV's Grey's Anatomy, Dan Turner's science fiction horror movie Experiment and Kardia, which won the Alfred P Sloan Foundation's feature ...
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Istituto Luce on board for Calopresti's L'Abbuffata
Istituto Luce has announced Italian director Mimmo Calopresti's latest directorial foray L'Abbuffata, starring Gerard Depardieu, Diego Abatantuono and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.The $2.4m (Euros 1.8m) budget picture was produced under Calopresti's own Gage production outfit, with Istituto Luce and France's Dania film as well as support from the Turin Piedmont Film ...
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Black Book producer Maltha plans new WWII project with Isabella
Following his success with Black Book, producer San Fu Maltha is tackling another World War II-themed project. Maltha's company Fu Works is to partner with Els Vandevorst's Isabella Films on a film adaptation of bestseller, Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter), by former Dutch politician Jan Terlouw.The film tells the story of ...
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Intramovies takes on sales for Olmi's One Hundred Nails
Italy's Intramovies has picked up international sales rights to One Hundred Nails, Palm d'Or winning director Ermanno Olmi's last feature to which is being represented in Cannes Tribute section.Olmi, who has now presented five films at Cannes won the Palme d'Or for The Tree of Wooden Clogs in 1979.One Hundred ...
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First Sun takes shine to remake of Argento's Suspira
New Italian production outfit First Sun has acquired remake rights to Dario Argento gothic horror classic Suspira.The company is led by Italian director Luca Guadagnino (Melissa P), Fendi group fashion designer Silvia Venturini Fendi with producers Carlo Antonelli, Marco Morabito and Massimilano Violante.The English-language remake will have an international cast ...
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Fortissimo ties the knot with Iceland's Country Wedding
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside Scandinavia to Icelandic comedy Country Wedding, currently shooting in Snaefellsness, Iceland. The brainchild of editor-turned-director Valdis Oskarsdottir, the film is a road movie about two busloads of Icelanders attending a wedding in a small church in the country. Completion is scheduled in time ...
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El Deseo and Explora start production on Sipan tomb project
El Deseo, the Almodovar brothers' Madrid-based production company, and Explora Films have started production on a $1.34m (Euros 1m) docudrama about the discovery and excavation of the ancient tomb of the Lord de Sipán in northern Peru.A spokeswoman for El Deseo called the tomb, remarkably intact after 1,700 years, 'the ...
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More cast lines up for Wrathall's Good shooting in Budapest
Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker and Mark Strong have joined Viggo Mortensen in the cast of Good, John Wrathall's screen adaptation of the CP Taylor stage play, directed by Vicente Amorim.Principal photography has begun in Budapest on the film, in which Viggo Mortensen plays the lead role of John Halder, a ...
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Flanders Audiovisual Fund gets new injection of cash
In a move that will provide a major boost to Flemish film production, the Flanders Cultural Affairs Minister Bert Anciaux has announced plans to increase Government support for State film body, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Details of the funding emerged here in Cannes.Anciaux anticipates that the new injection of ...
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Future Shorts provides shorts for MySpace's Cannes afternoons
UK-based international short film label Future Shorts has become the official short film partner for MySpace France during Cannes. MySpace is hosting afternoon entertainment (from 3-6pm each day May 16-27) on the Smiley Beach (opposite the Noga Hilton) featuring bands and DJs including the likes of New Order's Peter Hook ...
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Nordisk to handle Sandrew Metronome's Swedish features
Nordisk International Film Sales has signed an eye-catching deal to handle all Sandrew Metronome's upcoming Swedish feature films. Lena Rehnberg, head of production at Sandrew Metronome, signed the deal with Tine Klint, head of international sales at Nordisk. Through the new alliance, Nordisk will be handling sales on Sunstorm, a ...
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Portobello moves into sales through Fandango alliance
Eric Abraham's Portobello Pictures (the company behind Kolya and Dark Blue World) is taking the plunge into sales. Here on the Croisette, the British-based outfit has combined forces with Italian outfit Fandango to set up sales banner Portobello-Fandango. Each company has two films in the market. Portobello is introducing buyers ...
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Films Distribution Cannes slate includes competitor Tehilim
In a nice twist of timing, Films Distribution comes to Cannes this year with a pair of past masterpieces and a companion piece from a current master.The company recently acquired Albert Lamorisse's classic The Red Balloon which won a Palme d'Or and an Oscar in 1956 and 1957 respectively. Alongside ...
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Pyramide lands US deal on hot-selling Irina Palm
Pyramide International has concluded a US sale on Berlin competitor Irina Palm. Sam Gabarski's Marianne Faithfull vehicle has gone to Strand Releasing as well as having sold to nearly 40 other territories.Pyramide is in Cannes with seven films in selection including Catherine Breillat's competition debut An Old Mistress.Other titles include ...