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First Run takes US rights to documentary Four Seasons Lodge
First Run Features has acquired US rights to New York Times journalist Andrew Jacobs' documentary Four Seasons Lodge and will announce the theatrical release date shortly.Jacobs' picture recounts the final season for a group of Holocaust survivors that gather each year in a mountain idyll located in New York's Catskills. ...
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Russian International Film Market gets underway in Moscow
The 77th edition of the Russian International film market (the IRFM) has opened with the world premiere of Sergei Solovyev's rock-music drama 2-ASSA-2, a sequel to his cult 1987 film ASSA. In addition the festival has confirmed that, in response to industry feedback, it will now take place three times ...
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Revolver picks up rights to Star Wreck
Revolver Entertainment has picked up Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning from Finnish producer Blind Spot Films for distribution in the UK and US.Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning, originally produced by a group of Tampere-based filmmakers as a micro-budget sci-fi comedy for the internet community, has become the most-watched Finnish film ...
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Archibald Enterprise Film picks up The Milk Of Sorrow for Italy
Independent Italian distributor Archibald Enterprise Film has picked up Claudia Llosa's Berlin Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow from German sales agent The Match Factory. In a separate deal, Milan-based Officine Ubu has taken distribution rights to Michael Winterbottom's drama Genova from HanWay. Genova stars Colin Firth as an ...
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Film Sales Company takes on two SXSW titles
Andrew Herwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up domestic sales rights aheadto two films - The Overbrook Brothers and Wake Up - set to world premiere at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.John Bryant's dramatic competition entry The Overbrook Brothers is acomedy about two brothers in their 30s who ...
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Alive Mind takes US rights to Walter's Theater Of War
Richard Lorber's documentary label Alive Mind has acquired the US theatrical, public performance and video rights to John Walter's documentary Theater Of War.Theater Of War stars Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline and is based on TonyKushner's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Bertolt Brecht'sMother Courage And Her Children, inspired by ...
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Black Dynamite sells to Pretty Pictures and Svensk
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights from T&C International to Scott Sanders' Sundance hit blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite starring Michael Jai White.Pretty Pictures president James Velaise negotiated the deal with LosAngeles-based T&C International chief David Jourdan following meetingsat the EFM last month.Jourdan also reported he had closed a deal with ...
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Film Movement takes North American rights to Munyurangabo
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to first-time American film-maker Lee Isaac Chung's Rwandan genocide tale Munyurangabo.The feature was shot entirely in the native Kinyarwanda dialect usinga non-professional cast and crew that included genocide orphans.Munyurangabo premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2007 andwill open in May. ...
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NewsElephant Eye sells Sundance winner to France, Spain and Greece
Elephant Eye Films has sold distribution rights to France (ARP), Spain (Filmax) and Greece(Videorama)for Lee Daniels’ Sundance winner Push
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Eureka takes UK rights to Soul Power from Celluloid Dreams
London-based Eureka Entertainment has acquired the UK rights to Soul Power from Celluloid Dreams.Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary about the famous 1974 R&B concert in Kinshasa, Zaire, had its world premiere at Toronto 2008. Sony Pictures Classics picked up North American and Latin American rights.Levy-Hinte produced with David Sonenberg and Leon Gast.The ...
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Regent takes US rights to Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil
Regent Releasing has picked up US rights from Halifax Film to RogerSpottiswoode's drama Shake Hands With The Devil and will release inthe summer.Roy Dupuis stars as Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, a Canadianformer United Nations military officer who alerted the world toongoing atrocities in the war between African Hutu and Tutsi tribes.Deborah ...
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Germany's TMG picks up new films by Redford, Gilliam, Carpenter
Herbert Kloiber’s Tele München Group (TMG) acquired the German rights to new films by Robert Redford, Terry Gilliam and John Carpenter at this year’s European Film Marketduring the Berlinale.
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Berlin Bear winners sell well for Match Factory, Bavaria
Sales have been strong for Berlin Bear winners handled by German-based sales agents The Match Factory and Bavaria Film International.
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Rai sells Fausto Brizzi's Ex to Notro for Spain
Rai Trade has seen a flurry of interest in Ex, the new romantic comedy directed by Fausto Brizzi. The film is currently at the top of the domestic box office, grossing $6.1m (Euros 4.76m) off its first seven days in Italian cinemas.During Berlin's EFM, Rai Trade sold Ex to Notro ...
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Shoreline cleans up with The Maid deals at EFM
Shoreline has closed several key territories at EFM on SebastianSilva's Chilean drama The Maid (La Nana) on the back of its grand jury prize win in Sundance's world cinema dramatic section.Rights have gone to Golem Distribucion in Spain, Bolero Films inItaly, Ost For Paradis for Denmark, Action Film for Norway, ...
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Fidalgo takes Norwegian rights to two Berlin competitors
Norwegian distributor Fidalgo has acquired two films which had their world premieres in this year's Competition at the Berlinale.Deals were concluded by Fidalgo with The Match Factory for Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's feature debut Gigante and with TrustNordisk for Annette K. Olesen's Little Soldier. In addition, Berlin-based distributor Neue Visionen ...
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Arthouse takes on Shulman doc Visual Acoustics
Arthouse Films has acquired North American and worldwide rights to feature documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism Of Julius Shulman.Eric Bricker directed the film, which explores the career of 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who works with human models and striking landscapes to explore how nature mixes with urban design. Dustin ...
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Match Factory floats with Vinterberg's Submarino
The Match Factory has taken on sales for Thomas Vinterberg's low budget feature Submarino which is based on the novel of the same name by Jonas T Bengston. The deal continues Match's collaboration with Danish production house Nimbus Film after handling international sales on their previous productions of Ole Christian ...
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Rapid Eye picks up Phantom'sLove Exposure
Rapid Eye has acquired all German-speaking rights to Forum title Love Exposure from Japan's Phantom Film. Directed by Sono Sion, the four-hour drama follows a young boy who falls in love with a girl who later becomes his step sister. He is then forced to rescue her, along with her ...
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Latido closes number of deals on Sex, Party & Lies
Madrid-based sales outfit Latido has closed several sales on Sex, Party & Lies by Albacete and Menkes. The film, to be released by Sony Spain on 250 prints in late March, has gone to Korea (Planis Entertainment), Greece (Art Free) and the US (Multivision). France, Italy and Russia are in ...