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Wild Bunch swims in Oceans of Berlin deals
Wild Bunch was striking an upbeat note as the company announced its EFMdeals yesterday. Despite the credit crunch, it emerged that the French powerhouses has closed multiple territories on its packed Berlin slate. 'I think the worst is still to come. We were all afraid that Berlin would be a ...
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Media Asia closes slew of saleson The Sniper
Media Asia has closed deals on Dante Lam's The Sniper for territories including Germany, France, the UK and Turkey. The film, about a police sniper who vows to take revenge after he is unjustly imprisoned, has gone to KSM in Germany, Wild Side in France, Showbox in the UK, Horizon ...
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Intra's Tobruk lands in UK with Hi-Fliers
Italian sales outfit Intra Movies has closed a UK deal in Berlin with Hi-Fliers on Czech World War Two film, Tobruk. Directed by Vaclav Marhoul, thestoryis about a20-year-old volunteer in the Czech army in North Africa in the autumn of 1941. Showing its increasing appetite for eastern European fare, Intra ...
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IM Global sets sales for Hill, Miller movies
IM Global has reported strong initial sales on the upcoming Mickey Rourke thriller St Vincent and is close to selling out Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee following the drama's world premiere here in Berlinon Monday night. St Vincent reunites Rourke with his Johnny Handsome director Walter Hill ...
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Asmik Ace picks up Kore-eda's Air Doll
Japan's Asmik Ace has picked up worldwide sales rights to Hirokazu Kore-eda's project Air Doll (working title), which stars Korean actress Bae Doo-na. The film, which is currently in post-production after wrapping at the end of January, is based on a manga created by Yoshiie Goda. It follows the story ...
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Magnolia kicks up US rights to Ong Bak 2
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to Thai martial arts action title Ong Bak 2 from Sahamongkolfilm International. Magnolia is planning a theatrical release for the film under its Magnet Releasing genre label. The company released the first Ong Bak film, also starring Tony Jaa, which grossed more than $4m ...
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Bernard Rose's Kreutzer Sonata picked up by IFC Films for US
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Bernard Rose's The Kreutzer Sonata and will release it this year on its Festival Direct movies-on-demand label. The film, which stars Danny Huston, Elisabeth Rohm and (in a cameo) Anjelica Huston in a dissection of modern marriage based on the Tolstoy novella, ...
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The Ghost scares up deals for Summit
Summit International has announced major territory sales on a high-prestige EFM slate led by deals with Pathe in France, Kinowelt in Germany and Rai/01 in Italy on Roman Polanski's thriller The Ghost starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. Eagle Pictures in Italy, which had already taken rights on Twilight follow-up ...
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Germany's Ascot Elite chews up Chaw
South Korea's Fine Cut has clinched a trio of pre-sales on Shin Jung-won's $7m creature feature Chaw, including the sale of all German-speaking rights to Ascot Elite. The film, about a man-eating boar terrorising a Korean village, has also gone to J-bics for Thailand and IOF Entertainment for India. Hans ...
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Pathe seals deals on Frears' Cheri with Lumiere, Nordisk
On the eve of EFM, Pathe International announced deals on two major territories for Stephen Frears' Cheri which screens in competition here on Feb 10. Lumiere has taken the film for Benelux and Nordisk for Scandinavia.The film, written by Christopher Hampton from Colette's novel stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Felicity ...
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T&C Pictures Internationalpacks Black Dynamite
David Jourdan's fledgling sales agency T&C Pictures International has picked up Scott Sanders' Sundance blaxpoitation pastiche Black Dynamite, while celebrating a North American deal with Summit Entertainment on its first film comedy musical Lock And Roll Forever. Jourdan closed the Black Dynamite deal with Endeavor Independent's Graham Taylor and Mark ...
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Loveridge launches Meridiana with first slate
Industry veteran Helen Loveridge, who co-founded Fortissimo Film Sales, has announced details of her new, London-based sales outfit, Meridiana Films. 'This is my first active market,' Loveridge commented. 'I will be starting slowly, looking to build up as we did with Fortissimo.' The company will be handling both dramatic features ...
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Memento closes on Larrieu brothers' This Is The End
Paris-based Memento Films International has taken on international sales to This Is The End, the new $13m (Euros 10m) end-of-the-world epic from Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu. Produced by veteran Bruno Pesery in association with Backup Films through their Coficup fund, the film stars Matthieu Amalric, Sergi Lopez, Catherine Frot and ...
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Korea's Fine Cut wraps up pre-EFM sales
Seoul-based sales agent Fine Cut has wrapped up a slew of sales on the eve of the EFM, including the sale of Antique, which screens here in the Culinary Cinema section, to Thailand's Rose Media. Directed by Min Kyu-dong (Memento Mori) and starring French actor Andy Gillet, the film was ...
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Wild Bunch launches 3D label kicking off with Oceans
Wild Bunch is going 3-D. The French sales, distribution and financing outfit will create a new label, Wild Bunch 3-D, under which 3-D films will be distributed and sold. The new arm is to kick off with Oceans 3-D Into The Deep from filmmaker brothers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello and ...
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Number of buyers at EFM increases year-on-year by almost 40%
The number of international buyers attending this year's European Film Market (EFM) at the Berlinale is set to increase by almost 40% year-on-year. While a total of 1,073 attended the EFM's 2008 edition, this year's market has 1,474 buyers from 60 countries accredited (as of Feb 2, ...
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Maple acquires Canadian rights to Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Toronto-based distributor Maple Pictures has acquired all Canadian rights to director Rebecca Miller's upcoming Berlin title The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee. The film's ensemble cast features Robin Wright Penn in the title role, along with Keanu Reeves, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder and Monica Bellucci.Adapted by ...
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Summit arrives at EFM with Furry Vengeance, Next Day Air
Summit International arrives at EFM with the $50m family adventure Furry Vengeance starring Brendan Fraser and urban comedy caper Next Day Air starring Mos Def and Mike Epps.Summit Entertainment plans a 2010 North American release on Furry Vengeance, in which Fraser plays a conniving developer whose cruel intentions meet with ...
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Myriad takes on international rights to McGehee/Siegel drama
Kirk D'Amico's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures has acquired all international rights to the action drama Uncertainty starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins.Myriad will screen the film and commence sales at EFM next week after Myriad's Luiza Ricupero negotiated the deal with Christine Kim of Cinetic. ...
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Fortissimo to start pre-sales at EFM on Todd Solondz's Forgiveness
Fortissimo Films has confirmed that it has acquired international rights from Werc Werk Works to Todd Solondz's Forgiveness and will commence pre-sales at EFM next month on the loose sequel to the director's 1998 dark comedy Happiness.Fortissimo has always been connected to the project but the film has undergone several ...