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Germany's M-Appeal picks up internationalto Yang Yang
Germany’s M-Appeal has picked up international rights to Taiwanese director Cheng Yu-chieh’sYang Yang, which recently had its world premiere in the Panorama section at Berlin.The film, which follows a young Eurasian woman in Taiwan struggling with cultural identity issues, is also screening at the awards gala of the Hong Kong ...
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iHQ picks up sales rights to Joo Ji-Hong's Rabbit And Lizard
South Korea’s iHQ has picked up sales rights to sell Rabbit And Lizard, directed by Joo Ji-Hong, a Korean graduate of FEMIS who has spent some years in France making shorts.The award-winning director is now working with two pop idols-turned-actors - Jang Hyuk (Volcano High, Windstruck) and Sung Yuri (TV ...
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Distribution Workshop adds Road, Curse to sales slate
Distribution Workshop has added a further two projects to its fast-growing slate - Derek Chiu’s romantic dramaThe Road Less Travelledand Lo Chi-leung’s horrorCurse Of The Deserted- both of which started shooting at the end of last month.The Road Less Travelled stars Louis Koo, Huang Yi and Karen Mok and is ...
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Filmart's hottest projects for international buyers
This year's Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart) gets underway at a difficult time for the international film industry - a period when production finance is scarce and travel budgets are being trimmed. But while ripples from the global financial tsunami - as it is known in this ...
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Opinion: the changing face of acquisitions
International sellers and producers going into Cannes will encounter a severely depleted troupe of acquisitions executives from the US studios and their specialised divisions.
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Lionsgate takes North America on Paris With Love
Lionsgate has taken North American rights to Luc Besson's EuropaCorp thriller From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and directed by Pierre Morel. The deal reunites Lionsgate and Europa after Lionsgate released Olivier Megaton's Transporter 3 last year and Alexandre Aja's horror film High Tension in ...
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Michael Algar to head High Point Media Group in Ireland
Michael Algar has been appointed to the role of director of High Point Media Group's Irish outfit. 'I am delighted to be joining the High Point team' Algar said. 'They have demonstrated clear support and enthusiasm for Irish product over the years, and now from the advantage of a Dublin ...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers sells to France, Scandinavia, Benelux, Brazil
London-based sales company AV Pictures has sold Phil Claydon's Lesbian Vampire Killers to a number of new territories. Deals have been signed with La Fabrique de Films for France, Sandrew Metronome for Scandinavia, European Film Partners for Benelux and Imagem Films for Brazil. The comedy horror has already been sold ...
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Roissy sells four more territories for Cesar winner Seraphine
Roissy Films has concluded further sales on Cesar winner Seraphine. The film by Martin Provost has sold to Alcine Terran in Japanas well as Atalanta Filmes in Portugal, Gutek in Poland and With Cinema in South Korea.Roissy Films' Yohann Comte tells ScreenDaily.com that a number of other territories are currently ...
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Spanish outfit Avalon Distribution picks up In The Loop for Spain
Spanish indie production and distribution outfit Avalon has picked up rights for Spain to Armando Iannucci's political comedy In The Loop from Protagonist Pictures. Based on the popular British TV comedy series The Thick Of It, Iannucci's In The Loop charts the progress of a fictional Secretary of State for ...
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Wanda Films pick up Francois Ozon's Ricky for Spain
Leading Spanish distributor Wanda Films has picked up theatrical rights for Spain to Francois Ozon's comedy drama Ricky from Le Pacte, following its competition screening at Berlin. 'We believe the film has genuine commercial appeal,' Miguel Morales, head of acquisitions at Wanda Films, told ScreenDaily. Based on a short story ...
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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