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Finecut picks up new feature from Hong Sang-soo
Seoul-based Finecut has picked up worldwide sales rights for Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo's upcoming feature Jal Aljido Mot Hamyeonsuh (original title). Currently in post-production, the film has yet to settle on an international title, although the original Korean title means 'as if you even know properly' or as Finecut puts ...
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CJ picks up two KAFA films debuting in the Berlinale
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to two Berlinale Forum films - Members Of The Funeral and The Day After - both from the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)'s inaugural cycle of feature-length graduation films. Set for its international premiere in Berlin, Baek Seung-bin's debut ...
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High Point Films picks up Dutch hit Winter In Wartime for EFM
Winter In Wartime, the biggest Dutch box-office hit of recent months, has been picked up for international sales by London-based High Point Films. The first market screenings of the film are planned for Berlin next month. The film is proving a minor box-office phenomenon in the Netherlands and attracted over ...
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David Mackenzie's Spread sold to Anchor Bay in $3.5m deal
Anchor Bay has paid in the region of $3.5m for US and Australian rights to Spread, David Mackenzie's LA hustler tale starring Ashton Kutcher.The distributor, which is ramping up its theatrical operations, closed the deal with CAA and Endeavor Independent late on Friday afternoon [January 23] following several days of ...
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M-Line Distribution picks up Scandal Makers and A Frozen Flower
Sales agent M-Line Distribution has picked up international sales rights to top Korean box office hits Scandal Makers (a.k.a. Overspeed Scandal) and A Frozen Flower. Scandal Makers has been an unexpected hit comedy starring Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) as a former pop star confronted by not one, but two ...
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MarVista attends first EFM with new films including Hutton thriller
Los Angeles-based MarVista Entertainment has unveiled the first EFM slate in its five-year history, led by the action thriller Reflections starring Timothy Hutton and thriller The Watch with Clea DuVall.Reflections sees Hutton cast as an agent who travels to Barcelona to track down a serial killer and finds he has ...
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Nu Image, Pony Canyonstrike multi-title distribution deal in Japan
Los Angeles-based Nu Image has struck a multi-title distribution with Japan's Pony Canyon kicking off with Sylvester Stallone's upcoming action film The Expendables starring Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li with Forest Whitaker and Mickey Rourke in talks to join the cast.The story centres on a mercenary suicide mission to ...
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Elle Driver swipes international rights to Arlen Faber
Paris-based sales agency Elle Driver has picked up international rights here to John Hindman's romantic comedy Arlen Faber starring Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham.The US Dramatic Competition entry received its world premiere here on January 18 and stars Daniels as the remote author of an iconic book about spirituality who ...
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IFC picks up US rights to I'm Gonna Explode
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Canana Films' madcap Mexican drama I'm Gonna Explode (Voy A Explotar) and will push the film out later this year through its Festival On Demand VOD platform.Gerardo Naranjo's film will screen in Berlin next month and charts the exploits of two mischoevous ...
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Film Sharks takes on international sales to Tear This Heart Out
Guido Rud's Argentina-based Film Sharks International has picked up sales rights outside Latin America to Roberto Sneider's Tear This Heart Out (Arrancame La Vida) which is on the shortlist of nine films for this year's best foreign language film Oscar.The film, which has drawn over two million admissions in Mexico ...
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Sundance 2009 news and reviewsround-up
All the main stories, sales and reviews from Screen's team in Park CityClick section for moreSundance newsSundance reviewsSundance hope fornew indie dawn
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Lightning closes multiple deals on La Linea, Trailer Park Of Terror
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has closed key sales on a slew of titles including the crime drama La Linea and horror tale Trailer Park Of Terror.Rights to La Linea have sold to All-Interactive (Australia and New Zealand), Telepool (Germany), Film Depot (Russia), CCV (Scandinavia), Ster-Kinekor (South ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Dada's Dance
Shoreline Entertainment has swooped on another Sundance title as the festival got ready to kick off last night [January 15], taking worldwide rights to Zhang Yuan's Chinese drama Dada's Dance.Shoreline's director of acquisitions Brandon Paine and director of worldwide distribution Sam Eigen signed the deal with Yuan, adding to the ...
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NewsSundance hope for new indie dawn
This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a crucial bellwether for the independent film business.
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Shoreline picks up documentary The Queen And I
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has acquired the worldwide rights to Nahid Persson Sarvestani's documentary The Queen And I, set to receive its North American premiere at Sundance on January 17.The topical documentary follows film-maker and Iranian exile Sarvestani as she talks with Farah Pahlavi, the former Empress of Iran and ...
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Spotlight Pictures launches documentary sales label SpotDocs
Hollywood-based sales company Spotlight Pictures has launched the sales and marketing specialty documentary label SpotDocs.The first title to emerge is Dan Stone's At The Edge Of The World profiling Canadian activist Captain Paul Watson and his crew as they target illegal whale poachers.The film premiered at Toronto last autumn and ...
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More than 90 first-time exhibitors as Berlin's EFM sells out
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) has sold out with 386 companies and organisations from 55 countries booking, including more than 50 first time exhibitors. To date EFM has announced that 309 companies will be in the Martin Gropius Bau building with 77 based in the EFM Marriot offices. Of ...
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Aida LiPera joins Visit Films as manager of acquisitions, festivals
Former Edinburgh Film Fest programmer Aida LiPera has joined New York-based Visit Films as manager of acquisitions and festivals.LiPera is a native New Yorker who spent five years in the UK and co-produced Edinburgh's Mirrorball strand, curating a variety of cinemas programmes and live events.In September 2007 she served as ...
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Metrodome takes rights to The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
UK distribution company Metrodome Distribution has picked up full UK & Irish rights to French drama The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life. The deal was negotiated between CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain and head of acquisitions James Brown for Metrodome, and by executive vice ...
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Profile: UK producer Simon Jordan
A self-made millionaire with investments in restaurants, magazines and property, Simon Jordan now wants to be a British film mogul.Already a minor celebrity in the UK and popular with the tabloids as the young, outspoken owner of Championship football club Crystal Palace, Jordan is taking his first steps in celluloid ...