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TIFFCOM wraps successful edition despite competition
Tokyo's TIFFCOM (Oct 22-24) wrapped Friday night with delegates agreeing the market was good for meetings involving Japanese counterparts, and was getting bigger and better. Despite being sandwiched between MIPCOM and the AFM, and taking place at the same time as the Rome Film Festival, the market was busier than ...
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IMAX expands theatre deal with Ukraine's Triumph
IMAX Corp. and Kyiv-based media company Triumph have added a third cinema to its giant-screen roll-out in the Ukraine. Triumph's exhibition arm, Kinokompaniya Triumf, will now have theatres in Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov. The Kiev site was installed last month, while the Odessa site is expected to be operational by ...
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Summit picks up The Book Of Eli
Summit International has picked up international rights to The Book Of Eli starring Denzel Washington and will introduce the apocalyptic tale to buyers at AFM next month. The Book of Eli marks the first theatrical project from Albert and Allen Hughes since From Hell opened in 2001. Washington ...
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Arclight picks up rights to The Red Baron
Arclight Films has acquired worldwide rights excluding German-speaking Europe and the Czech Republic ahead of AFM to the $23.3m (Eu18m) German aerial action title The Red Baron. Matthias Schweighofer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey and Joseph Fiennes star in the Niama Film tale of the legendary first world war German ...
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TIFFCOM: Asmik Ace dresses Asia in Handsome Suit
Japanese producer-distributor Asmik Ace closed several Asian deals for new comedy The Handsome Suit on the second day of the TIFFCOM market. The film was sold to Golden Harvest for Hong Kong and Macau; Serenity picked up Taiwanese rights, and Encore acquired rights for Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Bids for ...
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TrustNordisk takes on US remake Love at First Hiccup
TrustNordisk will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, the US remake of Danish box-office franchise success, Anya & Victor. Danish sales agency, TrustNordisk, will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, an American $2.4 million re-make of Danish romantic comedy Anya & Victor.'A world in crisis needs ...
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Canada's Evokative picks up Korean drama Crying Fist
Evokative Films has picked up Canadian rights to Ryoo Seung-wan's boxer drama Crying Fist, following negotiations at the recent Asian Film Market in Pusan. Starring Choi Min-sik, Crying Fist premiered in Cannes' Directors Fortnight in 2005 where it won the FIPRESCI award, and also screened at numerous other festivals including ...
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Lightning Entertainment picks up crime thrillerLa Linea
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights to the crime thrillerLa Linea starring Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta.Lightning Entertainment co-president Richard Guardian will commencesales at AFM next month on the story of a veteran assassin on thetrail of a Mexican cartel leader. Endeavor holds North ...
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Amsterdam Filmmuseum and Thought Equity Motion in $40m project
The Amsterdam Filmmuseum has entered into a partnership with US company, Thought Equity Motion.The move is part of the Netherlands' hugely ambitious 'Images For The Future' project to digitise the country's entire film, radio and TV holdings. The Filmmuseum has around $40m (Euros 30 m) to spend on its digitisation ...
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UK initiative to bring female led comedy features to the big screen
Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones' Diary) and Olivia Poulet (Margaret, Killing me Softly) are among 13 women selected to take part in Last Laugh: Women Create Comedy, the new feature film development initiative from Warp X and Birds Eye View, supported by industry body Skillset.The initiative aims to bring female led ...
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Kimmel takes on sales for Paper Man with Daniels, Reynolds
Kimmel International will commence sales at AFM on the coming-of-age tale Paper Man starring Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and Lisa Kudrow.Michele and Kieran Mulroney make their directorial debut on the film; they recently co-wrote the DC Comics' adaptation Justice League for Warner Bros.Paper Man chronicles the unlikely ...
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European promotion network expands to 30 countries
The European-wide network European Film Promotion (EFP) is expanding to 30 countries, with the arrival of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre and the Film Centre Serbia (FCS) as the latest members.The Hamburg-based network of film promotion and export organisations now consists of 29 members from 30 countries across Europe.Welcoming the latest ...
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Viacom's CEO Philippe Dauman urges content growth as MIPCOM opens
Despite the worldwide economic freefall, the annual MIPCOM TV market got underway on Monday expecting record attendance.Viacom president and CEO, Philippe Dauman, opened the event with a keynote speech on Monday evening during which he noted, 'We are the creators of escape; this may be the best time to be ...
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Icon buys UK rights to Fraser's Dean Spanley
Icon Films has signed for the highly imaginative and whimsical period film after seeing it last month at the world premiere in Toronto. Kathleen Drumm, head of sales agent New Zealand Film, says an offer for US rights is on the table but won't elaborate.Drumm negotiated the deal with head ...
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Evans, Jurjens launch sales outfit Tavix Pictures at AFM
Producer Casey Evans and director Brad Jurjens have announced they will launch the distribution company Tavix Pictures at AFM, which runs from November 5-12 in Santa Monica.The inaugural slate includes Jurjens' action thriller Hired Gun starring Michael Madsen, John W Kim's Hitchcockian thriller Blur and Michael O'Brien's baby boomer documentary ...
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Senator's head of acquisitions leaves for Atlas Film + Medien
Milada Rybarova has exited her position as Head of Acquisitions at the beleaguered German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment to take up the newly created post of VP Sales and Acquisitions at Atlas Film + Medien from this week. Rybarova began working at Senator in 2000 as an acquisitions executive and ...
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German domestic market share at record 21.3%
German films have secured a market share of 21.3% in the first nine months of 2008, according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI. This is almost 50% higher than 2007's 14.4% share and higher than 2006's record 20.3%.That market share would be even higher - up to 25% - if ...
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Celluloid picks up international rights to Sex My Life
Celluloid Dreams has acquired international rights to Bahman Motamedian's feature Sex My Life. The film, which debuted in Venice last month, is a mix of documentary and fiction that follows seven transsexuals living in modern-day Tehran.The subjects' journey to finding their true identity is demonstrated as they seek acceptance from ...
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Beta Cinema picks up world sales for German feature on Iraq War
Beta Cinema has picked up world rights for Lancelot von Naso's feature debut Ceasefire (Waffenstillstand).Ceasefire is the first German-language feature film on the Iraq War and is a co-production between DRIFE Deyle&Richter Filmproduktion, DCM Mitte Productions, Erfttal Film, and broadcasters ZDF and arte.The film was inspired by the 2004 siege ...
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Swedish Film Institute announces $3.9m film support
The Swedish Film Institute has contributed $3.9m (SEK 28.1m) production support for 13 new films. $1.4m (SEK 10m) of that sum is reserved for Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's first feature, Sound Of Noise.Simonsson and Nilsson have also scripted their debut which will be a French-Swedish co-production ...