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High Point gears up for The Race with Grand Pictures
High Point Films has taken on international rights for Irish family feature The Race, currently in pre-production.Andre F Nebe, who directed the award-winning short Tricky Fingers, will direct. Michael Garland and Paul Donovan of Grand Pictures (Nic Roeg's Puffball) will produce with Germany-based Martin Hagemann of Zero Fiction will co-produce.Colm ...
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Intandem takes on sales for Dan Ireland's Jolene
London-based Intandem Films has added US drama Jolene to its slate ahead of Cannes.Dan Ireland (The Whole Wide World) directed and international art dealer Riva Yares produced for Arizona-based Next Turn Productions.Dennis Yares wrote the script inspired by EL Doctorow's short story Jolene: A Life, about a young woman who ...
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Elle Driver adds Anna, Painless, Changing Sides to slate
Gearing up for its first Cannes, Elle Driver has added a series of new films to its slate. For its debut Cannes outing, the company boasts 4 Nights With Anna; a story of obsessive love from director Jerzy Skolimowski which will open Directors' Fortnight.Meanwhile, currently in pre-production are Juan Carlos ...
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Sony lands on Moon for English-speaking markets
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up all English-speaking rights to Liberty Films' sci-fi thriller Moon starring Sam Rockwell.Independent Film Company will handle all other territories on the title, which marks the feature directorial debut of commercials director Duncan Jones of Liberty Films and was shot at the ...
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Sony becomes first major to release DVD titles in Vietnam
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has signed a DVD distribution deal for Vietnam with that country's Galaxy Studio.The deal marks the first time a US major will release its titles on DVD in the South-East Asian market and will kick off on May 9 with 15 films including Casino Royale, ...
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Universal movies find TV home in Flemish-speaking Belgium
NBC Universal International Television Distribution has licensed exclusive free television rights to a number of major movies to Vlaamse Media Maatschappij (VMMa) for Flemish-speaking Belgium.The agreement covers upcoming and current Universal features like Wanted, The Incredible Hulk, The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum and ...
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Schloendorff's Gigola on Wide Management Cannes slate
Wide Management will handle international sales on the newest project from director Volker Schloendorff, Gigola.Based on the book by Laure Charpentier, the film follows the life of George, an adventurous young woman - one of the last of the era's 'garconnes' - as she navigates the depths of the Parisian ...
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Odin's Eye sets up sales office in New York
Dave Pederson, a producer on the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, is to represent Australian sales agent Odin's Eye Entertainment (OEE) in New York. His title will be vice president of international sales, but as head of the new office he will also be sourcing product for the fledgling Sydney-based ...
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Swipe to handle Cannes market title Vanechka
Frank Mannion's UK-based Swipe Films will be handling international sales at Cannes on the Russian film Vanechka, which will have its international premiere in the Cannes market on May 17.The film is set during 1998, against the backdrop of Russia in an economic crisis and centres on an aspiring actress ...
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iDream bolsters Cannes slate with Ocean Of Pearls
London-based sales agent iDream Independent Pictures has added Ocean Of Pearls, directed by Dr Sarab Singh Neelam, to its Cannes line-up. Shot in Los Angeles, the film tells the story of a young US-born Sikh surgeon who finds that his religious beliefs of wearing a turban and beard make him ...
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Red-Carpet Reality: the prospects for theatrical docs
It is a big year for documentaries at Cannes. Three are in official selection: Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, which premiered at Sundance and is screening at the Croisette out of competition, Israeli director Ari Folman's animated film Waltz With Bashir in the Competition, and James Toback's film ...
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Media Luna picks up Family Rules, three market debuts for Cannes
Cologne-based sales company Media Luna Entertainment has picked up international distribution for Marc Meyer's ironic comedy Family Rules (Wir Sagen Du! Schatz) and is lining up another three market premieres for Cannes.Meyer's feature debut, starring Samuel Finzi, Nina Kronjaeger, and Anna Maria Muehe, was the closing film at last year's ...
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TLA signs deal with Jinga for Richards' Summer Scars
Jinga Films has signed an all-rights North American deal with TLA Releasing for Julian Richards' Summer Scars.TLA will release through its TLA Presents and Danger After Dark labels.The coming-of-age thriller recently won two Welsh BAFTA Awards.'This success is all about the newcomers,' said Julian Richards at the BAFTA Cymru Awards ...
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HAF's Esther Yeung joins Fortissimo Hong Kongoffice
Fortissimo Films has announced a restructuring of its Hong Kong executive team.Esther Yeung has been hired as director of marketing & special projects, replacing Raymond Phathanavirangoon, who is leaving the company.Yeung was previously one of the managers ofthe Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) at the Hong Kong International ...
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Protagonist takeson sales forBBC Films' In The Loop
New UK sales company Protagonist Pictures has taken on its first third-party project, Armando Iannucci's In The Loop.Principal photography has now started on the BBC Films, UK Film Council and Aramid Entertainment project.Optimum Releasing has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to the political comedy.Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi, ...
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The Works International takes on sales for Palka's Good Dick
UK-based sales company The Works International has taken on rights for Good Dick, which premiered at Sundance.Glasgow-born Marianna Palka directed, produced and stars in the Los Angeles-set film, about an awkward romance between a porn-addicted loner and a video-store clerk. The cast also features Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, ...
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Fox picks up Australian rights for Children Of Huang Shi
Australia producer Jonathan Shteinman has extricated The Children Of Huang Shi from Icon's take-over of Dendy Films and done a deal that will see 20th Century Fox Film Distributors release the film in Australia.The film premiered in China in early April and Fox will release the film in Australia in ...
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Kinowelt International unveils 'long-lost' Lubitsch
Kinowelt International will be unveiling a 'long-lost' film by Ernst Lubitsch and the 'Director's Cut' of Percy Adlon's 1987 international hit Bagdad Cafe as market premieres at the forthcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.Made in 1921, Lubitsch's The Loves Of Pharaoh (Das Weib Des Pharao) was his last large-scale production ...
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Lightning picks up Aussie horror Gates Of Hell
US sales agent Lightning Entertainment has picked up world rights to horror film The Gates Of Hell just in time for Cannes. Australian writer/director Kelly Dolen met all but one of the private investors that put up the $1.1m (A$1.2m) to make the film while installing theatre systems in their ...
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Critics Week adds special screening of Swiss Home
Paris-based Memento Films has confirmed that its Swiss black comedy, Home, has been added as a special screening in Critics Week.Directed by Ursula Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet, the film has been scheduled into the prestigious Sunday night slot which was reserved for Juan Antonio Bayona's The ...