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Japan's Usen pulls out of film production and acquisition
Japanese media and communications giant Usen Inc has announced its withdrawal from feature film production and acquisitions, which is currently handled by its wholly-owned subsidiary Gaga Communications. The announcement was made by Usen CEO Yasuhide Uno at the semi-annual shareholders meeting yesterday (April 16).Gaga Communications will cease acquisition of foreign ...
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Films du Losange takes on Schneider's Es Kommt Der Tag
Les Films du Losange will handle international sales on screenwriter Susanne Schneider's directorial debut Es Kommt Der Tag which began shooting at locations in Baden-Wuerttemberg and the Alsace region this week. The German-French co-production between Wueste Film Ost, Strasbourg-based Unlimited, Stuttgart's Filmtank, Wueste Film West, and broadcasters SWR, WDR and ...
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Sofia Neves moves from Capitol to HanWay Films
UK-based sales company HanWay Films has hired Sofia Neves as director of worldwide salesand distribution.Neves starts at HanWay this week after departing her position as sales director at Capitol Films. Before her three years at Capitol, she worked at Renaissance Films and for producer Paulo Branco.She reports to Thorsten Schumacher, ...
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Icon takes UK rights to James Marsh's Man On Wire
Icon Film Distribution (IFD) has acquired UK theatrical and home entertainment rights to James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire.The deal was done with UK production company Wall To Wall.Man On Wire won the jury prize and audience award in the World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance.The film is about Philippe ...
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Roissy sells Caramel to Japan's Cetera
Roissy Films has confirmed the sale of Nadine Labaki's Caramel to Japan's Cetera International.The romantic comedy, centered around a group of women in a Beirut beauty shop, has been a sleeper hit with 500,000 admissions in France since Bac Films released it in August.The film has sold well worldwide with ...
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Visit Films acquires international rights to Momma's Man
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's fledgling sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Azazel Jacobs' comedy Momma's Man, which premiered at Sundance earlier in the year.Visit will commence sales in Cannes next month on the story of a businessman who moves back in to his parents' downtown New ...
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TrustNordisk to handle Schmid's Hague dramaStorm
TrustNordisk will handle international sales for German filmmaker Hans-Christian Schmid's first major international project Storm (Sturm) which sees him reunited with Requiem screenwriter Bernd Lange, this time as co-writers.'The film is about a prosecutor at the war tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia in The Hague who is trying to persuade a witness ...
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mdc takes on world sales for Kozole'sSlovenian Girl
Berlin-based sales agent mdc international will handle world sales for Damjan Kozole's latest feature film Slovenian Girl (Slovenka) which is currently shooting in Slovenia.The film is a co-production between Slovenia's Vertigo/Emotion Film, Croatia's 4 Film, Bosnia's Pro.ba, Serbia's Bas Celic and Germany's Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion.mdc had also distributed two of ...
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Poland's Tricks secures deals with UK, Germany, France
The UK, Germany, France, Israel and Taiwan are among 12 territories who have picked up the rights to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Jakimowski's second feature Tricks which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia last year and a Special Award at the Sao Paulo Film Festival, ...
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Gavin Reardon heads IM Global's new TV division
Sales company IM Global has expanded again by creating IM Global Television.Gavin Reardon has been named president of the new division. He was most recently president of action programming distributor And Action! Distribution.IM Global Television will acquire and license a wide range of television and digital broadcast material including ...
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IFP Market recasts itself as Independent Film Week
With its 30th anniversary coming up in September the IFP has renamed its annual IFP Market to Independent Film Week.The event is also on the move from from Soho's Angelika Film Center and Puck Building to new digs at Chelsea's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.) and nearby venues.Organisers have also ...
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MipTV market concludes on note of media and telecoms
A chilly, rainy MipTV market wound down Thursday following keynote speeches focusing on media and the telecom companies and social networking. France Telecom Group's chairman and CEO, Didier Lombard, on Wednesday told attendees he never expected to be addressing a group of content makers. But, he said, 'I do truly ...
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Universal snares international rights to Ricky Gervais' directorial debut
Universal has picked up all international rights from Media Rights Capital to This Side Of The Truth, the comedy that marks Ricky Gervais' debut as a feature film director.As previously announced, Warner Bros holds North American rights to the story starring Gervais as a man in an alternate universe who ...
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Metrodome acquires full UK rights to Warlords
Metrodome Distribution has acquired full UK rights to Peter Chan's action film The Warlords. The film has earned $40m at its domestic box office, making it one of China's most successful domestic theatrical releases ever. Metrodome is looking to release the film nationwide later this year. The Warlords has been ...
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goEast 2008 launches project market and DVD label
An East-West project market is being held at Wiesbaden's goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (April 9-15), which will open Wednesday evening with Nikita Mikhalkov's Oscar-nominated film 12.The one-day event this coming weekend is being hosted by goEast in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation and will ...
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Saetre leaves Bonne Pioche for solo march
Linda Saetre, who headed the New York-based sales arm of Bonne Pioche and led the company's 2006 Oscar campaign for March Of The Penguins, has launched her new company Saetre Film.Saetre will continue to co-produce with Bonne Pioche and serve as their salesperson for documentaries and TV programmes on a ...
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Game on for Lakeshore's video game junkie project
Lakeshore Entertainment has acquired the rights to Ernie Cline's original screenplay Thundercade, about a grown-up video game junkie who ditches his job to reclaim his world record at a gaming tournament.Lakeshore chairman Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will develop and produce with Dan Farah of Farah Films. Lakeshore intends to ...
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Film Source takes on ancient evil tale, The Seer
Florida-based The Film Source Company has picked up worldwide rights to Nuragic Films' Italian English-language horror film The Seer.Luigi Desole directed the tale of cult members who search for a missing element that will awaken an ancient evil.The Seer was shot in Sardinia and is based on a screenplay by ...
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New European TV database should draw in film rights owners
A new European TV database being launched tomorrow (Wednesday) at MIPTV will provide a significant tool for the film industry, offering benefits for distributors and rights owners, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory.MAVISE (Marche Audiovisuel Europe), as the database is known, was established by the Observatory at the request of ...
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Pretty Pictures takes on French rights to Bacon's Arena
Paris-based Pretty Pictures has acquired all French-language rights to Adam Low's Bacon's Arena, a BBC-backed documentary about artist Francis Bacon.The project was sold by London-based Wavelength Pictures. The package includes DVD bonuses for a special release during the centenary of Bacon's birth in 2009. There are major exhibitions planned in ...