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THE BUSINESS: Hong Kong Filmart round-up
Screen's team at Filmart look at some of the key deals concluded at this year's Filmart in Hong Kong.Click on headline to see storyUniverse kicks up a storm of pre-sales for Pang Brothers Hong Kong's Universe Films Distribution has scored a string of pre-sales on the Pang Brothers' The Storm ...
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Ramy Choi's Fame to develop new Taiwanese talent
Former Fortissimo Films executive Ramy Choi has launched a production and talent management outfit, Fame Universal Entertainment, which aims to develop up-and-coming talent with a focus on Taiwan.The company is representing several award-winning Taiwanese films as international sales agent - including Singing Chen's Berlin Forum entry God Man Dog, Doze ...
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Lotte's Show goes on to Germany
South Korea's Lotte Entertainment has sold gangster drama The Show Must Go On to Splendid Film for Germany.Han Jae-rim's gritty film stars Song Kang-ho (The Host) as a middle-aged gangster struggling with work and family'Splendid and Lotte have done business together before and they had ex press ed interest in ...
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China focus for Locations World
Shooting in China will be the central focus of the second Locations World trade show, which is running alongside this year's Filmart.A record 13 mainland Chinese production services providers are taking part for the first time, including Hengdian Chinese Film Industrial Park, China Film Group Digital Film Production Base, Shanghai ...
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Joel Kennedy joins Revolver as senior acquisitions manager
Joel Kennedy has joined UK distributor Revolver Entertainment as senior acquisitions manager.Separately, the company announced that it has acquired Sundance hit The Wackness starring Ben Kingsley, and buzz French title Female Agents starring Sophie Marceau. The Wackness is sold by Celluloid Dreams and Female Agents by TF1 International.Kennedy will acquire ...
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MK2 blasts off with nWave's 3D Fly Me To The Moon
Ben Stassen of nWave Pictures has sold another major territory on animated feature Fly Me To The Moon, which made history in Berlin last month as the first 3D film to screen as part of the European Film Market.The latest deal Stassen has concluded on the film post-Berlin is with ...
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Progress takes on sales for German kids film Morphus
Progress Film-Verleih will handle world sales on Karola Hattop's new children's film Morphus which is shooting in Berlin until Easter after completing location work near Berchtesgaden and Wernigerode.The story of a young boy's adventure to recover the last composition by Ludwig van Beethoven, which was stolen from him by two ...
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Peace Arch acquires worldwide rights to A Lobster Tale
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to family film A Lobster Tale starring Colm Meaney as a struggling lobster fisherman in Maine whose life is turned upside down when he discovers a strange moss with magical healing powers.Peace Arch Home Entertainment will release the film on DVD ...
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Bac takes on sales, French rights to Pablo - The Little Red Fox
Bac Films is set to handle international sales and French theatrical distribution for the animation feature Pablo - The Little Red Fox based on the popular TV series of the same name. Pitching the $ 11.9m (Euros 7.8m) project in development at last week's Cartoon Movie co-production forum, Toons ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Fear(s) Of The Dark
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to French animated feature Fear(s) Of The Dark from Celluloid Dreams.Pierre Menahem of Celluloid Dreams negotiated with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general manager-home entertainment Tom Stewart and acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Edwards.Metrodome plans an autumn 2008 release.Sara Frain, Metrodome general manager-theatrical, ...
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Fortissimo takes on Jordan's Sundance hit Captain Abu Raed
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide rights (outside the Middle East and North America) on Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed.The film won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance and Best Actor for Nadim Sawalha at Dubai.Captain Abu Raed marks the first feature from Jordan to be exported internationally.Fortissimo will give ...
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IFC takes worldwide rights to Nights And Weekends
IFC Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's SXSW entry Nights And Weekends.The follow-up to IFC's 2007 release Hannah Takes The Stairs received its world premiere at the Austin, Texas, festival on Mar 9.Nights And Weekends follows a remote couple as their disparate lives in New ...
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Fine Cut seals The Chaser remake deal with Warner Bros
Korea's Fine Cut has announced the $1m sale of remake rights for Na Hong-jin's thriller The Chaser to Warner Brothers. The no. 1 film, released Feb 14,has grossed over$20m (KW19bn) with 2.8 million admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s database as of March 6.In the film, a man ...
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International sales pioneer Bill Moraskie dies at 82
William J Moraskie, a long-time sales executive and one of the founding members of the American Film Market, died on Mar 2 at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, following a brief illness. He was 82.Moraskie was born on Jan 11 1926 in Mt Carmel, Pennsylvania, and following service ...
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EFP backs eight European projects in Guadalajara
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support initiative is backing a range of European films at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in March for the second year.Eight European films are being supported for promotional campaigns via their sales agents at the festival (March 7-14).The films and their sales companies are: Stephan ...
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New Films International extends Latin American deal with MGM
New Films International (NFI) and MGM Television Group have extended their Latin American output deal by five years.Under the deal MGM will have the right to distribute 70 films from NFI's library as well as any titles produced or acquired during the life of the agreement.The two most recent NFI ...
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Tiberius' EFM pick-ups include Girl In The Park, Arn
QED International's Sigourney Weaver/Kate Bosworth thriller The Girl In The Park by David Auburn is among eight titles acquired by the Munich-based distributor Tiberius Film at the recent European Film Market in Berlin.The other acquisitions are:Michael and Peter Spierig's scifi drama Daybreakers, starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, ...
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Nicolas Winding Refn starts Bronson shoot with Vertigo
Danish-born director Nicolas Winding Refn has started a six-week UK shoot for Bronson, his feature about notorious prisoner Charles Bronson.Vertigo Films is producing in association with 4DH Films, EM Media, Str8jacket Creations and Aramid Entertainment.Vertigo's Rupert Preston and 4DH Film's Danny Hansford will produce. Executive producers are Nick Love, Allan ...
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Arsenal takes on German rights to CSNY Deja Vu
Stefan Paul and Egon Nieser of German distributor Arsenal Film has picked up the music documentary CSNY Deja Vu by Bernard Shakey a.k.a. Neil Young from Fortissimo Films.The documentary, which showed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their Freedom of Speech Tour in 2006, was presented at the Berlinale in ...
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Trust picks up Hungarian prize-winner The Investigator
Trust Film Sales of Denmark has confirmed it is handling international sales for Hungarian film The Investigator.Trust CEO Rikke Ennis told ScreenDaily.com that the company is aiming for a major festival release later this year.Attila Gigor's film won five awards at Hungarian Film Week in February, including Best Actor for ...