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Metrodome takes all UK rights to Before The Rains
Metrodome Distribution has taken all UK rights to Santosh Sivan's Before The Rains from Maximum Films and Echo Lake Entertainment. The deal was brokered by Charlotte Mickie of Maximum, Doug Mankoff of Echo Lake, and Metrodome's Peter Urie, Sara Frain and Kate Edwards.Metrodome is planning a summer 2008 release. The ...
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Essential acquires worldwide rights to Stan Helsing
Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights from Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures to the upcoming horror spoof Stan Helsing.The story is set on Halloween night when the eponymous reluctant hero and video shop clerk must save his town from the six most feared monsters in cinematic history.Writer-director ...
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Momentum takes on Hamlet 2 for UK
Building on its buzz from Sundance, Hamlet 2's EFM sales are starting to heat up with Momentum taking UK rights.Focus Features acquired the worldwide rights to the film in Sundance and handled the UK deal, which was said to be worth well above $2m.Andrew Fleming directed the comedy starring Steve ...
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Downey and Taylor's F&ME launches new $1m development fund
UK-based Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) has created a new $1m development fund, backed by private equity, EU MEDIA support and in-house financing, and is initially backing a slate of five projects for 2008. F&ME's Mike Downey is in early development with F&ME chairman Stephen Daldry on a Charles Darwin ...
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Arclight Cashes In On Roger Donaldson's Bank Job
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films has closed a raft of sales ahead of theEFM screening of Roger Donaldson's heist movie The Bank Job starringJason Statham.Deals have closed in Japan (Movie-Eye Entertainment); Germany,Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland (Atlas); Spain (New World Films); Scandinavia (Nordisk); Portugal (Castello Lopes); Canada (Maple Pictures); Greece and ...
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Maximum takes on international rights to Trouble The Water
Toronto's Maximum Films International has acquired international rights to last month's Sundance Grand Jury Prize documentary winner Trouble The Water.Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's film follows aspiring rapper Kim and her husband as they try to navigate a path to survival in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane ...
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NonStop slides on Frozen River for Sweden
Voracious Swedish distributor NonStop Entertainment has snapped up SundanceGrand Jury winner Frozen River.NonStop will be releasing the film in in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway,Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Filmed in sub-zero weather in upstate New York, Frozen River is CourtneyHunt's directorial debut. The film is set in a real-life smuggling zone ...
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Eros takes international rights to Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar Raaj
Indian powerhouse Eros International has acquired international rights to Ram Gopal Varma's upcoming Sarkar Raaj. Starring the hot family trio of Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, the film is a sequel to Varma's award-winning Sarkar, which delves into the links between politicians and the underworld in modern-day Mumbai. ...
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iDream looks into The Voyeurs by Dasgupta
London and Mumbai-based iDream Independent Pictures has picked up worldwide rights, excluding India, to The Voyeurs directed by veteran Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta.The film follows a young man who falls in love with the girl next door, and looks at whether our obsession with surveillance has really made the world ...
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ContentFilm strikes UK, German deals for The Killing Room
ContentFilm International has pre-sold Jonathan Liebesman's The Killing Room to the UK (Momentum), Germany (Square One), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Spentzos), The Middle East (Gulf), Brazil (Paris Filmes), Romania (Media Pro), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services) and Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia (Continental).The high-concept suspense thriller is Liebesman's follow-up to The ...
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The Weinstein Company, Showbox hot for Chocolate
Thai actioner Chocolate - which opened at the top of the Thai box office this week - has been gobbled up by several international distributors including The Weinstein Company which has taken North American rights. Produced and sold by Sahamongkolfilm International, the picture has also been sold to Showbox Media ...
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Endeavor to represent Russia's Central Partnership
Central Partnership Group has signed an agreement with the Endeavor talent agency to represent the Group's interests in North America. Under the agreement, Endeavor will act as sales agent for rights to Central Partnership movies and will organize joint production projects with major US studios.Should Endeavor clients film in Russia, ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes on von Trotta's mediaeval story Vision
Celluloid Dreams has announced its acquisition and co-production partnership on German auteur Margarethe von Trotta's new feature, Vision.Barbara Sukowa will take the leading role in the film, based on the life ofmediaeval mystic Hildegard von Bingen.A mystic, healer and composer, von Bingen was one of the most famous womenof mediaeval ...
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Roissy continues Caramel sales with Taiwan deal with Joint
Nadine Labaki's Caramel is continuing to entice buyers. The Lebanesedirector-star's crowd pleaser, which premiered in the Cannes Quinzaine last year, has sold steadily throughout the year.Here at the EFM, French company Roissy Films has announced another deal on the title. Joint Entertainment has now taken the film for Taiwan.Caramel is ...
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UK's Protagonist unveils slate, plans Cannes official sales launch
Protagonist Pictures, the new sales company formed by UK heavyweights Ingenious, Film 4 and Vertigo, has announced the first titles on its sales slate. The mix of films includes new projects from directors Nicolas Winding Refn, Rupert Wyatt, Alexis Dos Santos, Vito Rocco and Tom Shankland.Ex-Metrodome and Universal executive Ben ...
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Sidetrack takes on world rights to Corman doc King Of The B's
Sidetrack Films has acquired worldwide rights to Alex Stapleton's documentary King Of The B's: The Independent Life Of Roger Corman.The New York-based company's Jared Moshe and Richard Lim will serve as executive producers along with Josh Levin of Gallant Films.Stapleton will chronicle Corman's prolific film-making career, a legendary run that ...
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Ewald's Epic Pictures takes on Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Patrick Ewald's Epic Pictures has picked up international rights to Jon Knautz' Slamdance hit Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer starring Robert Englund and Trevor Matthews.Ewald said he was already in advanced talks with a UK distributor on the tale of a young man whose professor unwittingly causes him to confront an ...
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Odd Lot on board for Yann Samuell's The Great Ghost Rescue
Odd Lot International (OLI) is meeting with buyers to discuss YannSamuell's upcoming children's sci-fi romp The Great Ghost Rescue.Samuell will direct from David Solomons' adapted screenplay of EvaIbboston's best seller about an uprooted ghost family who go in searchof a new home.Miriam Segal and Martin Katz will produce the live-action ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment takes on Red starring Brian Cox
Bleiberg Entertainment has taken international rights to the Sundance thriller Red starring Brian Cox, as well as spaghetti Western The Legend Of God's Gun and the Jamie Kennedy film Heckler.Red received its world premiere last month and stars Cox as a recluse who seeks justice after his dog is killed ...
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Delphis lands first big deal for Fighter, to R Films for Turkey
Montreal-based Delphis Films has closed a deal with R Films for Turkish rights to Fighter (screening in Berlinale's Generation14Plus programme.)This is the first major international deal on Natasha Arthy's film, which was made through Danish production outfit Nimbus Films.'It is a film that Turkish audiences can relate to - it ...