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Miramax thrilled by Salvatores in Berlin
Miramax has grabbed multi-territory rights to Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared (Io Non Ho Paura) which plays in competition in Berlin.Handled by UK sales house Capitol Films, the film was licensed to Miramax for North America, the UK, France, Australia and New Zealand, territories in which Miramax has its ...
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Sony Classics flies with Israel's Broken Wings
In a deal signed yesterday, Sony Pictures Classics grabbed North American rights to Israeli first film Broken Wings, which plays in Berlin's Panorama section.The film, directed by Nir Bergman, is darkly comic but uplifting story of a family coping with the turmoil that follows the accidental death of their patriarch.Since ...
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Sony Classics flies with Israel's Broken Wings
In a deal signed yesterday, Sony Pictures Classics grabbed North American rights to Israeli first film Broken Wings, which plays in Berlin's Panorama section.The film, directed by Nir Bergman, is darkly comic but uplifting story of a family coping with the turmoil that follows the accidental death of their patriarch.Since ...
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Wild Bunch enjoys early Berlin sales
French sales agent Wild Bunch has kicked off the Berlin market in lively fashion with an early sale of Andre Techine's Strayed to Gaga Communications for Japan. The film, a WWII story of impossible love, is one of many on Wild Bunch's slate that the firm strongly fancies for a ...
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Wild Bunch enjoys early Berlin sales
French sales agent Wild Bunch has kicked off the Berlin market in lively fashion with an early sale of Andre Techine's Strayed to Gaga Communications for Japan. The film, a WWII story of impossible love, is one of many on Wild Bunch's slate that the firm strongly fancies for a ...
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Daldry throws weight behind FAME UK slate
Stephen Daldry, in town to present today's competition screening of The Hours, is to executive produce two forthcoming films produced by the UK's Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME). The company, which recently bought itself out from the now depleted German company F.A.M.E., is putting together an impressive slate of pictures, ...
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Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...
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Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...
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Malkovich to board Drunkboat
John Malkovich is set to star in Drunkboat, the first feature to be made by Daniel Walker, a Paris-based lawyer who has now moved into production. The film, which is written and directed by polymath theatre director-artist-actor Bob Meyer, is a coming of age story and a journey of self-discovery ...
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Lovenheim appointed head of production at BVIP
Robert Lovenheim has been appointed head of production to oversee a massive slate being ramped up by diversifying sales agent BV International Pictures (BVIP).Lovenheim, a US TV executive and European co-producer whose credits include The OJ Simpson Story and The Last Of His Tribe, has previously been consulting for the ...
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Flanders revamps support agencies
The Belgian region of Flanders is using the Berlin festival to announce the rebirth and expansion of many of its support agencies.Just before the festival, Flanders Image, the promotional agency for the northern Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, was absorbed into the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds) which started operations ...
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Soderbergh returns to remake trail
Steven Soderbergh is behind a planned remake of Argentinian heist picture Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas). Section Eight, the company he owns with George Clooney, will produce an English-language version of the picture with Gregory Jacobs making his directing debut and co-writing the screenplay with Soderbergh. The rights to Nine ...
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Screen International Summit assesses European issues
The need for smarter thinking, savvier marketing and greater professionalism across the European film industry were recurrent themes at the Screen International European Film Finance Summit.Starting with the keynote guest Stewart Till, speaker after speaker highlighted a need for greater understanding of the film industry on the part of film-makers ...
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Screen International Summit assesses European issues
Smarter thinking, savvier marketing and greater professionalism across the European film industry were recurrent themes at the Screen International European Film Finance Summit.Starting with the keynote guest Stewart Till, speaker after speaker highlighted a need for greater understanding of the film industry on the part of film-makers in Europe and ...
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Whale Rider riding high in Rotterdam
Two thirds of the way through the Rotterdam festival, Niki Caro's Whale Rider was streets ahead in the polls for the Canal Plus public prize. The film, which was previously an audience favourite in Toronto, appears in Rotterdam's main programme and received nearly three time as many votes as The ...
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Films Distribution enjoys its inheritance
French sales house Films Distribution is doing good business with an unlikely clutch of films that it inherited from the now collapsed Mercure Distribution.In Rotterdam it closed a UK sale of Lucas Belvaux' trilogy of films An Amazing Couple (Un Couple Epatant), On The Run (Cavale) and After Life (Apres ...
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Dutch A-Film snaps up two Tigers
A-Film Distribution, the independent distributor which last year enjoyed a market share of over 15% in The Netherlands, grabbed Dutch rights to two films showing in the Tiger competition section of the Rotterdam Festival. It bought rights to Bodysong and Principles Of Lust, respectively by Simon Pummel and Penny Woolcock, ...
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Ingenious taps Perry for co-productions
Simon Perry, the former head of semi-private finance house British Screen Finance, has been appointed director of co-productions at major UK tax financier Ingenious Media.Perry told Screen International: "My role will not just be about feeding the sale and leaseback operations, but more involve bringing and managing projects that can ...
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Noi Albinoi strikes first sales deals
Franco-German production and sales outfit The Co-Production Office snatched an early sale on Noi Albinoi, which is in the main Tiger Awards competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.The film was sold to Switzerland's Xenix in the hours immediately following its Rotterdam premiere and other deals are expected to follow ...
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Rotterdam provokes 'parlaimentary' outcry
The decision by the Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR) to revive its Film Parliament format - first used 15 years ago - produced two of the sparkiest festival debates on film seen in recent years. By ditching the classical panel debates and opting instead for a confrontational set-up concluding in a ...