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    Films chosen for Melbourne fest's first market screenings

    2008-07-08T12:53:00Z

    Paul Cox's latest film, Salvation, is one of 10 finished films that will be shown to buyers later this month as part of 37South, the market attached to the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).The films were chosen from a field of 20 and only one has a sales company attached ...

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    Cracks sells to StudioCanal for France, UK, Benelux

    2008-07-03T13:11:00Z

    StudioCanal has taken all rights for the UK, France and Benelux for Jordan Scott's debut feature Cracks. (StudioCanal's Optimum Releasing will handle the UK release.)Also, Alain Goldman's Legende Enterprises (La Vie En Rose) has joined the project, which is backed by Scott Free, Future Films and HandMade Films International.The Irish ...

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    Trust takes on Zapas' Minor Freedoms from Greece

    2008-07-02T14:24:00Z

    Trust Film Sales has taken on world sales for Minor Freedoms, by up-and-coming Greek director and writer Costas Zapas.Minor Freedoms is an unorthodox, cutting edge tale on family relations dominated by violence and sexual exploitation where, according to the director, 'the abolishment of any moral law leads to tragedy'.Produced by ...

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    High Point flies with Larkin's Satellites & Meteorites

    2008-06-30T17:09:00Z

    London-based High Point Films has picked up worldwide sales rights to Rick Larkin's debut feature Satellites & Meteorites.Larkin's company i-Wire Films executive produced the project and it was produced by Eimear O'Kane for Emu Productions and Dave Leahy for Warrior Films.The romantic fantasy is a love story between two people ...

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    Delanic takes UK rights to Spread starring Ashton Kutcher

    2008-06-30T17:03:00Z

    UK distributor Delanic Films continues to build its release slate by adding Spread starring Ashton Kutcher.David McKenzie's erotic comedy has been acquired for the UK and Ireland from Voltage Pictures. The story is about a womanising conman in LA who meets a female hustler.Spread is still in post and is ...

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    Works closes more Somers Town, Man On Wire sales post-Cannes

    2008-06-30T16:57:00Z

    As its filmsswept the prizes at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, London-based sales company The Works International has announced a number of new deals closed since Cannes.Shane Meadows' Somers Town sold to Taiwan (Filmware International).James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire sold to Taiwan (Filmware International), Japan (Shin Nippon), and Hungary ...

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    Ealing signs UK deal for Julian Fellowes' film

    2008-06-24T18:01:00Z

    Ealing Studios International has sold Julian Fellowes' From Time To Time to new distributor Delanic Films for the UK.Ealing has also announced other deals for the film including Australia and New Zealand (Hopscotch), Odeon (Greece) Castello Lopes (Portugal), and Shooting Stars (Middle East).The second directorial feature from the Oscar-winning writer ...

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    Wesle's Atrix takes on sales for Kyrgyzstan love story Tengri

    2008-06-23T23:04:00Z

    Beatrix Wesle's Munich-based sales agent Atrix Films has picked up international rights to Marie Jaoul de Poncheville's Tengri - Blue Heavens, a love story set in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia which has its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival this week.The film will then be screened for buyers at ...

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    Eric Lagesse takes control of Pyramide Films

    2008-06-22T11:36:00Z

    Eric Lagesse has taken a majority stake in French sales and distribution outfit Pyramide Films and will henceforth be the company's president.Fabienne Vonier, who owns the entirety of production company Pyramide Productions, will maintain a minority share in Pyramide Films.In mid-2005, Lagesse became managing director of Pyramide Films after having ...

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    Eagle Pictures reveals first slate since Ben Ammar takeover

    2008-06-20T10:32:00Z

    Eagle Pictures has announced the first titles to make up the 2008-2009 slate of the company since its take over last year by Franco-Tunisian financier Tarak Ben Ammar.Eagle Pictures head of acquisitions Maria Grazia Vairo told Screen the titles announced will be released in Italy, and in some cases will ...

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    Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond

    2008-06-20T06:19:00Z

    Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...

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    Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond

    2008-06-20T06:19:00Z

    Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...

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    Gigantic picks up Dews documentary

    2008-06-19T23:47:00Z

    Gigantic Releasing, the new distribution arm of New York-based Gigantic NYC, has acquired all North American and English-speaking rights to Morgan Dews' documentary, Must Read After My Death.The film will receive its US premiere on June 20 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Gigantic Releasing plans to open it ...

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    Lightning takes international rights to Shortcut

    2008-06-19T23:38:00Z

    Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up internationalrights from Leomax Entertainment to the recently announced thrillerShortcut.Ingo Vollkammer's Leomax Entertainment is financing the film andco-producing with Adam Sandler's newly launched production label ScaryMadison.Nicholaus Goosen will direct from a script by Scott Sandler and DanHannon about two brothers who discover a strange ...

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    Fortissimo picks up Baksy; Rezo sells Everybody to France

    2008-06-13T16:31:00Z

    Fortissimo Films will handle international distribution on Guka Omarova's second feature Baksy (Native Dancer) which had its world premiere in competition at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Thursday night.The Russian-Kazakh-French-German co-production between the CTB Film Company, Kazakhfilm, Les Petites Lumieres, Kinofabrika, ...

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    Icon takes UK, Australiarights to Transporter 3 from Europa

    2008-06-12T17:34:00Z

    Icon Film Distribution (IFD) has acquired all UK and Australian rights to Transporter 3 from EuropaCorp.This third instalment of the franchise again stars Jason Statham in the lead, with Francois Berleand and Robert Knepper. Transporter 3 is directed by Olivier Megaton from a script written by Luc Besson and Robert ...

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    Ealing's Cannes deals include Dorian Gray to Alliance Films

    2008-06-10T17:53:00Z

    Ealing Studios International has reported a number of deals closed during Cannes Market.Oliver Parker's Dorian Gray, which was announced during Cannes, has been sold to Alliance Films for Canada, the UK, Spain, Italy and Scandinavia (releases will be handled by respective subsidiaries Alliance, Momentum and Aurum and partners Eagle and ...

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    The Film Source picks up horror movie Deadwood Park

    2008-06-09T23:14:00Z

    Alex Massis' Florida-based sales and marketing company The Film Source has acquired international rights to Eric Stanze's horror title Deadwood Park.William Clifton stars as a young man who returns to his home town in the hope of solving a decades-old mystery surrounding the killing of 26 children, one of whom ...

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    Splendid's Cannes buys include Swing Vote, Unshakable

    2008-06-09T15:36:00Z

    German distributorSplendid Film has acquired German-language rights for a raft of US features currently in postproduction or production.The Cologne-based company's spending spree at the market in Cannes saw Splendid picking up, among others:Joshua Michael Stern's family comedy Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper and Kelsey Grammer Romantic comedy I ...

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    German distributors announce Cannes sales

    2008-06-08T21:24:00Z

    German distributors Kool Filmdistribution, Arsenal Filmverleih and Piffl Medien have unveiled a number of deals concluded during at the Cannes Film Festival.Freiburg-based Kool Filmdistribution acquired German rights to Belgian actor-director Bouli Lanners' tragicomic roadmovie Eldorado, which screened in the Directors' Fortnight and won the Europa Cinemas label for Best European ...