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    High Point takes on Shadows In The Sun with Jean Simmons

    2008-05-15T16:12:00Z

    London-based High Point Films has taken on world rights for David Rocksavage's Shadows In The Sun. Jean Simmons stars with James Wilby and Jamie Dornan.Nick O'Hagan (Daylight Robbery) produced for Giant Films.The film is set in England's Norfolk coast during a hazy summer in the late 1960s. A man visiting ...

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    Wide Pictures takes Spanish rights for Two Lovers

    2008-05-15T09:04:00Z

    New Spanish indie outfit Wide Pictures has taken rights for Spain to James Gray's competition title Two Lovers, but will pass responsibility for distributing the film in Spain to Filmax. The film is being sold by Wild Bunch.Filmax announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with Wide Pictures to ...

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    New Stephane Brize film joins official selections on Rezo slate

    2008-05-15T06:03:03Z

    Rezo Films is handling international sales on three official selection titles at Cannes while also Stephane Brize's latest effort, among others. Rezo has acquired Acne by director Frederico Velroj which is running in Directors' Fortnight. The film is a Spanish drama about a young man in search ...

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    Gilles Marchand finds Black Heaven with Celluloid Dreams

    2008-05-15T06:02:50Z

    Celluloid Dreams has acquired worldwide rights to Gilles Marchand's Black Heaven . This is the director's second feature following Who Killed Bambi' , a 2003 Cannes official selection which Celluloid also handled. Black Heaven is a coming-of-age story about a teenager seduced by the unlimited ...

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    Velvet Octopus takes on sales for Intrepid's Prodigy

    2008-05-15T06:00:00Z

    UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus is on board for sales of Prodigy, the next film from Chuck Russell, the US director of The Mask and The Scorpion King. Los Angeles-based Intrepid Pictures is fully financing the $25m film as its first feature not to go through Universal or Rogue. Intrepid ...

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    Madonna's Filth scores territorial deals in Japan, France, CIS

    2008-05-15T06:00:00Z

    LA's Katapult Films has closed key sales heading into the market on Madonna's directorial debut Filth And Wisdom.David Jourdan concluded deals with Hexagon in Japan, Surreal Films in CIS and Front Row in the Middle East.French rights have gone to La Fabrique du Film in a deal negotiated with CAA ...

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    Karl Urban joins the cast of Horse for ContentFilm Intl

    2008-05-15T06:00:00Z

    Karl Urban has joined the cast of action thriller Horse, which ContentFilm International is selling worldwide.Urban previously appeared in Star Trek, The Lord Of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy and forthcoming Black Water Transit.Laurence Malkin directs and producers are Paul Schiff, Tai Duncan and Roseanne Korenberg.Horse starts shooting in New ...

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    Bankside says g'day to four Australian features

    2008-05-15T06:00:00Z

    UK-based sales company Bankside Films has added four new Australian features -- all shooting this summer or autumn -- to its slate.They are Andrew Lancaster's Accidents Happen, Rupert Glasson's Coffin Rock, Ana Kokkinos' Blessed and Rachel Perkins' Bran Nue Dae.Hilary Davis and Stephen Kelliher of Bankside have plenty of Australian ...

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    Elephant Eye takes on Frat Girl, Audience Of One

    2008-05-15T06:00:00Z

    New US producer/distributor/sales company Elephant Eye Films has taken on two new projects, one for production and one for sales.Elephant Eye will produce Frat Girl, which will be written and directed by Nate Meyer, the director/producer of festival favourite Pretty In The Face. Derrick Tseng (Palindromes, Snow Angels) will co-produce.For ...

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    Arturi Films in Cannes unveiling footage of Zimbabwe documentary

    2008-05-15T06:00:00Z

    UK production company Arturi Films is in advanced production on especially timely Zimbabwe documentary Mugabe And The White African.Channel 4’s More 4 True Stories strand has bought the UK broadcast rights via commissioning editor Sandra Whipham.The film follows a white farmer, Mike Campbell, who is taking Robert Mugabe to court ...

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    Ewald's Epic to sell Matthew Broderick comedy Finding Amanda

    2008-05-15T06:00:00Z

    Patrick Ewald's Epic Pictures Group has picked up international sales on the comedy Finding Amanda with Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow and Steven Coogan.Screenwriter Peter Tolan directed the semi-autobiographical story of a drinking and gambling TV producer who tries to win back his family. Wayne Rice and Richie Heller produced and ...

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    Intandem, WMI swim down Stream with Tommy Lee Jones

    2008-05-14T23:16:00Z

    Intandem Films and William Morris Independent will be selling Tommy Lee Jones' new action drama Islands In The Stream. Intandem will handle international and WMI will represent domestic rights. The companies are in Cannes actively discussing the project, which is adapted from the Ernest Hemingway classic. Jones will star as ...

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    TrustNordisk acquires $10m Norwegian war drama

    2008-05-14T23:06:00Z

    Scandinavian powerhouse TrustNordisk has picked up $10m Norwegian war drama Max Manus directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.The duo was also behind Bandidas, starring Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek and produced by Luc Besson.National release is December 19th. Nordisk Film will handle distribution in the Nordic Countries.Max Manus was ...

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    Coproduction Office takes on Cannes selections

    2008-05-14T22:22:00Z

    Philippe Bober's production and sales outfit Coproduction Office, which unveils Kornel Mundruczo's Delta in competition in Cannes this week, has taken on sales duties on a handful of other titles in official selection.The company is handling Ruben Östlund's Swedish tragicomedy Involuntary, screening in Un Certain Regard.All rights are available excluding ...

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    Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is first competition sale to US

    2008-05-14T19:55:00Z

    In the first US sale of a Competition title at Cannes, Wild Bunch has sold Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale to IFC. The family drama, which screens here on Friday, stars an ensemble cast including Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Consigny and Melvil Poupaud. Produced by ...

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    Star licenses 20 titles to Japan's Tsutaya Discas

    2008-05-14T18:45:00Z

    Pan-Asian broadcaster Star has signed a deal with Japanese online content provider Tsutaya Discas, which will distribute 20 movie titles from Star's Fortune Star library via internet in Japan. The titles include Bruce Lee's Fist Of Fury and Way Of The Dragon, Jackie Chan's Project A series and the popular ...

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    Film Library picks up Li Ying's Yasukuni

    2008-05-14T17:15:00Z

    Hong Kong-based Film Library has picked up Chinese filmmaker Li Ying's controversial documentary Yasukuni for international sales. It will be screened in Cannes market on May 15 and 20. The documentary, about the famous shrine in Tokyo to worship the war dead in modern Japan, caused turmoil in Japanese society ...

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    Fortissimo is big in France with ARP, La Fabrique de Films

    2008-05-14T16:34:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has sealed a raft of sales to various distributors in France, including ARP, which has acquired out-of-competition title Ashes Of Time Redux, and La Fabrique de Films, which has snapped up Madonna documentary I Am Because We Are.In addition, Films sans Frontieres has acquired Iranian director Majid Majidi's ...

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    Emmanuel Itier's The Invocation catches on with Lightning

    2008-05-14T13:27:00Z

    Santa Monica sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has invested in and will handle worldwide sales on documentary The Invocation.Emmanuel Itier produced and directed the film, which explores the notion of faith and god and shot in multiple locations around the world.Jim Carrey, Deepak Chopra are among a cast of ...

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    2929 International takes on worldwide sales to Waters' Fruitcake

    2008-05-14T13:17:00Z

    Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 International has acquired worldwide sales on John Waters' Fruitcake starring Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey.This Is That's Ted Hope and Anne Carey will produce along with Killer Films' Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler. Hope, Vachon and Knoxville previously worked on Waters' 2004 comedy A ...