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ReviewsOperation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Dir: Richard Robbins, USA, 2007, 81mins
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First Hand shakes on Corridor #8, Brides Of Allah
Zurich/Berlin-based sales agent First Hand Films has picked up international rights for two documentaries which will be having their world premieres in the International Forum of this year's Berlinale.Esther van Messel's company will be handling sales for Bulgarian filmmaker Boris Despodov's directorial debut Corridor #8 about the European Union-backed project ...
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London UK Film Focus sets 2008 dates June 30-July 3
The London UK Film Focus has announced its 2008 dates as June 30-July 3. The 2007 dates ran June 25-28.The market event for international buyers now comes on the heels of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run June 18-29 after moving from a later August slot. Presumably, international ...
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Memento's EFM slate includes Laurent Cantet's The Class
France's Memento Films has taken on international sales on Laurent Cantet's The Class. The film is currently in post-production and is scheduled for delivery in May.The Class is Cantet's adaptation of best-selling novel Entre Les Murs about a young high-school teacher in a rough Parisian neighborhood who doesn't hesitate to ...
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TF1 International comes on board for Veber's L'Emmerdeur
TF1 International has acquired the latest film from director Francis Veber, L'Emmerdeur, and will also serve as a co-producer.Shooting is to begin in March on the film which stars Richard Berry and Patrick Timsit. Patrice Ledoux's Pulsar Productions is producing with TFM Distribution set to release in France in December ...
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Beastie Boy pioneer launches film distribution outfit
Beastie Boys founder and film-maker Adam Yauch has launched the full service distributor Oscilloscope Pictures and installed former THINKFilm International vice president David Fenkel to oversee acquisitions, domestic distribution and international sales.Oscilloscope Pictures, an extension of Yauch's music and film production company Oscilloscpoe Laboratories, will handle independent English and foreign ...
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IFC loads up with Sundance double winner Ballast
IFC has picked up North American rights to Lance Hammer's Mississippi Delta-set drama Ballast, which screens in competition in Berlin and won the best director and cinematographer awards at Sundance last month following an enthusiastic reception by critics.Vice president of acquisitions and production Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with William ...
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Golden Network signs seven-picture deal with Sidus FNH
Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network Asia has signed a deal with major South Korean production house and start-up local distributor Sidus FNH for worldwide rights excluding Korea to seven pictures. The films include hit Olympic drama Forever The Moment (aka Women's Handball Team), which was produced by MK Pictures ...
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Elle Driver adds four including new Skolimowski title
Nascent sales company Elle Driver has added four titles to its line up for the upcoming EFM. First up is drama Stomach (Estomago) from Brazil 's Marcos Jorge. The Zencrane Filmes/Indiana Production effort is an adult fable on power, sex and cooking. It came in second place for the audience ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights for Weber films including Let's Get Lost
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to Bruce Weber's film collection, including the Oscar-nominated Chet Baker documentary Let's Get Lost.Metrodome negotiated the deal with Eva Lindemann at Little Bear.The collection also includes A Letter To True, Chop Suey, Broken Noses and various short films.Weber will travel to the UK ...
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K5 International takes on Wonderful World starring Broderick
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on sales (outside North America) to Joshua Goldin's debut feature Wonderful World.Matthew Broderick and Sanaa Lathan star in this comic fable about 'the most negative man in the world.' Ben is forever fighting 'The Man' until he is inspired by the ...
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THINKFilm International adds Bridgewater to Berlin slate
THINKFilm International has added another title to its slate ahead of Berlin. The company is handling international rights to Henry Alex Rubin's Bridgewater, which will star Ethan Hawke.Bridgewater will start shooting in mid-March.The film is described as 'a story of honour, courage and brotherhood.'US distribution will be handled by sister ...
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Korea's Showbox sells M, Happiness to Japan
South Korean distributor Showbox Mediaplex has announced the sales of director Hur Jin-ho's Happiness and Lee Myung-se's M to Avex for Japan. The announcement comes on the heels of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s latest report on exports dropping by 50% last year, with flat fee and high minimum guarantee ...
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Rai Trade adds The Viceroys, Maybe God Is Ill to EFM slate
Rai Trade will present two market premieres at the European Film Market in Berlin next week. Those titles are Roberto Faenza's The Viceroys (I Viceri), a historical drama set in 1800s Sicily and feature length documentary Maybe God is Ill directed by Franco Brogi Taviani that shines light on the ...
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Headey, Bean, Friend line up for medieval thriller Black Death
Lena Headey, Sean Bean and Rupert Friend will lead the cast of supernature chiller Black Death for UK producers Ecosse Films.Christopher Smith (Creep, Severance) will direct. Ecosse’s Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae will produce with Egoli Tossell’s Jens Meurer co-producing.Black Death will shoot entirely on location in Germany and the ...
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Sleep Dealer
Dir: Alex Rivera. Mexico/US. 2008. 90 mins.Alex Rivera's low budget futuristic thriller Sleep Dealer is set in the near future where the USA has been sealed off from Mexico yet Mexican workers still do all the hard labour through technology. A selection in dramatic competition at Sundance last week and ...
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MercuryMedia on board for How Ohio Pulled It Off
UK-based MercuryMedia has added documentary How Ohio Pulled It Off to its sales slate.Ohio Filmmakers LLC produced the 57-minute documentary about election fraud in the US in 2004.Mercury's head of acquisitions Jason McGeown said: 'The relevancy of this film cannot be underestimated.'Mercury's slate also includes 9/11 conspiracy documentaries Loose Change: ...
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Strand Releasing takes US rights to Lee's Help Me Eros
Fortissimo Films has announced a slew of sales coming out of the Rotterdam Film Festival and in the run up to next week's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin. The company has sold all US rights to Lee Kang-sheng's Venice competition entry, Help Me Eros, to Strand Releasing. The Culver ...
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THINKFilm Intl boards Blue Valentine with Gosling, Williams
THINKFilm International has come on board to sell international rights to Blue Valentine, which will star Oscar nominees Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling.THINKFilm will introduce the film to buyers at Berlin's European Film Market next week. The project is set to shoot in June 2008.US-based sister company THINKFilm will handle ...