All Sales articles – Page 486
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Sony Classics to distribute Menzel's King Of England in North America
Sony Pictures Classics will distribute Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England in North America. The deal was signed at AFM, according to the film's Czech producer AQS. The film is the Czech Republic's submission for foreign-language Oscar consideration. 'We are very proud to have as our American distributors ...
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Focus Features International scores big in Japan at AFM
Focus Features International chief Alison Thompson hailed a resurgent Japanese buying contingent at AFM as she announced key sales following the market earlier this month.'As far as we're concerned Japan is back in action,' Thompson said. 'We really did have an extremely good AFM. It was substantially better than last ...
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BFS moves into theatrical with US deal for Tom Collins' Kings
North American distributor BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited will move into theatrical distribution with its acquisition of Tom Collins' Kings. The film, partly in the Irish language and the Irish submission for Foreign-Language Oscar consideration. The big-screen adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings Of The Kilburn High Road stars ...
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Intandem books strong AFM sales on How To Lose Friends
UK-based sales company Intandem Films has reported a strong level of sales done at the recent AFM. Robert B Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, starring Kirsten Dunst and Simon Pegg, was sold to Germany (Concorde/Telemunchen), Italy (Mikado), Portugal (Lusomundo), Turkey (Sanat Ozen), Korea (MFI), Poland (Hagi) and ...
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There Will Be Blood
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson US, 2007. 158minsThere Will Be Blood is a vivid, sprawling parable about greed and moral corrosion. Set in the majestic American Southwest circa 1900, Paul Thomas Anderson's film will ride to the box-office largely on Daniel Day Lewis's volcanic performance as Daniel Plainview, the monstrous rags-to-riches ...
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NonStop sells Gnomes and Trolls to Turkey and China
NonStop Sales has sold further territories on its animated family feature Gnomes and Trolls. The project has gone to China (HGC Entertainment) and Turkey (A Arti). NonStop previously did a deal for CIS (Ukranian Rights Management). White Shark's 3D animated project is in production now, with executive producers Joel Cohen ...
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Pathe's hot AFM sellers include The Duchess and Eden Lake
In addition to the recently announced sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe, Pathe International has announced a slew of further sales done at the recent AFM. Saul Dibb's The Duchess, which Pathe launched in Toronto, sold to Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Best Film), Greece and the Balkans (Audiovisuals), Portugal (Lusomundo), ...
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Telepool takes on teamWorx's Mogadishu Welcome
Germany-based sales company Telepool has added Mogadishu Welcome to its sales slate.The deal was done with teamWorx Television & Film before the project started principal photography in Casablanca.Roland Suso Richter will direct the Degeto Film/SWR 90-minute feature, intended for TV. Telepool will handle world sales excluding the co-production territories, France ...
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CMG closes multiple territories on No Man's Land: Reeker 2
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) closed multiple territory sales at AFM on Dave Payne's horror sequel No Man's Land: Reeker 2.Rights went to Germany (Capelight Pictures), Brazil (Flashstar Films), Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines (Suraya Films), Indonesia (P T Rapi Films), and Central America (Passatiempo).Deals closed prior to ...
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Korea's Studio2.0 scores sales on Epitaph, Lovers
Korean production and sales company Studio2.0 clinched a string of sales on new titles Epitaph and Lovers Of 6 Years at the recent AFM. Horror title Epitaph, directed by the Jung Brothers and starring Kim Tae-woo and Kim Bo-kyung, was sold to Taiwan 's Scholar Multimedia and Encore for Singapore, ...
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Norway's Kill Buljo sells to 26 territories for Imagination Worldwide
Norwegian directors Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen's $163,700 (Eu112,600) project Kill Buljo-The Movie has sold to 26 territories following the AFM, including the US, the UK, Australia (The Weinstein Company). The US-based sales agent Imagination Worldwide has also licensed the film to Brazil (Europa Filmes), Japan (New Select), Germany ...
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Pathe closes string of AFM deals for Salles' Linha De Passe
Pathe International has announced a slew of sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe following its first footage screening at the AFM.Deals have been done for France (Diaphana), Italy (RAI), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Spentzos), Portugal (CLMC), and Israel (Shani). Pathe Distribution will handle the UK release.Daniela Thomas co-directed the film, ...
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Momentum strikes UK deal for Nic Balthazar's Ben X
Momentum Pictures has taken UK rights to Nic Balthazar's directorial debut Ben X, sold by Films Distribution. Films Distribution executive director of worldwide sales Didar Domehri and Momentum's acquisitions manager Louis Tisne negotiated the deal. Balthazar's directorial debut is based on the book When Nothing Was All He Said and ...
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Bavaria to handle omnibus projectMoving The Arts
Bavaria Film International is to handle international sales for the omnibus film project Moving The Arts which will bring together shorts from Atom Egoyan, Hal Hartley, Christian Petzold, Julio Medem, Laetitia Masson, and Jia Zhang-ke. Each will make a short film inspired by a work of post-modern art exhibited in ...
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Frontrow's AFM pickups include The Babysitters and Eddie The Eagle
Middle Eastern distributor Frontrow Entertainment picked up eight films at the recent AFM. Theprojects includeThe Babysitters and Goal 3, both from Peace Arch. From HanWay Films, Frontrow acquired David Cronenberg's The Talking Cure, Eddie The Eagle to star Steve Coogan, Wim Wenders' The Palermo Shooting, Gorillaz documentary Bananaz and horror ...
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Park Kwang-su to step down as head of Asian Film Market
Asian Film Market head Park Kwang-su is to step down from his position before the next edition. Press officer Janice Chung confirmed, 'Mr. Park has always said he would only stay a couple years to start the market up. We haven't fixed an exit date yet. He still has to ...
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Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion unveils line-up
The Golden Horse Organising Committee has announced the 17 feature films and television series selected for the third edition of the Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP). The event takes place December 4-6 as part of the 5th Taiwan International Film & TV Expo (TIFTE). Modeled on other project ...
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Monte Cristo closes pre-sales on Japanese horror End Call
Monte Cristo Entertainment has closed pre-sales on its Japanese horror title End Call, which is scheduled for a February 2008 shoot in Tokyo.Rights went to South Korea (KoreaScreen), and the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia (Parkit Films & Television).Chilean martial arts film Kiltro starring Marko Zaror has sold to the UK ...