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    NZ Film pre-sells The Vintner's Luck to Icon andDendy

    2007-10-26T14:01:00Z

    Niki Caro's The Vintner's Luck has been pre-sold to Icon for the UK and Dendy for Australia and New Zealand. The film is Caro's next project after 2002's Whale Rider and 2005's North Country. The story follows a wine-maker in 19th century France who has an unusual relationship with an ...

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    Lightning takes on Vietnamese hit The Rebel

    2007-10-26T13:51:00Z

    Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up all non-English language rights to the Vietnamese hit The Rebel (Dong Mau Anh Hung). Charlie Nguyen's film is the largest production to come out of Vietnam and follows the exploits of a 1920s spy for the French who tires of betraying his country. ...

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    Summit takes North America for Rian Johnson's Brothers Bloom

    2007-10-26T13:48:00Z

    Summit Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Endgame Entertainment's highly anticipated romantic adventure The Brothers Bloom. Rian Johnson's follow-up to Brick stars Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi and is currently in post-production. Ram Bergman is the producer. Summit plans a 2008 release. The Weinstein Company ...

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    Despite tricky timing, Antalya's Eurasia market spurs a few deals

    2007-10-26T13:38:00Z

    The second edition of the Eurasia Film Market drew to a close yesterday, but participants said the market's timing proved difficult for some buyers. Despite a good mix of local and international sales companies and a bigger presence from Asia with Hong Kong's Media Asia, China's Huayi Brothers and Three ...

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    Michelle Williams joins Bernal for Moodysson's Mammoth

    2007-10-26T13:22:00Z

    Oscar nominee Michelle Williams has joined the cast of Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, opposite Gael Garcia Bernal.The Swedish auteur makes his English-language debut with the project, which starts shooting Nov 5 in Thailand before moving to the Phillipines, Sweden and New York. Lars Jonsson of Memfis Film will produce.'In Michelle Williams ...

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    TF1 adds Spike Lee's Miracle and David Morey's Mutants

    2007-10-26T03:00:00Z

    TF1 International will be present at the upcoming AFM with two important new titles as well as a wolrd premiere and promo reels for several of its highly-anticipated projects. The sales outfit recently signed Spike Lee's Miracle At St. Anna, a film based on the novel by James McBride and ...

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    Crossing joins Cineclick Asia's multinational slate

    2007-10-26T02:54:00Z

    Seoul-based sales agent Cineclick Asia has picked up Crossing, a film from Volcano High director Kim Tae-kyun, for its multinational AFM slate. The film is about a North Korean ex-soccer player who crosses illegally into China, where he desperately tries to find a way to get his son and pregnant ...

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    Magnolia swoops for Spanish time-travel buzz-film

    2007-10-25T23:33:00Z

    Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain from producer Eduardo Carneros to Nacho Vigalondo's sci-fi film Timecrimes.Laird Adamson, head of international sales at Magnolia's sister company HDNet, will screen the film and begin international sales at AFM.Timecrimes centres on a man who inadvertently discovers the perils of time ...

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    Omega on board for non-US sales of Six Lives Of Henry Lefay

    2007-10-25T16:21:00Z

    Omega Entertainment is co-financing and handling international sales on the Tim Allen comedy The Six Wives of Henry Lefay. The film, which will be introduced to buyers at the forthcoming AFM, is also financed by Ring Productions and Aramid. Producers are Brillstein Entertainment Partners' David McIlvain and Holly Wiersma. Cassian ...

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    StudioCanal adds new films from Jaoui, Lepage, Bruno and Nicolas

    2007-10-25T13:24:00Z

    StudioCanal has added several films to its line up heading into next week's American Film Market. Award-winning actor-director Agnes Jaoui returns to directing with relationship comedy Let It Rain starring Jamel Debbouze, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Jaoui herself. The film is currently in production with rights available worldwide. Also in production ...

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    Little Film Co to unveil Nettlebeck's English-language debut at AFM

    2007-10-24T23:16:00Z

    Los Angeles-based production and sales company The Little Film Company has begun principal photography in Vancouver on Sandra Nettelbeck's drama Helen starring Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic and Lauren Lee Smith.Nettelbeck's English-language debut centres on a seemingly happy woman who harbours a dark secret that threatens to disrupt her entire life.Germany's ...

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    Shochiku closes raft of Asian sales on Midnight Eagle

    2007-10-24T16:40:00Z

    On the last day of the TIFFCOM market, Japanese studio Shochiku announced that it has closed a raft of Asian sales on action thriller Midnight Eagle, which opened the Tokyo International Film Festival last week. Among deals concluded at the market, Dong-A Export Co bought the film for South Korea, ...

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    Fabicki wins $42,000 prize at Rome New Cinema Network

    2007-10-24T16:40:00Z

    Polish filmmaker Slawomir Fabicki has been awarded the Best New European Project for Bonobo Jingo at Rome Film Festival's New Cinema Network. The award comes with $42,600 (Euros 30,000) in production funds sponsored by Mini. The jury, headed by Osca- winning producer Cedomir Kolar (No Man's Land), Italian producer Rosanna ...

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    Golden Network carries Case, Peach Blossom to AFM

    2007-10-24T16:12:00Z

    Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network Asia has picked up worldwide rights excluding mainland China to two titles from Chinese producer Lola Zhang's Yunnan New Film Project - Wang Fen's The Case and Peach Blossom Land, to be directed by Huang Ruxiang. Golden Network's Carrie Wong will be selling both ...

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    Fortissimo takes on Chorus Line doc Every Little Step

    2007-10-24T11:30:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding North America and Japan) to Every Little Step: The Journey Of a Phenomenon from Endgame Entertainment. The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo's co-chairman Michael J. Werner and Greg Schenz of Endgame Entertainment. Fortissimo will start pre-sales at next week's American Film Market. ...

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    TIFFCOM: Nonzee's Chao Phraya River wins TPG award

    2007-10-24T11:13:00Z

    Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr's Just As Chao Phraya River Flows picked up the first ever Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) Award at the conclusion of the TIFFCOM market on Wednesday night (Oct 24). Presented by Sony PCL vice president Yuji Takizawa, who is also director of the Skip City International Digital ...

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    Ascot picks up three: Boarding Gate, Fido and Opium

    2007-10-24T10:49:00Z

    Ahead of this year's American Film Market, Switzerland's Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has picked up all German language rights on three titles. The new acquisitions are:Olivier Assayas' erotic thriller Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento and Michael Madsen, from Magnet; Andrew Currie's satirical comedy Fido, with Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly and ...

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    Arsenal beefs up AFM slate with LA street-fighting drama

    2007-10-24T06:01:00Z

    Principal photography has started in and around Los Angeles on the sub-$10m street fighting drama Blood & Bone from producers Arnold Rifkin and Christopher Eberts of Rifkin-Eberts. Remarkable Films' Nick Simunek and Matthew Binns are also producing along with Michael Mailer. Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures holds exclusive international sales rights ...

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    NFI takes on Day Zero, Intervention and Sex and Breakfast

    2007-10-23T21:58:00Z

    New Films International (NFI) has picked up three titles ahead of AFM including the psychological drama Day Zero with Elijah Wood and addiction drama Intervention with Andie MacDowell.Day Zero imagines the lives of three friends in New York at a time when the military draft has been reinstated and the ...

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    Capitol bolsters AFM slate with new films from Redford, Hackford

    2007-10-23T16:32:00Z

    Capitol Films has announced several high-profile new projects on its slate for next week's American Film Market.Capitol will introduce buyers to Robert Redford's next directorial project, Against All Enemies, which will star Bruce Willis; as well as Taylor Hackford's next film Love Ranch, starring his wife, Oscar winner Helen Mirren ...