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ContentFilm promotes Harry White to head of sales
ContentFilm International has promoted Harry White to head of sales.White has been with ContentFilm International since 2002 and has worked on Black Book, Thank You For Smoking, Nightwatching, Transamerica, and Closing The Ring.He is based in ContentFilm's satellite office in Los Angeles. He will be attending next week's AFM along ...
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THINKFilm International goes Under The Mountain with Jonathan King
THINKFilm International has come on board for world sales (excluding Australia and New Zealand for Under The Mountain, to be directed by Jonathan King. King's most recent film is the international hit Black Sheep. Fantasy adventure thriller Under The Mountain is based on the novel by popular New Zealand author ...
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UK producers need to think globally and diversify
The UK film industry would be in great shape - if only it was based in the US. That was the somewhat daunting message for delegates at the UK's first Production Finance Market, which kicked off today, organised by Film London in partnership with the Times BFI London Film Festival.The ...
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Rome Business Street sees several deals in second year
Rome Film Fest's well-attended four-day market event The Business Street came to a close yesterday with a scattering of deals done and an increasingly important profile for European business, buyers and sellers said.Michael Werner of Sweden's Nonstop Sales said he didn't close any deals but found the market useful anyway. ...
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THINKFilm on board for Argentina-set thriller The Appeared
THINKFilm International has taken on international sales rights (excluding Spain) to supernatural thriller The Appeared (Aparecidos). THINKFilm will screen the film at next week's American Film Market. Paco Cabezas wrote and directed the Argentina-set supernatural ghost story about a brother and sister who discover an old family diary ...
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ContentFilm takes international rights to documentary Trumbo
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to documentary Trumbo.Peter Askin directed the project, which premiered in Toronto. The project is about Oscar-winning blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The film is based on the original play by his son Christopher.The film includes performances of Trumbo's letters from the likes of Joan ...
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Longoria, Biggs star in theatrical comedy for Starz Media, Ambush
Eva Longoria, Jason Biggs and Rob Corddry will star in Starz Media and Ambush Entertainment's comedy Lower Learning.Starz Media will handle the worldwide theatrical release. The film will get a domestic theatrical release through an as yet undetermined distributor, and will launch on DVD through Starz Media subsidiary Anchor Bay ...
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Summit reunites with Aronofsky on 1980s-era wrestling drama
Summit International has reunited with Darren Aronofsky and will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the drama The Wrestler starring Nicolas Cage.Aronofsky will direct and is producing alongside Cage and Norm Golightly's Saturn Films and producer Scott Franklin. Jean-Luc De Fanti and Jeff Sagansky's Winchester Capital Partners is financing the ...
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Content on board for The Daisy Chain starring Samantha Morton
ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide rights to supernatural thriller The Daisy Chain, starring Samantha Morton.Aisling Walsh (Song For A Raggy Boy) will direct based on an original screenplay by Lauren MacKenzie. The film starts shooting Oct 29 as a UK/Irish co-production. Subotica Entertainment's Tristan Orpen Lynch and Dominic Wright will ...
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Wild Bunch takes a stake in Italian distributor Bim
Confirming rumors that have been rumbling in industry circles for some time, French sales, distribution and financing outfit Wild Bunch has taken a stake in Italy 's Bim Distribuzione. Financial terms were not disclosed. The move reinforces Wild Bunch's ambition to be present in distribution over multiple European territories. Wild ...
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Melissa Wohl to head international sales at Allumination
Melissa Wohl has been hired as senior vice president of international sales at Allumination FilmWorksWohl will report directly to Allumination chief executive officer and president Cheryl Freeman.She most recently, she served as vice president of sales and acquisitions at Harmony Gold.Prior to that she worked at Circle M Media as ...
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Robbie Coltrane to voice Gooby for PorchLight/Condor
Production began in Toronto this week [Oct 15] on the CGI-live action family film Gooby, which has been acquired by PorchLight's new division Condor Releasing and features Eugene Levy and the voice talent of Robbie Coltrane.Condor has picked up worldwide rights to the $6m-7m project about a children's stuffed toy ...
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Eros takes on Krazzy 4 from Roshan's Film Kraft
Eros International has taken international rights to Krazzy 4 from Rakesh Roshan's Film Kraft Productions. The project is currently shooting.Jaideep Sen will direct the comedy with a social message. Juhi Chawla, Dia Mirza, Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Rajpal Yadav and Suresh Menon star. The film is based around four principal ...
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Celluloid adds Bobby Allen and welcomes back Menahem
Celluloid Dreams has announced the appointment of Bobby Allen to the post of vice-president acquisitions, production and sales. Further, former Celluloid executive Pierre Menahem will rejoin the company as director of international sales. Allen was most recently head of production for MTV Films and has held senior executive positions in ...
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StudioCanal taps van Lier as new head of international sales
Former Intermedia and Summit executive Harold van Lier has been appointed head of international sales at StudioCanal. The company made the announcement Tuesday evening in Paris. Van Lier officially took his post on October 1 and replaces Muriel Sauzay who left to become deputy managing director of Pathe Distribution (France) ...
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Wild Bunch adds thriller Pop Skull ahead of Rome
In addition to the recently announced acquisition of Hayo Freitag's The Three Robbers, Wild Bunch has picked up Pop Skull heading into the Rome Film Festival. The film, made for just a $2,000 budget, was found by Wild Bunch on 24-year-old director Adam Wingard's MySpace page. The trailer posted on ...
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As Europa acquires Roissy, market operations could merge in 2008
As Luc Besson's EuropaCorp agreed to acquire sales company Roissy Films and its 500-title strong catalog, Roissy's president and owner Raphael Berdugo calls the deal 'a very logical' step, The deal, which values the catalog at about $40m, is set to be finalised in early 2008 and ensures Roissy's ability ...
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Rome's Business Street includes focus on local films
Italian sellers are hoping that the second edition of Rome's Business Street (Oct 18-21) will prove a successful launchpad for a slew of local titles.Sales outfit Adrianna Chiesa Enterprises is going to present the first market screenings including a Mafia drama, war documentary, 3-D animation and black comedy. Chiesa says ...
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Visual Factory takes on sales for Vampire Diary
UK-based sales company Visual Factory has come on board for Vampire Diary. Anna Walton (The Mutant Chronicles, Hellboy 2) stars along with Morven Macbeth, Jamie King and Kate Sissons. Mark James is directing with Phil O'Shea. James previously directed TV documentaries including Freeze an Omnibus, as well as one-hour special ...
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Independent takes on sales for Kidulthood follow-up Adulthood
UK sales company Independent has come on board for Noel Clarke's Adulthood, which has now started shooting in London. Noel Clarke, writer and actor of Kidulthood, will make his directorial debut with that controversial hit's follow-up.In Adulthood, Clarke reprises his role as Sam from the first film, picking up as ...