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Paramount Australia picks up its first local project, The Final Winter
Paramount Pictures Australia has acquired Australian rights to the low-budget drama The Final Winter, its first local pick-up since UIP split into Paramount and Universal at the beginning of the year. The film is directed by Jane Forrest and Brian Andrews and written by Matt Nable, who also plays the ...
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Attendance up 38% at second Film Screenings Of Madrid
The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 10-12) closed on Tuesday night with a turnout that was 38 percent larger than last year.More than 138 buyers from 33 countries travelled to Madrid, where 56 recent Spanish features were screened and more than 100 tiles were available ...
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Cinefile takes UK rights to True North and Change Of Address
Scottish-based distributor Cinefile has acquired the UK theatrical rights to Emmanuel Mouret's Change Of Address (Changement D'Adresse) and Steve Hudson's drama True North. As a specialist in French-language titles, Cinefile is best known for the UK release of Cedric Klapisch's L'Auberge Espagnole (also known as The Spanish Apartment or Pot ...
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Tribeca prize winner We Are Together partners with ONE Campaign
Documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye), which won prizes at IDFA and Tribeca, is working with the ONE Campaign to promote the film in the US. The film is already partnered with Alicia Keys' charity Keep A Child Alive and now is also working with Bono's ONE organisation, which fights ...
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HandMade books $50m in Cannes, led by Good Friday and Planet One
HandMade Films, the sales arm of the revived HandMade plc, has reported $50m-plus sales at the Cannes Market, the best in the company's history. Sales were led by HandMade's $50m remake of The Long Good Friday and its $54m CGI animated feature Planet One. Paul WS Anderson's contemporary US version ...
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Slingshot takes on UK distribution for Cannes debut Water Lilies
New UK digital studio Slingshot has picked up all UK rights to Celine Sciamma's debut feature Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres). The film premeried in Cannes Un Certain Regard. Water Lilies follows three 15-year-old French girls who are discovering first love. Slingshot had recently announced that it would branch out ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to Labaki's Cannes hit Caramel
Momentum Pictures has taken UK rights to Nadine Labaki's Caramel. The film was one of the hits of Cannes ' Directors Fortnight. Labaki's debut feature is about five different Lebanese women who come together in a Beirut beauty salon. Louis Tisne, Momentum's acquisitions manager, negotiated the deal with Roissy Film's ...
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Artificial Eye acquires three more films on the back of Cannes
UK distributor Artificial Eye has announced three more acquisitions from Cannes, bringing its festival tally to 11 buys. The new acquisitions are Terror's Advocate (L'Avocat De La Terreur), You, The Living (Du Levande), and The Island (Ostrov).Terror's Advocate played in Un Certain Regard. Barbet Schroeder's documentary is about controversial legal ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to Sarkies' Out Of The Blue
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to Robert Sarkies' drama Out Of The Blue and will release the film later this summer.NZ Film has worldwide sales rights, and NZ Film's Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson negotiated the deal with Metrodome's Tom Stewart and Kate Falconer.NZ Film's Drumm also struck ...
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Foresight sells key territories on Machine, Ledge, Alive
Mark Damon's production, financing and sales company Foresight Unlimited has reported a strong Cannes on a diverse slate, headed by sales on the $15m Jean-Claude Van Damme mixed martial arts film Smashing Machine.Sony picked up the UK, Australia, France, Japan, and Italy to Smashing Machine, which also sold to Germany ...
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Shanghai International Film Festival: going for growth
Shanghai is expanding market activities in 2007. Sen-lun Yu reports.Celebrating its 10th edition this year, the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), held June 16-24, is gradually expanding its film market and intends to demonstrate China's business potential.Aside from the Jin Jue Competition, the festival's main competitive section, and the Asian ...
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Creature features
Screen staff reporters identify forthcoming nature documentary projects.Animals In Love (Fr)Dir: Laurent CharbonnierFrench director Charbonnier, who was the DoP on the Oscar-nominated documentary Winged Migration, makes his directorial feature debut on the $10m Animals In Love, which explores courtship and love in the animal kingdom. Produced by Jean-Pierre Bailly for ...
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Case study: The Meerkats
Billed as a coming-of-age tale, BBC Films' The Meerkats is an attempt to mount a resolutely big-screen experience. Melanie Rodier reports. Now in post-production, James Honeyborne's The Meerkats is the first theatrical nature documentary from the UK's BBC Films.Co-financed by The Weinstein Company (TWC), the film is a collaboration with ...
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Wildlife documentaries: nature calls
Following the global success of March Of The Penguins, animal films are the hot new genre. But is there a market for theatrical wildlife documentaries' Melanie Rodier reports. From meerkats to elephants, turtles to polar bears: in the post March Of The Penguins marketplace, a host of animal-based nature documentaries ...
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BBC Films: a drama or a crisis'
The planned relocation of BBC Films back to BBC headquarters has provoked a panic in the UK, where producers fear the future of one of the territory's most important financiers is under threat. Geoffrey Macnab reports. At Cannes last month, BBC Films arrived with what its boss, David Thompson, has ...
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Wild Bunch enjoys a strong Cannes Market
Wild Bunch had a hearty Cannes Market with notable sales across its slate. Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days sold in 31 territories including to IFC in the US, France's Bac Films/Why Not, Germany's Concorde, Spain's Golem, Canada's Metropole, the UK's Artificial Eye, Brazil's Lumiere and China's ...
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Tartan buys eight in Cannes including Summit thriller P2
Tartan Films went on a buying spree in Cannes, picking up UK and Ireland rights on eight titles. The titles acquired are: P2, Mala Noche, Breath, Time, The Good, The Bad and The Weird, I Am a Cyborg But That's Okay, and - as previously reported - Silent Light and ...
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The Weinstein Company takes on WAZ from Pathe
In Cannes, Pathe Pictures International sold thriller WAZ to The Weinstein Company for North America. Other territories sold were Germany (Square One), Portugal (Lusomundo), Thailand (J-Bics), Latin America (Quality Films), CIS (Lizard), Spain (Vertigo), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Scandinavia (AB Svensk), Australia/New Zealand (All Interactive), Greece, Cyrpus, Former Yugoslavia, Romania and ...
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Beta Cinema takes on world sales for three new German productions
Beta Cinema has taken on world sales for new films featuring the award-winning German actresses Hannah Herzsprung, Nina Hoss and Julia Jentsch.Herzsprung, who came to wider recognition through her performance in another Beta title Four Minutes and received a Silver Lola for her role in Alain Gsponer's Life Actually last ...
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Global Film Initiative buys US rights to Bet Collector
Global Film Initiative has taken all US rights to award-winning Filipino drama The Bet Collector (Kubrador). The deal was negotiated by French sales outfit Wide Management's Matteo Lovadina. After making its world premiere in Moscow last year, the picture has travelled to about 40 film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards. ...