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Contender takes on Daddy's Girl starring Jaime Winstone
UK distribution company Contender Entertainment Group has taken all UK rights from Carnaby International to horror film Daddy's Girl. The UK psychological thriller was directed by Welsh first-time feature director DJ Evans. Nerys Lloyd of Boda Cyf produced. The project is a Boda/Carnaby co-production in association with the Arts Council ...
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Bavaria Film International takes on Doris Doerrie's new film
Bavaria Film International will handle international sales for Doris Doerrie's new feature film Kirschblueten (literally Cherry Blossoms) which began shooting on location in Tokyo today (March 13).The project (previously known as Hanami) reunites Doerrie with Munich-based Olga-Film, who produced her international breakthrough hit Men (Maenner) more than 20 years ago. ...
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Universal Pictures Germany to distribute Egoli Tossell quartet
Universal Pictures International (UPI) Germany is to handle distribution in all German-speaking territories for another three Egoli Tossell Film projects in addition to Michael Hoffman's $17m Tolstoy drama The Last Station, starring Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep.The three new acquisitions by UPI are:* Mostly Martha director Sandra Nettelbeck's next feature, ...
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Ambitious Hong Kong ready to scale new heights
This year's multi-faceted Hong Kong film season stretches to nearly a month of world-class events under the Entertainment Expo banner.Each distinct event is looking to stretch its brand to new limits. Three events - Filmart, co-production market HAF and the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) - all kick off ...
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Picturehouse marches with Jacquet on Fox & The Child
Picturehouse has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Luc Jacquet's March Of The Penguins follow-up The Fox & The Child.The Bonne Pioche production was first announced at Sundance 2006 and is being produced by Jacquet's team of Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud and Emmanuel Priou.The Fox & Child is based ...
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HanWay strikes deals on Strummer; Vertigo sets UK release for May
HanWay Films has closed a number of new international deals for Julien Temple 's Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten after its screenings in competition in Sundance and at the European Film Market in Berlin. The documentary about the late Clash frontman has now sold to more than 35 territories. ...
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THINKFilm acquires Guttentag and Sturman's Nanking doc
THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman's documentary Nanking, which premiered at Sundance in January.The distributor plans a late 2007 release on the account of the bloody Japanese invasion of Nanking, China, in the early stages of the second world war. AOL vice chairman Ted ...
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Castro documentary lands US TV and DVD deals
The Sundance Channel has taken US TV rights to documentary 638 Ways To Kill Castro, which was also sold to BCI for US DVD rights. FremantleMedia sold the documentary, from Daisy Goodwin's Silver River Productions, about Fidel Castro and Cuba 's relationship with the US. Dollan Cannell directed and Peter ...
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Film Movement takes domestic rights to Finnish Mother
Film Movement has acquired domestic distribution rights to Klaus Haro's 2006 Finnish foreign language Oscar submission Mother Of Mine from Nordisk Film Sales.The film recounts little-known events of the second world war, when more than 70,000 children were evacuated to Sweden, Denmark and Norway.Topi Majaniemi, Maria Lundqvist, Marjaana Maijala, Michael ...
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Picture This! takes Taiwan's Eternal Summer to North America
Picture This! Entertainment has picked up North American rights from Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment to Leste Chen's gay-themed drama Eternal Summer (Sheng Xia Guang Nian).The distributor plans to play Eternal Summer in US and Canadian festivals before taking it on general release later in the year.Eternal Summer follows the longstanding ...
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Sogepaq closes US deals on Sanchez-Arevalo, Lazaro features
Spain's Sogepaq has closed all-rights deals for distribution in the United States on Daniel Sanchez-Arevalo's DarkBlueAlmostBlack to Strand Releasing and on Emilio Martinez Lazaro's The 2 Sides Of The Bed to Here! Films. Mongrel Media took Canadian rights to both films in deals that were all closed at the European ...
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Prime racks up pre-sales on Kwak's Mighty Princess
My Sassy Girl director Kwak Jae Yong's My Mighty Princess has been notching up pan-Asian sales and is due for a simultaneous pan-Asian release outside Korea. Since premiering the project at last year's Asian Film Market, sales agent and Korean distributor Prime Entertainment has been busy closing deals during the ...
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Ascot Elite picks up four horror titles for Germany
The Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has announced the acquisition of all rights to four horror titles for German speaking territories. The four titles acquired are: the horror comedy Black Sheep written and directed by Jonathan King which was bought from New Zealand Film. Paddy Breathnach's gory horror film Shrooms, starring ...
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Hong Kong Filmart adds TV, locations showcases
This year's Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart) will host two new thematic pavilions - TV World and Locations World - as part of its drive to become the leading cross-media trading platform in the region. Almost 40 companies, from the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and other regions, ...
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Ascot Elite takes Swiss rights to Doerrie's How To Cook
Zurich-based Ascot Elite has bought Swiss rights to Doris Doerrie's documentary How To Cook Your Life from Atrix Films.The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale Special section at the Berlin Film Festival last month, follows Doerrie as she engages Zen Master Edward Espe Brown to explain the ...
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EFP supports eight European features at Mar Del Plata
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support progamme is supporting eight European films at the Mar Del Plata Film Festival. The festival, which runs March 8-18, is one of seven festivals supported by FSS. Sales agents are given grants for promotional costs of up to $6,609 (Euros 5,000) per film. As ...
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Blindsight continues to see sales for Little Film Company
Little Film Company has concluded major territory sales at the European Film Market to Robson Entertainment's documentary Blindsight.The film, which won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, sold to TAO Cinemathek (Germany), Phantom Films (Japan), Conquest Films (Brazil), and Quality Films (Mexico).Rights also went to Svensk ...
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Dogwoof strikes UK deal for Dv8's Bunny Chow
UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has taken UK rights to Dv8's South African comedy Bunny Chow. John Barker's comedy world premiered in Toronto and recently had its European premiere in Rotterdam 's Tiger Competition. The film is on release in South Africa from March 9, after already taking best actor and ...
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Sony, SND/M6, Tele Muenchen among buyers of Marvel films
Marvel Studios has announced a series of international deals on Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, the first two films which it is self-financing through its recent $525m credit facility from Merrill Lynch.Sony Pictures has acquired distribution rights to both films in Japan and Spain, SND/M6 has taken them for ...
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Germany breaks 100m barrier for DVD sales
Annual DVD unit sales in Germanypassed the 100 million mark for the first time last year, according to statistics prepared by the GfK market research institute for the home entertainment industry body BVV.A total of 100.7m units were sold in 2006, up from 98.7m in 2005, with record sales in ...