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Constantin grabs big three from Focus
Flying in the face of a depressed market in general and a sluggish German market in particular, Focus Features has concluded a bumper three-picture deal with Constantin Film for its three new titles 21 Grams, Lost In Translation and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. The deal for the titles, ...
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Partnerships are Keys to Italian films
Charlotte Rampling is set to heighten the buzz surrounding Oscar nominated director Gianni Amelio's already widely-anticipated new picture, The Keys To The House (Le Chiavi di Casa), after agreeing to star in the picture alongside local actor Kim Rossi Stuart. But, just as important as the cast, is the fact ...
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Broken Wings flies at Tokyo Int'l film festival
Israeli title Broken Wings (pictured) by Nir Bergman won the Grand Prix at the 15th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival which ended on Monday (November 4)The Grand Prix (accompanied by a $83,000 (Y10m) cash prize) was the highlight of the event, which also featured a sneak preview of ...
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US buyers kill for Wilbur premiere in Copenhagen
Several leading US buyers will be leaving the halls of MIFED this week for a flying visit to Copenhagen where the attraction will be the first ever screening of Lone Scherfig's highly anticipated Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, the follow-up to her Berlin Silver-Bear winning Italian For Beginners. Though sales ...
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Miramax shakes up its Euro gang
Ending months of speculation, Miramax Films has confirmed a major shake-up of the London-based team responsible for implementing its production and acquisitions activities across Europe.New York-based development chief Colin Vaines will head the London-based operation as executive vice-president of European production and development. Former UK-based chief Allon Reich is joining ...
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Sony Classics gets in the Groove
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has paid $1.5m to buy worldwide rights to rave drama Groove, the directorial debut of editor Greg Harrison, which is playing in the American Spectrum section of this year's Sundance Film Festival.Set over the course of one night, Groove follows a disparate group of characters as ...
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Celestial signs huge video deals across Asia
Celestial Pictures, the Hong Kong upstart which owns the Shaw Bros library of Chinese classic movies, has put in place a raft of key distribution partnerships across Asia. The move represents the group's first substantial revenues streams after the start-up phase and enable it to boost the catalogue's visibility ahead ...
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Killer pitches Camp at Fortissimo
Fortissimo Film Sales has extended its relationship with Killer Films by picking up sales rights to musical comedy Camp.Camp follows the trials and tribulations of a group of young performers practising for their public debut under the summer camp tutelage of a burnt-out Broadway songwriter. Currently in post-production ...
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I-Dream takes a slice of Bollywood Hollywood
I-Dream Productions has picked up a slice of the US rights to Deepha Mehta's Indo-Canadian comedy Bollywood-Hollywood from Fortissimo Films Sales. The unique deal limits I-Dream's area of operation to specialist Indian cinemas, video outlets and TV channels. Fortissimo is days away from striking a second all-media US deal with ...
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Fresh buyers emerge in UK
Arguably the only sellers' market left in Europe, the competitive UK distribution sector is heating up further as fresh companies emerge, fuelled by UK tax funding.First amongst the new entrants is ex-Metrodome distribution chief Rupert Preston, who this week confirmed a deal for Nicolas Winding Refn's English-language debut Fear X ...
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Korean titles are champion sellers for Cineclick
Cineclick Asia has had an electric start to MIFED inking several prominent deals on its slate of top Korean pictures in the first days of the market.Korean Oscar contender Oasis was sold to Cinequanon of Japan for a mid six-figures dollar sum. The Lee Chang-dong-directed film about the unusual relationship ...
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Italy's Sintra boards Spanish gothic thriller
Italian independent producer Rosanna Seregni of Sintra Film has boarded a new Spanish film from Euro Pudding producer Mate Cantero, to be directed by Impules' Miguel Alcantud.The picture, whose working title is Mozarteum, is a "gothic thriller " revolving around a training course for musicians.The film, which is written by ...
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New Rome distributor unveiled with Canadian partner
Canada's Equinox Films and Italy's Video Lucky Cinematografica are forming a joint film and TV production and distribution outfit in Italy, to be called Equinox Films Italia.Among the feature titles on their joint production slate are Vincent Spano's Orchids In The Moonlight, about two young Italian actors who hope to ...
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Serial killer on the loose for Dream
Dream Entertainment has concluded a slew of deals on David Jacobson's crime drama Dahmer, the true story of the controversial serial killer which has grossed more than $6m in the US.Dream co-founder Ehud Bleiberg sold the film to Les Films de L'Elysee for France and all French-speaking territories including Belgium, ...
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Chan balloon adventure makes Malaysian pitstop
Leading Malaysian exhibitor-distributor Golden Screen Cinemas has pre-bought Summit Entertainment's Around The World In 80 Days.The action adventure based on the Jules Verne classic tale is directed by Frank Coraci, but importantly stars Jackie Chan, who continues to be a huge draw in the territory. The film is currently in ...
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MIFED hit by crime spree
Burglars struck in Pavilion 8 at MIFED over the weekend, stealing laptop computers, wallets and a Palm Pilot from at least two companies. The losses will be covered by the market's insurance policy, says the MIFED organisation.As misfortune would have it, however, the robberies occurred just days before members of ...
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Artisan, Summit team up for Chuck And Buck
Artisan Entertainment, which last year walked away from Sundance with micro-budget The Blair Witch Project, has done it again, teaming with its foreign sales partner Summit Entertainment to acquire worldwide rights to Chuck And Buck, a low budget comedy which is in dramatic competition at the festival.But unlike Blair Witch ...
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Europa acquires Chen Kaige's Together
Europa Corp, the mini-studio headed by Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, has become the latest distributor to acquire Chen Kaige's father and son drama Together. The film was one of the biggest hits of the Toronto film festival and was picked up there for North America by United Artists ...
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Wes Anderson clan gathers round HanWay comedy
UK-based sales agent HanWay has boarded The Squid And The Whale, the quirky New York comedy being produced by Wes Anderson, the director behind Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums.Bill Murray, Laura Linney and John Turturro are in advanced talks to star in the $8.5m story of an eccentric family, which ...
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Spice Girl gets Scary again
Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown is living up to her Scary nickname by starring in LD 50, a psychological thriller form UK producer-financier Random Harvest. The story of a group of animal rights activists trapped in a disused lab where they become the subjects of the experiments, is being directed ...