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Hong Kong production cycles getting longer
Production cycles are starting to get longer in Hong Kong which was once renowned for its "one-month" movies. As a result, three films scheduled for release during Chinese New Year next January are already in the can and undergoing an unusually lengthy post-production process.Media Asia's Magic Kitchen and Mandarin Films' ...
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Media Luna strikes Tender deals
Ida Martins' Cologne-based world sales group Media Luna has signed a string of deals on its new Spanish picture Kill Me Tender. Directed by Ramon De Espana the darkly comedic tale of a widowed baker and an unscrupulous younger woman, was sold to Constellation Pictures for Mexico, Overseas Movie for ...
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Kundalini, Entera make Candy together
LA-based production outfit Kudalini Pictures has teamed with pan-European film financing, production and distribution outfit Entera Entertainment to produce Caribbean Candy directed by Fina Torres (Woman On Top, Oriana). Kundalini is an LA company headed by Dileep Singh Rathore which previously produced Indian festival hit Maya directed by Digvijay Singh ...
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MDC sells Spare Parts
Berlin-based film and TV seller MDC International made a quick start to its Mifed campaign selling Slovenian picture Spare Parts, directed by Damjan Kozole, to Cinemart for the Czech Republic, Future Film for Scandinavia, Lumiere for Belgium and Neue Visionen for Germany. MDC sold Polish TV rights on Latvian director ...
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Martian flies out of Office
France's Co-Production Office may have only picked up the film in the hours before Mifed, but it is selling strongly on adult animation film Mercano The Martian from Argentina.The irreverent youth-oriented picture by Juan Antin denounces globalisation with a mixture of irony and black humour. It won the jury ...
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Optimum stocks up with market titles
Independent UK distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired UK rights to anticipated documentaries from Michael Moore and Jonathan Demme, as well as Bob Smeaton's Festival Express and French horror Switchblade Romance. The company has also picked up UK rights to CJ Entertainment's detective thriller Memories Of Murder Currently in production, Fahrenheit ...
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Trademark trio gets into Syndicate
Andrew Stevens' Trademark Entertainment has struck up a representation relationship with David Glasser and Lisa Wilson's new sales outfit Syndicate Films kicking off with three titles at MIFED - horror picture Samantha's Child starring Heather Graham, serial killer chiller Method starring Elizabeth Hurley and thriller Pursued with Christian Slater and ...
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Giffoni, AFMA Foundation give birth to Teen LA
One of Europe's leading youth-oriented events, Italy's Giffoni Film Festival, has sealed a landmark deal with the AFMA Foundation to establish a twin event in Los Angeles next summer, to be called Teen LA.'Giffoni isn't just a festival. It is a year-round operation dedicated to promoting cinema for young ...
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KWA takes off with Astronautas, Bolchevique
Madrid-based sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has just picked up world-wide distribution rights to two new Spanish pictures: Astronautas and La Flaqueza Del Bolchevique.Santi Amodeo's Astronautas is a bittersweet comedy about an alcoholic artist who gets back onto the straight and narrow with the help of a young girl. ...
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Film Library undergoes Cultural Revolution
China's Cultural Revolution is the theme of three new films on the slate of Film Library, the Hong Kong and Los Angeles sales outfit.The company has expanded its Mifed sales slate thanks to a diversification into production.Jiang Jie, a stylish look at the turmoils of the 'Cultural Revolution' via the ...
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Menemsha's Moon set for Israel release
Menemsha Entertainment has closed a pre-sale of Juan Jose Campanella's Avellanada's Moon to Israel's United King just days before completion of principal photography. United King, has previously bought two other Argentinian films - Campanella's Son Of The Bride and Marcelo Pineyro's Kamchatka - from Menemsha. Beatrix Wesle of Menemsha closed ...
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NonStop takes on trio of titles
Sweden's NonStop Sales has added a trio of high profile local titles to its Mifed slate.From leading producer Sonet Film it has added Miffo, a romantic comedy about a priest who should not be feeling the way he does, directed by Daniel Lind Lagerlof. The film makes its market premiere ...
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20 films look to break out of The Asylum
LA-based independent home video production and distribution outfit The Asylum has secured private funding to produce 20 films over the next 18 months, with the first title set to begin principal photography in January 2004 for a summer US release.The line-up will comprise mostly horror, sci-fi and thriller titles budgeted ...
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Tulchin runs with Haunted Hills sales
Tulchin Entertainment has completed a raft of licensing deals for the comedy-horror Elvira's Haunted Hills starring Elvira and Richard O'Brien, who starred in The Rocky Horror Show.Classic 99 Pty has picked up television and video rights for Australia and New Zealand, Videosonic has acquired television and video rights for Greece, ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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Cineclick's Old Boy conjures up Euro deals
Old Boy, a thriller about a man who is challenged to find out why he was kidnapped, is drawing market and remake heat for Cineclick Asia.The film, which is one of the hottest titles at Mifed, has already closed a number of deals. France's Wild Side bought the Park Chan-Wook ...
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Pescarolo lines up $18m She shoot
Shooting is due to start in May in Shanghai on Leo Pescarolo's $18m international movie, She (aka Draconis).She is produced by Rome-based Pescarolo's Imago Film with Massimo Pacilio for Movieweb, together with Fred Wang from Hong Kong's Salon Media Films, France's Mandarin Films, Germany's CMW Film Company and Australia's Darnley ...
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Cattleya charges ahead with Winspeare drama
Italian director Edoardo Winspeare, whose last film The Miracle screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival, is now preparing to direct a WW2 picture about an Italian Lawrence of Arabia.Winspeare is currently writing the film, which will focus on the life of Amedeo Guillet, an Italian cavalry officer who ...
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
Dir: Joe Dante. US. 2003. 90mins.The edgy humour of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck et al takes a back seat to frantic and not terribly funny action-comedy in this Warner family offering (set for a Nov 14 US release) that puts the studio's Looney Tunes animated stars together with live-action characters ...
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Fortissimo improves English-language grasp
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world rights to More Than Scarlet, an Australian drama from the stable of Jan Chapman, producer of Lantana and The Piano. The company is also poised to pick up two other Aussie pictures in moves that underline its growing influence in the English-language sector. ...