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K5 International picks up sales on McCarthy's The Visitor
Germany- and UK-based K5 International has taken on world sales rights to The Visitor.Groundswell Productions and Participant Productions backed the Tom McCarthy drama, his follow-up to The Station Agent.The Visitor had its world premiere in Toronto to solid reviews. Overture Films picked up North American rights in September and plan ...
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Tribeca promotes David Kwok, adds La'Bassiere and Terranova
The Tribeca Film Festival has promoted David Kwok to director of programming and added Genna Terranova as senior programmer.The festival is creating a year-round industry department, with Julie La'Bassiere coming on board as director of industry relations.Terranova and Kwok will both concentrate on core festival programming (with artistic director Peter ...
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Oz start-up Cyan Films set to produce Auction with Ghobadi
Julie Ryan, who has produced director Rolf de Heer's films for the past decade, and new media producer Kate Croser have set up Cyan Films, a new Adelaide-based production company. One of their films, Auction, could be the first co-production between Australia and Iran. The directorial debut of Granaz Moussavi ...
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O'Toole and Northam gear up for Dean Spanley's UK shoot
Peter O'Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown have lined up to start shooting Dean Spanley on Nov 10 in eastern England.Kathleen Drumm at NZ Film is handling sales for the Atlantic Film Group and General Film Corporation project.New Zealand film-maker Toa Fraser, who won the world cinema audience ...
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T&C, Sony Music Japan team for Japanese girl band comedy
T&C Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan has begun shooting the comedy Lock And Roll Forever in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Japan.Chris Grismer is directing the story of an all-girl teenage band from a working class industrial city in Japan that travels to America in search of fame ...
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Cumming and Romijn reteam go mad for AV's Hatter
Alan Cumming and Rebecca Romijn will reunite after X2 to star in Hatter.James Killough wrote the script and will make his feature film directorial debut.Killough will also produce with Angad Paul; Paul's UK-based company AV Pictures is handling sales. Cumming and Romijn will play Matt Hatter and Alice Allyson in ...
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Pyramide sells Fontaine's Monaco to Seville in Canada
Paris-based Pyramide Films has closed a deal with Canada's Seville Picturesfor Anne Fontaine's latest feature, Monaco.The film, starring Fabrice Lucchini and Roschdy Zem, is shooting and should be ready by next summer.Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Pyramide is also handling Daydreams, the latest feature from revered Turkish auteur Nuri ...
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Katapult takes sales for Paul Morrison's Little Ashes
Los Angeles-based Katapult Film Sales has boarded Paul Morrison's Spanish-English co-production Little Ashes and will commence sales here.The co-production between Factotum Barcelona, Aria Films, APT Films & Met Film just wrapped in Barcelona and stars Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson and Matthew McNulty.The story takes place in Madrid in 1922 and ...
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Wide scores UK deals on Youssou N'Dour, Subsitute docs
French outfit Wide Management has closed UK deals on two titles on its AFM slate. Festival favourite Youssou N'Dour: Return To Goree has been sold to Axiom. Meanwhile, Substitute, about a football player who is a substitute in the World Cup Final, has been snapped up by new UK distributor ...
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Fortissimo sells Venice titles to Canada, Brazil
Fortissimo Film Sales has sold Venice titles The Goddess Of 1967, which is screening in competition, and Thomas Est Amoureux, screening in the Present Cinema section, to Canada's Seville Films, Brazil's Imovision and Greece's Prooptiki.In addition, Australian title Goddess, directed by Clara Law, has been sold to Gemini in Mexico, ...
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Gaumont sells Natali's Splice to Senator, Seville
Gaumont has sealed deals early at AFM on its horror movie Splice with Senator in Germany and Seville/Entertainment in Canada.Directed by Vincenzo Natali, Splice stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. The producer is Steven Hoban (Black Christmas, Ginger Snaps). The executive producers are Guillermo del Toro and Don MurphyThe $26 ...
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Daybreak signs exclusive output deal with Peter Kosminsky
Daybreak Pictures has signed an exclusive output deal with BAFTA-winning writer/director Peter Kosminsky. All projects written and/or directed by Kosminsky will now be made under the Daybreak banner.Kosminsky has previously worked with Daybreak co-executive producer David Aukin and Hal Vogel on projects including The Government Inspector and Channel 4's two-part ...
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Perrier promoted to vice president at Odd Lot International
Delphine Perrier has been promoted to vice president of worldwide distribution of Odd Lot International.Perrier previously served as director of legal affairs and will work on sales and help executive vice president of worldwide distribution Brian O'Shea, to whom she will report, expand the foreign sales business.Odd Lot International's AFM ...
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TLA takes US, UK, English-speaking Canada on Hormoz-directed drama
TLA Releasing has taken all US, UK and English-speaking Canadian rights to Hormoz' French drama I Dreamt Under Water (J'Ai Reve Sous L'Eau).TLA is co-producing the film with Wide Management and Triskel Film and acquired rights from Wide to line up a 2008 theatrical release.Hormoz makes his feature directorial debut ...
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First Run takes US rights to German documentary To The Limit
First Run Features has acquired North American rights from Germany's Telepool to Pepe Danquart's documentary To The Limit.The film follows the renowned Bavarian brothers Alexander and Thomas Huber as they bid to break the world speed climbing record on the infamous 3,000-ft El Capitan vertical rock formation in California's Yosemite ...
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Morrissette joins cast of Philip K Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth
Principal photography has begun on John Alan Simon's Philip K Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth starring Alanis Morissette.Jonathan Scarfe, Shea Whigham, Katheryn Winnick and Hanna Hall also star in the Discovery Productions and Open Pictures story about an extra-terrestrial plot to bring down a corrupt regime through the power of ...
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Muay Thai Chaiya kicks its way to France, Germany
Thailand 's Five Star Entertainment has sold action title Muay Thai Chaiya to France 's Wild Side Films, Germany 's EMS and Brazil 's Global Media Holdings, among other territories. Five Star has now sold the film to more than 30 territories since it had its world premiere at the ...
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J.A. Media picks up Lin's Somersault Punk
Beijing-based J.A. Media has picked up worldwide rights to Taiwanese filmmaker Lin Yu-hsien's upcoming sports drama Somersault Punk. Based on a true story, the film tells the story of a talented but disabled gymnast who becomes a street fighter when his mother prohibits him from practising the sport. Produced by ...
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Tuya's Marriage pulls out of Golden Horse race
Berlin Golden Bear winner Tuya's Marriage has withdrawn from Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards race. Executive producer Wang Le made the official request to the Golden Horse organisers on Wednesday, just four days after nominations were announced. The Mongolian-set drama was one of the highest profile entries set to compete at ...
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Showbox snaps up Konchalovsky's Nutcracker
Major Korean distributor Showbox Mediaplex has bought Andrei Konchalovsky's Nutcracker: The True Story from Odyssey Entertainment. The deal follows Showbox's acquisition of Chilled In Miami from Mandate International, which was announced yesterday.Nutcracker is based on the story that inspired the well-known ballet and stars John Turturro, Nathan Lane and Dakota ...