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Irish arts minister urged to end delay in appointing Irish film board
An opposition senator has today called on the Irish arts minister to end the delay in appointing members of the Irish Film Board. An Irish Labour party senator, Dominic Hannigan, has called on the minister for arts, Martin Cullen, to explain the delay in appointing a new board for the ...
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Fallon partners on ambitious Auteurs
London-based advertising agency Fallon has come on board as a partner, as ambitious online movie venue/internet distribution platform The Auteurs to develop branding and sponsorship opportinities.Entrepreneur Efe Cakarel and Celluloid Dreams boss Hengameh Panahi made the announcement here and Fallon joins an impressive group of partners among them the Criterion ...
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Index sells further shares in Nikkatsu studios
Index Holdings has sold a 7.11% share in group company Nikkatsu to Amusement Media Entertainment Group (AMG). Nikkatsu is here at the EFM selling Takashi Miike's Yatterman which had its world premiere at New York Comic Con last night (Feb 6). The film is a live-action version of the manga ...
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Mirovision boards The Boat
South Korea 's Mirovision has picked up international rights to Kim Young-nam's drama The Boat, starring Korean actor Ha Jung-woo and Japan's Tsumabuki Satoshi. Scripted by Aya Watanabe (Josee, The Tiger And The Fish), the film follows a Korean smuggler and his counterpart in Japan whose lives are entwined when ...
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Cinemavault picks up Canadian, sales on Lovely, Still
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing has picked up international sales and Canadian distribution rights to Nik Fackler's directorial debut Lovely, Still, which premiered at Toronto and stars Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn. Cinemavault is presenting the picture in Berlin as the producers work on a new cut and plans to premiere the ...
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IN THE HOT SEAT - ANDREAS KLEIN
For years, Splendid Medien had a reputation as a solid, if unexciting, video and licence trader. Andreas Klein is now reinventing the company as a multinational content owner. Patrick Frater takes stock.Formerly known as a specialist video and licensing concern with a distinct taste for action films such as Rumble ...
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NonStop Entertainment in joint venture with Warp X
NonStop Entertainment has announced that it will have the first look for upcoming films on the slate of UK-based digital feature film studio Warp and will look to other joint ventures. Warp X is allied to Warp Films, the company behind This Is England and Dead Man's Shoes by Shane ...
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Cineart goes on pre-Berlin buying spree
Benelux distributor Cineart/Cinelibre has picked up three titles in official selection in Berlin: Francois Ozon's competition entry Ricky from Le Pacte, Simone Bitton's Forum documentary Rachel from UMedia and Philippe Lioret's Panorama title Welcome sold by Films Distribution. Cineart/Cinelibre has also been busy pre-buying. It has now snapped up Ken ...
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E1 peddles Souls to Madman
E1 Films International has sold Australian rights to Sophie Barthes' comedy Cold Souls to Madman, hot on the heels of Samuel Goldwyn Films' acquisition of US rights following the world premiere at Sundance. Sales chief Charlotte Mickie also announced that Memento has acquired French rights to Cherien Dabis' Palestinian immigrant ...
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Aniston and Bateman to star in The Baster
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are the stars of romantic comedy The Baster which is set to shoot in spring. Mandate International is introducing the project to buyers here. Blades Of Glory directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon are reuniting on the Mandate Pictures tale of a woman who undergoes ...
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Content opens doors to Strange
ContentFilm International has taken worldwide sales rights to When You're Strange, Tom DiCillo's documentary about The Doors which had its world premiere at Sundance. The feature documentary is about the iconic rock band The Doors and tells the band's story through vintage footage, much of it previously unseen. The biopic ...
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Independent sells Moon and New Town Killers
UK sales and production outfit Independent has sold Duncan Jones' Moon and Richard Jobson's New Town Killers to Telepool for German speaking territories. Sci-fi thriller Moon premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The film was directed by Duncan Jones, stars Sam Rockwell and features the voice of Kevin ...
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Scottish, Danish and Irish production houses form film partnership
Scotland's Sigma Films, Denmark's Zentropa and Ireland's Subotica Entertainment are forming a partnership to develop eight new films from emerging UK and Irish film-makers. The partnership referred to as Advance Party II (APII) will build on the success of Andrea Arnold's Red Road, and Morag McKinnon's forthcoming Donkeys, which were ...
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GrandHotel to make gay footballer story
Berlin-based GrandHotelPictures has unveiled its development slate which includes Iranian-born Reza Memari's adaptation of Ronny Blaschke's Versteckspieler, a biography of the gay footballer Marcus Urban from former eastern Germany. The biography was published in Germany last year'It is a kind of coming of age story for adults where we will ...
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MPI Media chews off North American rights to Jinga's Gnaw
Jinga Films has closed a North American distribution deal for Greg Mandry's horror debut Gnaw with MPI Media Group. The sales agent has also sold Gnaw to Sahamongkolfilm for Thailand.Gnaw tells the gruesome story of six friends on vacation in the countryside who find themselves on the menu of a ...
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NonStop Entertainment in joint venture with Warp X
NonStop Entertainment has announced that it will have the first look for upcoming films on the slate of UK-based digital feature film studio Warp and the companies will look to other joint ventures. Warp X is allied to Warp Films, the company behind This Is England and Dead Man's Shoes ...
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Arterton to star in CinemaNX's The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
CinemaNX announces cast for its sixth feature film, TheDisappearance Of Alice Creed, to begin shooting February 9 on The Isle of Man.Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace, St Trinian’s), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky, Hancock) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, Red Road) will star in The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, a contemporary kidnap ...
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Thoretton plots YSL art auction doc
The story of legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Berge's life together is to be told on screen in a new film produced by Films Du Lendemain, the outfit co-founded by billionaire Francois Pinault, the owner of Christie's.Love, Art and Ethics, as the feature documentary is ...
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The Greatest sells strongly for Kimmel
Kimmel International has closed key territories on Shane Feste's drama The Greatest starring Sundance breakout star Carey Mulligan alongside Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon. Deals have closed with SND in France, Dea Planeta in Spain, Gussi in Mexico, PlayArte in Brazil, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Nu Metro in South Africa and ...