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Celluloid to handle sales on Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut
Celluloid Dreams has signed on to handle international sales of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut,Jack Goes Boating,billed as an unconventional romantic comedy.
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Greg MacGillivray shoots documentary about surfing culture
Greg MacGillivray is shooting a documentary examining 50 years of surfing culture in cinema with particular emphasis on the troubled production of John Milius' 1978 Big Wednesday.The untitled project will draw from archival material ranging from Thomas Edison's first Hawaiian surfing footage in 1906 to excerpts from iconic imagery from ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to thriller Burning Bright
Momentum has acquired UK rights from Sobini Films to the thriller Burning Bright, starring Briana Evigan as a girl trapped in a house with her autistic brother and a ravenous tiger during a hurricane.Sobini's vice president of international, Todd Olsson is showing footage here and has also sold rights to ...
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Mickey Rourke reteams with Hill
Mickey Rourke's remarkable comeback continues apace as the white-hot Oscar nominee reunites with his Johnny Handsome director Walter Hill on the action thriller St Vincent, set to begin filming later this year.Stuart Ford's IM Global is handling international sales and has reported feverish early interest from buyers in Berlin keen ...
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Las Razones De Mis Amigos
Dir: Gerardo Herrero. Spain. 2000. 105 mins.Prod co: Tornasol Films. Spain distrib: Alta Films. Int'l sales: Kevin Williams Associates (34-91-338-5355). Prods: Gerardo Herrero, Javier Lopez Blanco. Assoc prod: Mariela Besuievsky. Scr: Angeles Gonzalez Sinde, based on the novel La Conquista Del Aire by Belen Gopegui. DoP: Alfredo Mayo. Prod des: ...
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AMediaVision announces slate led by Reach For Me
AMediaVision Projects has announced a slate of films led by the recently completed drama Reach For Me starring Seymour Cassel and Alfre Woodard.Cassel stars as a hospice patient who reflects on his decision to live out his life in peace as his roommate chooses to celebrate his dying days. Johnny ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment closes raft of territories on Adam Resurrected
Bleiberg Entertainment has closed a raft of further territories on the Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected, including German-speaking territories to 3L Filmverleigh and Brazil to Flashstar.Deals have closed in Israel (United King Films), Portugal (Valentim), Greece (Village Roadshow), Turkey (Horizon), Iceland (Myndform), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and ...
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Filmmuseum ramps up acquisition business
Amsterdam's Filmmuseum has taken Dutch rights to a slew of films led by Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy sold by Memento, Edwin's Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly which premiered in Rotterdam last month, and Swiss master's Peter Liechti's The Sounds Of Insects - Record Of A Mummy. They follow ...
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Films Boutique picks up Rots, Jude titles
Berlin-based sales company Films Boutique has picked up four new titles for international distribution, including two Forum titles - Esther Rots' Can Go Through Skin and Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude's The Happiest Girl In The World. Films Boutique's Jean-Christophe Simon also told Berlinale ScreenDaily that he has take on international ...
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Arrow Cuts Loose with Verheyen
Canadian outfit Arrow Entertainment has taken world rights excluding Benelux to Cut Loose, from the prolific Flemish director Jan Verheyen. Cut Loose was produced by the team behind Flemish hits The Alzheimer Case and Ben X. Based on the best-selling novel by Tom Naegels, the film is about a crusading ...
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Shoreline is ata forkin the road
Morris Ruskin's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Jim Kouf's comedy A Fork In The Road. Shoreline will seek to tempt buyers in Berlin with the story of an escaped convict and a murderous farmers wife who go on the run ...
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Dragon Tattoo set for European rollout, English version
In Berlin this weekend, Yellow Bird's Soren Staermose has revealed further details of the hugely ambitious roll-out plans for the film of Stieg Larsson's world bestseller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, sold here by Zodiak International. The film will be released theatrically in late February in Sweden and Denmark, ...
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High Point takes on Haïti Cherie
High Point Films, the theatrical sales division of Carey Fitzgerald's London based High Point Media Group, has taken on international rights outside France and Italy to Claudio Del Punta's Berlin selection, Haïti Cherie. Selected for the culinary cinema section at the Berlin Film Festival, Haïti Cherie takes a dramatic, Neorealist ...
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KWA adds four to slate
Madrid-based Kevin Williams Associates has picked up Albert Arizza’s thriller Ramirez about a lonely young night stalker and drug dealer, preying on young women he can pick up and seduce.KWA has also acquired Mexican drama Limbo, about a 12-year-old gay boy who suffers an accident and goes to limbo, a ...
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ALCAS launches fund for Paramount quartet
German fund specialist ALCAS is offering the investing public a slice of four upcoming Paramount features including the next film in the Tom Clancy franchise, The Sum Of All Fears, and Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander.Investors are being invited to contribute at least $43,000 (DM100,000) to a $280m (DM650m) fund, which ...
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iDream sells three to Turkey
London and Mumbai-based sales company iDream Independent Pictures has sold a package of three films, including Santosh Sivan's Tahaan, to Turkey's Horizon International here at the EFM. The package also includes Shivajee Chandrabhushan's Frozen and Irfan Kamal's Thanks Maa. Produced by India's Quantum Films, Thanks Maa is a story about ...
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ReviewsThe Yes Men Fix The World
Dirs: Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Kurt Engfehr. US. 2009. 85mins .
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K5 brings Size, World to buyers
Germany and UK based sales outfit K5 International has picked up two new titles which it is pitching to buyers here: A Matter Of Size and A Wonderful World. Comedy A Matter Of Size is directed by Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor. Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon of UCM ...
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Pierpoline, Lormand see Red with Mei
Joyce Pierpoline and Richard Lormand, the producers behind competition entry Happy Tears, are working to put together their next project Seeing Red with first-time director Liselle Mei.The project, which is budgeted between $4m and $6m, is being scheduled for an autumn shoot in New York's Chinatown. Mei, a Chinese-English woman, ...