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Seville gets pre-sale interest for Global Metal
Seville International hasmade several pre-sale deals here at the AFM for Global Metal, the follow-up to music documentary Metal: AHeadbangers Journey. The project isnow shooting.Deals have been made withAmuse Soft in Japan, Pretty Pictures in France, Europa Filmes for Brazil,Future Films for Scandinavia and D Productions for Turkey. Mikado has ...
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A Dirty Carnival (Biyeolhan Geori)
Dir/scr: Ha Yu. S Kor. 2006. 141mins.Updating the theory that war is politics pursued byother means, A Dirty Carnival arguesthat the criminal underworld is simply corporate business employing differenttools. Tracing the rise and fall of an ambitious but insufficiently ruthless Seoulthug, Ha Yu's new feature is reminiscent of Friend,Korea's best ...
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Tazza: The High Rollers (Tajja)
Dir/scr: Choi Dong-hoon. S Kor. 2006. 139mins.The undisputed homegrown box-office champion of late inSouth Korea - where it took some three million admissions in its first fortnight- Tazza: The High Rollers is a gambling caper thatraces off from the word go and doesn't slow down for the next 139 minutes.Choi ...
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Turtle Family (Familia Tortuga)
Dir/scr: Ruben Imaz Castro. Mex. 2006. 130mins.Turtle Family heralds Ruben Imaz Castro as the next voice from theMexican counter-current, as unconventional and challenging in his own way aspredecessors like Carlos Reygadas or Amat Escalante, if not as brazenly outrageous. His operaprima lasts 130 minutes, during which very little actually happens ...
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Buyers jump on Venus for The Works
UK-based sales company TheWorks International has announced a successful run of deals at AFM, with moreto be finalised in coming days.Roger Michell's Venus starring Peter O'Toole has been sold to Icon forAustralia and New Zealand, A-Film for Benelux, Alfa for Argentina, LPR forBrazil, Forum Film for Israel and Golem for ...
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inDplay signs up Allied Artists library
Licensing services companyinDplay.com has signed a deal with Allied Artists Corporation for its20,000-title library.Allied Artists will providetheir content to film and TV buyers globally by having it available on theinDplay video rights sales, acquisition and management platform. Last week, thefirst 200 titles were listed on the platform for browsing by ...
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Celluloid banks on Asian directors, strikes studio deals
Paris-based sales andproduction outfit Celluloid Dreams is to handle sales on Camera D'Or winnerNaomi Kawase's new feature, provisionally titled Mogari No Mori. The film, in post-production and likely to be vyingfor a place in official selection in Cannes, is about an old man saying goodbyeto his dead widow. This old ...
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Strand buys two for North America from Fortissimo
Strand Releasing has pickedup North American rights to two films from Fortissimo Films - ApichatpongWeerasethakul's Syndromes And A Century and Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone. Both films, which played in competition at theVenice Film Festival and at Toronto, were commissioned as part of the City OfVienna's New ...
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Trust takes on sales of Kormakur's Jar City
Danish salesoutfit Trust has taken on international sales of Baltasar Kormakur's JarCity. The film hasalready enjoyed the biggest opening in Icelandic history, racking up admissionsof over 60,000 - representing one in five of the population - since its releasein mid-October.All territoriesare open excluding Germany, where ADR has taken the rights, ...
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Momentum buys sci-fi movie Tomo from Becker
Momentum Pictures has boughtUK rights to Paul Catling's science fiction movie Tomo from Becker International. The film, which has beendeveloped and will be produced by Matthew Justice, is based on the short filmof the same name which won the international short film prize at the 2004Sundance Film Festival.The deal was ...
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Kimmel sells multiple territories for Death At A Funeral
Sidney KimmelEntertainment's foreign sales arm Kimmel Internationalhas closedmultiple territories on comedy Death At A Funeral starringMatthew Macfadyen, Peter Dinklage andEwen Bremner.Rights have gone to Germany(Concorde), Italy (Mikado), Spain (DeaPlaneta), Scandinavia (Scanbox),and South Africa (Nu Metro).Frank Oz directed the project aboutdysfunctional British relativeswho attend the riotous funeral of afamily patriarch. Alan ...
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Volver, Babel bookend Goa International Film Festival
Pedro Almodovar's Volver will open the 37th International FilmFestival of India Goa which runs from Nov 23 to Dec 3. Alejandro GonzalezInarritu's Babel is the closingnight film.Films from 40 countries willbe screened in the "Cinema Of The World" section and the festival will featureretrospectives of the work of actor Javier ...
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Sony goes for Untraceable starring Diane Lane
Sony Pictures has made itssecond major buy here with the acquisitionof North American and LatinAmerican rights to Gregory Hoblit's FBIcybercop thriller Untraceable starring Diane Lane.Screen Gems will release theproject in North America and SonyPictures Releasing International willdistribute in Latin America. Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper did the dealwith LakeshoreInternational, which ...
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Metrodome beefs up slate with Vampire, HAL titles
UK distributor Metrodome Distribution has acquired a raft of titles including the critically well-received Shadow Of The Vampire and Miramax International's About Adam and Elephant Juice.Metrodome head of distribution Rupert Preston has also acquired Sundance title Chuck And Buck from Summit Entertainment and UK comedy Sorted, which was picked up ...
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Lindsay Lohan to star in Tennessee Williams project
Lindsay Lohan will star in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' previously unpublished play The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond.Ellen Burstyn, David Strathairn, Chris Evans and Ann-Margret are also believed to be attached to the project, which has fast become one of the most hotly pursued titles at AFM.Brad Gilbert of ...
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Others and Volver lead European Film Awards noms
German hit The Lives Of Others, which was controversially snubbed by both Berlin and Cannes, has won six European Film Award nominations including those for film, director and screenwriter. The only other title with six nods was Pedro Almodovar's widely loved Volver. Both films are considered frontrunners for this year's ...
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Amritraj's Hyde Park to co-finance Merchant Ivory's City
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde ParkEntertainment is teaming up with Merchant Ivory Productions (MIP) to co-produceJames Ivory's latest film The City Of Your Final Destination which is set to star Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney,Omar Metwally, Hiro Sanada, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Norma Aleandro, AlexandraMaria Lara and Kate Burton.Hyde Park International ishandling sales here on ...
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TWC buys North American rights to Klaus Barbie doc
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has bought North American rights fromWild Bunch to Kevin MacDonald's upcoming Klaus Barbie documentary My Enemy'sEnemy.My Enemy's Enemy investigates the legacy of the former Gestapo commander known as'The Butcher Of Lyon' who terrorised Lyon and the surrounding region fromNovember 1942 to August 1944.The project follows Barbie ...
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IFC Films buys Honore's In Paris from Gemini
Paris-based Gemini Films has closed a US deal on ChristopherHonore's In Pariswith IFC Films. The deal was negotiated by Elizabeth Perlie for Gemini andJonathan Sehring for IFC.In Parishad its world premiere in the Cannes Directors Fortnight this year. It starsRomain Duris and Louis Garrel as brothers. Other deals struck on ...
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Hong Kong film festival sets new industry direction
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) is changing dates next year - to coincide with Hong Kong Filmart - and is undergoing a major repositioning to reflect changes in the international festival scene.Next year's HKIFF will open on March 20 and run for 18 days. The first nine days ...