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Univeral beefs up Rogue Pictures
UniversalPictures is beefing up its genre division Rogue Pictures with plans to release10 pictures a year and expand the banner's production infrastructure.Universal's boutique label Focus Features' marketingand distribution teams will also expand to handle the increased workload andRogue will also begin to roll out its DVD Premiere series of titles.Focus ...
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Universal beefs up Rogue Pictures
Universal Pictures is beefing up its genre division Rogue Pictures withplans to release 10 pictures a year and expand the banner's productioninfrastructure.Focus Features' marketing and distribution teams willexpand to handle the increased workload and Rogue will also begin to roll outit DVD Premiere series of titles.Focus Features co-president David Linde ...
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Slow Burn sells to North America, UK
GreeneStreetFilms and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment have sold North American and UK rights onWayne Beach's upcoming thriller Slow Burn to DEJ Productions.GreeneStreetInternational has sold Slow Burn, which stars Ray Liotta as a district attorneywho confronts a gang leader, to Eagle in Italy and is expecting to close Francetoday [18]. Deals for ...
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Japan Wise to Argento's Hitchcock homage
Rai Trade has sold cult horrormeister Dario Argento's thriller, DoYou Like Hitchcock' to Japan's Wise Policy. Deals on the hot English-language picture have also been struck with USdistributor Marvista, Russia's Alpha Motion Company, Denmark's DR TV, Sweden'sSverige Television Sdt, Hungary's PCN Budapest, the Czech Republic's Euro Kimand ex-Yugoslavia's Centra Belgrado.The ...
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Menzel ready to Serve The King
Oscar-winningCzech director Jiri Menzel is edging ever closer to a starting date for hislong-gestating I Served The King Of England. The Euros 3m project, puttogether by producers AQS and Bioscop as a Czech/Hungarian/German/Slovakianco-production, is close to being fully financed. The first part of the 61-dayshoot is slated to take place ...
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Bavaria scores sales on Fatih Akin's Crossing The Bridge
Fatih Akin'smusic documentary Crossing The Bridge has beensold to A-Film in Benelux, Golem's Spain,Discovery Film in the former Yugoslavia and Israel's Orlando with "stronginterest" coming from Italy and the USA, according to Bavaria FilmInternational.DirectorsFortnight opener Be With Me, directed by Eric Khoo, has been sold to Civite Films (Spain) andNew ...
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Kaurismaki embarks on Nightwatchman shoot
Shooting has begun inFinland on Nightwatchman, thethird part of Aki Kaurismaki's Finland trilogy. Having dealt withunemployment in Drifting Cloudsand homelessness in Man Without A Past, the Finnish auteur is now taking as his subject "loneliness in suburbanHelsinki." The film is being made through Kaurismaki's production companySputnik.Among the starsis Paju, the ...
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Nexo swoops for three new films
Italy's Nexo has acquired three new films here - Steven Shainberg'sDiane Arbus biopic Fur from New Line International, Emanuel Carrere'swell-liked drama La Moustache from Pathe International and Jaume Balaguero'sthriller Fragile from Filmax. The pick-ups continue relationships between Ernesto Di Sarro's companyand the three sellers. Nexo at its inception handled a ...
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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Swintongets on This TownBritshactress Tilda Swinton has joined the cast of No One Gets Off In This Town, the latest film from RichardKwietniowski (Love And Death In Long Island). Produced by Jason Newmark,scripted by Colin Bytheway, the project is on Beyond's Cannes slate. It's ablack comedy exposing the seamy side ...
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Edinburgh festival plans gathering of European distributors
Distributors from across Europe are to meet at August's EdinburghInternational Film Festival in an event held by the Scottish festival anddistributors federation FIAD. The gathering is billed as an opportunity to network in a less pressuredenvironment, rather than a formal conference. "We hope many distributorswill seize this opportunity to come ...
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Lola closes pre-sales on saintly Paz Vega biopic
Spain'sLolafilms has closed three key pre-sales and is fielding broad interest on itsperiod biopic Teresa,starring Viggo Mortensen and Paz Vega.The film has pre-sold toMexico's Gussi, Brazil's Conquest Filmes and Venezuela's Blancica. Offers arealso on the table from Argentina, according to Lola's head of internationalsales, Eva Sklar.Pre-sales areunusual for any Spanish ...
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Julian Richards gets Prolific with new slate
Prolific Britishdirector/producer Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie) has announced a slate of new projects through hisdevelopment and production outfit, Prolific Films.Krizia is a supernaturalhorror film scripted by Andrew Miller (Cube, Nothing) about a schizophrenic girl with telekinetic powers.Long Dark Hours, backed by the Arts Council of Wales, is billed ...
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Pact, British Directors, Ille de France plan conference
In conjunction with UKproducers' agency Pact and the Directors' Guild of Great Britain, the Ile deFrance Film Commission has announced a conference series to be held on June 15in London.The Ile de France commission was created in 2004 toattract producers to the region in and around Paris as well as ...
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Wales opens up£7m film and TV fund
Wales hascalled for applications for its £7m intellectual property fund.The fund, overseen by theWelsh Assembly, will act as a gap financier for film and TV production, plusnew media and music projects. Open to international projects, the initiative aimsto attract production to Wales.Producer Linda James hasbeen appointed to the board and ...
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Metacinema takes Italian rights to Gallenberger's Time
Metacinema has acquiredItalian distribution rights to Florian Gallenberger's Shadows of Time.Sold by BavariaInternational, the epic film is set in India before independence and traces thetragic love story of Ravi and Masha, a couple who were forced to work as childlabourers.The picture marks the featuredebut of writer-director Gallenberger, who won an ...
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Italy's DNC snaps up Un Certain Regard title The King
Italy's DNC Entertainment haspicked up Italian distribution rights to three titles, including Un CertainRegard title The King.Sold by ContentFilm, JamesMarsh's The King features Gael Garcia Bernal as a handsome young USmarine who returns to his preacher father's hometown with the hope ofreconciliation.The film was written by Marshand Milo Addica (Monster's ...
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Echo Bridge dead keen on Mortuary
Echo Bridge Entertainment has completed a string of deals on TobeHooper's horror title Mortuary.Rights sold toAnchor Bay for the UK, Bronson Entertainment for Germany, Eagle Entertainmentfor Italy, and Swen Entertainment for Brazil. France and Japan are expected toclose imminently.BridgeEntertainment bought for Benelux, HollywoodEntertainment for Greece and PT Parkit for Indonesia."The ...
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Star Wars: Episode III already breaking records
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith wasalready starting to break records as its massive international release began onWednesday and continued into the weekend.According to distributor Fox International, the launch ofthe film with more than 9,000 prints in 113 markets in 104 countries outsideNorth America is the widest ...
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TFI takes world rights to Ong-Bak follow-up
French sales house TF1International has taken world rights to Tom-Yum-Goong starring Ong-BakphenomenonTony Jaa and directed by Ong-Bak's Prachya Pinkaew.Ong-Bak was a huge hit inits native Thailand and also performed well for EuropaCorp. who handled itsinternational sales. The film sold nearly 1 million tickets in France.Tom-Yum-Goong tells the tale ofa villager, ...
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Strom takes Mai's place at Trust
Danish production outfit Zentropa's international sales arm Trust Film Sales is in Cannes with a new head, Annakarin Strom. The 25-year-old Swede was previously with Trust's Nordic competitor Egmont-owned Nordisk Film International Sales for four years, and is taking the seat from Thomas Mai, who is moving to the US ...