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AFM Briefs Nov 5
Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights from Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's Visit Films to the drama Momma's Man following its London Film Festival screenings.The film premiered at Sundance and tells of a man who visits his parents' loft apartment in Manhattan on a business trip and decides not ...
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Wolfe Video picks up North America on two before AFM
Wolfe Video has announced it has acquired North American rights ahead of AFM to the gay titles Whirlwind and Mulligans.Whirlwind explores non-monogamy, commitment and friendship in New York.Richard Le May directed and Bryan West, Alexis Suarez, Desmond Dutcher, Brad Anderson and Mark Ford star. The film won the audience award ...
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Showbox takes on Ski Jump, library, from KM Culture
Korea's Showbox Mediaplex has picked up KM Culture's upcoming sports action film Ski Jump (tentative title) directed by Kim Yong-hwa, who previously directed the hit 200 Pounds Beauty. Showbox has also made a deal to handle all KM Culture's upcoming and library titles for international sales, which include 200 Pounds ...
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Axiom in UK, Star Sands in Japan take on Dornhelm's La Boheme
UK distributor Axiom and Japan's Star Sands/Theaters have acquired Robert Dornhelm's film version of the Puccini opera La Boheme ahead of its market premiere at the AFM.According to sales agent Beta Cinema, the film featuring opera stars Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon has also been picked up by Palace for ...
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TF1 International sells Gatlif, Veber, Jeunet at AFM
TF1 International has boarded Tony Gatlif's latest Korkoro, the story of a gypsy family facing persecution in World War II France which stars Marc Lavoine and Marie-Jose Croze. The film, currently shooting, will be released by TFM Distribution in France.TF1 is here with the world premiere of Francis Veber's latest ...
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Filmax takes on sales for Agustin Diaz Yanes' Just Walking
Filmax International has picked up the international sales rights to Agustin Diaz Yanes' Just Walking (Solo Quiero Caminar) and will commence sales at AFM.The Alatriste director's latest film about three brave women who take on a group of Mexican drug traffickers has an impressive cast list that includes Diego Luna, ...
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Wide's Ex-Drummer goes to Mongrel Media
Koen Mortier's controversial Ex-Drummer, the Flemish film about an abrasiverock band formed by disabled musicians, has been snapped up by Mongrel Media for Canada. The film is sold by Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management.Wide Management arrives in Santa Monica with a bulging slate headlined byVolker Schlondörff's Gigola, starring Asia Argento. ...
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StudioCanal takes on sales for Yorkshire Ripper trilogy
StudioCanal has announced the acquisition of two new English-language projects which comprise four films in total. The first, The Red Riding Trilogy, is based on a series of cult British crime novels by David Peace inspired by the true story of the Yorkshire Ripper. The second, Cotton, is a faux-documentary ...
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Contact 2000 co-production market unveils line-up
Contact Europe 2000, a co-production market aiming to connect North American and European projects with potential financiers from both regions, has announced a line-up of 22 projects for its second edition, set to roll November 24-26 in Berlin. Titles seeking funding include Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcase and Robert ...
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Echo Bridge boards Baltasar Kormakur-directed thriller Inhale
Echo Bridge Entertainment has picked up international rights from 26 Films to Baltasar Kormakur's new Engish-language thriller Inhale and will commence pre-sales this week at AFM.Production just wrapped on the story starring Dermot Mulroney as a rising LA District Attorney who gets involved with a Mexican criminal medical ring in ...
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Katapult's Jourdan leaves to head up T&C Pictures International
Former Katapult Films Sales chief David Jourdan has jumped ship and will be talking to buyers about three films in his new role as managing director of T&C Pictures International.The company is part of production and finance entity T&C Pictures, run by founding president Arata Matsushima, a former vice president ...
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Q&A: Morgan Holt, Director, HUGE Entertainment
Why did you get involved with Take 12'I'm attracted to the notion that strategy, particularly digital strategy, can help creative companies. There can be a slightly frustrating sense that being creative is all about instinct and is blind to planning for the future. But I believe creative people create their ...
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Transmission shifts into Nadda's Cairo Time from Maximum
Australia's Transmission Films has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Ruba Nadda's romantic drama Cairo Time from E1's sales company Maximum International. Produced by Daniel Iron of Toronto's Foundry Films (Away From Her) and David Collins of Dublin's Samson Films (Once), the Canada-Ireland coproduction stars Patricia Clarkson as a ...
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Q & A:Richard Ellis, co-founder of MTM London/ Vanessa Arden-Wood, Director of operations at Illumina Digital
Why did you get involved with Take 12'Richard:It is just such a great project. The UK film industry needs a bit of a pick me up - there is so much talent and it is not always utilised fully. The changes that have started to happen to the market are ...
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Fortissimo announces pre-market sales on Gigantic, Food Inc
Fortissimo Films today announced a raft of pre-market sales to major territories, including Matt Aselton's Gigantic starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel to BIM Distribuzione for Italy. Robert Kenner's food industry expose, Food, Inc. which saw its international premiere at Toronto, was picked up by Svensk Filmindustri for Scandinavia, United ...
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In Focus: Take 12 bridges the digital gap
Introduction: Nesta/UKFC Digital Innovation Programme - Take 12
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Entertainment takes five pack for UK from The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has sold a five-picture package to the UK's Entertainment Film Distributors, marking the first time that Nigel and Trevor Green have done business with Harvey and Bob Weinstein.The move follows the closure of former Entertainment supplier New Line International. The package contains Stephen Daldry's drama The ...
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DAY ONE: American Film Market news
The latest news and reviews from Screen's team at the American Film Market in Santa Monica.UPDATED DAILY: AFM storiesUPDATED DAILY: AFM salesAFM buzz films and preview
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AFM stories
Peter Block's A Bigger Boat kicks off with thriller FrozenSPWAG confirms multi-territory acquisition of The Book Of EliParis Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picturehere! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5 Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close First Independent takes US rights ...
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Pandaemonium
Dir: Julien Temple. UK. 2000. 124mins.Prod co: Mariner Films. Co-prods: BBC, Arts Council of England, Moonstone Entertainment. Int'l sales: Moonstone Entertainment, tel: (1) 310 247 6060. Exec prods: Mike Phillips, Tracey Scoffield, David M Thompson. Prod: Nick O'Hagen. Scr: Frank Cottrell Boyce. DoP: John Lynch. Prod des: Laurence Dorman. Ed: ...