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Eurocine takes on international sales rights to El Rey
VenerableFrench sales and production house Eurocine has picked up international salesrights on El Rey, the Colombiansubmission for the foreign-language Oscar.Thefilm documents the origins of the drug-cultivation in 1940s Colombia, the USpolitical intervention that initially supported production and the origins oftrafficking when the political winds changed.El Rey is directed by Jose ...
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Hotel Rwanda booked into Spain, other territories, by Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films International has announced a raft of sales on HotelRwanda, Terry George'sToronto Audience Award winning drama starring Don Cheadle.Thepicture has sold to On Pictures in Spain, LNK for Portugal, Audio Visual forGreece, Shaw Renters for Singapore, Eagle Films for the Middle East, Box OfficeEntertainment for Thailand and New ...
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Southwick, CDI team up for international business
BradSouthwick's Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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Armada sells domestic rights to teen horror pic to Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films has picked up North American distribution rightsto Armada Pictures and D H Blair Pictures' teen horror project Drive Thru, which is due to begin principalphotography in January.Armada Pictures International will begin international sales at AFMthis week on the project, which is being directed and is written by ...
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Dragon launched as first production services company in China
Underlining the growinginterest in China as a production location, the country's first productionservices company Dragon Studios was launched this week at the AFM.The company, which aims toprofessionalise and rationalise the Chinese industry, is a joint venture between Santa Monica andBeijing-based producer Peter Loehr, Er Yong, one of China's top line ...
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Kaplan named as US rep for Romanian studio
Monella Kaplan, who recently served as associate producer on Edison, has been named US representative ofKentauros Studios and Production, the new Romanian full-service productionfacility backed by a group of international investors.Kentauros, which will accommodate features, television andcommercial shoots, has aligned itself with such industry partners as Italy'sPanalight/Panavision, Phillip Tellez Construction ...
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TF1 extends relations with Cattleya
France's TF1 is to extendits relationship with Italian producer Cattleya by handling the next twoprojects from the thrusting talent shop.It will handle the next filmby The Best Of Youth director Marco Tullio Giordano and the next film byveteran actor-director Michele Placido. Already on TF1's bulging autumn AFMslate is Cattleya's Eyes ...
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Genre house New Arc launches at AFM
Live action and animationgenre production house New Arc Entertainment launches at AFM with a slate ofpictures including an anthology of 13 one-hour titles from horror veteransincluding John Carpenter and George Romero.John W Hyde is named chiefexecutive officer of New Arc. Hyde is also chief operating officer of IDTEntertainment, which will ...
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France's ARP falls for Spanish Queens
France's ARP has picked uplocal rights to star-studded romantic comedy Queens (Reinas) fromFortissimo Film Sales. The deal was struck over the phone on the eve of theAFM.The Euros4.5m film, whichcompleted its principal photography last month, is the first Spanish-languagefilm to be handled by Fortissimo. It was produced by Warner Bros' ...
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Capitol seals two-picture deal with Constantin for Slevin, Dust
Capitol Filmsclosed some high profile territorial deals on the eve of AFM on its ganglandthriller Lucky Number Slevin after the news that Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman had joinedthe cast.Constantin Filmbought the Paul McGuigan-directed film for Germany in a two-picture packagealong with Robert Towne's Ask The Dust starring Colin Farrell ...
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fox21 to sponsor Slamdance's Teleplay Competition
SlamdanceFilm Festival has announced the year-round sponsorship of fox21, 20thCentury FoxC;s boutique production, kicking off at the upcoming festival inJanuary with the Blind Script Deal award for the winner of the TeleplayCompetition Grand Prize.Slamdanceset up the original teleplay competition to discover new voices in televisionwriting. The recipient of the Blind ...
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Summit teams with Constantin on Goldie Hawn, Impact Pictures pics
PatrickWachsberger's Summit Entertainment arrives at AFM with Goldie Hawn'sdirectorial debut, a new Impact Pictures video game adaptation and Tom Tykwer'sPerfume cast andready to go.Hawn's AshesTo Ashes and Impact's DOA:Dead Or Alive are backedby Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film and continue the long relationship betweenConstantin and Summit.Ashes ToAshes is being producedby Hawn's ...
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Fortissimo enters martial arts arena with Tsui's Seven Sword
Netherlands and HongKong-based Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up Seven Swords, the newfilm by celebrated Asian action director Tsui Hark.The $18m film, which is nowin production, is a return to the martial arts action-adventure genre whichTsui was instrumental in shaping earlier in has career. It is also the biggestinvestment to ...
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Artists Independent Films launches sales op with Malkovich, Cronenberg pics
John Malkovich,Nastassja Kinski and David Cronenberg are involved in projects lined up forIndependent Film Sales, the new sales division of production operation Artists Independent Films (AIF).Malkovich andKinski, clients of sister management business Artists Independent Management(AIM), are to star The Holy Beast. Erich Breuer is directing the gothic horror from his ...
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Bornedal, Holst team up for Dina adaptation
Danish director Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch) is attached to direct an adaptation of best-selling Norwegian novel Dina's Book for Danish producer Per Holst. The $10m English-language project is set to start production in September.Dina will be Bornedal's first directing project since the 1999 TV movie Deep Water (Dybt Vand). Bornedal achieved ...
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fox21 to sponsor Slamdance Teleplay Competition
Slamdance Film Festival hasannounced the year-round sponsorship of fox21, 20th Century Fox'sboutique production, kicking off at the upcoming festival in January with theBlind Script Deal award for the winner of the Teleplay Competition Grand Prize.Slamdance set up theoriginal Teleplay Competition to discover new voices in television writing. Therecipient of the ...
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AFM: Pathe International takes on IFC's American Gun
Pathe PicturesInternational is handling sales on IFC FilmsC; American Gun, starring Donald Sutherland, Marcia GayHarden and Forest Whitaker. IFC will distribute the film in North AmericaThe deal,announced by Pathe sales chief Alison Thompson and Jonathan Sehring, presidentof IFC Entertainment and executive producer on American Gun, marks a strengthening of the ...
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AFM: Pathe International takes on IFC's American Gun
Pathe PicturesInternational is handling sales on IFC Films' American Gun, starring Donald Sutherland, Marcia GayHarden and Forest Whitaker. IFC will distribute the film in North AmericaThe deal,announced by Pathe sales chief Alison Thompson and Jonathan Sehring, presidentof IFC Entertainment and executive producer on American Gun, marks a strengthening of the ...
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AFM: Southwick, CDI team up for international businessAFM: Southwick, CDI team up for internaitonal business
BradSouthwickC;s Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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Southwick, CDI team up for international business
BradSouthwickC;s Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...