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Metrodome acquires UK & Irish rights to Three Miles North Of Molkom
Metrodome has taken UK and Irish rights to International Audience Award winning, Edinburgh Film Festival hit and BIFA nominated documentary Three Miles North of Molkom. The documentary was written, produced and directed by Robert Cannan and Corinna Villari-McFarlane for Third Eye Film.Three Miles North Of Molkom follows a middle aged ...
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Marrakech Film Festival to show 15 films from 14 countries in competition
The 8th annual Marrakech Film Festival will showcase 15 films in competition, with Barry Levinson presiding over the jury. The competition titles hail from 14 countries including Poland, China, Denmark and the U.S. The jury will comprise actors Sebastian Koch, Joaquim de Almeida, Caterina Murino and Natacha Regnier alongside filmmakers ...
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Advanced, Petersen unveil Red Cliff slate
Red Cliff Productions, the joint venture production company between public German outfit Advanced Medien AG and Hollywood-based director Wolfgang Petersen, has named Gail Katz president and CEO and unveiled its first production psychological thriller Fear Itself, which is set to go into production in March 2001.Petersen formed Red Cliff with ...
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Amazonas announces competition titles and jury, led by Alan Parker
The 5th annual Amazonas Film Festival has announced its line up, with filmmaker Alan Parker presiding over the jury. The festival, which runs from November 7-13, focuses on films with a relationship to the environment. A competition comprising nine films runs during the festival.Other jury members include French actor Tcheky ...
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Leipzig's top prize for Rene, FIPRESCI Award for Oblivion
Czech filmmaker Helena Trestikova's Rene has received the International Jury's Golden Dove at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.The story of an outsider of society observed by Trestikova over the course of almost 20 years was also awarded the MDR Film Prize for an outstanding East European ...
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Shooting starts on Stephen Poliakoff's Second World War thriller 1939
Principal photography started today on Second World War thriller 1939 starring Romola Garai and Bill Nighy. 1939 is writer/director Stephen Poliakoff's return to the cinema after a ten year absence. Previous feature films included Close My Eyes starring Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves and Alan Rickman.The film will shoot on location ...
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Edko lines up stellar cast for Yuen Wo-ping's True Legend
Renowned action choreographer Yuen Wo-ping (The Forbidden Kingdom, Kill Bill) is directing a martial arts biopic, True Legend, starring Chiu Man-cheuk, Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou, Michelle Yeoh and Chinese actors Zhou Xun and Guo Xiaodong. Edko (Beijing) Management and Consulting Ltd, the Beijing-based subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Edko Films, ...
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Lightning takes international on Trailer Park Of Terror
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights to the comic book adaptation Trailer Park Of Terror heading into AFM this week.The Bogner Entertainment title is based on the Imperium Comics series about a group of students and their chaperone who are stranded in the mountains and left to ...
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Arthouse Films acquires worldwide to Herb & Dorothy
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Megumi Sasaki's documentary film Herb & Dorothy.The distributor plans a theatrical release in early 2009 followed by a DVD release on the Arthouse Films label.The film premiered at AFI SilverDocs Festival where it won the Audience Award and was recently awarded the Golden ...
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Miramax to take slew of rights on Knightley-starrer Last Night
Miramax is believed to be closing a deal for North American, UK, Australian, New Zealand, South African and Latin American including Brazilian rights to the drama Last Night starring Keira Knightley.The story follows a married couple who are separated for one night while the husband goes on a business trip ...
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AFM: Williams, Bonard launch ScreenOpus with US/French backing
Fledgling international film and television sales agency ScreenOpus, a joint venture between US-based Severance Pictures and Paris-based MK2 SA, arrives at AFM with launch titles The Hide and The Golden Age.Former MGM vice president of international sales and marketing Courtney Williams and former MTV International vice president of sales and ...
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Basner's back with FilmNation, deals with MRC, Samuels, Endgame
Several months after leaving his post as head of international at The Weinstein Company, Glen Basner returns to the fray with his new sales and distribution company FilmNation Entertainment and will commence pre-sales at AFM on M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller Devil.Backed by equity investors including Steve Samuels, New York-based ...
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Not By Chance to open Brazilian Film Festival Of Toronto
Philippe Barcinski's first feature film Not By Chance a story of two control-obsessed men, opens the 2nd BRAFFT - Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto this week at the Bloor Cinema. Fifteen films will be screened during the four-day event (Nov 6-9), launched last year to increase the visibility of Brazilian ...
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Jupiter to float before Christmas
Japanese cable operator Jupiter Telecommunications, which is part-owned by both Microsoft and John Malone's Liberty Media, has announced plans for a $2.5bn-$4bn initial public offering.The company, which is Japan's leading cable operator, plans to float before Christmas on both the Nasdaq in New York and the fledgling Mothers high-tech stock ...
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American Film Market: Asia-Pacific buzz films
Screen looks at the Asia-Pacific buzz projects at this year's American Film Market (November 5-12).Click on a territory to see moreJapanSouth KoreaThailandHong Kong/China/TaiwanAustralia and New Zealand
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Expansion for Agora market at Thessaloniki
The Agora film market at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival-TIFF (November 14-23) is expanding.The growth of the four-year-old market, run by Margarita Eliopoulou, follows a successful 2007 in which 36 films from South Eastern Europe obtained distribution in 18 different world territories.According to TIFF's director Despina Mouzaki '2007 saw an ...
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AFM: Spanish sales companies look beyond horror
The last few years have all been about horror films from Spain but 2009 promises a more diverse slate of projects. One of the few scary movies in the works is Filmax's [Rec 2] which will be offered to buyers for the first time at the AFM. Jamie Balauguero is ...
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HS Media launches sales arm Exclusive with Peter Weir film
HS Media, the parent company of Spitfire Pictures and Hammer Films formed by Dutch investment group Cyrte Investments that was announced in Cannes, has unveiled Exclusive Film Distribution as its in-house sales and distribution arm.The London-based division led by head of sales Peter Naish will be tempting buyers at AFM ...
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Cinemavault acquires international to The Hammer
Cinemavault has acquired international rights to the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival comedy The Hammer starring Adam Carolla and will introduce to buyers at AFM.Charles Herman-Wurmfeld directed the story of a 40-year-old underachiever who works on a construction site and lands a chance to try out for the US Olympic team.Heather ...
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AFM: Artist View embraces Brothers War
Artist View Entertainment has taken on international rights heading into AFM to the action thriller Brothers War from producer Tino Struckmann.Jerry Buteyn directed the story set in the closing days of the Second World War as a German and a British officer join forces to save Europe from a new ...