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Summer shines At BAFTA Scotland Awards
Contemporary drama Summer was the toast of the annual BAFTA Scotland Awards on Sunday evening, securing Best Film and Best Director for Kenny Glenaan.
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Stylejam sells Fine, Totally Fine to Third Window in UK
Japanese independent Stylejam has sold director Yosuke (Tora) Fujita's comic love triangle story Fine, Totally Fine to Third Window Film for the UK. Stylejam also sold two films starring Joe Odagiri - humorous wedding feud story Then Summer Came to Cinema Valley for Korea, and Satoshi (In The Pool) ...
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Gabriel, Bronco secure Scottish Screen loans
Gabriel Films and a revitalised Bronco Films are among the beneficiaries of Development Loan Awards funded by the Scottish Screen National Lottery in partnership with the Scottish Enterprise Creative Industries Team.The two companies will each receive $107,000 (£75,000) of working capital to finance a slate of new film and television ...
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Media Luna closes deal with Call Girl to Only Hearts in Japan
Cologne-based Media Luna Entertainment has closed a Japanese deal onPortuguese drama Call Girl, a drama about a high class prostitute who is hired to seduce the local mayor.Only Hearts Co. Ltd has taken all Japanese rights to the film, which is directed by Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos and stars Soraia Chaves. Media ...
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Serenity Entertainment buys Paco for Taiwan from Showgate
Japan's Showgate has sold the hit 3D and live action film Paco And The Magical Book to Serenity Entertainment for Taiwan. Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls, Memories Of Matsuko), the film has an all-star cast including Satoshi Tsumabuki (Dororo), Koji Yakusho (Babel), and Anna Tsuchiya (Sakuran, Kamikaze Girls) - ...
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Phillip Noyce makes Bold move with Above Suspicion
Bold Films has signed Phillip Noyce to direct the true crime thriller Above Suspicion about the only FBI agent to be convicted of murder after an affair with an informant threatens to destroy his marriage and career.The LA-based company holds worldwide rights and worldwide distribution president Stephanie Denton is talking ...
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Sergei Bodrov to direct Marco Polo movie for Endgame, Hollywood Gang
After bringing the life of the Asian warrior Genghis Khan to the big screen, Mongol director Sergei Bodrov is training his sights on Marco Polo for Hollywood Gang Productions and Endgame Entertainment.Hollywood Gang's Gianni Nunnari and Endgame's James D Stern will produce The Silk Road: The Adventures Of Marco Polo ...
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Siritzky gets science with Bogdanov twins
Veteran producer/sales agent Alan Siritzky, owner of the Emmanuelle erotic franchise, is to partner with the controversial French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov, physicists best known for their popular TV series on science, on a feature documentary based on the brothers' 1991 best-seller God And Science (Dieu Et ...
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CJ Entertainment sells Mother to France, Thirst to UK
CJ Entertainment has pre-sold Bong Joon-ho's Mother to Diaphana for France and Park Chan-wook's Thirst to Palisades Tartan for UK. Diaphana previously distributed CJ's Secret Sunshine which it picked up immediately before last year's Cannes - where it took best actress for Jeon Do-yeon, opening it in France on 65 ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 10
Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk has announced deals closed here. Cold Prey II has gone to Indonesia (MT Entertainment) and Brazil (Flashstar). The Candidate has been sold to Indonesia (Mt Ent) and Poland (Syrena Films). Dark Floors has gone to Indonesia (MT Ent) and Love At First Hiccup has been swallowed ...
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A-Film takes Benelux rights on four-film package from HanWay
Re-energised Dutch distributor A-Film has snapped up a four film package from London-based HanWay Films. The films acquired are Harry Brown starring Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer, Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy about the young John Lennon, Christine Jeff's Sunshine Cleaning starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, and Jon Amiel's Charles ...
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Image takes US rights to Jennifer Aniston-starrer Management
Image Entertainment has acquired US rights to the Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy Management following its world premiere at Toronto.Image plans to release the Sidney Kimmel Entertainment film on approximately 200 prints. Kimmel International pre-sold overseas rights.Sidney Kimmel, Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen produced and Aniston served as executive producer with ...
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Insanally joins FilmFour-Whitaker joint venture
Forest Whitaker's recently-launched producing partnership with the UK's FilmFour has appointed Johann Insanally to spearhead development and production activities.Insanally, who has produced or executive produced shorts including 1997 Palme d'Or winner Is It The Design On The Wrapper', has a brief to focus on black and Asian film talent. Insanally ...
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Acne, Kassim take top prizes at AFI Fest
AFI Fest 2008 has awarded its grand jury prize for best international feature to Federico Veiroj's Acne. A special mention went to Igor Voloshin's Nirvana.Acne premiered at Cannes Directors Fortnight. Veiroj's feature directorial debut, which he also wrote, is a co-production between Uruguay, Argentina, Spain and Mexico. The story follows ...
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Buyers, sellers navigate perils at quiet AFM
Caution has been the watchword of the AFM as buyers and sellers navigated a course through a perilous landscape in the wake of the global financial collapse.As the market headed into its final stages, only the bigger US sales agents were selling out as buyers sought to fill 2010 slots ...
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Aspect strikes AFM deals, plans LA-based production partnership
John P Aguirre's college comedy The Utopian Society starring Malin Akerman is already out on DVD in the US via Warner Bros and now Hugh Edwards' Aspect Film has closed new deals for Scandinavia (Scanbox), Romania (Globcom), and the Middle East (Front Row).Monty Lapica's festival hit Self Medicated, about out ...
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Sensational Solace soars for SPRI with $106.5m weekend
MGM's Quantum Of Solace left the overseas market shaken and stirred as it expanded into 60 markets and grossed a stunning $106.5m estimated weekend for $160.3m after ten days through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Playing in 9,870 screens, the James Bond action saga ranked number one everywhere and scored the ...
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Madagascar 2 has powerful $63.5m opening in North America
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa dominated the North American landscape after launching in a super-wide 4,056 sites and grossing an estimated $63.5m through Paramount.Approximately 6% of that amount, accounting for roughly $3.6m, came from 130 North American IMAX screens, which IMAX chairman and president Greg Foster highlighted as a ...
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Defiance
Dir: Edward Zwick. US. 2008. 129 mins.In trying to add a new chapter to the long history of films made about the Holocaust, Defiance can barely move a narrative muscle without bumping into another, better movie that covers some of the same ground. Based on the true story of three ...