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Latest Cannes sales
Turkish competition film Distant (Uzak) secured itself a US release with a sale to New Yorker, the specialist releasing operation that is now under new management.Korean sales house Mirovision secured a big deal on its hugely ambitious animated film Wonderful Days, selling the $13m-budget picture to Pathe for France and ...
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UA captures Osama
United Artists has acquiredthe North American rights to Siddiq Barmak's acclaimed Directors' Fortnightentry Osama, the first film to beshot entirely in Afghanistan since the rise and fall of the Taliban. The film was rapturouslyreceived in Cannes last week, where Screen International described it as "astriking, very accessible portrait of life ...
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Cannes: only the strong survive
While there's no question that the international sales business was still reeling from the downturn in European TV, Cannes this year proved that theatrical movies were still capable of drawing solid prices from most territories. "There were fewer viable, real movies, but people who are making real theatrical movies are ...
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Lions Gate snaps up Von Trier's Dogville
LionsGate Films has bought all North American rights to Lars Von Trier's criticallyacclaimed drama Dogville, starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman.TomOrtenberg, president of Lions Gate Films Releasing, Peter Block, president of home entertainment, acquisitionsand new media, and Jason Constantine, vice president of acquisitions,negotiated the deal on behalf of Lions Gate.AnnakarinStrom, chief ...
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Bronfman bids again for Universal
In the latest back-to-the-beginning twist in the Vivendi Universal saga, the Bronfman family which previously owned Universal Pictures through its Seagram drinks conglomerate, has announced its intention to bid for Vivendi's US assets. Edgar Bronfman Jr informed Vivendi chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou that he and his father are assembling a group ...
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Elephant stomps up sales
HBO Films London has done a pile of deals for its two festival films Elephant and American Splendor. Tokyo Theatres bought Elephant for Japan, Bim took it for Italy, Frenetic for Switzerland, Vertigo for Spain, Cineart for Benelux, Atalanta for Portugal, Noah for Israel and Audiovisual for Greece. Sundance winner ...
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Saidel's sales house gets name change
Max Saidel's recently formed sales house has changed its name from Slav International to Vision International. The company, which comes to Cannes with a bulging slate of international art-house and smaller commercial titles, is celebrating the success of Toutes Les Filles Sont Folles, which is the first film to be ...
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United Artists strikes Korean pact
Korean mini-major Mirovision has taken an important step towards expansion of its distribution division thanks to an output deal sealed with United Artists. The unusual deal is expected to see four to five pictures per year handled by Mirovision and start with Nicholas Nickleby, Assassination Tango, Pictures Of April and ...
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Shoreline picks up six
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired six completed films for international sales including UK thriller Butterfly Man starring Stuart Laing and Mamee Nakprasitte, Marley Shelton-starrer Moving Alan, and the Hungarian smash hit A Kind Of America directed by Gabor Herendi. Shoreline has also sold German home video rights to Moving August directed ...
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Kidron takes on Reluctant Matador
Beeban Kidron is to direct romantic comedy The Reluctant Matador for Myriad Pictures.Myriad is financing and co-producing the film with Charles Finch and Luc Roeg's Artists Independent Network. Momentum Pictures retains UK rights after helping develop the project. The picture, which is expected to star Ryan Reynolds and Paz Vega, ...
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Germany shows off Next Generation
Germany may not have had a film in competition at Cannes for ten years, but the Next Generation event has now become a regular - and popular - fixture.Organised by the Export Union, Cannes screenings showcased ten short films by students from six German film schools. In addition to the ...
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Euro sellers body founded
The European Film Export Association (EFEA), a new federation of film sellers, launched on Thursday with a dozen founder members. Headed by Jacques Le Glou of Mercure international, the committee members include Jacques Eric Strauss (Plaza Production), Adriana Chiesa (ACE), Wolfram Skowronnek (Telepool), Marina Fuentes (Lolafilms). Their deputies include Alain ...
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Artist House launches new fund
Artist House, the US-Japanese group behind the adaptation of The Tesseract is to launch a new film fund in conjunction with Peter Anshin's Asia Entertainment Finance Associates (AEFA).Tokyo-based Anshin, who also represents Comerica, said: "Artist House group will manage the fund, which will be used to support the group's rights ...
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Canada's Max Films launches film sales arm
Quebec-based film and television production outfit Max Film is returning to films sales through a new division, Max Films International.The first project to be handled, says Max co-founder and president Roger Frappier, is the company's La Grande Seduction, Jean-Francois Pouliot's comedy about the residents of a modest fishing village which ...
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Goodman, Hoskins to croon with Spacey
John Goodman and Bob Hoskins are in final talks to join the cast of Kevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea being sold in Cannes by MDP Worldwide. Spacey is directing the film, a biopic of legendary crooner Bobby Darin, and also playing Darin, with Kate Bosworth starring as his wife actress ...
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Publicity stunt boosts box office
A publicity stunt has reaped solid box office results for Spanish/Mexican co production Asesino En Serio in Mexico. In a bid to replicate the controversy-driven box office success of El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, Altavista organised a street protest against the dark comedy at its premiere. Only when the local ...
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Biblical passion on the rise
While Mel Gibson's Passion is in the cutting room, another biblical movie has just finished shooting in Toronto.Directed by Philip Saville, Word By Word from the Gospel of St John is a $20m picture produced by LA-and Toronto-based Cidif Communications, a subsidiary of Silvio Sardi's Milanese production outfit Cidif Entertainment ...
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Grupo Novo boast hot Brazilian slate
Quinzaine entry Filme De Amor tops the slate of leading Brazilian sales company Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV which comes to Cannes with some of its strongest titles to date. "I think we'll see happy times for Brazilian cinema at the Cannes Marche this year. We'll be taking ...
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Grupo Novo boast hot Brazilian slate
Quinzaine entry Filme De Amor tops the slate of leading Brazilian sales company Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV which comes to Cannes with some of its strongest titles to date. "I think we'll see happy times for Brazilian cinema at the Cannes Marche this year. We'll be taking ...
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Film Council, British Film Commission renamed
The UK's public agency for film, the Film Council and its inward investment arm, the British Film Commission (BFC) are undergoing a name change to provide a single, identifiable entity able to raise the industry profile, both at home and overseas.From 13 May the Film Council is being renamed the ...