All Screen articles in 14 February 2013 – Page 2
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Snapper launches Scandi distrib
Helsinki and New York based production company Snapper Films is expanding by establishing a new distribution arm.
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NewsUlrich Seidl talks up horror title
EXCLUSIVE: Seidl producing his wife’s horror film Ich seh/Ich seh.
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NewsXYZ slays sales for Killers
EXCLUSIVE: Japanese-Indonesian crime-thriller sells to Germany, France, Turkey and Hong Kong.
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NewsMads Mikkelsen saddles up for Zentropa Western
EXCLUSIVE: Zentropa is again saddling up with Mads Mikkelsen. The Danish powerhouse production company is hatching its first Western, which sales company TrustNordisk is launching at the EFM.
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NewsDDA PR promotes Dana Archer to president and partner
CEO Lawrence Atkinson and COO John Stannard made the announcement on Friday [8].
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NewsKing's Speech producers grab autobiography
The true story of how a poor five-year-old Indian boy was separated from his mother, adopted by an Australian family, then found her 25 years later, is to be made into a film by See-Saw Films producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.
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NewsTod Williams to direct Cell for Cargo Entertainment
Cargo Entertainment has attached Tod “Kip” Williams to direct John Cusack in the Stephen King adaptation Cell. Mark Lindsay is presenting the project to buyers company handles international pre-sales while Paradigm represents US rights.
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News2+2 a hot seller for Rud's FilmSharks
FilmSharks has closed multiple territories on Diego Kaplan’s swingers drama 2+2 (A Couple With A Couple).
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NewsShoreline Entertainment checks into Geography Club
Morris Ruskin’s Los Angeles-based production and sales company has picked up world sales rights to Huffington Pictures’ coming-of-age drama.
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NewsVisit Films boards sales on Upstream Color
Shane Carruth’s follow-up to his acclaimed thriller Primer will receive its international premiere in Panorama on Sunday [10] following last month’s Sundance debut.
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NewsArsenal Pictures, The G-Machine partner on new slate
The Los Angeles-based companies have teamed up with production company Content Aggregator to jointly produce, finance and sell a slate of films kicking off at the EFM.
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NewsStreisand mulls directing gig
Aldamisa International has signed the iconic entertainer to direct a film in what will be her first outing in the role since 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces.
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NewsArclight eyes Lookalike
EXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films has acquired crime romance The Lookalike with a cast including John Corbett, Justin Long, Scottie Thompson, Jerry O’Connell and Gina Gershon.
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NewsFocus reunites with Mike Leigh on Turner biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features International (FFI) will handle worldwide sales on the film about the celebrated English landscape painter J M W Turner to star Timothy Spall and will co-finance with BFI and Film4.
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NewsBeta reports Physician, Devil’s Violinist sales
Beta has closed pre-sales on Philip Stoelzl’s adventure epic The Physician with Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard and Tom Payne, as well as Bernard Rose’s mystical biopic The Devil’s Violinist.
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NewsExclusive sells key territories on Quiet Ones
Sales chief Alex Walton has licensed multiple territory rights to the Hammer supernatural thriller to star Jared Harris [pictured] and Sam Claflin.
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FeaturesChina rules 2012
With huge growth in 2012, China finally became the second biggest theatrical market in the world, behind the US. Ian Sandwell charts its rise and explores the five highest-grossing international territories last year.