All Screen articles in 14 November 2003 – Page 4
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NonStop takes on trio of titles
Sweden's NonStop Sales has added a trio of high profile local titles to its Mifed slate.From leading producer Sonet Film it has added Miffo, a romantic comedy about a priest who should not be feeling the way he does, directed by Daniel Lind Lagerlof. The film makes its market premiere ...
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MDC sells Spare Parts
Berlin-based film and TV seller MDC International made a quick start to its Mifed campaign selling Slovenian picture Spare Parts, directed by Damjan Kozole, to Cinemart for the Czech Republic, Future Film for Scandinavia, Lumiere for Belgium and Neue Visionen for Germany. MDC sold Polish TV rights on Latvian director ...
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Optimum stocks up with market titles
Independent UK distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired UK rights to anticipated documentaries from Michael Moore and Jonathan Demme, as well as Bob Smeaton's Festival Express and French horror Switchblade Romance. The company has also picked up UK rights to CJ Entertainment's detective thriller Memories Of Murder Currently in production, Fahrenheit ...
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Menemsha's Moon set for Israel release
Menemsha Entertainment has closed a pre-sale of Juan Jose Campanella's Avellanada's Moon to Israel's United King just days before completion of principal photography. United King, has previously bought two other Argentinian films - Campanella's Son Of The Bride and Marcelo Pineyro's Kamchatka - from Menemsha. Beatrix Wesle of Menemsha closed ...
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Tulchin runs with Haunted Hills sales
Tulchin Entertainment has completed a raft of licensing deals for the comedy-horror Elvira's Haunted Hills starring Elvira and Richard O'Brien, who starred in The Rocky Horror Show.Classic 99 Pty has picked up television and video rights for Australia and New Zealand, Videosonic has acquired television and video rights for Greece, ...
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Italian government speaks up for MIFED
Italian cultural minister Giuliano Urbani has said that Italy is prepared to take action at government level to support Mifed against the onslaught of AFM."AFM has made an unfair attack on MIFED by blatantly moving its dates into MIFED's slot next year," Urbani said at a press conference at the ...
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Trademark trio gets into Syndicate
Andrew Stevens' Trademark Entertainment has struck up a representation relationship with David Glasser and Lisa Wilson's new sales outfit Syndicate Films kicking off with three titles at MIFED - horror picture Samantha's Child starring Heather Graham, serial killer chiller Method starring Elizabeth Hurley and thriller Pursued with Christian Slater and ...
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Gaga picks up Spanish Whore
Gaga Communications has just snapped up all Japanese distribution rights to hot Spanish picture The Whore (Yo Puta).The Euros 5m English-language picture is the second film to be directed by Luna, and stars Darryl Hannah and Denise Richards as two working prostitutes.The movie is based on a best-selling book by ...
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Recorded to Franchise: Hands off Scheherezade
London's Recorded Picture Co (RPC) and its sales arm Hanway Films have become engaged in a bizarre tussle with LA-based Franchise Pictures over hot MIFED title Scheherezade directed by Michael Apted - which both companies appear to be selling.But according to Jeremy Thomas, the film's producer, and head of Recorded/Hanway, ...
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Recorded to Franchise: Hands off Scheherezade
London's Recorded Picture Co (RPC) and its sales arm Hanway Films have become engaged in a bizarre tussle with LA-based Franchise Pictures over hot MIFED title Scheherezade directed by Michael Apted - which both companies appear to be selling.But according to Jeremy Thomas, the film's producer, and head of Recorded/Hanway, ...
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Martian flies out of Office
France's Co-Production Office may have only picked up the film in the hours before Mifed, but it is selling strongly on adult animation film Mercano The Martian from Argentina.The irreverent youth-oriented picture by Juan Antin denounces globalisation with a mixture of irony and black humour. It won the jury ...
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Martian flies out of Office
France's Co-Production Office may have only picked up the film in the hours before Mifed, but it is selling strongly on adult animation film Mercano The Martian from Argentina.The irreverent youth-oriented picture by Juan Antin denounces globalisation with a mixture of irony and black humour. It won the jury ...
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First Look takes Perfect Strangers to US
New Zealand's box office sensation Perfect Strangers has been picked up by First Look Pictures for North America. The chilling romance, which was directed by Gaylene Preston and stars Sam Neill and Rachael Blake, will be released early in 2004. Sales were handled by the New Zealand Film Commission's Kathleen ...
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Fortissimo improves English-language grasp
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world rights to More Than Scarlet, an Australian drama from the stable of Jan Chapman, producer of Lantana and The Piano. The company is also poised to pick up two other Aussie pictures in moves that underline its growing influence in the English-language sector. ...
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Media Luna strikes Tender deals
Ida Martins' Cologne-based world sales group Media Luna has signed a string of deals on its new Spanish picture Kill Me Tender. Directed by Ramon De Espana the darkly comedic tale of a widowed baker and an unscrupulous younger woman, was sold to Constellation Pictures for Mexico, Overseas Movie for ...
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Film Library undergoes Cultural Revolution
China's Cultural Revolution is the theme of three new films on the slate of Film Library, the Hong Kong and Los Angeles sales outfit.The company has expanded its Mifed sales slate thanks to a diversification into production.Jiang Jie, a stylish look at the turmoils of the 'Cultural Revolution' via the ...
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Constantin to launch home entertainment label
As part of a closer working collaboration with Highlight Communications, Constantin Film is to launch its own home entertainment label "Constantin Film" from January 1, 2004, taking over responsibility for Highlight's activities in rights acquisition and theatrical distribution in the future.While the agreement for the new video label will see ...
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Memories sparks sales for CJ
CJ Entertainment, the powerful conglomerate which bestrides the domestic Korean scene, has struck a series of key deals with its true-life murder mystery Memories Of Murder. The film, which broke box office records and won major prizes at the San Sebastian film festival, has been sold to Cinequanon for Japan, ...
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Kundalini, Entera make Candy together
LA-based production outfit Kudalini Pictures has teamed with pan-European film financing, production and distribution outfit Entera Entertainment to produce Caribbean Candy directed by Fina Torres (Woman On Top, Oriana). Kundalini is an LA company headed by Dileep Singh Rathore which previously produced Indian festival hit Maya directed by Digvijay Singh ...
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UGC steers Camel, Return to UK
UGC Films UK has picked up UK rights to two recent festival hits and foreign Oscar submissions - surprise Toronto hit The Story Of The Weeping Camel from Menemsha Films.and Venice Golden Lion-winner The Return from Intercinema Art Agency.Andrei Zvygatinsev's The Return is the story of two teenagers on a ...