All Screen articles in 7 November 2006 – Page 2
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Tohokushinsha takes Japan on Scorsese's Stones doc
Tohokusinsha FilmCorporation has acquired all Japanese rights to Martin Scorsese's documentaryfeature about The Rolling Stones which is one of the hottest titles at the AFM.Portugal's Lusomundo is alsoone of the first distributors to sign on for the film. Sales agent FortissimoFilms has also received multiple offers for territories including Spain, ...
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The Core sells two to WPM in Thailand
Korean sales company TheCore Studio has sold two titles to Thailand's WPM -black comedy actionpicture No Mercy For The Rude andLee Myung-Se's new project M. No Mercy For The Rude, about a killer who abides by his own rules to onlykill rude people, recently premiered at the Vancouver International FilmFestival. ...
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China Vision Group pursues international production plans
Start-up Chineseproducer-distributor China Vision Group has retained global law firm Melveny& Myers (OMM) as part of its push into international production.Founded by producer Jimmy Wuand former banker Jane Shao, Beijing-based China Vision plans to set upinternational co-productions as well as English language remakes of Chinesefilms.The company has raisedfinance from private ...
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IFC Films buys Honore's In Paris from Gemini
Paris-based Gemini Films has closed a US deal on ChristopherHonore's In Pariswith IFC Films. The deal was negotiated by Elizabeth Perlie for Gemini andJonathan Sehring for IFC.In Parishad its world premiere in the Cannes Directors Fortnight this year. It starsRomain Duris and Louis Garrel as brothers. Other deals struck on ...
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Buyers jump on Venus for The Works
UK-based sales company TheWorks International has announced a successful run of deals at AFM, with moreto be finalised in coming days.Roger Michell's Venus starring Peter O'Toole has been sold to Icon forAustralia and New Zealand, A-Film for Benelux, Alfa for Argentina, LPR forBrazil, Forum Film for Israel and Golem for ...
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Wide finds more buyers for Fissures and Gradiva
France-based Wide Managementhas booked several new deals at the AFM. Pierre-Yves Borgeaud's Youssou N'Dourdocumentary Return To Goree hasbeen sold to Alcine Terran for Japan, with US and UK deals being negotiated.Alain Robbe-Grillet'serotically charged drama Gradivaand David Tamagi's romantic story Paper Moon Affair were both bought by AT Entertainment for Japan. ...
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Wild Bunch takes on Maverick's Stanford Prison Experiment
Paris-based Wild Bunch hasboarded Maverick Films' upcoming The Stanford Prison Experiment.Wild Bunch will handleinternational sales while John Ptak and Philip Elway's Arsenal will representUS rights.The $11m film is to bedirected by Christopher McQuarrie who will produce alongside Mark Morgan andBrent Emery. Guy Oseary and Para Pirria will executive produce.The film ...
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Hong Kong's Golden Network sells five to Brazilian distributors
Hong Kong-based GoldenNetwork Asia has secured a slew of sales to Brazil, which is emerging as one ofthe most acquisitive territories at the AFM.Brazil's Golden Filmes hassnapped up Thai horror titles The Victim, which is currently topping the Thai box office, and Ghost Game directed by Sarawut Wichiensarn.The company has ...
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Black Sheep continues sales frenzy
Hot New Zealand horrorcomedy Black Sheep has stirred upa bidding frenzy in several territories including Germany, where rightshave gone to Ascot Elite. Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson of NZFilm negotiated the deal with Stephan Giger for Ascot Elite.Jonathan King wrote anddirected the story of a reckless genetic experiment that transformsinnocent ...
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Amritraj's Hyde Park to co-finance Merchant Ivory's City
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde ParkEntertainment is teaming up with Merchant Ivory Productions (MIP) to co-produceJames Ivory's latest film The City Of Your Final Destination which is set to star Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney,Omar Metwally, Hiro Sanada, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Norma Aleandro, AlexandraMaria Lara and Kate Burton.Hyde Park International ishandling sales here on ...
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inDplay signs up Allied Artists library
Licensing services companyinDplay.com has signed a deal with Allied Artists Corporation for its20,000-title library.Allied Artists will providetheir content to film and TV buyers globally by having it available on theinDplay video rights sales, acquisition and management platform. Last week, thefirst 200 titles were listed on the platform for browsing by ...
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All the buyers love Mandy Lane
The Weinstein Company has closed multiple territories on Jonathan Levine'shorror title All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, which recently received its world premiere at Toronto.Rights have gone to the UK (Optimum), Germany (Senator), France(TFM), Australia and New Zealand (Village Roadshow), and Russia (West Film Group).Deals also closed in South Korea ...
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San Fu Maltha buys slew of films at AFM for new Indonesian operation
San Fu Maltha, the Dutch producer of Holland's Oscar entry BlackBook, has a dualexistence as joint managing director of new Indonesian distributor andexhibitor, Blitz. Through Queen, the acquisition arm of Blitz, he has picked upa raft of titles in the market.Films that Blitz will be releasing in Indonesia include TheSpirit ...
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Film4 backs Duane Hopkins' feature debut Better Things
Film4 hascome on board for Duane Hopkins' Better Things, soon to start shooting in theUK, and Fabrice de Welz's Vinyan, in development.Hopkins,who previously wrote and directed award-winning shorts Field and Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, will make his feature debut withBetter Things,a story about troubled teenagers in the picturesque ...
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Gaga moves into genre production with Ryuhei Kitamura
Japan's Gaga Communications,which has recently made a push into production with a slate of dramas, is nowmoving into genre filmmaking with cult Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura.Kitamura, who shot tointernational recognition with sword-fighting splatterfest Versus in 2001, is developing three projects for Gaga. Thefirst, entitled Yoroi, is anaction horror title about ...
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Rotterdam festival increases international industry reach
International Film FestivalRotterdam (IFFR) has launched a major initiative to raise its internationalindustry profile. At AFM this week, IFFR's new head of international PR Marnixvan Wijk has been assiduously courting sellers and buyers in a bid to lure themto the Netherlands for next year's event, which takes place Jan 24 ...
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Writer/director Leonard Schrader dies of heart failure
Oscar-nominated screenwriterand director Leonard Schrader died of heart failure in Los Angeles on Nov 2. In his work, Leonard shared hisyounger brother Paul Schrader's obsession with exploring death and violence.Some of his best-known filmsare those he wrote with his brother, among them The Yakuza and Blue Collar. He also ...
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Casino Royale
Dir: Martin Campbell. UK. 2006. 147minsBond Is Back. The old promise takes on a freshemphasis in Casino Royale, amuscular, wildly successful attempt to strip the lucrative James Bond franchiseback to basics. Returning to the origins of the series in the first Ian Flemingnovel, Casino Royaledepicts Bond as a rough, reckless ...
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Borat, Prada give Fox international leadership
Fox International scored a one-two punch at the weekend as Borat and The Devil Wears Prada ruled the roost.Boratcrushed the competition as it grossed an estimated $17.7m from 993 screens in17 markets, powered by a stunning $11.5m number one debut in the UK.The comedy, which dominated the North American charts ...
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Fortissimo on board for Hamilton's Mama's Boy
FortissimoFilms has picked up international rights outside North America to comedy Mama'sBoy from Warner Independent Pictures(WIP).Directedby Tim Hamilton, whose short film Truth In Advertising screened in competition at Cannes in 2001, Mama'sBoy stars Jon Heder who first cameto notice in indie hit Napoleon Dynamite.DianeKeaton, Jeff Daniels and Anna Faris also ...