All Screen articles in 7 November 2007 – Page 3
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AV Pictures kills with deals for The Tournament
UK-based sales company AV Pictures has knocked out a slew of deals for action thriller The Tournament based on a 10-minute promo shown here.Pre-sales have been done for the Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (J-Bics), Brazil (Focus), Czech Republic (AQS), Poland (Charisma), the Middle East (Falcon), and Turkey (Horizon). Previously announced deals ...
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Sun Distribution swoops on Latin American rights for Mammoth
In the first major deal on Lukas Moodysson's $17 million English language debut Mammoth, Sun Distribution has swooped to take all Latin American rights. The deal was signed at the weekend by Thomas Mai for Trust Films Sales and Diego Halabi for Sun Distribution.Mammoth begins shooting in Thailand today (Monday). ...
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Peace Arch and Genius score Goal II for North America
Peace Arch Entertainment Group and Genius Products have jointly struck a deal for all North American rights to Goal II: Living The Dream.Peace Arch plans a spring 2008 theatrical run in the US and Canada on 250 screens. Genius will handle the DVD release.In a separate deal, Genius has also ...
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Jinga swims along Pretty Piranhas
UK-based sales and production company Jinga Films has come on board for Pretty Piranhas. The project is an edgy urban thriller about a gang of teenage girls who are recruited to steal heroin from Filipino drug traffickers.The project will be Jinga's first production, as the company has previously picked up ...
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iDream sells Shelley to South Africa, Australia
India's iDream Independent Pictures has sold Lorraine Senna's Americanizing Shelly, starring Beau Bridges and Namrata Singh Gujral, to several territories including South Africa 's Ster Kinekor and Rialto for Australia and New Zealand. The film has also gone to RRS Entertainment (Germany), Falcon Films (Middle East) and DD Dream International ...
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Anonyma, Effi lead Beta's AFM sales push
Following on from its success with Downfall and The Lives Of Others, German sales outfit Beta Cinema is scoring global heat on two new German epics.Max Faerberboeck's $17.5m Anonyma - A Woman In Berlin is a Second World War drama produced by Constantin Film and starring Nina Hoss and August ...
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Strike nerves unsettle AFM business
Business at the AFM has painted a picture of a divided market. Tangible top tier product was in demand, as always, but most buyers and sellers were bemoaning one of the slowest markets in years.Pre-strike jitters left their mark as buyers anxious to fill pipelines for 2009 and early 2010 ...
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Goldcrest Independent seals AFM deals on Schneider's The Chosen One
Goldcrest Independent has announced deals on the two titles it has been selling at AFM - The Chosen One, a comedy starring Rob Schneider and Steve Buscemi and Cass, the UK hooligan drama starring Nonso Anozie and Nathalie Press.Sales chief Pierre Weisbein said that Seville Pictures bought The Chosen One ...
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Purple Violets bloom for Showcase at AFM
Showcase Entertainment has closed a slew of deals at AFM on Edward Burns' romantic comedy Purple Violets starring Selma Blair, Debra Messing, Burns and Patrick Wilson.Rights closed in Russia (Vox Film), Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic/Slovakia and Hungary (Pasatiempo), the Middle East (Teleview) and former Yugoslavia (Programs4Media).Offers from the UK, Italy, ...
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Cinema Epoch closes multi-film deal with 8 Star
Cinema Epoch has signed a multi-picture distribution deal with 8 Star Entertainment.LA-based 8 Star has North American DVD rights to Tolga Ornek's threedocumentaries Gallipoli, The Hitites and Mount Nemrud. Gallipoli isnarrated by Sam Neill and Jeremy Irons.The other films in the deal are Ochir Mashbat's My Beautiful Jinjimaa;Amauri Tangara's The ...
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Nordisk ties up Summit product until 2010
Summit International and Nordisk Film have signed a three-year output deal in Scandinavia until 2010.The deal begins with Get Some, Push, Step Up 2 The Streets, Twilight and Sex Drive and will also include films that are produced, co-produced and/or acquired by Summit during the output term. The deal excludes ...
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Nimbus plans modern version of Miss Julie with Staermose
Danish production outfit Nimbus is plotting a new film version of August Strindberg's Miss Julie with plans to shoot in late 2008.Here at the AFM, the film's producer Jesper Morthorst has revealed details of the project, about the destructive relationship between an aristocratic woman and her valet. The idea is ...
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National Lampoon deals two films to Beta Film
National Lampoon has struck a two-film deal with Germany's Beta Film to distribute its original productions in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe.The deal will kick off with be the company's first in-house production National Lampoon's Bag Boy.'I am delighted to be forging this relationship with Beta,' president of worldwide distribution ...
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Edwards kicks off sales outfit Aspect with Akerman's Utopian Society
Hugh Edwards, who previously worked at Blue Star Movies, Eagle Rock and MercuryMedia, has launched new sales and production outfit Aspect Film Limited with Aneta Kianekova.Aspect is at AFM selling completed projects US comedy The Utopian Society, starring The Heartbreak Kid actress Malin Akerman; thriller The Dreamless; Lee Hutcheon's Scottish ...
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2929 seals big AFM deals on Arriaga's The Burning Plain
Tohokushinsha in Japan, Wild Bunch in France, Medusa in Italy and Dendy in Australia are among the buyers of Guillermo Arriaga's The Burning Plain starring Charlize Theron which is being sold at AFM by 2929 International.The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Costantini Films have also teamed to take Latin American rights ...
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Alki David's 111 strikes three-film deal with Red Ridinghood
UK-based 111 Pictures has signed a three-picture production & distribution deal with US-based Red Ridinghood Productions.Alki David's 111 Pictures will co-finance and distribute three films with Jerry Wolff's Red Ridinghood. Basem Zakariya of Structured Capital Group will executive produce the three films. David himself will direct the first film, The ...
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Korea's Mirovision startscreating Tomorrow News
Korea's Mirovision has unveiled two new productions - disaster thriller Tomorrow News and epic romantic comedy Once Upon A Time. Tomorrow News is based on the cult manga of the same name for which Mirovision has acquired rights for both big screen and TV formats. The project is currently in ...
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Import/Export wins best film at Bangkok World fest
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export was named best film at the 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok on Saturday night. Best director was awarded to Semih Kaplanoglu for Egg, which recently swept the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Turkey. Nina Menkes' Phantom Love bagged best artistic achievement with US ...
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Japan's Madhouse sells Ninja Scroll remake rights
Japanese animation studio Madhouse has sold live-action remake rights to cult anime title Ninja Scroll to Warner Bros Pictures. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, the film sold more than 1 million DVD copies in the US and had a successful theatrical run in its home market. The remake deal with Warner ...
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Gangster reboots North American box office with $46.3m take
Universal's prestige crime drama American Gangster beat out Paramount-DreamWorks animated family hit Bee Movie as it opened top on an estimated $46.3m.Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in the 1970s saga about a detective on the tail of a Manhattan-based heroin kingpin.Bee Movie, voiced by Jerry Seinfeld and Renee Zellweger ...