All Screen articles in 7 November 2008 – Page 6
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TLA Releasing takes North America on Finding Me
TLA Releasing has acquired North America and Caribbean basin rights to OmeProductions' drama Finding Me from first-time director Roger S Omeus Jr.The distributor plans a spring 2009 release on the story of a browbeaten gay man with a homophobic father who gets a chance to find true love.RayMartell Moore, Ronald ...
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AFM sales
Peter Block's A Bigger Boat kicks off with thriller FrozenSPWAG confirms multi-territory acquisition of The Book Of Elihere! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5 Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close First Independent takes US rights to Aselton's Gigantic DAY FIVE SALES Image takes US ...
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AFM stories
Peter Block's A Bigger Boat kicks off with thriller FrozenSPWAG confirms multi-territory acquisition of The Book Of EliParis Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picturehere! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5 Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close First Independent takes US rights ...
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Q & A:Richard Ellis, co-founder of MTM London/ Vanessa Arden-Wood, Director of operations at Illumina Digital
Why did you get involved with Take 12'Richard:It is just such a great project. The UK film industry needs a bit of a pick me up - there is so much talent and it is not always utilised fully. The changes that have started to happen to the market are ...
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Q&A: Morgan Holt, Director, HUGE Entertainment
Why did you get involved with Take 12'I'm attracted to the notion that strategy, particularly digital strategy, can help creative companies. There can be a slightly frustrating sense that being creative is all about instinct and is blind to planning for the future. But I believe creative people create their ...
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NewsIn Focus: Take 12 bridges the digital gap
Introduction: Nesta/UKFC Digital Innovation Programme - Take 12
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StudioCanal takes on sales for Yorkshire Ripper trilogy
StudioCanal has announced the acquisition of two new English-language projects which comprise four films in total. The first, The Red Riding Trilogy, is based on a series of cult British crime novels by David Peace inspired by the true story of the Yorkshire Ripper. The second, Cotton, is a faux-documentary ...
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TF1 International sells Gatlif, Veber, Jeunet at AFM
TF1 International has boarded Tony Gatlif's latest Korkoro, the story of a gypsy family facing persecution in World War II France which stars Marc Lavoine and Marie-Jose Croze. The film, currently shooting, will be released by TFM Distribution in France.TF1 is here with the world premiere of Francis Veber's latest ...
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Axiom in UK, Star Sands in Japan take on Dornhelm's La Boheme
UK distributor Axiom and Japan's Star Sands/Theaters have acquired Robert Dornhelm's film version of the Puccini opera La Boheme ahead of its market premiere at the AFM.According to sales agent Beta Cinema, the film featuring opera stars Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon has also been picked up by Palace for ...
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Showbox takes on Ski Jump, library, from KM Culture
Korea's Showbox Mediaplex has picked up KM Culture's upcoming sports action film Ski Jump (tentative title) directed by Kim Yong-hwa, who previously directed the hit 200 Pounds Beauty. Showbox has also made a deal to handle all KM Culture's upcoming and library titles for international sales, which include 200 Pounds ...
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Wolfe Video picks up North America on two before AFM
Wolfe Video has announced it has acquired North American rights ahead of AFM to the gay titles Whirlwind and Mulligans.Whirlwind explores non-monogamy, commitment and friendship in New York.Richard Le May directed and Bryan West, Alexis Suarez, Desmond Dutcher, Brad Anderson and Mark Ford star. The film won the audience award ...
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6 Sales enters Narrows, surfs Wave
On the eve of the AFM, 6 Sales has taken international rights to The Narrows, directed by François A Velle and starring Kevin Zegers (Transamerica), VincentD'Onofrio, Sophia Bush and Eddie Cahill. Deals already closed after the film's Toronto world premiere include to Movie Bank in Benelux and Koba Films in ...
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HanWay sees Afterlife with Gurinder Chadha
HanWay Films is starting worldwide sales here at the AFM on Gurinder Chadha's next film, It's A Wonderful Afterlife. The family comedy will start shooting in February 2009.Chadha bills the project as My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Shaun Of The Dead. The film is set in multi-cultural London, where ...
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Sony Classics takes North and Latin America on Soul Power
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up North American and Latin American rights from Submarine Entertainment to Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary Soul Power following its world premiere at Toronto.Soul Power chronicles the 12-hour Zaire '74 R&B concert in Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1974 that played concurrently with the infamous Rumble In The ...
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Voltage enters The Bubble Factory's Tomb
Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights to The Bubble Factory and Ringleader Studios' supernatural action title The Devil's Tomb starring Cuba Gooding Jr.Jason Connery directed the story of a team of mercenaries hired by a mysterious CIA operative to rescue a scientist from an archaeological site in the ...
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Warner strikes innovative digital VOD plan in China
Warner Bros announced that it will become the first Hollywood studio to release films digitally in China in a pioneering transactional VOD initiative that also marks the latest strike in the war on piracy.Studio titles such as I Am Legend, Fool's Gold and Speed Racer will be made available to ...
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Estoril announces line-up, Catherine Deneuve to chair jury
Portugal 's Estoril Film Festival has revealed its full line-up of films for 2008.Run by renowned Portuguese producer Paulo Branco, the festival will showcase 14 titles in competition from across Europe. Films screening include Claire Denis' 35 Rhums, Albert Serra's Birdsong and lesser known titles from Eastern Europe, such as ...
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Norwegian local admissions look set to be highest for 30 years.
Admissions for local films in Norway look set to reach record levels in 2008.Norwegian theatres have already seen two million admissions for domestic titles, and at least one potential blockbuster, Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg's World War II epic, Max Manus, is still to launch.Putting the figures in context, Birgitte ...
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Rutger Hauer, Michael York join The Hill And The Cross
Rutger Hauer and Michael York have joined the cast of The Hill And The Cross, currently in production in Katowice, Poland.Director and visual artist Lech Majewski is approaching the film by creating a tableau vivant which recreates Peter Bruegel's painting of Jesus' crucifixion, The Way To Calvary.Hauer plays Bruegel in ...
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China Film cuts Chung's scenes from Mei Lanfang biopic
State-owned China Film Group Corporation has confirmed that it has removed all scenes featuring Hong Kong actress Gillian Chung from Chen Kaige's upcoming Mei Lanfang biopic, whose English title has recently been finalised as Forever Enthralled.The film, about legendary Beijing opera singer Mei Lanfang's private and public lives,is a co-production ...