All AFM articles – Page 115
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NewsAFM sellers down by 10%, but buyer numbers up
The number of exhibitors selling films at the American Film Market has dropped by 10% on last year – but the number of buyers attending the event has risen slightly, the market’s organiser said today.
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NewsIntandem takes worldwide on Ways To Live Forever
London-based film finance and international sales company Intandem Films has taken worldwide rights to family drama Ways to Live Forever.
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NewsDouble Edge picks up Chu’s $15m Treasure Hunter
Taipei-based Double Edge Entertainment has picked up a slew of rights on Kevin Chu’s $15m Treasure Hunter, starring Taiwanese idol Jay Chou, and sealed a Chinese deal on sci-fi action film The King Of Fighters.
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Shoreline boards sales on Victor Nunez drama Spoken Word
Morris Ruskin’s LA-based sales Shoreline Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to Victor Nunez’s drama Spoken Word.
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Epic Pictures boards $10m action-adventure Vikingdom
Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures is introducing buyers at AFM to the $10m action-adventure Vikingdom pursuant to its $30m production deal with South-East Asia-based KRU Studios.
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NewsGabriela Tagliavini boards Town Of Widows adaptation
Producer Anthony Moody has hired Gabriela Tagliavini to adapt and direct a film adaptation of Colombian novelist James Canon’s novel TalesFrom The Town Of Widows And Chronicles From The Land Of Men.
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NewsDarclight to tempt buyers with Toronto winner The Wild Hunt
Arclight Films genre division Darclight Films will introduce buyers here to Alexandre Franchi’s thriller The Wild Hunt, fresh from its best Canadian first feature film win in Toronto.
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NewsLA's Artist View agrees three-picture deal with producer Todd Slater
LA-based sales company Artist View Entertainment has struck a three-picture deal with producer Todd Slater and will be screening the trio of projects here.
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Japan’s Nikkatsu to unleash Sushi Typhoon
Japanese studio Nikkatsu is launching an extreme gore label, Sushi Typhoon, to produce films from Japan’s leading cult directors including Takashi Miike (Yatterman) and Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police).
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NewsPatrick Dempsey, Paul McGuigan unite on Foresight's heist rom-com
Patrick Dempsey will star in an untitled heist comedy for Paul McGuigan based on a screenplay by The Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.
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NewsHanWay Films lines up A Single Shot with Michael Fassbender
Hot off his star turn in Inglourious Basterds, rising UK star Michael Fassbender has joined Forest Whitaker, William H Macy and Thomas Hayden Church on the thriller A Single Shot.
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NewsCelluloid Dreams boards films from Gansel, Wiseman
Celluloid Dreams is entering the AFM with a pair of sexy new films. We Are The Night comes from The Wave director Dennis Gansel and Rat Pack Filmproduktion. The Berlin-based female vampire drama stars Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer and Max Riemelt.
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NewsFortissimo gets cutting edge with The Hairdresser
Fortissimo Films has made its first ever German acquisition, picking up worldwide rights outside Germany, Austria and Switzerland to Doris Dorrie’s The Hairdresser.
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NewsGerard Butler joins Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus
Scottish star Gerard Butler is to beef up the cast of Ralph Fiennes’ directorial début Coriolanus.
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NewsAlain Goldman mounts French Holocaust epic with Gaumont
Producer Alain Goldman has reteamed with Gaumont for his latest production, La Rafle (The Roundup). The $29.5m (€20m) film, directed by Roselyne Bosch, is what Goldman calls “the French Schindler’s List.”
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NewsReiko Bradley returns from illness to set up Eclipse International
Reiko Bradley has resurfaced following a near fatal stroke three years ago and arrives at AFM with her new LA-based international sales and distribution company Eclipse International.