All AFM articles – Page 119
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NewsOdd Lot, Lionsgate and Videocine go From Prada To Nada
Odd Lot Entertainment, Lionsgate and Mexican production and distribution company Videocine announced they are in pre-production on the English-language Mexican-US Jane Austen adaptation From Prada To Nada.
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NewsA Single Man, Parnassus among AFI FEST line-up
The US premiere of Tom Ford’s A Single Man starring Oscar contender Colin Firth and Julianne Moore will close the slimmed down 23rd AFI FEST on November 5.
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NewsJere Hausfater steps down as Essential CEO
Jere Hausfater has stepped down as CEO of Essential Entertainment less than three years after he founded the financing, production and sales company with chairman and Palo Alto businessman Jim Kohlberg.
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Piracy, financing and DIY distribution on AFM seminar agenda
The state of the independent business, foreign investment, pitching and DIY distribution are among subjects up for discussion at the AFM seminars.
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NewsLightning strikes sales deal on Mexican Oscar hopeful Backyard
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up all international sales rights excluding Latin America to Carlos Carrera’s Mexican foreign language Oscar submission Backyard (El Traspatio).
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NewsWFE boards rom-com Bitter/Sweet for AFM
Worldwide Film Entertainment (WFE) will handle sales on Thailand-based producer Urs Brunner’ romantic comedy Bitter/Sweet starring Josh Brolin and Kip Pardue.
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NewsSharon Stone, Carice Van Houten get Satisfaction with Media 8
Sharon Stone and Carice Van Houten are attached and Chris Evans is in talks to star in the drama Satisfaction, which Media 8 represents worldwide and will introduce to buyers at AFM.
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NewsAFM to screen 445 films including 73 world premieres
A total of 445 films in 27 languages including 73 world premieres and 311 market premieres will screen during the 30th AFM, set to run in Santa Monica from November 4-11.
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LongTale International sells Milarepa to Axess TV in Sweden
Los Angeles-based LongTale International has licensed Neten Chokling's Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint to Sweden's Axess TV.The exclusive free and pay cable and broadcast rights deal closed at AFM.The Tibetan-language revenge and redemption saga tells of Milarepa, Tibet's greatest spiritual warrior.
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Myriad sells Dino Mom to Gussi, Imagem among others at AFM
Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures' closed key territories on the 3D English-language animated feature Dino Mom at AFM.Myriad holds worldwide rights to the film, currently in production in South Korea, about three children who travel back in time 65 million years.This is the first English-language 3D animated feature to come out ...
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Dutch Filmworks reports big buys for Benelux at AFM 2008
Dutch Filmworks (DFW) reported brisk business at AFM despite the global economic crisis and acquired Benelux rights to a number of high profile titles including the Sylvester Stallone action saga The Expendables from Nu Image/Millenium.Stallone will direct The Expendables from his own screenplay about a team of mercenaries sent on ...
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NewsBusiness review: American Film Market
Film buyers are not easily impressed. They like to bemoan the lack of inspiring new product at markets. Their plaintive cries have been particularly loud this year and to be fair the familiar gripes that echoed through the corridors of the Loews and Le Merigot hotels at last week’s AFM ...
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SPWAG confirms multi-territory acquisition of The Book Of Eli
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has unveiled further territories in its multi-territory acquisition at AFM of the apocalyptic thriller The Book Of Eli.Screendaily reported last weekend [Nov 9] that the studio had acquired Australia, Latin America, Spain, Scandinavia and select territories in Eastern Europe from Summit International.A press release ...
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Epic sells Blood River to Germany, Russia, Brazil and Argentina
Epic Pictures has closed key sales at AFM on Leonidas Films' horror tale Blood River from director Adam Mason.Rights have gone to MIG Film for Germany, Vox for Russia, Five Stars for Brazil and Argentina, Spentzos Films for Greece and Carisma Films for Poland.Further deals closed with Ster-Kinekor for South ...
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O'Shaugnessy, Bond launch production & sales outfit Mission Pictures
American Cinema International president Chevonne O'Shaughnessy and Promenade Pictures president and COO Cindy Bond have launched the faith-based production, marketing and sales company Mission Pictures.The partners plan to release six to eight films a year and have been talking to AFM buyers about the initial slate, headed by the CGI ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 10
Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk has announced deals closed here. Cold Prey II has gone to Indonesia (MT Entertainment) and Brazil (Flashstar). The Candidate has been sold to Indonesia (Mt Ent) and Poland (Syrena Films). Dark Floors has gone to Indonesia (MT Ent) and Love At First Hiccup has been swallowed ...
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A-Film takes Benelux rights on four-film package from HanWay
Re-energised Dutch distributor A-Film has snapped up a four film package from London-based HanWay Films. The films acquired are Harry Brown starring Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer, Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy about the young John Lennon, Christine Jeff's Sunshine Cleaning starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, and Jon Amiel's Charles ...
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Buyers, sellers navigate perils at quiet AFM
Caution has been the watchword of the AFM as buyers and sellers navigated a course through a perilous landscape in the wake of the global financial collapse.As the market headed into its final stages, only the bigger US sales agents were selling out as buyers sought to fill 2010 slots ...
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Aspect strikes AFM deals, plans LA-based production partnership
John P Aguirre's college comedy The Utopian Society starring Malin Akerman is already out on DVD in the US via Warner Bros and now Hugh Edwards' Aspect Film has closed new deals for Scandinavia (Scanbox), Romania (Globcom), and the Middle East (Front Row).Monty Lapica's festival hit Self Medicated, about out ...
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Image takes US rights to Jennifer Aniston-starrer Management
Image Entertainment has acquired US rights to the Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy Management following its world premiere at Toronto.Image plans to release the Sidney Kimmel Entertainment film on approximately 200 prints. Kimmel International pre-sold overseas rights.Sidney Kimmel, Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen produced and Aniston served as executive producer with ...