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Maximum takes on international to Barrett's South Solitary
Maximum Films International has taken on international rights to upcoming period romantic comedy South Solitary with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Paul Bettany and Sundance entry The Guitar.Shirley Barrett, who won the Camera D'or for Love Serenade in 1996, will begin filming South Solitary from her original screenplay in the second half ...
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Bankside puckers up for Midnight Kiss, cooks up UK deal for The Baker
UK-based sales company Bankside Films has picked up Alex Holdridge's acclaimed US comedy/drama In Search Of A Midnight Kiss.In Search Of A Midnight Kiss film has already played at festivals including Tribeca, Edinburgh, AFI, Chicago, Sarajevo and Thessaloniki. The film had its market premiere here at the EFM with another ...
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Rialto takes Australian rights for Young@Heart
Rialto has taken Australia/New Zealand rights to Stephen Walker's Young@Heart, the documentary about a New England senior citizens' chorus.Mirjam Wertheim of Orange Entertainment brokered the deal on behalf of Rialto CEO Kelly Rogers with Rena Ronson at William Morris Independent.Sally George produced for Walker George Films; the UK's Channel 4 ...
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Tarak Ben Ammar spells out vision for European distribution network
Quinta Communications boss Tarak Ben Ammar has spelled out his bold newvision for a pan-European distribution network supported by his partners at bankers Goldman Sachs. Speaking by videolink at yesterday's Screen International's European Film Financing summit in Berlin, the Franco-Tunisian mogul outlined ambitious plans which inevitably reminded many in the ...
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Lionsgate picks up North American rights to Bangkok Dangerous
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights from IEG Virtual Studios to Danny and Oxide Pang's action title Bangkok Dangerous starring Nicolas Cage.Lionsgate has scheduled a summer release for the US and Canada and Initial will sell international rights here at EFM.Shot entirely on location in Thailand, the Pang Brothers' ...
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Mortensen, Damon, Penn among players in activism doc
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group is commencing sales here on the social activism documentary The People Speak featuring Viggo Mortensen, Matt Damon and Sean Penn.Based on Howard Zinn's book A People's History Of The United States, the two-hour film chronicles key developments in the US told from the perspective of ...
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Blayze Collins-Perucchetti replaces Giles in acquisitions at Tartan
Tartan Films has appointed Blayze Collins-Perucchetti as its new head of acquisitions. She replaces Jane Giles, who recently departed Tartan after four years to become head of content at the British Film Institute. Acquisitions were also previously under the eye of Laura De Casto, who left as managing director of ...
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Kragh-Jacobsen readies costume drama about Chopin
Fresh from his political thriller What No One Knows, which is screening in Berlin'sPanorama, Danish auteur of Soren Kragh-Jacobsen is looking to make a costume drama about the composer Chopin. The film, which has the working title Incognito C, will be produced by Lars Bredo Rahbek at Nimbus Film. It ...
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6 Sales launches sales of 20% Fiction to star Val Kilmer
Madrid-based 6 Sales Entertainment Group has announced that Val Kilmer will star in 20% Fiction, the Barry Primus film to be executive produced by Robert De Niro along with Deco Entertainment. The film tells the story of an acting coach to the stars (Kilmer) who learns a few tricks about ...
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Scorsese, Shangri-La to shine a light on Bob Marley
Following his Bob Dylan and Berlin-opening Rolling Stones documentaries, Martin Scorsese is planning to make a film on the life of Reggae star Bob Marley. Shangri-La Entertainment and Tuff Gong Pictures are producing the as-yet-untitled film which will be released globally on Feb 6, 2010, the 65th anniversary of Marley's ...
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Dark Sky moves into West's House Of The Devil
Dark Sky Films is working with Roger Kass of Studio Bang and Josh Braun and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix to produce new horror/thriller The House Of The Devil.Ti West wrote and will direct, with the shoot set to start in mid-March in Connecticut. It is casting now.Braun, Kass, Fessenden ...
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The Last Word
Dir: Geoffrey Haley. US. 2008. 94 mins.Geoffrey Haley, a DP and editor perhaps best known for shooting the floating plastic bag sequence in American Beauty, makes his feature debut with The Last Word, a dark comedy about a man who makes a living writing other people's suicide notes. In ...
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Downloading Nancy
Dir: Johan Renck. 2008. US. 96 mins.A woman’s journey of self-hatred, self-degradation, self-mutilation and ultimately self-destruction courtesy of a murderous kindred spirit makes for grim viewing in Downloading Nancy, the feature debut of Swedish commercials and music video director Johan Renck. Although acted with conviction and directed with not a ...
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Films Distribution expands lineup with four genre movies
France's Films Distribution has unveiled a new slate of four genre movies heading into the EFM.In what the company calls a diversification of its line up, the new films are: Ruiflec: The Village Of Shadows directed by Fouad Benhammou and starring Sara Forestier about a group of young people trapped ...
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Senator hands back 56.2% stake in X Filme
Senator Entertainment and X Filme Creative Pool have decided to go their separate ways.An agreement was reached between X Filme managing director Manuela Stehr and Senator board member Christopher Borgmann for X Filme to take over the 56.2% stake Senator had been holding in X Filme since 2002.As Senator Entertainment ...
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Nordic giant Nordisk buys 50% stake in Zentropa
At 9.45am today [Feb 7], in a deal likely to have far-reaching implications for Scandinavian cinema, Nordisk Film bought a 50% share in Danish outfit Zentropa. The alliance is expected to provide extra resources for Zentropa, which was founded in 1992 by Peter Aalbaek Jensen (pictured above) and Lars Von ...
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Dutch Oscar entry Duska being sold by Cinemavault
Cinemavault will introduce buyers here to the Dutch foreign language Oscar submission Duska as well as a trio of new documentaries.Sylvia Hoeks won the best supporting actress award at the Netherlands Film Festival for her performance as a cinema cashier in Jos Stelling's dark comedy.Cinemavault vice president of acquisition Michael ...
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Rezo Films takes Sundance grand jury prize winner River
France's Rezo Films has acquired international rights to Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Frozen River. Sony Pictures Classics is handling US distribution on Courtney Hunt's first feature.Set in a real-life smuggling zone on a Native American reservation between NY State and Quebec, the film is the story of two women ...
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Hayden Panettierre to star in Goldbach's Daydream Nation
Hayden Panettiere, star of the smash US series Heroes, will play the lead in the teen comedy Daydream Nation by first-timer Michael Goldbach.Kieran Culkin is in final negotiations to star as Panettiere's gormless boyfriend in the project, which is styled as a coming-of-age tale in the vein of Election and ...
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Trust closes first deal on Rotterdam hit Jamil for Greece
Fresh from picking up a Tiger award in Rotterdam last week, Trust FilmSales' Go With Peace Jamil has clinched its first international sale. The bloody thriller, set in Copenhagen's close-knit Arab community, has gone to Seven Films for Greece.The deal comes as Trust arrives in Berlin for its first market ...