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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 ...
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Cinemavault picks up Pencil, Superhero docs
Cinemavault Releasing International has picked up two documentaries for EFM and will begin sales here on Michele Ohayon's Berlinale Special selection Steal A Pencil For Me and Matt Ogens' Confessions Of A Superhero.Steal A Pencil For Me screens in the festival on Feb 14 and charts the secret love affair ...
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Keanu Reeves joins cast for Rebecca Miller's Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Keanu Reeves have joined the cast of Rebecca Miller's drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee.Robin Wright Penn stars as the title character, a serene New York-based mother and wife whose former wild life rears its head after her elderly husband embarks on ...
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First Look takes domestic rights to Buy Borrow Steal
First Look Studios has acquired domestic rights to Eric Styles' comedy Buy Borrow Steal starring Heather Graham as a woman hell-bent on becoming pregnant.The company has set a spring release in Los Angeles following the world premiere at the 25th Miami International Film Festival. Beatrix Wesle and Solveig Langeland's Atrix ...
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Spurlock, Jarecki back new NYC short film publisher Cinelan
Morgan Spurlock, Steve James and Eugene Jarecki are among a group of film-makers that have leant their support to the new New York-based short film publisher Cinelan.They have joined the advisory board and will make films for the venture, which aims to build a library of three-minute documentaries and arrange ...
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ContentFilm rides along with Diego Luna's Horse
ContentFilm International has acquired international rights to action thriller Horse, which is being represented in the US by CAA.Diego Luna, Luis Guzman, Adriana Barraza, and Benito Martinez star, with Annie McCarthy handling casting and more actors to be announced soon.Deals have been done for Germany & Austria (Telepool), Latin America ...
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K5 sells The Visitor to UK and Scandinavia
German and UK sales company K5 International has added more key sales on Tom McCarthy's The Visitor to the UK (Halcyon Pictures) and Scandinavia (CCV). The film, from Groundswell and Participant, is McCarthy's follow-up to The Station Agent. The film won raves after its premiere in Toronto and also recently ...
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Wolfgang Petersen, Senator team up for English-language TV series
Internationally renowned German director Wolfgang Petersen is returning to his TV roots by forging a joint venture with Germany's Senator Entertaiment to produce English-language TV series.The partnership, which will operate out of Senator's Cologne-based subsidiary Pro Programme und Produktionen fuer Buehne und Fernsehen, is to concentrate on the production of ...
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Metcalfe, Douglas, and Tamblyn line up for Reasonable Doubt
Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn and Jesse Metcalfe have lined up to star in Peter Hyams' Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.Los Angeles-based Foresight Unlimited is producing and handling international sales for the update of the RKO classic directed by Fritz Lang in 1956.Entertainment Film Distributors have already taken UK rights.Ted Hartley, Moshe ...
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Albert named vp worldwide ops& business affairs at New Films
New Films International (NFI) has appointed Richard Albert vice president of worldwide operations and business affairs and charged him with overseeing a company restructure.Los Angeles-based Albert has brought on Julie Nong as general counsel and will continue to run his own entertainment law practice. 'We believe that it is essential ...
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Mr Nobody among films supported by German Federal Film Fund
Germany's German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme has awarded over $3.97m (Euros 2.7m) in funding in the first four weeks of 2008.Jaco van Dormael's $51.4m (Euros 35m) Mr Nobody, which was shooting at the Babelsberg Studios for 45 days last autumn, is one of three international co-productions supported with ...
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Image pulls out of merger with Bergstein's BTP
US video distributor Image Entertainment has pulled out of its merger with David Bergstein affiliate BTP Acquisition Company and demanded prompt payment of a $4.2m business interruption fee.Image made its move after reportedly growing tired of waiting for BTP to complete the necessary financing on the deal, initially announced early ...
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Match Factory strikes two pictures with Nimbus Film
The Match Factory (TMF) has picked up international rights for Danish filmmaker Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's political thriller What No One Knows which will have its world premiere in the Panorama Special section on February 11.The Nimbus Film production, which stars Anders W. Berthelsen, Maria Bonnevie and Ghita Norby, is the first ...
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Celsius to sell Freakonomics all-star documentary
UK-based Celsius Entertainment has come on board for international sales of the film adaptation of bestseller Freakonomics.The film will be comprised of six segments, each directed by documentary hotshots Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing, Eugene Jarecki & Jehane Noujaim, and Laura Poitras. Another director will be ...
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Former Cinemavault executive Alvarez launches Forward Motion
Former Cinemavault Releasing executive Paco Alvarez has launched a new world sales outfit, Forward Motion Entertainment, and will unveil two new projects, Six Reasons Why and The Cold Flame, at Berlin's European Film Market. Picked up for North America by ThinkFilm, Six Reasons Why is the debut feature of The ...
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New Toronto-based Arrow takes on Jolliet's Harvest
Newly-launched Toronto sales outfit Arrow Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Nicolas Jolliet's docu-drama Harvest following its screenings at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Arrow is repping both film and soundtrack rights at the EFM.Described as the musical journey of a ganja planter, the film follows a marijuana farmer named Jaweve ...
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Pretty Bird
Dir: Paul Schneider, US, 2008, 97mins.The perennial story of Americans trying to get rich quick on a new invention meets the perennial story of Americans betraying each other over property in Pretty Bird. The look, and feel, of the film sing an ode to American kitsch.Pretty Bird's success in the ...