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High Point sells Storm Force to MTI for North America
High Point Television, a division of UK-based sales company High Point Media Group, has sold the North American TV and video rights for Storm Force to MTI.The Belgian helicopter-rescue action film, starring Kevin Janssen, is produced by Peter Bouckaert of MMG Film & Television. High Point also sold the film ...
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Warner Bros takes worldwide rights to Jeunet's Micmacs A Tire-Larigot
Warner Bros France will distribute Tapioca Films and Epithete Films' Micmacs A Tire-Larigot to be directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.The film will take a satirical look at the world of arms dealers and will be co-written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, with whom Jeunet collaborated on Amelie and A Very Long ...
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Montreal's Delphis picks up sales rights to Christmas Story
Montreal-based sales company Deplhis Films has picked up world rights on Juha Wuolijoki's recent Finnish hit Christmas Story. The film opened in Finland November 16 through Sandrew Metronome with nearly 22,000 admissions on 60 prints to knock Ratatouille from the top position at the local box office. Delphis will introduce ...
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Medusa makes strides with Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi
Italian distributor Medusa Film made a solid imprint on the international top 40 this weekend with two films - Matrimonio Alle Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi - generating more than $7m and accounting for 5.2% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, ...
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Sony Classics to distribute Menzel's King Of England in North America
Sony Pictures Classics will distribute Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England in North America. The deal was signed at AFM, according to the film's Czech producer AQS. The film is the Czech Republic's submission for foreign-language Oscar consideration. 'We are very proud to have as our American distributors ...
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Robin Hardy plans March 2008 shoot for Cowboys For Christ
Los Angeles-based Fantastic Films International has come on board for worldwide sales for Cowboys For Christ, written and directed by Robin Hardy. Hardy, known for directing 1973's The Wicker Man, also wrote the book of the same name. Cowboys For Christ will start shooting in March 2008 around Dumfries, Scotland. ...
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Corsan starts Canadian shoot for Breuls' directorial debut
Director Paul Breuls has started production on The Hessen Affair, a WWII-era thriller starring Billy Zane, Lyne Renee, Michael Bowen and Noah Segan.Corsan, the Belgian company Breuls runs, is producing with Phyllis Laing's Buffalo Gal Pictures co-producing. Corsan is also handling international sales.Nicholas Meyer and Ronald Roose wrote the screenplay, ...
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Focus Features International scores big in Japan at AFM
Focus Features International chief Alison Thompson hailed a resurgent Japanese buying contingent at AFM as she announced key sales following the market earlier this month.'As far as we're concerned Japan is back in action,' Thompson said. 'We really did have an extremely good AFM. It was substantially better than last ...
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Santa Fe Film Festival bookended by Juno, Grace Is Gone
The 8th Santa Fe Film Festival will open with Fox Searchlight's Juno on November 28 and close on December 2 with The Weinstein Company's (TWC) Grace Is Gone.Screenings include Paramount Vantage's Margot At The Wedding with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, TWC's Control starring Sam Riley, and SPC's Stefan ...
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Warner launches global VOD channel service Warner TV
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) has launched the global video-on-demand channel service Warner TV.Warner TV will comprise features and TV shows and will be available in the UK via Virgin Media's digital cable service and on BT's IPTV platform and in Japan on USEN Corporation's broadband broadcasting service GyaO.The ...
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BFS moves into theatrical with US deal for Tom Collins' Kings
North American distributor BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited will move into theatrical distribution with its acquisition of Tom Collins' Kings. The film, partly in the Irish language and the Irish submission for Foreign-Language Oscar consideration. The big-screen adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings Of The Kilburn High Road stars ...
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Hairspray to receive ensemble award from Palm Springs
Hairspray will be honoured with the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) ensemble performance award on January 5 2008.The New Line musical will also become the festival's first ever public screening at a special event presented by Netflix the day before when lyric subtitles will encourage the audience ...
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Participant, State Street partner up for Bobby Martinez
Participant Productions and State Street Pictures producers Bob Teitel and George Tillman are developing Bobby Martinez, a biopic about the first Mexican-American professional surfer on the world tour.Robert Munic, who wrote Summit Entertainment and Mandalay Pictures' upcoming teen fight club drama Get Some, has been hired to write the screenplay.The ...
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Andrew Marcus promoted to COO at Relativity Media
Andrew Marcus has been named Relativity Media's COO following his appointment as executive vice president earlier this year.Marcus, who joined the company in summer 2005, will oversee operations and continue to manage the structured finance division. He will continue to report directly to Ryan Kavanaugh.'I believe that having Andrew on ...
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Andrew Marcus promoted to COO at Relativity Media
Andrew Marcus (pictured) has been named COO at Relativity Media following his appointment as executive vice president earlier this year.Marcus, who joined the company in summer 2005, will oversee operations and continue to manage the structured finance division. He will continue to report directly to Ryan Kavanaugh.'I believe that having ...
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Tribeca teams with Gucci for documentary finishing fund
The Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci announced today the launch of the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund for independent film-makers.The initiative will offer finishing funds and post-production guidance to independent film-makers whose films 'promote social change and illuminate issues in need of comprehensive coverage currently missing from mainstream media'.The Tribeca Film ...
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Hannah to receive career achievement award at Bahamas
Daryl Hannah will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Career Achievement Tribute Award on December 8.Nicolas Cage received the honours last year, which recognises an actor or actress whose work has had 'a major impact and has advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around the world'.Festival patron Sean Connery ...
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McDonagh's In Bruges to open Sundance Film Festival
Martin McDonagh's feature directorial debut In Bruges will open the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 17.Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the film, which stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as London hitmen ordered by their boss Ralph Fiennes to go on an event-filled holiday in the Belgian city ...
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Academy names 15 documentary features on Oscar shortlist
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced its shortlist of 15 films that will contest the documentary feature category for the 80th Academy Awards.The 15 films in alphabetical order are: Autism: The Musical; Body Of War; For The Bible Tells Me So; Lake Of Fire; Nanking; No ...