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Gaumont sells Natali's Splice to Senator, Seville
Gaumont has sealed deals early at AFM on its horror movie Splice with Senator in Germany and Seville/Entertainment in Canada.Directed by Vincenzo Natali, Splice stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. The producer is Steven Hoban (Black Christmas, Ginger Snaps). The executive producers are Guillermo del Toro and Don MurphyThe $26 ...
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Pfeiffer, Kutcher get together for romance Personal Effects
Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher will star opposite each other in the romance Personal Effects, which is set to begin filming in Vancouver on Nov 26.Los Angeles-based Voltage Pictures will commence sales at AFM after company chief Nicolas Chartier acquired rights from Vancouver-based Insight Film Studios.Kutcher will play a young ...
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First Run takes US rights to German documentary To The Limit
First Run Features has acquired North American rights from Germany's Telepool to Pepe Danquart's documentary To The Limit.The film follows the renowned Bavarian brothers Alexander and Thomas Huber as they bid to break the world speed climbing record on the infamous 3,000-ft El Capitan vertical rock formation in California's Yosemite ...
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Gilliam reunites with Ledger for Doctor Parnassus
Terry Gilliam will reunite with his Brothers Grimm star Heath Ledger on fantasy adventure The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus. Mandate International is commencing sales here on the project, which has been lined up for a pre-strike December shoot in London and Vancouver. Christopher Plummer plays a travelling magician who owes ...
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Wide scores UK deals on Youssou N'Dour, Subsitute docs
French outfit Wide Management has closed UK deals on two titles on its AFM slate. Festival favourite Youssou N'Dour: Return To Goree has been sold to Axiom. Meanwhile, Substitute, about a football player who is a substitute in the World Cup Final, has been snapped up by new UK distributor ...
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Ondamax picks up world rights to English-language Coyote
In its first English-language pick-up, Miami-based Latin American specialist Ondamax has taken world rights to Brian Petersen's Coyote. The film, a Grand Jury Award winner at the Big Bear Lake Film Festival and an Audience Award Winner at the San Diego Film Festival, is about two young Americans who try ...
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Focus reteams with Jim Jarmusch for The Limits Of Control
Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to Jim Jarmusch's tentatively titled The Limits Of Control, which has been set for a pre-strike shoot in Spain early next year.Focus Features International commences sales hereon the story of a loner who operates outside the law and works on a mysterious assignment. ...
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Pyramide sells Fontaine's Monaco to Seville in Canada
Paris-based Pyramide Films has closed a deal with Canada's Seville Picturesfor Anne Fontaine's latest feature, Monaco.The film, starring Fabrice Lucchini and Roschdy Zem, is shooting and should be ready by next summer.Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Pyramide is also handling Daydreams, the latest feature from revered Turkish auteur Nuri ...
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TLA takes US, UK, English-speaking Canada on Hormoz-directed drama
TLA Releasing has taken all US, UK and English-speaking Canadian rights to Hormoz' French drama I Dreamt Under Water (J'Ai Reve Sous L'Eau).TLA is co-producing the film with Wide Management and Triskel Film and acquired rights from Wide to line up a 2008 theatrical release.Hormoz makes his feature directorial debut ...
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Magnolia's Magnet buys domestic on Vestiel's French Eden Log
Magnolia Pictures' genre label Magnet has acquired North America rights including French Canada to Franck Vestiel's sci-fi horror epic Eden Log and will release in 2008.Currently in post-production, the film is about a man who finds himself at the bottom of an underground maze and must navigate his way out.Magnolia's ...
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New buyers have a taste for Roissy's Caramel
Early in the AFM, Paris-based Roissy Films has confirmed new deals on its Cannes hit Caramel.Deals signed include Argentina & Chile (Alfa Films), Mexico (Cine Video Y TV) and India (Alliance). A deal is pending with South Korea. and Roissy is also in advanced negotiations with Japan & Taiwan.Directed by ...
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Inaugural Brit List highlights most liked unproduced screenplays
A list of the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland has got tongues wagging across the local film community. Compiled from a survey of 40 producers, acquisitions executives, agents, sales agents and public funders, the list has been circulating widely. It is intended to echo ...
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Katapult takes sales for Paul Morrison's Little Ashes
Los Angeles-based Katapult Film Sales has boarded Paul Morrison's Spanish-English co-production Little Ashes and will commence sales here.The co-production between Factotum Barcelona, Aria Films, APT Films & Met Film just wrapped in Barcelona and stars Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson and Matthew McNulty.The story takes place in Madrid in 1922 and ...
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Sobini launches international sales arm under Todd Olsson
Mark Amin's Sobini Films has launched a sales division and installed recent hire Todd Olsson to run it.Olsson, who previously handled sales with Mark Damon at Behaviour Films and worked at American World Pictures, among others, is at AFM to meet buyers.Sobini Films International's first projects is Damien Harris' kidnapping ...
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Grindstone takes North America on Left For Dead
Grindstone Entertainment Group has picked up North American rights to Sofia Films' gothic spaghetti Western Left For Dead starring Victoria Maurette.Albert Pyun's centres on a woman's vengeful quest to find her lost husband in turn-of-the-century Mexico. Michael Najjar produced and the film was fully financed by Sofia Films.Sofia's Michael Najjar ...
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TWC closes major AFM pre-sales on Richard Kelly's The Box
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has closed major pre-sales on Richard Kelly's $30m horror project The Box with Cameron Diaz, which is set to begin shooting in Boston at the end of November.Deals closed for the UK, Australia and New Zealand (Icon), South Korea (Eureka), Eastern Europe (EEAP), Greece (Odeon), the ...
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Peace Arch handles sales on Goal 3
Peace Arch Entertainment Group is to handle international sales on the football drama Goal 3 starring Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola and Anna Friel.The final episode in the rags-to-riches sporting trilogy follows two English players as they travel with the team to the World Cup in Germany. Director is Andrew Morahan.Peace ...
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National Geographic Entertainment taps Beal as president
National Geographic Global Media (NGGM) has launched National Geographic Entertainment, an umbrella company that combines the group's film, home video, music and radio divisions. David Beal has been named president of National Geographic Entertainment, hot on the heels of Tim Kelly's appointment as NGGM president last week. Beal ...
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Scheckel joins Christie in new international business post
George D Scheckel Jr has been appointed to the new position of director of international business development of digital projection pioneer Christie's entertainment solutions business division. Scheckel will spearhead business development, identify new market opportunities for digital cinema, and develop relationships in the exhibition and distribution sectors. ...
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Celluloid sells North America, Germany on Miike's Django
Celluloid Dreams has announced the sale of Takashi Miike's western Sukiyaki Western Django in North American and German speaking territories. The North American deal was signed with Gary Hirsch of First Look Studios and brokered by Celluloid president Hengameh Panahi. Walter Rehm's Universum picked up the German speaking territory rights. ...