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Ascot Elite steps in for Shoreline horror Senseless
Shoreline Entertainment has sold German-speaking European rights here to Ascot Elite on Simon Hynd's horror thriller Senseless.Based on Stona Fitch's novel, Senseless chronicles the kidnapping and torture of a US businessman whose ordeal is streamed online as part of a reality TV show. Jason Behr stars. The sale cements Shoreline ...
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Atrix takes on world rights to Hof title Beautiful Bitch
Beatrix Wesle's Atrix Films has taken on worldwide rights for Martin Theo Krieger's A Beautiful Bitch, starring Katharina Derr, from Hamburg Riva Film. The deal was negotiated between Wesle, CEO of Atrix Films, and Michael Eckelt CEO of Riva Filmproduktion GmbH, Hamburg. A Beautiful Bitch, which screened recently at the ...
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Tartan buys US rights to Silent Light from Bac International
Bac Films International has sold Carlos Reygadas' Cannes prizewinner Silent Light to the newly revitalized Tartan Films for the US. Tartan had previously handled the US on Reygadas' Battle In Heaven.Bac has also sold the film to Canada (Seville), Spain (Golem), Benelux (Lumiere), Switzerland (Look Now), Greece (Strada), Denmark (Ost ...
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Mischa Barton has a Homecoming with Voltage
Mischa Barton has signed to star in the thriller Homecoming, which Voltage Pictures is introducing to buyers here.Barton will play an obsessive small town woman who tries to get back with her former high school sweetheart when he returns with his new girlfriend for homecoming football weekend.Morgan J Freeman will ...
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Bleiberg picks up international sales on Israeli hit Noodle
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment has picked up Ayelet Menahemi's Israeli drama Noodle and is commencing sales at AFM.Mili Avital, Anat Waxman and Baoqi Chen star in the tale of a flight attendant who looks after an abandoned Chinese boy whose immigrant mother has been deported. Waxman won best supporting actress ...
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Rezo seals Sayles on Honeydripper for UK, Spain, Brazil
Paris-based Rezo Films has sealed some major territorial deals on John Sayles' latest feature Honeydripper to Axiom in the UK, Seville/Entertainment One in Canada, Golem in Spain, Immovision in Brazil and Orlando Films in Israel.Meanwhile Alcine Terran in Japan bought two films from Rezo - veteran auteur Eric Rohmer's The ...
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KWA takes on Carlos Saura's latest music project Caribe
Madrid-based Kevin Williams Associates is handling international sales on Caribe (Caribbean), the latest music project from revered Spanish director Carlos Saura.The film marks a reunion between Saura and Seville-based producer JuanLebron, with whom he collaborated on Sevillanas and Flamenco.Saura has long hoped to make a film on the music of ...
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PorchLight closes deals on family drama The Ultimate Gift
US-based production and sales company PorchLight has closed deals here on Michael O Sajbel's drama The Ultimate Gift.Rights have gone to Germany (RRS), Spain (Telecinco), Australia/New Zealand (Village Roadshow), Mexico (Pentella), Italy (Mediaset), pan Latin America (LapTV), Turkey (D Productions), the Middle East (Falcon), and South Africa (Ster Kinekor).The Ultimate ...
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National Lampoon seals three international output deals
National Lampoon has struck output deals with Force Entertainment in Australia, Front Row in the Middle East, and Equinoxe in Canada for its original productions.President of worldwide distribution Tom Daniels said he was close to signing deals in the UK, Russia, Latin America, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Benelux.National Lampoon is ...
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Onoma guns for Depardieu gangster pic Kalach
Pascale Diot's Paris-based sales outfit Onoma announced yesterday that it has taken world rights to new $15 million gangster film Kalach, starring GerardDepardieu, Gerard Lanvin, Francois Berleand and Mathilde Seigner. The film, which will shoot in France and Thailand, is directed by Yves Renier, an actor, writer and filmmaker who ...
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Wang Xiaoshuai's latest lands at Films Distribution
Paris-based Films Distribution has closed a deal during AFM to represent In Love We Trust, the latest film from Wang Xiaoshuai, one of the leading figures in China's sixth generation of filmmakers. The new film is now in post-production and will be ready in time for Berlin. Given Xiaoshuai's glittering ...
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Duelling pre-strike Pablo Escobar projects race to production
Bob Yari and Oliver Stone are locked in a race to bring their rival Pablo Escobar projects about the infamous Colombian drug lord to the screen.Both projects are being sold at AFM in Santa Monica and reportedly registering strong interest ahead of their potential pre-strike shoots in early 2008.In one ...
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Magnolia's Magnet takes on Toby Wilkins' Splinter
Magnolia Pictures' new genre label Magnet has swooped on its second acquisition in the last couple of days and taken North American rights to Toby Wilkins' directorial debut Splinter. The film is nearing completion and centres on a young couple on the run that finds themselves besieged in a ...
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UPI's Kingdom, Golden Age challenge Ratatouille at the box office
Several overseas releases are in the mix this weekend that could dethrone Ratatouille from the number one international film after four consecutive weekends.Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's (WDSMPI) animated hit crossed $350m on October 30 and currently stands at $353.2m.The animated hit currently ranks as the company's seventh biggest ...
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Spiderwick Chronicles set for simultaneous IMAX release
Paramount Pictures will release The Spiderwick Chronicles simultaneously in IMAX and conventional cinemas, the companies announced today. The fantasy adventure will be released in the US and Canada on February 15, 2008. The agreement is the fourth between Paramount and IMAX in the past five months. Paramount releases an IMAX ...
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Whistler unveils competition line-up including Continental and Amal
Stephane Lafleur's Continental: A Film Without Guns and Richie Mehta's Amal are among the six titles competing at the upcoming Whistler Film Festival. Continental premiered at Venice and won the Best First Canadian Feature Film prize at Toronto. Amal debuted at Toronto. Other titles in the Whistler competition are Mark ...
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High Point sells Extraordinary Rendition to North America and Latin America
High Point Media Group has kicked off AFM with two new sales for Jim Threapleton's Extraordinary Rendition. The film was sold to North America (BFS Entertainment) and Latin America (LAPTV). Extraordinary Rendition, starring Andy Serkis and Omar Berdouni, is about an innocent man abducted from London and interrogated abroad.'We are ...
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Bee Movie
Dir: Simon J. Smith & Steve Hickner. US. 2007. 90mins.Misguided narrative choices prevent Bee Movie, small screen king Jerry Seinfeld's sociable freshman entry into the animated fray, from fully taking flight. Spinning the story of a young bee who discovers life outside of his hive and sues humankind over their ...
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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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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 ...