All articles by Audrey Ward – Page 14
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High Point takes on Haïti Cherie
High Point Films, the theatrical sales division of Carey Fitzgerald's London based High Point Media Group, has taken on international rights outside France and Italy to Claudio Del Punta's Berlin selection, Haïti Cherie. Selected for the culinary cinema section at the Berlin Film Festival, Haïti Cherie takes a dramatic, Neorealist ...
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The Works seals deals on Loft, Wire
London based The Works International has sold rights to Loft, Man On Wire, The Market and Good Dick for a number of territories. Erik Van Looy's Flemish film, Loft has been sold to Atlas Film in Germany. Loft follows five close friends, all of them married, who share a loft ...
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K5 brings Size, World to buyers
Germany and UK based sales outfit K5 International has picked up two new titles which it is pitching to buyers here: A Matter Of Size and A Wonderful World. Comedy A Matter Of Size is directed by Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor. Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon of UCM ...
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Will Machin joins Ealing Studios
Ealing Studios has appointed Will Machin as its new head of distribution, where he will report to managing director James Spring. Machin is here in Berlin with the film studio. He previously worked at Capitol Films where he was head of its specialist division, Thinkfilm International. Prior to Capitol Films ...
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WestEnd strikes key deals on Mother And Child
London-based sales outfit WestEnd Films has sealed a further set of distribution deals on Rodrigo Garcia's Mother and Child which stars Naomi Watts, Annette Bening and Kerry Washington. New deals closed include Haut & Court (France), Cineart (Benelux), Smile (Scandinavia) and Hopscotch (Australia), Vision (Pan-Eastern Europe), Seven Group (Greece), Front ...
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Bank of Ireland shuts film divisions in London and LA
Bank of Ireland has closed down its film finance divisions in both London and LA with immediate effect. The bank is trimming costs in its international corporate finance arm in a bid to weather the financial crisis. The team provided short-term structured film and television production finance facilities to production ...
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Wavelength Pictures launches North Korean film slate at EFM
Wavelength Pictures has signed an agreement with French distributor Pretty Pictures to represent a collection of classic & contemporary North Korean feature films for festivals and international sales. The UK based sales agent is launching the collection at the EFM. The package includes The Flower Girl (1972) described as a ...
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UK producer in Berlin with Bad Day
Producer Gena Helen Ashwell, one of the UK's youngest female producers, is in Berlin with her sales team to introduce Bad Day to distributors. The 24 year old secured just under $3 million in private funding for the film. Directed by Ian David Diaz (Fallen Angels, The Killing Zone) the ...
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Noel Clarkesigns on to star in Centurion
BAFTA Orange Rising Star nominated actor, writer and director Noel Clarke has signed on to star in Centurion, the Rome-era actioner being produced by Slumdog Millionaire Oscar nominee Christian Colson and his Celador Films. Pathe International is handling sales in Berlin. Clarke previously wrote the screenplays for Kidulthood and Adulthood, ...
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BBC Films, HanWay groom teen spies with Cherub
BBC Films is to tap into the teen market with the adaptation of the first book of Robert Muchamore's teenage spy series. Cherub;The Recruit, which is being introduced to buyers in Berlin by HanWay Films, marks the start of what BBC Films hopes will be a book franchise aimed at ...
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Content opens doors to Strange
ContentFilm International has taken worldwide sales rights to When You're Strange, Tom DiCillo's documentary about The Doors which had its world premiere at Sundance. The feature documentary is about the iconic rock band The Doors and tells the band's story through vintage footage, much of it previously unseen. The biopic ...
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MPI Media chews off North American rights to Jinga's Gnaw
Jinga Films has closed a North American distribution deal for Greg Mandry's horror debut Gnaw with MPI Media Group. The sales agent has also sold Gnaw to Sahamongkolfilm for Thailand.Gnaw tells the gruesome story of six friends on vacation in the countryside who find themselves on the menu of a ...
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Scottish, Danish and Irish production houses form film partnership
Scotland's Sigma Films, Denmark's Zentropa and Ireland's Subotica Entertainment are forming a partnership to develop eight new films from emerging UK and Irish film-makers. The partnership referred to as Advance Party II (APII) will build on the success of Andrea Arnold's Red Road, and Morag McKinnon's forthcoming Donkeys, which were ...
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Independent sells Moon and New Town Killers
UK sales and production outfit Independent has sold Duncan Jones' Moon and Richard Jobson's New Town Killers to Telepool for German speaking territories. Sci-fi thriller Moon premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The film was directed by Duncan Jones, stars Sam Rockwell and features the voice of Kevin ...
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Aniston and Bateman to star in The Baster
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are the stars of romantic comedy The Baster which is set to shoot in spring. Mandate International is introducing the project to buyers here. Blades Of Glory directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon are reuniting on the Mandate Pictures tale of a woman who undergoes ...
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Pinball Films pitches Fuckart
UK producer Pinball Films is pitching two films at Berlin which form part of its micro-budget digital feature film slate. The slate received 20% funding from the Northern Film and Media's Atomic Pictures scheme. Dogwoof Pictures is in discussions to distribute the features - Fuckart and Dog Knife Wife - ...
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High-Fliers acquires UK rights to New Town Killers
London based distributor, High Fliers Films, has acquired UK rights to New Town Killers from production and sales outfit Independent. The thriller is directed by Richard Jobson and produced by Luc Roeg. It stars Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie and James Anthony Pearson and tells the story of two bankers who ...
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Content gets Ironclad
ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Mythic International Entertainment’s Ironclad which stars James Purefoy and Paul Giamatti. Directed by Jonathan English (Minotaur), Ironclad is an ultra violent medieval action thriller. It is set to go in production in the summer.It tells the true story of a group of ...
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Slumdog Millionaire triumphs at London Film Critics' Circle Awards
An inaugural NSPCC award for young British performer of the year was presented to Thomas Turgoose for two very different roles; a teenager escaping a bad home life in Somers Town, and a ferocious yob in Eden Lake. Kate Winslet won actress of the year for her performances in The ...
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AV Pictures sells Lesbian Vampire Killers in Germany and Australia
UK sales agent AV Pictures has closed deals with Square One in Germany and Transmission in Australia on gore-fest 'Lesbian Vampire Killers'. The film stars UK comedy talents, James Corden and Mathew Horne from the BAFTA award-winning Gavin & Stacey BBC series. Lesbian Vampire Killers will receive its premiere screening ...