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NonStop's Gnomes & Trolls sell to Intersonic, Five Stars
NonStop's two animated films Gnomes And Trolls 1 & 2 have been sold to Intersonic for Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary and to Five Stars Distribution for Israel. The films are both being presented here at 72 mins and 75 mins respectively. These follow on from deals already done prior ...
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Content closes slew of Splinter deals, including Icon for US/Australia
ContentFilm International has closed a slew of deals on Toby Wilkins' Splinter here at EFM.The film has gone to UK & Australia/New Zealand (Icon), Italy (DNC), The Middle East (Gulf Film), Mexico (Gussi), Czech and Slovak Republics (AQS), Poland (Best Film), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services), Singapore (Cathay), Venezuela ...
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Arthouse enters Haring's Universe
Arthouse Films has acquired North America and the majority of international rights to Christina Clausen's documentary The Universe Of Keith Haring.Clausen made the film with the cooperation of the Haring Estate and presents an intimate portrait of the celebrated artist that includes testimony from Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle ...
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Icon takes two from IM Global, four from Ghost House
Icon has swooped on UK and Australian rights from IM Global to the upcoming supernatural thriller Shelter and Slamdance smash Paranormal Activity.Jonathan Rhys Myers is in advanced talks to board the $25m Shelter and will play a demonic preacher who threatens the daughter of a skeptical psychiatrist played by Julianne ...
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The Aquarium (Genenet Al Asmak)
Dir. Yousry Nasrallah. Egypt/ France/ Germany, 2007. 111 mins.As undoubtedly the best-known protege of t legendary Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, Yousry Nasrallah has been working as a film critic or film-maker for nearly 30 years. Since 1988, hhee has directed a series of distinctive films that frequently show up in ...
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Downey and Taylor's F&ME launches new $1m development fund
UK-based Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) has created a new $1m development fund, backed by private equity, EU MEDIA support and in-house financing, and is initially backing a slate of five projects for 2008. F&ME's Mike Downey is in early development with F&ME chairman Stephen Daldry on a Charles Darwin ...
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Momentum takes on Hamlet 2 for UK
Building on its buzz from Sundance, Hamlet 2's EFM sales are starting to heat up with Momentum taking UK rights.Focus Features acquired the worldwide rights to the film in Sundance and handled the UK deal, which was said to be worth well above $2m.Andrew Fleming directed the comedy starring Steve ...
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Essential acquires worldwide rights to Stan Helsing
Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights from Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures to the upcoming horror spoof Stan Helsing.The story is set on Halloween night when the eponymous reluctant hero and video shop clerk must save his town from the six most feared monsters in cinematic history.Writer-director ...
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Munich's EVA to co-produce family adventure Raising Phoenix
Munich-based film and TV group Entertainment Value Associates (EVA) is to co-produce Marc Weigert's $15m family adventure project Raising Phoenix which is being produced by Weigert and Volker Engel's LA-based independent outfit Uncharted Territory.Raising Phoenix is due to go into production from April 2008, with location shooting likely to also ...
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Metrodome takes all UK rights to Before The Rains
Metrodome Distribution has taken all UK rights to Santosh Sivan's Before The Rains from Maximum Films and Echo Lake Entertainment. The deal was brokered by Charlotte Mickie of Maximum, Doug Mankoff of Echo Lake, and Metrodome's Peter Urie, Sara Frain and Kate Edwards.Metrodome is planning a summer 2008 release. The ...
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Italy-Iraq co-production Flowers Of Kirkuk set to shoot for April
The Flowers Of Kirkuk, the first-ever co-production between Italy and Iraq,is to shoot in April, it was confirmed at the EFM yesterday. The film, to be directed by Fariborz Kamkari, has now received support from Regione Lazio. It is being produced by Fabrizia Falzetti's Far Out Films. Istituto Luce has ...
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ContentFilm to sell Hawaii story Barbarian Princess from Marc Forby
ContentFilm International is handling worldwide sales on the forthcoming drama Barbarian Princess to star Q'orianka Kilcher (The New World), Shaun Evans, Barry Pepper and Will Patton.Marc Forby will direct. The shoot starts March 14 on location in Hawaii and in the UK.The crew includes Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck, production designer ...
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Big deals heat up EFM in Berlin
Universal Pictures has bought North America and select territories on Sam Raimi's upcoming low budget horror film Drag Me To Hell as a flurry of deal-making set EFM alight.Meanwhile Momentum sealed UK rights to Sundance hit Hamlet 2 from Focus Features International in a deal estimated to be worth over ...
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Lives Of Others producers board Leven's Lovers, Liars & Thieves
Munich-based Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, which produced Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, will serve as German co-producer on Jeremy Leven's $ 30m romantic comedy Lovers, Liars & Thieves which is currently being prepared by Ilann Girard's Arsam International.The true story behind the theft of the Mona ...
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X Filme International boards films from Meyjes, Fox
New features by Menno Meyjes and Eytan Fox are being lined up by X Filme International in addition to its production of Julie Delpy's The Countess which begins shooting from Feb 18 in Berlin, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt.The X Filme Creative Pool subsidiary will serve as German co-producer for the UK's ...
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Devillers to bring western film-makers to China for genre slate
Natacha Devillers' Les Petites Lumieres is launching a project to bring Western filmmakers to China to make genre movies. Devillers is developing a slate of low-budget genre films - entitled China Syndromes - in partnership with Taiwanese producer Wendy Kuan and UK filmmaker Simon Rumley. Among the directors who are ...
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Warner Music UK buys UK rights to occult thriller Chemical Wedding
Warner Music UK has acquired UK rights to the supernatural occult thriller Chemical Wedding and has scheduled a theatrical in May.Former Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickinson wrote the screenplay and Simon Callow stars as a Cambridge professor who wreaks havoc after he is possessed by the spirit of the ...
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Films Distribution closes EFM deals on Lemon Tree
Buyers are swarming round Panorama entry, Lemon Tree. The film, being soldat the EFM by Paris-based Films Distribution, has been picked up for a number of territories following its first official screening earlier in the week. Deals confirmed include Benelux (Cineart), Switzerland (Agora), Seville Pictures (Canada), Teodora (Italy), Film Trade ...
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Vuoerensola prepares Finnish Nazi sci-fi comedy Iron Sky
In 1945 the Nazis went to the Moon in 2018 they are coming back! That isthe pitch for macabre Finnish sci-fi comedy Iron Sky, the new feature being plotted by Timo Vuorensola.The film, which will be made by many of the same team behind Star Trek parody, Star Wreck: In ...
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ContentFilm takes on Stephen Leslie's comedy-horror Release
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights (excluding the UK and Germany) to comedy-horror Release, to be directed by 2007 Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Stephen Leslie.Cinetic will represent North American rights and has also arranged financing.Damian Jones (The History Boys) will produce and casting will be confirmed soon. The ...