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The Weinstein Company, Showbox hot for Chocolate
Thai actioner Chocolate - which opened at the top of the Thai box office this week - has been gobbled up by several international distributors including The Weinstein Company which has taken North American rights. Produced and sold by Sahamongkolfilm International, the picture has also been sold to Showbox Media ...
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ContentFilm strikes UK, German deals for The Killing Room
ContentFilm International has pre-sold Jonathan Liebesman's The Killing Room to the UK (Momentum), Germany (Square One), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Spentzos), The Middle East (Gulf), Brazil (Paris Filmes), Romania (Media Pro), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services) and Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia (Continental).The high-concept suspense thriller is Liebesman's follow-up to The ...
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iDream looks into The Voyeurs by Dasgupta
London and Mumbai-based iDream Independent Pictures has picked up worldwide rights, excluding India, to The Voyeurs directed by veteran Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta.The film follows a young man who falls in love with the girl next door, and looks at whether our obsession with surveillance has really made the world ...
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Lorianne Hall takes development post at UK's Ipso Facto
Lorianne Hall been appointed head of development and creative producer at UK-based Ipso Facto Films, one of the producers of last year's Berlin hit Irina Palm.Hall, a veteran of the US and Europe, previously served as head of development and creative producer for Ireland's Samson Films, literary agent at The ...
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Eros takes international rights to Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar Raaj
Indian powerhouse Eros International has acquired international rights to Ram Gopal Varma's upcoming Sarkar Raaj. Starring the hot family trio of Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, the film is a sequel to Varma's award-winning Sarkar, which delves into the links between politicians and the underworld in modern-day Mumbai. ...
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NonStop slides on Frozen River for Sweden
Voracious Swedish distributor NonStop Entertainment has snapped up SundanceGrand Jury winner Frozen River.NonStop will be releasing the film in in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway,Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Filmed in sub-zero weather in upstate New York, Frozen River is CourtneyHunt's directorial debut. The film is set in a real-life smuggling zone ...
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Maximum takes on international rights to Trouble The Water
Toronto's Maximum Films International has acquired international rights to last month's Sundance Grand Jury Prize documentary winner Trouble The Water.Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's film follows aspiring rapper Kim and her husband as they try to navigate a path to survival in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane ...
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ReviewsBlack Ice (Musta Jaa)
Dir: Petri Kotwica. Finland/Germany. 2008. 100 mins.Petri Kotwica’s darkly inventive second film,Black Ice, tries to be at one and the same time a Hitchcockian thriller, a horror version of a Feydeau farce, and an intense marriage drama of love, betrayal and jealousy in the tradition of ...
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The Black Balloon (2007)
Dir: Elissa Down Aust. 2007, 97 minsThe Black Balloon is notable for its graphic, not-for-the-squeamish depiction of adult autism. But, more importantly for its box office potential, the youth-oriented movie introduces a glowing young Australian actress with true star potential - the international model Gemma Ward. Plus there's a showy ...
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Lemon Tree
Dir: Eran Riklis. Israel/Germany/France, 2008. 106 minsIn Lemon Tree, director Eran Riklis once again looks at the Arab-Israeli conflict from a human perspective, showing how, in a climate of suspicion and mistrust, politics can crush all who get in the way. Penned by his Syrian Bride collaborator Suha Arraf, this ...
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The Match Factory takes a spin with Waltz With Bashir
The Match Factory (TMF) has taken on international sales for Israeli director Ari Folman's first-ever animated documentary feature Waltz With Bashir, which is currently in postproduction and hotly tipped to premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The co-production between Israel's Bridgit Folman Films Gang Ltd., France's Les Films d'Ici and ...
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Magnolia's Magnet takes a swing at Donkey Punch
London-based sales company Lumina has sold its Sundance hit thriller Donkey Punch to Magnolia Pictures' Magnet Releasing genre label for North America.Optimum has the UK rights and will release this summer.The deal was negotiated by Magnolia SVP Tom Quinn and director of acquisitions Dori Begley with Lumina's Samantha Horley and ...
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McAvoy, Duff eye Perrier's Bounty for HanWay, Parallel, Number 9
James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff are in discussions to star in Perrier's Bounty, which HanWay Films is selling.Alan Moloney of Parallel Films and Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 are producing the thriller set in contemporary Dublin.Mark O'Rowe, who adapted Berlin title Boy A and Intermission, is writing ...
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In Love We Trust (Zuo You)
Dir: Wang Xiaoshuai. China, 2008. 115 mins.With In Love We Trust, Sixth Generation director Wang Xiaoshuai presents what can only be described as natural tearjerker material - leukaemia, divorce, infidelity - in the milieu of the Chinese middle class and delivers an uneven picture which attempts the impossible and fails ...
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CSNY: Deja Vu
Dir: Bernard Shakey. US. 2008. 97 mins.'The huddled sixtysomethings look like they're comparing prescriptions on stage' wrote one uncharitable US music critic of Crosby , Stills, Nash and Young's 2006 'Freedom of Speech' tour, which stirred controversy with its outspoken anti-Iraq-war stance. Unless you're a diehard ...
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Pathe goes deep for The Descent 2 with Celador
Pathe International is starting pre-sales here at the EFM for The Descent 2. Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Mendoza will reprise their roles.The Descent's director Neil Marshall and producer Christian Colson will produce the sequel for UK-based production outfit Celador.Jon Harris, who edited The Descent as well as Stardust and Layer ...
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Kragh-Jacobsen readies costume drama about Chopin
Fresh from his political thriller What No One Knows, which is screening in Berlin'sPanorama, Danish auteur of Soren Kragh-Jacobsen is looking to make a costume drama about the composer Chopin. The film, which has the working title Incognito C, will be produced by Lars Bredo Rahbek at Nimbus Film. It ...
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Blayze Collins-Perucchetti replaces Giles in acquisitions at Tartan
Tartan Films has appointed Blayze Collins-Perucchetti as its new head of acquisitions. She replaces Jane Giles, who recently departed Tartan after four years to become head of content at the British Film Institute. Acquisitions were also previously under the eye of Laura De Casto, who left as managing director of ...
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Mortensen, Damon, Penn among players in activism doc
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group is commencing sales here on the social activism documentary The People Speak featuring Viggo Mortensen, Matt Damon and Sean Penn.Based on Howard Zinn's book A People's History Of The United States, the two-hour film chronicles key developments in the US told from the perspective of ...
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Jinga adds Exodus, Hush Your Mouth and Blue Star slate
UK-based sales company Jinga Films has added two new titles to its slate for the EFM. Jinga is now handling international sales on Penny Woolcock's Exodus and Tom Tyrwhitt's Hush Your Mouth.Jinga is also handling films previously sold by Blue Star Movies, including Evilenko starring Malcolm McDowell, Hermano starring Emir ...