All EFM articles – Page 148
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Arrow takes on Somali pirates
Arrow Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Nordic territories, to Finnish documentary Pirates Of Somalia from Helsinki-based Hakalax Production Oy.
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Asian buyers lift Sheets with Kevin Williams Associates
Asians buyers are getting into bed with Madrid-based sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates.
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Slippery streets of Berlin claim Star victim
The icy streets of the German capital have claimed their first victim.
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Brazilian films snag p&a windfall
Film export agency Cinema Do Brasil is set to launch the first of two distribution grant schemes providing around $20,000 in p&a funds for the release of Brazilian films.
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San Fu Maltha slate headed up by Westerling, Nadra, Portable Life
Prolific producer/distributor San Fu Maltha, whose Amphibious 3D is a hot seller for Celsius at EFM, has revealed details of his packed production slate.
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Karathanos reveals new projects
New films from Tadjik director Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov and Georgia’s Dito Tsintsadze are being lined up for production this year by Thanassis Karathanos of Twenty Twenty Vision and Pallas Film.
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NewsIcon closes big sales on How I Spent My Summer
Icon Entertainment International (IEI) has scored big sales on its Mel Gibson-starrer How I Spent My SummerVacation about a career criminal caught by Mexican authorities who is sent to a dangerous prison and has to learn how to survive. Adrian Grunberg is directing.
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NewsHaneke abandons 'old age' project
Oscar-nominated Austrian director Michael Haneke has abandoned his planned film about “humiliation and the physical deterioration of the aged” after seeing a Canadian project on a similar subject.
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NewsIM Global and Reliance Big forge sales alliance
Stuart Ford’s aggressive US-based sales powerhouse IM Global has struck an alliance with Reliance Big to handle international sales on its films.
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Arclight harnesses Beresford's Zebras
Arclight Films is in discussions with EFM buyers on the Bruce Beresford project Zebras after picking up international sales rights.
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NewsBadge holders breathe sigh of relief as screenings ban is lifted
EFM non-buyer badge holders were relieved yesterday after a stressful couple of days in which they found themselves barred from the competition press screenings.
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ContentFilm dances off with Every Little Step
ContentFilm has picked up international rights to Endgame Entertainment’s feature documentary Every Little Step, the critically acclaimed look behind the scenes at the Broadway smash A Chorus Line.
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Generation faces 2011 premiere rule
From 2011, films seeking selection for the Berlinale’s Generation sidebar, which focuses on children’s and youth titles, must be European premieres.
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Cineart swoops on top arthouse pics
Benelux distributor Cineart has snapped up many of the most high-profile arthouse titles on offer at the EFM over the past few days
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High Point warms to third London Microwave title
High Point Films, the international theatrical sales arm of Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point Media Group, has snapped up world rights to Freestyle, the third feature to emerge from Film London’s Microwave stable.
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Serkis, Cave plan motion-capture Opera
Andy Serkis, famous for pioneering motion-capture performance in The Lord Of The Rings, King Kong and the upcoming Tintin films, has revealed he will collaborate with musician Nick Cave on a motion-capture movie of The Threepenny Opera. The Brecht and Weill musical play was first performed in 1928 in Berlin.“It’s ...
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Greek Summer warms up Other Angle
France’s Other Angle Pictures has picked up Greek Summer, a new project to be directed by Olivier Horlait.
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Peace Arch takes Spungen doc for US
Peace Arch has swooped on North American rights to Who Killed Nancy?, the feature doc about the deaths of punk icons Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious.
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NewsArrow hears Calling, takes Journey
Toronto-based Arrow Entertainment principal Steve Arroyave has added drama The Calling and documentary Mythic Journeys to his EFM slate.