All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 145
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BBC, AL under starter’s orders on Coe/Ovett pic
Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, one of the great athletics rivalries of the 1980s, are coming to the big screen in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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NewsStudioCanal enjoys bumper EFM
StudioCanal has enjoyed a bumper EFM. Since selling The Last Exorcism (formerly known as Cotton) to Lionsgate for the US last week, the French major has racked up multiple major deals on its eclectic slate.
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NewsFortissimo's Reign of Sales
Fortissimo Films have completed several major deals on their EFM slate titles. John Woo produced Reign Of Assassins has gone to Lionsgate for UK distribution here at the EFM.
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NewsTrust’s hot Revenge
Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk has revealed details of more EFM deals. The Revenge, directed by Susanne Bier (pictured), has gone to Spain (Golem) and Poland (Vivarto)
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NewsRedgrave In Ruins for Keiller
Vanessa Redgrave has signed on as Narrator for Robinson In Ruins, the long-awaited follow-up to Patrick Keiller’s celebrated 1990s films London and Robinson In Space.
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Perfect Circle signs up to Blind Spot werewolf picture
Vancouver’s Perfect Circle Productions has boarded AJ Annila’s new project Human as co-producers with Blind Spot Pictures.
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Europe should stop looking to US, says panel on indie film finance
Oscar-nominated producer Nicolas Chartier, whose Voltage Pictures was behind The Hurt Locker, has issued a stark warning that old models of financing independent films no longer work
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NewsTreasure trove of sales for Double Edge
Taiwan-based Double Edge Entertainment has announced today a cluster of European and Asian sales, all closed at the European Film Market, on The Treasure Hunter (pictured).
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NewsMicro-budget UK horror sells to Japan, Germany
The film, which marks the debut of Welsh film-maker Marc Price, has sold to Eden Entertainment for Japan, and to MIG Film for German-speaking territories.Left is also negotiating the more substantial financing for Price’s next movie Thunderchild, a war/horror feature which will shoot in June and is being produced by ...
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NewsFilms Distribution locks down Cell 211 deals
Films Distribution has clinched a deal on its Spanish thriller Cell 211 with CCV for Scandinavia.
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Momentum, Square One take Agnosia
Filmax International has closed a pair of major territory deals on its romantic thriller Agnosia, from the producers of The Orphanage and Pan’s Labyrinth.
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NewsMemento does brisk sales on Puzzle, Woman In The Fifth
Memento has done a roaring trade on its Berlinale slate.
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NewsStrickland Sounds out horror flick
Multi award-winning director Peter Strickland, who was in Berlin competition last year with Katalina Varga(pictured), is plotting a new Italy-set horror film.
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NewsTaxi for von Trier?
It was a meeting of heavyweights. Over the weekend, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier came face to face here in Berlin.
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NewsBuyers still falling for Guadagnino's I Am Love
Buyers are continuing to lap up Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love, starring Berlinale favourite Tilda Swinton, which is being sold by The Works.
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NewsWide closes further sales on Beginning To End, Gigola
French sales outfit Wide Management has closed yet more deals on its Berlinale slate.
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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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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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NewsMK2 signs distribution deal with Israel's Orlando
MK2 has signed a distribution output deal with Israeli distributor Orlando Films.