All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 99
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NewsIpso Facto gains Nothing to Lose
Christine Alderson’s UK production company Ipso Facto has snapped up remake rights to Pieter Kuipers’ thriller Nothing To Lose from Dutch production outfit Pupkin Films.
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NewsStudioCanal secures Traitor sales
EXCLUSIVE: Bucking the trend in a tough Berlin market, StudioCanal has closed significant pre-sales on new John Le Carré adaptation Our Kind Of Traitor.
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NewsIron Sky producers talk US plans
EXCLUSIVE: Blind Spot Pictures, the Finnish outfit behind cult hit Iron Sky, has revealed further details of what is likely to be its first US project, Jeremiah Harm.
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NewsHope spreads for Seidl
Buyers are continuing to beat a path to Paradise since the final instalment of Ulrich Seidl’s trilogy Paradise: Hope screened in Berlinale’s Competition earlier this week.
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NewsFuWorks kicks off Dutch football doc
The “total football” exploits of the celebrated Dutch team of the 1970s are to shown on screen in a new feature documentary being put together by San Fu Maltha’s Fu Works.
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NewsRossellini joins Carriere project
Actress and film-maker Isabella Rossellini is collaborating with legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrier (The Artist and the Model) on a new project.
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NewsPirate Bay doc gets online boost
Controversial feature documentary The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (about the notorious file sharing website) has been watched by half a million people since its premiere in Berlin on Friday [Feb 8].
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NewsFlanders Fund backs projects including Roskam gangster thriller
Belgian auteur Felix van Groeningen’s new feature Belgica is also among the projects to receive support from the VAF.
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NewsFirst Hand reels in doc deals
Among the deals, Kinosmith has taken Canadian rights to hard-hitting doc Shadows of Liberty [pictured], which has also sold to DBS TV in Israel.
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NewsGirl King crowns new deals
Transmission has come on board for Australia while Maywin has pre-bought Russian rights.
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NewsUK deal for Johnny Cash doc
EXCLUSIVE: Wide House has closed a UK theatrical deal for Johnny Cash doc My Father And The Man In Black with Ballpark Film Distributors.
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NewsGaumont boosts 'France' export
EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont has struck multiple sales on Vive La France by Michael Youn, starring Jose Garcia and Michael Young and billed as “a crazy, extremely funny and politically incorrect postcard of France.
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NewsSigourney Weaver joins Body Art
EXCLUSIVE: Sigourney Weaver is joining the cast of Body Art, Luca Guadagnino’s new film based on the novel The Body Artist by Don DeLillo.
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NewsWild Bunch Benelux agrees tie
Pim Hermeling’s Wild Bunch Benelux has entered into a buying alliance with new Scandinavian outfit Selmer Entertainment.
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NewsAdriana Chiesa moves into production
Italian sales agent Adriana Chiesa has established a new production company and is already underway on their first project.
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NewsCinephil sells The Act of Killing
In advance of its Berlin screenings, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing has been sold to multiple territories.
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NewsBaetens reads The Verdict
The Verdict is produced by Peter Bouckaert for Eyeworks Film & TV Drama.
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NewsOpen Reel debuts at EFM
Italian sales company was founded last November by Cosimo Santoro and has already built up a catalogue of more than 25 titles.