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AFM says it had record attendance levels, 1,573 buyers
The27th AFM, which has been severely affected by sporadic internet service at theLoews Hotel, has announced record attendance levels.OrganisersIFTA claim overall attendance climbed to 8,208, up 2% against last year's8,014.Thecurrent tally of buyers as of today is 1,573 from 61 countries, with mostnotable year-on-year rises coming from Mexico (up 57% ...
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Palm, Curiously Bright jointly acquire Peter Beard doc
PalmPictures & Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment have jointlyacquired worldwide rights to the documentary Peter Beard: Scrapbooks FromAfrica & Beyond.Jean-ClaudeLuyat and Guillaume Bond's picture profiles the celebrated diarist, artist andphotographer and is narrated by Charlotte Rampling.Theproject features rare and never-before-seen footage of Mick Jagger, AndyWarhol, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John ...
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PorchLight picks up international rights to VC Andrews pic Rain
PorchLight Entertainment has picked up international theatrical,broadcast and DVD rights to Rain starring Faye Dunaway and Robert Loggia.Based on the novel by VC Andrews, Rain follows the story of a witness to acrime who discovers the identity of her true mother while in protective custodyand goes on to become a ...
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UK effects house The Mill to open Los Angeles facility
UKadvertising and visual effects group The Mill is planning to open a majorfacility in Santa Monica, California.Thecompany, founded in London in 1990, recently opened a facility in New York andwill become the first post-production agency to operate in the three key globallocations for advertising production.Thenew office is due to open ...
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Strand buys US rights to Golden Bear winner Grbavica
StrandReleasing has acquired all US rights to Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica: The LandOf My Dreams from Match Factory Films.Thepicture won the Golden Bear at Berlin earlier this year and has been selectedas Bosnia and Herzegovina's official entry for the foreign language Oscar. Italso received European Film Award nominations this week for ...
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MPD/Arclight joint venture Union Station buys Dark Corners
UnionStation Media has picked up all domestic rights from Shoreline Entertainment toRay Gower's psychological thriller Dark Corners. Thepicture stars Thora Birch and Toby Stephens in the story of a troubled youngwoman who wakes up one day as a different person and discovers she is beingstalked by malevolent creatures.Gowerwrote the screenplay ...
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BVI, SPRI extend relationship with joint venture in Russia
BuenaVista International, Inc. (BVI) and Sony Pictures Releasing International(SPRI) have formed a joint venture to distribute their respective films inRussia.Themove follows a similar agreement for South Korea struck by the parties lastmonth and takes effect on Jan 1, 2007.Russiabecomes the 15th territory in which the two companies are partners. The ...
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Scorsese signs four-year, first-look deal with Paramount
Martin Scorsese and Paramount Pictures have signed a four-yearfirst-look deal under which the filmmaker will direct and produce features,made-for-DVD, digital content and television for the studio and specialty labelParamount Vantage.The deal marks Scorsese's first overall pact in several years, andwill commence on Nov 1. Paramount will have the opportunity co-finance ...
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First Independent takes slew of territory rights on Green
GaryRubin's First Independent Pictures is extending its global reach and has pickedup US, Australian/New Zealand and South African rights from ShorelineEntertainment to the comedy Everything's Gone Green.FirstIndependent plans a spring 2007 US release for the project, based on the firstscreenplay by Generation X writer Douglas Coupland.Thestory centres on a slacker ...
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All the buyers love Mandy Lane
The Weinstein Company has closed multiple territories on Jonathan Levine'shorror title All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, which recently received its world premiere at Toronto.Rights have gone to the UK (Optimum), Germany (Senator), France(TFM), Australia and New Zealand (Village Roadshow), and Russia (West Film Group).Deals also closed in South Korea ...
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Black Sheep continues sales frenzy
Hot New Zealand horrorcomedy Black Sheep has stirred upa bidding frenzy in several territories including Germany, where rightshave gone to Ascot Elite. Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson of NZFilm negotiated the deal with Stephan Giger for Ascot Elite.Jonathan King wrote anddirected the story of a reckless genetic experiment that transformsinnocent ...
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GreeneStreet reunites with producer Katz on Adverbs
GreeneStreet Films (GSF) andproducer Ross Katz are partnering up to adapt Lemony Snicket novelist Daniel Handler's romance Adverbs.Katz, who worked with GSF on InThe Bedroom, approached the New York-basedcompany with the project about a series of characters who come and go in eachother's lives under an atmosphere of impending doom."We ...
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Borat make glorious box office benefits for Fox
Sacha Baron Cohen'soutrageous faux Kazakh journalist Borat had too much chutzpah for the competition at the weekend and opened topthrough Fox on an estimated $26.4m.The result is remarkablegiven that Fox only launched the picture on 837 screens for a stunning $31,511average. Larry Charles directed.Borat's domestic resultovershadowed Buena Vista's comedy sequel ...
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Borat, Prada give Fox international leadership
Fox International scored a one-two punch at the weekend as Borat and The Devil Wears Prada ruled the roost.Boratcrushed the competition as it grossed an estimated $17.7m from 993 screens in17 markets, powered by a stunning $11.5m number one debut in the UK.The comedy, which dominated the North American charts ...
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TWC buys North American rights to Klaus Barbie doc
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has bought North American rights fromWild Bunch to Kevin MacDonald's upcoming Klaus Barbie documentary My Enemy'sEnemy.My Enemy's Enemy investigates the legacy of the former Gestapo commander known as'The Butcher Of Lyon' who terrorised Lyon and the surrounding region fromNovember 1942 to August 1944.The project follows Barbie ...
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THINKFilm closes sales on three titles with distributor trio
THINKFilm is drawing stronginterest on its sales slate at AFM and has closed a number of deals on threetitles.Rights to Ripple Effect have gone to Luxor in Russia, HollywoodEntertainment in Greece, and Front Row in the Middle East.Ripple Effect stars Forrest Whitaker, who is earning rave reviewsfor his portrayal of ...
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Kimmel sells multiple territories for Death At A Funeral
Sidney KimmelEntertainment's foreign sales arm Kimmel Internationalhas closedmultiple territories on comedy Death At A Funeral starringMatthew Macfadyen, Peter Dinklage andEwen Bremner.Rights have gone to Germany(Concorde), Italy (Mikado), Spain (DeaPlaneta), Scandinavia (Scanbox),and South Africa (Nu Metro).Frank Oz directed the project aboutdysfunctional British relativeswho attend the riotous funeral of afamily patriarch. Alan ...
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Sony goes for Untraceable starring Diane Lane
Sony Pictures has made itssecond major buy here with the acquisitionof North American and LatinAmerican rights to Gregory Hoblit's FBIcybercop thriller Untraceable starring Diane Lane.Screen Gems will release theproject in North America and SonyPictures Releasing International willdistribute in Latin America. Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper did the dealwith LakeshoreInternational, which ...
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Lindsay Lohan to star in Tennessee Williams project
Lindsay Lohan will star in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' previously unpublished play The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond.Ellen Burstyn, David Strathairn, Chris Evans and Ann-Margret are also believed to be attached to the project, which has fast become one of the most hotly pursued titles at AFM.Brad Gilbert of ...
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Basinger-starrer sells to Optimum, Manga, Square One
Voltage Pictures has closed key territories at AFM on the upcomingKim Basinger thriller While She Was Out which has Guillermo del Toro serving as executive producer.Rights have gone to Optimum in the UK, Manga Films in Spain, andSquare One in Germany. Sales chief Nicolas Chartier also reported stronginterest from Japan ...