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Fortissimo seals raft of deals on Marley, CSNY docs
Fortissimo Films has closed a raft of deals on its recently-announced Bob Marley documentary, which Martin Scorsese is directing for delivery in 2010. The as-yet-untitled film, produced by Shangri-La Entertainment and unveiled at the beginning of the EFM, has already been snapped up by the UK's Contender, South Africa's Nu ...
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Hong Sang-soo's Woman goes to France with Umedia
Korea's Mirovision has sealed a French deal on Hong Sang-soo's previous film, Woman On The Beach, which has been sold to Umedia. Hong's current film, Night And Day, is screening in competition here at Berlin and is being sold directly by the producers, Bom Film Productions.Woman On The Beach, which ...
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Film London sets second PFM for October 20-21
Film London has set dates for its second Production Finance Market (PFM) for October 20-21, 2008, during the Times BFI London Film Festival. The inaugural event in 2007 attracted 70 producers, 35 distributors/sales agents and 36 major financiers. Film London head of international Helena Mackenzie said she expected attendance figures ...
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Host co-producer Jang prepares Pepper in London
Korean female producer Junyoung Jang, who was one of the producers on The Host, has relocated to London where she is setting up a $10m time travel adventure film, entitled Charlie Pepper. The film is being set up as a co-production between Jang's London-based February Films and Hungarian producer Ildiko ...
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Prinze Jr to star in Miramax martial arts movie
Freddie Prinze Jr will star in an untitled martial arts movie to be produced by Miramax Films which acquired the untitled pitch from Robert Mark Kamen, writer of the Karate Kid series and A Walk In The Clouds.The project tells the story of an American boy raised by Chinese monks ...
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Cinemavault polishes thriller Artefacts
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has picked up international rights excluding Benelux to English-language thriller Artefacts.Mary Stockley and Felix Scott star in the Title Films and Bad Fourteen Pictures production as former lovers who try to survive a wave of murders by doppelgangers.Brussels-based film-makers Giles Daoust and Emmanuel Jespers directed. Grindstone ...
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Magnolia's world sales bloom for Timecrimes, Gonzo
Magnolia Pictures' international sales department under Laird Adamson has had a successful EFM with its Spanish time travel thriller Timecrimes as well as the quirky romance Quid Pro Quo and Alex Gibney's documentary Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr Hunter S Thompson. All three films, which will be handled ...
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IFC takes North America on Kinney's Diminished Capacity
IFC has picked up all North American rights to Terry Kinney's comedy Diminished Capacity following its premiere at Sundance last month.Matthew Broderick plays a former newspaper editor with short-term memory loss who bonds with his aging uncle. Alan Alda and Virginia Madsen also star.Sherwood Kiraly adapted her own novel. Plum ...
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UK companies back new CTBF short film award
The UK's film and TV industry charity CTBF has launched the new John Brabourne Big 5 Award.The backers are Arri Rental Group, Technicolor, Kaos, Pinewood Group and Kodak. Working Title Films will help select the final script and help with funding.The award will provide a platform for a rising director ...
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Hungaricom has sales success with Egon & Donci, CATcher
Ambitious Hungarian distribution and sales outfit HungariCom has announced a raft of deals on its EFM slate.Its cartoon features are selling especially briskly. Here in Berlin the companyhas closed deals on Egon & Dönci and CATcher - Cat City 2 to HGC Entertainment for China and Media International Pictures for ...
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ReviewsLater (Plus Tard Tu Comprenderas)
Dir: Amos Gitai. France / Germany, 2008. 89mins.The first Gitai film in a long time not to deal with Israeli politics, Later (Plus Tard Tu Comprenderas) is also one of his most emotional outings to date. This Franco-German co-production based on Jerome Clement’s autobiographical book (Clement ...
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Sutherland sets up Fluorescent Productions slate
UK producer Mairi Sutherland, who has worked with director Robbie Moffat through their Palm Tree Entertainment, has set up new company Fluorescent Productions to work with directors in addition to Moffat.Her development slate includes WWII project Devils Harbour written by Jack MacLaughlan to be directed by Barry Campbell; Afghanistan-set love ...
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Yvonne Catterfeld named to play Romy Schneider in German biopic
Yvonne Catterfeld is to play the legendary Austrian-born icon Romy Schneider in Josef Rusnak's biopic Eine Frau Wie Romy (literally A Woman Like Romy) which will begin shooting at locations in France and Germany from July 23.According to German press reports, actresses such as Jodie Foster and Eva Green had ...
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Renee Zellweger is Essential's One And Only
Renee Zellweger is in final negotiations to star in Richard Loncrane's 1950s-set comedy My One And Only, which is set to begin filming in the US in mid-April.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment is handing worldwide sales at EFM.The project is based on a true story told by George Hamilton to Merv ...
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IEG's credit line with Chase raised to $135m
Chase Manhattan Bank has increased its revolving credit line to Graham King's LA-based independent Initial Entertainment Group to $135m according to a statement released yesterday by John Miller, managing director of Chase Manhattan, and Colin Cotter, IEG's COO.The relationship between the bank and IEG began in 1997 when the two ...
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Mischa Barton thriller Homecoming sells to Russia, Latin America
Principal photography has wrapped on the Mischa Barton thriller Homecoming, which Voltage Pictures is pre-selling here at EFM.Deals have closed in Russia and Eastern Europe (EEAP), Latin America (IDC), the Middle East (Gulf), Turkey (Grandview), Israel (Forum), Indonesia (Blitz) and the Philippines (Pioneer).Morgan J Freeman directed the tale of a ...
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Night and Day (Bam gua Nat)
Dir: Hong Sangsoo, S. Korea, 2008. 147mins.Light, charming but not terribly engaging, and as French as any Korean film is ever going to get, Hong Sangsoo's full-on tribute to the New Wave follows Korean expatriates around the City Of Lights. While brevity has never been one of Hong's particular talents, ...
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Francois Martin named senior vp of marketing at Dimension
Francois Martin has been appointed senior vice president of marketing at Dimension Films.Martin will continue to work closely with Gary Faber, executive vice president of marketing for TWC, on media planning and media promotions for all TWC titles as well as remain involved in media buying for home video distributor ...
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Five European festivals form 'Doc Alliance'
Five documentary festivals have hatched their very own pan-European programming initiative. 'Doc Alliance,' as the scheme is called, involves Switzerland (Visions Du Reel), the Czech Republic (Jihlava International Doc Festival), The Poles (Doc Review Warsaw), The Germans (Dok Leipzig) and the Danes (Copenhagen Documentary Festival). The idea is for each ...
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Intercinema picks up two French titles from Films Distribution
Russian sales agent and distributor Intercinema, which is screening a promo reel of Fedor Bondarchuk's two-feature $36.5 million sci-fi opus The Inhabited Island here at the EFM on Thursday, has picked up a package of two of films from French seller Films Distribution.Intercinema's Raisa Fomina confirmed that she has bought ...