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Momentum hits Raw Nerve with GreeneStreet
New York's GreeneStreetFilms International has closed its first key European territory on its debuttitle from genre label Raw Nerve, selling all UK rights to 2001 Maniacs to Momentum Pictures.GreeneStreet partner andsales head Cedric Jeanson aims to set up a network of one or two regular buyersin each major market to ...
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Arclight gets Duff sisters in Material Girls
Arclight Films closed a dealon Tuesday to handle international sales on Maverick Films' teen comedy MaterialGirls which will team US teen starHilary Duff with her sister Haylie Duff for the first time in a movie.The Duffs play two siblingheiresses who lose their fortune because of a scandal and have to ...
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Becker's Love secures female lead
Canadianactress Sarah Gadon (Siblings, FastFood High) has been cast in the keyrole of Sabina opposite Armin Muller Stahl in the forthcoming Where LoveReigns, a drama about psychoanalystCarl Jung.Thefilm, which is to be executive produced by Martin Scorsese, is soldinternationally by Australian seller Becker Films International, headed byReiko Bradley.Itis a psychodrama ...
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Samuel Goldwyn picks up Saint Ralph for US
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquiredUS distribution rights to Michael McGowan's comedy Saint Ralph, produced by Alliance Atlantis and Amaze Film +Television Production. The US release is scheduled for spring 2005.Campbell Scott, AdamButcher, Jennifer Tilley and Gordon Pinsent star in the bittersweet comedyabout a Catholic schoolboy who attempts to save his ...
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MKB readies Shiri 2 and mega-budget Kang action flick
A sequel to Shiri anda new action film by the director of Shiri and record-breaker Tae GukGi give Korean sales company MKB plenty of leverage on what is its marketdebut.The company emerged from the merger earlier this year of production houses KangJegyuFilms and Myung Films which were acquired by local ...
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Content partners with US distributor Image
US-UK operation ContentFilmand US DVD company Image Entertainment have struck a long-term co-productionand distribution deal.Under the agreement, Contentwill source and produce a series of films that Image will distribute in theNorth American video market under a new ContentFilm label.Content's sales arm, ContentInternational, will handle worldwide sales on the films, which ...
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Rapp's Gout takes top prizes at Cognac crime fest
Bernard Rapp 's Une Affaire De Gout bagged three awards at the 18th Cognac Festival of Crime Films (April 6-9), including the Cognac 2000 Grand Prize, the Critics' Prize and the Cine Live Prize.The film noir, which stars Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit and Florence Thomassin, was the token French film ...
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It's all gone UK, US for Pete Tong
Rapidly building areputation for its innovative approach to commercially-oriented low-budget filmmaking,the UK's Vertigo Films has secured suitably unusual UK and US distributiondeals for its Toronto title It's All Gone Pete Tong.Vertigo has partnered withdistributor Redbus in the UK for a hefty 300-screen release next April. The twocompanies will collaborate on ...
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US' Millennium strikes deal with producer Haft
Avi LernerC;s MillenniumFilms has signed a five-picture production deal with veteran producer StevenHaft, whose credits include Dead PoetsC; Society, Tigerland and Emma.The non-exclusive agreementprovides his Haft Entertainment with funds to attach talent and producepictures with foreign distribution through MillenniumC;s Nu Image. Titles areexpected to be in the $15m-$45m range."We are ...
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US' Millennium strikes deal with producer Haft
Avi Lerner's MillenniumFilms has signed a five-picture production deal with veteran producer StevenHaft, whose credits include Dead Poets' Society, Tigerland and Emma.The non-exclusive agreementprovides his Haft Entertainment with funds to attach talent and producepictures with foreign distribution through Millennium's Nu Image. Titles areexpected to be in the $15m-$45m range."We are ...
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2046 leads Golden Horse nominations
Wong Kar-wai's 2046 came outas the favourite after nominations yesterday for Taiwan's 41stGolden Horse film awards.The romantic fantasy was nominated in eightcategories including best film, best actor (Tony Leung Kar-fai), best actress (ZhangZiyi), best cinematography, best art direction, best costume, bestmusicand best sound.But surprisingly,there was no nomination for Wong himself.Three ...
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Moonstone wraps Chen Kaige's Promise
EtchieStroh's Moonstone Entertainment has completed principal photography on ThePromise (Wu-Ji), a top-levelpan-Asian production in the hands of legendary Chinese director Chen Kaige.Filmingof the epic fantasy romance took six months on location in Beijing, InnerMongolia, Yunnan, Hengdian and Shangri-La with a glittering technical crew andan impressive cast.Inaddition to Farewell My Concubinedirector ...
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Sogepaq sells on de la Iglesia's Crime
Spain's Sogepaq hasannounced the first sales on cult director Alex de la Iglesia's new blackcomedy Ferpect Crime.The film, which willscreen twice for buyers at this weekC;s American Film Market, has sold broadlyin Europe and Latin America.Distributors in Europeinclude La Fabrique de Films in France, Eco Filmes in Portugal, Audiovisual inGreece, ...
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Darwin evolving at Icon
Icon EntertainmentInternational is understood to be taking sales duties on The Darwin Awards, a romantic comedy starring Winona Ryder and JosephFiennes.Written and to bedirected by Finn Taylor, the film tells the story of a detective (Fiennes) andan insurance claims investigator (Ryder) looking into a potential winner of theDarwin Award, an ...
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Fortissimo strikes first major sale on Seven Swords
Fortissimo Film Salesclocked up its first sale on new Tsui Hark film Seven Swords that it picked up on the eve of the American FilmMarket.Although many Italiancompanies are boycotting this autumn's AFM, whose move did so much to dent lastmonth's Mifed, Italian buyer Medusa was first to step up for ...
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IFTA chief optimistic over US tax break
The US tax break just signedinto law by returning President George W Bush could prove to be a windfall forindependent producers worth up to 16% of their movie budgets, claim the organisersof the American Film Market.The production incentive,which was written into the Jumpstart Our Business Strength Act(JOBS), allows films of ...
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Leon named consumer marketing czar for Columbia
George Leon has been promoted to executive vice presidentof worldwide consumer marketing for Columbia Tristar Motion Picture Group in amove that consolidates theatrical licensing, merchandising, product placement,consumer products and worldwide promotions under one division.In his new capacity Leon will take on the additionalresponsibility of supervising licensing, merchandising, and consumer products,a ...
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Cuaron returns to Mexico with Good Machine
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired international sales rights outside North America, Spain and Latin America to Alfonso Cuaron's latest film Y Tu Mama Tambien which is currently shooting in Mexico.The film marks Cuaron's return to Spanish-language films in Mexico after two Hollywood films - Great Expectations (1998) for 20th ...
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Plague to start with Barker, Armada
CliveBarker's Midnight Picture Show label (MPS) and Armada Pictures are teaming upto produce the horror picture Plague, which is set to begin shooting inFebruary 2005.Barker,Jorge Saralegui and Tim O'Hair will produce and Armada's Chris Sievernich andMatt Milich will serve as executive producers with MPS's Joe Daley and AnthonyDiblasi and D ...
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As It Is In Heaven (Sa Som I Himmelen)
Dir/scr: Kay Pollak.Sweden-Denmark. 2004. 130minsSweden's entry in theforthcoming Academy Awards, As It Is In Heaven is an accomplishedcrowd-pleaser, and surely a front runner for this year's Film Most Likely To BeRemade By Hollywood.A tragi-comic musical romancethat shamelessly but efficiently tugs the heartstrings, the determinedlymiddle-brow offering represents a comeback for veteran ...