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NewsHyde Park closes sales on Cianfrance's Blue Valentine
Mimi Steinbauer’s Hyde Park International has closed a raft of deals on Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine, which The Weinstein Company acquired for North America and France following its world premiere in Sundance.
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Kao joins Jackman in Wang’s Snow Flower And The Secret Fan
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star Archie Kao has signed on as the male lead in Wayne Wang’s adaptation of Lisa See’s bestseller Snow Flower And The Secret Fan.
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NewsPere promises flexibility in Piazza Grande line-up
Locarno Film Festival’s new artistic director Olivier Pere will be more flexible in his programming for the nightly open-air programme on the town’s Piazza Grande.
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NewsEra New Horizons expands into distribution
Era New Horizons International Film Festival, the Polish event which takes place in July, has started a distribution arm, picking up six films from its 2009 festival — Steve McQueen’s Hunger, Ivan Vyrypaev’s Oxygen, Johan Grimonprez’s Double Take, Agnes Varda’s The Beaches Of Agnes, Henrik Hellstrom and Frederik Wenzel’s Burrowing ...
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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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NewsSummit Crownes key sales
Summit International has closed key territories on its Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts comedy Larry Crowne as buyers responded to the prospect of the pair’s first match-up since Charlie Wilson’s War.
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Shoreline sells Sympathy to US, latest Chopper saga to Germany
Shoreline has announced a pair of deals, selling North American rights to the horror film Sympathy to Breaking Glass Pictures, and German rights to Fat Belly — Chopper (Unchopped) to WVG.
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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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Mark Adams joins Screen
Screen International has appointed Mark Adams as the title’s chief film critic and reviews editor.
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NewsHrebejk, Menemsha pair up again
The prolific Jan Hrebejk whose Shameless was in Toronto and Kawasaki’s Rose opened the Panorama Special here, is set to begin his next film Innocence in Prague in the summer.
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NewsWhite Ribbon scoops German critics’ awards
Michael Haneke’s Oscar-nominated The White Ribbon took four prizes, including best film and screenplay, at the German Film Critics Association Awards last night.
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Arrow takes on Somali pirates
Arrow Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Nordic territories, to Finnish documentary Pirates Of Somalia from Helsinki-based Hakalax Production Oy.
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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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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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Karathanos reveals new projects
New films from Tadjik director Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov and Georgia’s Dito Tsintsadze are being lined up for production this year by Thanassis Karathanos of Twenty Twenty Vision and Pallas Film.
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Brazilian films snag p&a windfall
Film export agency Cinema Do Brasil is set to launch the first of two distribution grant schemes providing around $20,000 in p&a funds for the release of Brazilian films.
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Yelchin scores royal appointment
Anton Yelchin, riding high on the global success of Star Trek, has been cast opposite Milla Jovovich in Seven Arts Pictures’ period thriller The Winter Queen.
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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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NewsIcon closes big sales on How I Spent My Summer
Icon Entertainment International (IEI) has scored big sales on its Mel Gibson-starrer How I Spent My SummerVacation about a career criminal caught by Mexican authorities who is sent to a dangerous prison and has to learn how to survive. Adrian Grunberg is directing.