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SPC takes North America on Love Is All You Need
Susanne Bier’s follow-up to the Oscar winning In A Better World stars Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm and Paprika Steen. SPC negotiated the deal with CAA on behalf of TrustNordisk.
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Cargo to handle sales on Hemingway & Fuentes
Financier-producer Edward Walson of Sunrider Productions, Andy Garcia and Cargo Entertainment CEO-managing partner Marina Grasic announced on Tuesday (15) that financing is place for the project. The Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group arranged the financing and will represent domestic rights.
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Olivier Assayas and Chantal Akerman tributes planned at French Film Festival UK
20th edition, which runs Nov 8-29, to also honour Yves Montand and Georges Méliès.
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Savage strikes on Roskam’s Faithful
Roskam’s film noir is one of several projects that the Belgian production outfit is working on.
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ARC Entertainment takes US rights to Whole Lotta Sole
EXCLUSIVE: The distributor plans a day-and-date theatrical and VoD release this autumn after striking a low seven-figure deal with WME Global’s Deborah McIntosh and Graham Taylor.
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Pinewood to consult on future development plans
The studio group is consulting with local and national stakeholders and producers, looking at issues including space, and what to do with the adjacent land following the planning refusal of Project Pinewood.
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Music Box Films acquires North American rights to Starlet
Music Box has picked up all North American rights to Sean Baker’s drama Starlet following its premiere at SXSW and will release in the autumn.
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Dogwoof is PMD on doc F*ck For Forest
EXCLUSIVE: Dogwoof assumes role as producer of global marketing and distribution on doc F*ck For Forest.
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Shooting begins on Kick
Marcus Warren’s football thriller is produced by Geoff Austin, David Ravden and Jon Thompson.
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Melbourne film festival to open with Sapphires
The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced that The Sapphires has been selected as the opening film of this year’s edition of the festival which runs August 2-19.
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Woo to direct remake of Nikkatsu’s Beast
John Woo is set to direct and produce gangster drama Day Of The Beast, an English-language remake of Seijin Suzuki’s 1963 classic Youth Of The Beast.
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Beta's Cannes slate includes The Notebook, Orange Honey, Two Lives
Slate also includes Toke C. Hebbeln’s Shores Of Hope.
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Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Grassroots
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Stephen Gyllenhaal’s character-driven comedy Grassroots. Intandem represents international sales here in Cannes.
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SPWA takes multiple territories to Ends Of The Earth
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has acquired from IM Global distribution rights to German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Italy, Australia and New Zealand, Latin America and South Africa.
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Steve Coogan joins Northern Soul as Little Film kicks off sales
The British actor and comedian joins leads Elliot James Langridge and Josh Whitehouse in a story set against the wildly popular 1970s UK underground music scene of the title. The Little Film Company is introducing the project to buyers in Cannes this week.
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Jinga closes deals on Rites of Spring
Jinga closes German and Korean deals for horror Rites of Spring.
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Media Content Capital takes stake in QED International
Bill Block has sold a portion of the company in an eight-figure deal that will enable him to grow the development, production and financing business and boost the agency side of his sales operation by paying minimum guarantees for more projects.
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Sony Pictures sets Aaron Sorkin to adapt Steve Jobs biography
The studio issued the timely press release late on Tuesday (15) as it emerged on the eve of Cannes that Inferno had picked up international sales rights to the rival project Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher.
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eOne promotes Lara Thompson to new filmed entertaiment role
Lara Thompson has been promoted to the newly created role of evp of filmed entertainment at Entertainment One, effective immediately.
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Fortissimo sails into Sunset with Terence Davies
EXCLUSIVE: Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights to Terence Davies’ Sunset Song, which has secured Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn to head the cast.