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Buyers start biting for Celluloid's vampire hit We Are The Night
Five deals already closed and buyers lining up for other major territories.
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Fortissimo scares up Rabbit Horror
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide rights, excluding Japan, to Takashi Shimizu’s 3D The Rabbit Horror.
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Anchor Bays sinks claws into The Howling reboot for English-language territories
Fast-rising distributor Anchor Bay Films has acquired all rights for English-speaking territories to The Howling: Reborn.
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Independent distributors have increased opportunity, AFM panel says
With the studios making fewer films and concentrating on higher budget “four quadrant” fare, the indies have the chance to step into the breach, panelists said.
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Molly Hassell assembles cast on The Giant Mechanical Man
Vamps producer Molly Hassell has assembled a strong young ensemble for rom-com The Giant Mechanical Man, set to commence production in Detroit later this month.
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IFC Midnight snaps up North American rights to genre duo
Genre label IFC Midnight has picked up North American rights to Manuel Carballo’s supernatural tale Exorcismus and Miguel Angel Vivas’ home invasion tale Kidnapped.
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Disney shuffles up North American PR operation
Disney has realigned its North American public relations department and announced that Joe Quenqua and Julie Fontaine will coordinate the domestic media strategy for all titles.
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Cortes unveils Red Lights vision to AFM buyers
Rodrigo Cortes outlined his vision for the psychological thriller Red Lights in a Friday morning [5] buyer presentation hosted by Lisa Wilson’s Parlay Films.
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Phase 4 pre-buys martial arts thriller Breaking Point for North America
Phase 4 Films has pre-bought North American rights to martial arts thriller Breaking Point to be directed by Ham Tran.
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Singapore's MDA launching $50m fund with CJ, Bang, AMTC
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) is launching a $50m film fund in partnership with Korea’s CJ Entertainment, production company Bang Singapore and Singapore-based Asia Media & Technology Capital (AMTC).
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Kill Me Please takes Rome's top award
Other winners include Heaven-In A Better World and The Poll Diaries.
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Sex and Zen heats up AFM sales
Hong Kong producer Stephen Shiu’s 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy is raising temperatures at the AFM just a few days after it wrapped in Hong Kong.
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Bruce Lee, My Brother strikes slew of deals for Media Asia
Media Asia Distribution has sold Bruce Lee, My Brother, a biopic of the Hong Kong action legend, to a slew of territories including North America which was snapped up by The Weinstein Co.
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Stealth signs on for hiker thriller Dark Peak
Stealth Media Group has come on board another project here at the AFM, sci-fi thriller Dark Peak.
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Baltic Event co-production market announces projects
Twelve projects from nine countries have been selected for this year’s Baltic Event co-production market, which will take place in Tallinn, Estonia (December 1-3).
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IFC Midnight strikes deal for Wrecked from eOne
IFC Midnight has continued its buying streak by taking on US rights to Wrecked from eOne.
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Evohe Films to make doc about controversial boxing champion
Barcelona-based Evohe Films is to make 138 Seconds, a documentary feature about the controversial boxing champion Josep Girones, with Mexico’s Cacao Films.
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IFC Midnight strikes deal for thriller Choose
Psychological thriller Choose (handled internationally by Simon Crowe’s SC Films) has been snapped up for the US by IFC Midnight.
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Elite Squad 2 among IM Global's prestige Anthem local language slate
IM Global head Stuart Ford has unveiled the Anthem world sales division’s prestige AFM slate, led by Jose Padilha’s smash sequel to his Brazilian crime saga Elite Squad.
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HPI reports surge of sales on Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 3D
Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park International has closed key territories on the supernatural action film Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 3D to star Nicolas Cage.