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  • Michael Schmid-Ospach
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    Rumours abound on next fund chief

    2010-02-17T06:14:00Z

    The German film industry rumour-mill has gone into overdrive during the Berlinale over who will replace Filmstiftung NRW chief Michael Schmid-Ospach when he departs in April.

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    TIFF firms 2010 move downtown

    2010-02-17T06:05:00Z

    The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has set some major changes for visiting industry for its 2010 event, which takes place September 10-19

  • The Last Exorcism
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    StudioCanal enjoys bumper EFM

    2010-02-17T05:00:00Z

    StudioCanal has enjoyed a bumper EFM. Since selling The Last Exorcism (formerly known as Cotton) to Lionsgate for the US last week, the French major has racked up multiple major deals on its eclectic slate.

  • Winter's Bone
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    Fortissimo's Reign of Sales

    2010-02-17T05:00:00Z

    Fortissimo Films have completed several major deals on their EFM slate titles. John Woo produced Reign Of Assassins has gone to Lionsgate for UK distribution here at the EFM.

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    Little Film Company sells Cherrybomb, The Last Station

    2010-02-17T05:00:00Z

    Little Film Company has sold UK and Australian rights to Universal for the drama Cherrybomb (pictured) starring Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon.

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    BBC, AL under starter’s orders on Coe/Ovett pic

    2010-02-17T05:00:00Z

    Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, one of the great athletics rivalries of the 1980s, are coming to the big screen in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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    Bittersuess lines up Love, Run Boy Run and Santiago

    2010-02-17T05:00:00Z

    Berlin-based Bittersuess Pictures is lining up new films by directors Christian Alvart, Pepe Danquart and Christian Schwochow.

  • Vanessa Redgrave
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    Redgrave In Ruins for Keiller

    2010-02-17T05:00:00Z

    Vanessa Redgrave has signed on as Narrator for Robinson In Ruins, the long-awaited follow-up to Patrick Keiller’s celebrated 1990s films London and Robinson In Space.

  • Susanne Bier
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    Trust’s hot Revenge

    2010-02-17T05:00:00Z

    Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk has revealed details of more EFM deals. The Revenge, directed by Susanne Bier (pictured), has gone to Spain (Golem) and Poland (Vivarto)

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    Inferno lights up EFM with The Grey, The Kids Are All Right

    2010-02-17T05:00:00Z

    Inferno Entertainment is close to selling out its marquee survival title The Grey from Joe Carnahan and has reported a roaring trade on Lisa Cholodenko’s Sundance hit The Kids Are All Right (pictured).

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    Pyramide International knows what buyers want

    2010-02-17T04:57:00Z

    Pyramide International has closed several deals for Italian director Silvio Soldini’s eighth feature What More Do I Want (Cosa Voglio Di Piu), which had its world premiere in the Berlinale Special section.

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    Perfect Circle signs up to Blind Spot werewolf picture

    2010-02-17T04:56:00Z

    Vancouver’s Perfect Circle Productions has boarded AJ Annila’s new project Human as co-producers with Blind Spot Pictures.

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    Europe should stop looking to US, says panel on indie film finance

    2010-02-17T04:55:00Z

    Oscar-nominated producer Nicolas Chartier, whose Voltage Pictures was behind The Hurt Locker, has issued a stark warning that old models of financing independent films no longer work

  • Tucker & Dale Vs Evil
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    Film Depot snaps up Exorcism, Pyramids doc

    2010-02-17T04:50:00Z

    Sergei Yershov’s Los Angeles-based Film Depot, which specialises in distribution in Russia and the CIS states, has snapped up rights to a raft of films at EFM.

  • Colin
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    Micro-budget UK horror sells to Japan, Germany

    2010-02-17T04:50:00Z

    The film, which marks the debut of Welsh film-maker Marc Price, has sold to Eden Entertainment for Japan, and to MIG Film for German-speaking territories.Left is also negotiating the more substantial financing for Price’s next movie Thunderchild, a war/horror feature which will shoot in June and is being produced by ...

  • The Treasure Hunter
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    Treasure trove of sales for Double Edge

    2010-02-17T04:50:00Z

    Taiwan-based Double Edge Entertainment has announced today a cluster of European and Asian sales, all closed at the European Film Market, on The Treasure Hunter (pictured).

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    Independent, Mogador team on erotic thriller

    2010-02-17T04:46:00Z

    Independent Partners Films and Mogador Films have announced plans to collaborate on a second erotic arthouse film. Rolf Peter Kahl will direct The Lost Love, and Melanie Kretschmann (Blutsfreundschaft) is already attached to star.

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    Carr to drive Film New Zealand forward

    2010-02-16T21:07:00Z

    Gisella Carr has been appointed chief executive of Film New Zealand (FNZ), which is responsible for promoting the region as a location for filming and production.

  • Berlin Day 8
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    Screen At The Berlin Film Festival

    2010-02-16T19:44:00Z

    Missed out on a daily? Catch up here with the digital edition.

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    Strand snaps up US rights from Visit to Picture Me

    2010-02-16T17:49:00Z

    Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights from Visit Films to Ole Schell and Sara Ziff’s documentary Picture Me and has scheduled a summer theatrical release.