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  • Trevor Groth
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    Trevor Groth named Sundance director of programming

    2009-05-07T13:13:00Z

    Trevor Groth has been named director of programming for the Sundance Film Festival in the wake of John Cooper’s appointment as festival director.

  • Carmen
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    Phantoms to revisit Venice Film Festival

    2009-05-07T12:57:00Z

    The Venice Film Festival has announced These Phantoms – 2 will be the retrospective for the upcoming 66th edition.

  • The Pleasure Of Being Robbed
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    Films Boutique picks up new films by Rodrigues and Safdie brothers

    2009-05-07T12:33:00Z

    Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique has picked up Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ To Die Like A Man and US indie filmmakers Josh & Benny Safdie’s Go Get Some Rosemary.

  • Wild Bunch Soccer
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    German film fund back on track

    2009-05-07T12:01:00Z

    German film production will step up a gear this week after the Berlin-based German Federal Film Board finally agreed its budget for 2009. It is understood to be close to last year’s $93.4m (€70m).

  • Tinkerbell
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    Disney India moves into video distribution

    2009-05-07T11:36:00Z

    Walt Disney Co India (WDCI) has announced that it will start releasing home entertainment content in India directly, rather than license product to local distributor Excel Home Video.

  • Motion picture association of America
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    Adlabs establishes digital outsourcing centre

    2009-05-07T11:34:00Z

    India’s Adlabs Films is establishing an outsourcing centre for digital restoration and content processing, which will comply with Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) standards.

  • Leonor Watling
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    Spain's Filmax picks up Magic Journey To Africa for Cannes

    2009-05-07T10:50:00Z

    Major Spanish producer/distributor and sales outfit Filmax has taken international sales rights to Jordi Llompart’s $13m live-action 3D film Magic Journey To Africa.

  • Pang Ho cheung
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    Fortissimo Films checks into Pang’s Dream Home

    2009-05-07T10:24:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide rights, excluding Hong Kong, to Pang Ho-cheung’s upcoming slasher film Dream Home, starring Josie Ho.Produced by start-up outfit 852 Films, the film is in post-production after shooting in Hong Kong. Ho plays a youngwoman who goes to extreme measures when she discovers she can ...

  • Dany Boon
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    TF1 to show promo of Jeunet's Micmacs at Cannes

    2009-05-07T09:54:00Z

    TF1 International has announced its Cannes line-up including world premiere screenings, new titles and the first images of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs

  • Fast & Furious star, Paul Walker
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    IM Global bulks up for Cannes with Protection, The Company Men and Bitch Slap

    2009-05-07T01:39:00Z

    Stuart Ford’s IM Global continues to assemble a diverse Cannes slate with three new titles headed by the action thriller Protection starring Paul Walker.

  • Tim Allen
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    MPCA adds Tim Allen comedy Crazy On The Outside to Cannes slate

    2009-05-07T00:52:00Z

    Los Angeles-based MPCA has added Tim Allen’s directorial debut Crazy On The Outside to its Cannes slate in which Allen stars alongside Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta and Jeanne Tripplehorn.

  • News

    Content picks up The Details

    2009-05-07T00:02:00Z

    ContentFilm International has picked up international sales rights to The Details.Written and directed by Jacob Estes, The Details stars James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney and Anna Friel. Content will be introducing the film to buyers at Cannes next week.The Details tells the story of a couple whose domestic strife ...

  • Dark Streets
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    AV Pictures boards Freight

    2009-05-07T00:01:00Z

    AV Pictures has taken on international sales of Stuart St. Paul’s Freight, which is currently in post production.

  • News

    Jonathan Hensleigh to direct mob story The Irishman for Code

    2009-05-06T23:44:00Z

    Code Entertainment has hired Jonathan Hensleigh to direct the true-life crime story The Irishman starring Ray Stevenson, which Lightning Entertainment will introduce to buyers in Cannes next week. ICM and Jonathan Dana represent North American rights.

  • News

    Image, Universal Music Group sign distribution deal

    2009-05-06T20:38:00Z

    Image Entertainment has signed a five-year deal with Universal Music Group to distribute music and music-related urban programming in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. 

  • Nina Hoss
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    Locarno reveals 2009 jury line-up

    2009-05-06T17:15:00Z

    The Locarno International Film Festival has announced the first names for this year’s official juries. The Swiss festival takes place between August 5 – 15 this year.

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    Bavaria completes Cannes slate

    2009-05-06T16:55:00Z

    Bavaria Film International has added genre titles Ole Bornedal’s Deliver Us From Evil and Jonathan auf der Heide’s Van Diemen’s Land to its sales slate for this year’s Cannes.

  • Tetsuo1
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    Asmik Ace unwraps third film in Tetsuo franchise

    2009-05-06T15:14:00Z

    Japan’s Asmik Ace Entertainment has announced details of a long-awaited third installment in the cult Tetsuo franchise, which will also mark director Shinya Tsukamoto’s English-language debut.

  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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    Imagina picks up new Woody Allen for Cannes

    2009-05-06T15:12:00Z

    Spanish sales outfit Imagina has obtained the sales rights to Woody Allen’s new project and will present it for the first time to distributors at Cannes.

  • Black Water
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    Screen Australia agrees to finance Reef, Swerve

    2009-05-06T14:36:00Z

    Screen Australia has agreed to finance Andrew Traucki’s thriller The Reef, about four friends being stalked by a Great White shark, and Swerve from writer-director Craig Lahiff.