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    Celluloid Dreams takes on Dennis Gansel's Sundance title The Wave

    2008-01-09T04:00:00Z

    Celluloid Dreams has announced the acquisition of Dennis Gansel's The Wave. The film is a world dramatic competition entry at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.Produced by Christian Becker of Rat Pack films and co-produced by Martin Moszkowicz of Constantin Film, The Wave tells the story of a high school teacher, ...

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    Delphis picks up international on X Filme's Max Minsky And Me

    2008-01-08T19:46:00Z

    Montreal-based Delphis Films has picked up international rights to Anna Justice's feature debut Max Minsky And Me, a production of X Films Creative Pool. Delphis plans to screen the film at EFM in Berlin in February. The child-oriented comedy opened in Germany in September 2007 and won the Lion Prize ...

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    TF1 debuts two new projects at Rendez-Vous

    2008-01-08T16:01:00Z

    TF1 International is debuting two new projects at this week's Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris as well as world premiering two anticipated films. The new projects are School's Out by Frederic Berthe, a teen comedy billed as 'the modern-day La Boum', and Philippe Harel's sequel to 1997 hit ...

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    Wild Bunch strikes Magic! with four new projects at Rendez-Vous

    2008-01-08T15:57:00Z

    Wild Bunch is bringing four new projects to this week's Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris. The sales company will introduce a promo reel of Philippe Muyl's Magic!, a family film about a boy, his single mother and the healing power of the circus. Marie Gillain stars with Louis ...

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    Machin replaces Schoukroun as THINKFilm head of international

    2008-01-07T13:27:00Z

    Will Machin has been named head of international at THINKFilm International. He had been head of co-productions and sales at London-based Carnaby International and previously worked as co-president of international sales at Lola Films.He joins THINKFilm as of January 14 and will start planning for Berlin immediately. Machin will report ...

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    Contender takes on UK rights forBattle For Haditha

    2008-01-07T11:32:00Z

    Contender Films has acquired UK rights to Nick Broomfield's Iraq drama Battle For Haditha from HanWay Films.The deal comes after another UK distributor, Metrodome, handed back the UK rights to HanWay in late December.The drama is a feature film based on real events that occurred in November 2005 in Haditha, ...

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    Veterans of TF1, UGC launch new sales outfit Elle Driver

    2008-01-04T05:00:00Z

    A new sales outfit will debut next week at the Unifrance Paris Rendez-Vous. Elle Driver, headed up by Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur has taken up residence at Stephane Celerier's Mars Distribution offices and, with help from an outside investment fund, will work 'with quality films that can travel,' ...

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    Films Distribution to premiere three new features at Rendez-Vous

    2008-01-02T17:37:00Z

    French sales outfit Films Distribution has announced the world premieres of three new titles at the upcoming Rendez-Vous with French cinema. The event, organized by French film export body Unifrance, runs Jan 10-14 in Paris.At the Rendez-Vous, Films Distribution will screen The Maiden And The Wolves directed by Gilles Legrand ...

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    Metrodome hands backUK rights to Haditha to HanWay

    2007-12-21T14:01:00Z

    UK distributor Metrodome has agreed to hand back UK rights for Nick Broomfield's Battle For Haditha to sales company HanWay Films. Each company has released the other's obligation with immediate effect. The Channel 4-backed drama recreates a fight between US soldiers and Iraqi civilians in November 2005. Broomfield 's drama ...

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    NonStop to sell sequel to Gnomes And Trolls

    2007-12-20T11:29:00Z

    NonStop sales will handle international sales for Gnomes and Trolls II, after selling the original film this year.The 3D animated fairy tale is from White Shark AB with executive producers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (Toy Story, Garfield).The first Gnomes and Trolls is in production and will be finished in ...

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    Contentfilm/Fireworks take on CBC library

    2007-12-19T11:20:00Z

    ContentFilm's division Fireworks International has struck a deal to acquire international distribution rights for CBC's international sales assets. The library includes a programme catalogue of about 135 titles, representing 700 hours of TV programming. Canada-based CBC still retains broadcasting rights and archives. The transaction is subject to due diligence and ...

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    Berlin's EFM to welcome 25 new exhibitors including IM Global

    2007-12-19T11:11:00Z

    Companies from the US, the UK, Spain, Ukraine, and Brazil are among 25 first-timers confirmed so far as exhibitors at the Berlinale's forthcoming European Film Market (EFM). Participants with stands for the first time in the EFM's central venue of the Martin Gropius Bau include such sales agents as ContentFilm ...

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    Maximum takes international rights to Rossellini's Green Porno shorts

    2007-12-19T11:06:00Z

    Maximum International has picked up international rights on Isabella Rossellini's short film series Green Porno. Commissioned by The Sundance Channel, the eight mobile-oriented short films feature the actress re-enacting the mating ritual of various insects and other creatures. The first three pieces -- Firefly, Dragon Fly, Spider -- will premiere ...

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    Revolver takes on UK distribution of U2 3D

    2007-12-17T13:41:00Z

    UK distributor Revolver Entertainment will handle the UK distribution of U2 3D.Revolver will distribute the film in Real D, IMAX 3-D and other digital 3-D formats across the UK on Feb 22, 2008.The film, which was shown as a work in progress in Cannes, is directed by Catherine Owens and ...

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    Boll takes over world sales for 15+ titles from Allied Entertainment

    2007-12-17T13:29:00Z

    Boll AG has taken over he world sales for 15+ titles from the LA-based genre specialist Allied Entertainment.The lineup includes Rafael Zielinski's classic teen sex comedy Screwballs and brings the total number of films handled internationally by Boll AG to 60. Other films in the deal include Fallen Angels starring ...

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    Rezo works on new Cebula and Laine projects

    2007-12-13T13:17:00Z

    At the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, Rezo Films will unveil two new films, one from director Idit Cebula and the other from Marion Laine. The former, Two Lives Plus One, is produced by Les Films du Kiosque and stars Emmanuelle Devos and Gerard Darmon in the story of ...

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    Beta Cinema to handle Helmer's third feature Absurdistan

    2007-12-11T11:13:00Z

    Beta Cinema will handle world sales for German film-maker Veit Helmer's third feature Absurdistan which will have its world premiere in January in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Absurdistan's screenplay, which was co-written by Helmer with Gordan Mihic and Zaza Buadze, was selected as one ...

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    Bavaria takes on world sales for Doerrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami

    2007-12-11T11:09:00Z

    Bavaria Film International will handle world sales for Doris Doerrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami, which will have its world premiere in Berlinale Competition. Munich-based Olga Film produces, reteaming after working with Doerrie more than two decades ago on Men. Co-producers are Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARD/Degeto and arte and other backers ...

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    The Works to handle international sales on high-wire doc

    2007-12-11T06:46:00Z

    The Works International is to handle international sales for James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire.The film tells the story of daredevil Philippe Petit's attempt to walk across a high wire between New York's Twin Towers in 1974.Currently in post-production, the film will premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at ...

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    The Weinstein Company picks up rights to Telepool 3D animation

    2007-12-10T14:04:00Z

    The Weinstein Company has acquired rights from Munich-based Telepool for all English-language and Latin-American territories for the European 3D animated film Niko & The Way To The Stars by Michael Hegner and Kari Juusonen.Described as 'a modern-day fairytale for the whole family', the CGI-animated film about the adventures of the ...