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Ondamax takes on sales for prison doc White Bear
Ambitious new Latin American outfit Ondamax has taken on sales for documentary White Bear chronicles the story of one of the world's most notorious jails, the 'White Bear' in Puerto Rico. The film, now in post-production, was co-financed by Buena Onda Americas and the Puerto Rican Film Commission. Directed by ...
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Sun Distribution swoops on Latin American rights for Mammoth
In the first major deal on Lukas Moodysson's $17 million English language debut Mammoth, Sun Distribution has swooped to take all Latin American rights. The deal was signed at the weekend by Thomas Mai for Trust Films Sales and Diego Halabi for Sun Distribution.Mammoth begins shooting in Thailand today (Monday). ...
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Stone, Peet find Five Dollars with THINKFilm
Sharon Stone and Amanda Peet have joined the cast of Nigel Cole's Five Dollars A Day, also starring Christopher Walken and Alessandra Nivola.The film is financed by Capitol Films and is being sold by sister company THINKFilm International.The comedy is about a father and son road trip. Stone plays the ...
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Jinga swims along Pretty Piranhas
UK-based sales and production company Jinga Films has come on board for Pretty Piranhas. The project is an edgy urban thriller about a gang of teenage girls who are recruited to steal heroin from Filipino drug traffickers.The project will be Jinga's first production, as the company has previously picked up ...
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AV Pictures kills with deals for The Tournament
UK-based sales company AV Pictures has knocked out a slew of deals for action thriller The Tournament based on a 10-minute promo shown here.Pre-sales have been done for the Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (J-Bics), Brazil (Focus), Czech Republic (AQS), Poland (Charisma), the Middle East (Falcon), and Turkey (Horizon). Previously announced deals ...
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Peace Arch and Genius score Goal II for North America
Peace Arch Entertainment Group and Genius Products have jointly struck a deal for all North American rights to Goal II: Living The Dream.Peace Arch plans a spring 2008 theatrical run in the US and Canada on 250 screens. Genius will handle the DVD release.In a separate deal, Genius has also ...
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Edwards kicks off sales outfit Aspect with Akerman's Utopian Society
Hugh Edwards, who previously worked at Blue Star Movies, Eagle Rock and MercuryMedia, has launched new sales and production outfit Aspect Film Limited with Aneta Kianekova.Aspect is at AFM selling completed projects US comedy The Utopian Society, starring The Heartbreak Kid actress Malin Akerman; thriller The Dreamless; Lee Hutcheon's Scottish ...
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Alki David's 111 strikes three-film deal with Red Ridinghood
UK-based 111 Pictures has signed a three-picture production & distribution deal with US-based Red Ridinghood Productions.Alki David's 111 Pictures will co-finance and distribute three films with Jerry Wolff's Red Ridinghood. Basem Zakariya of Structured Capital Group will executive produce the three films. David himself will direct the first film, The ...
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National Lampoon deals two films to Beta Film
National Lampoon has struck a two-film deal with Germany's Beta Film to distribute its original productions in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe.The deal will kick off with be the company's first in-house production National Lampoon's Bag Boy.'I am delighted to be forging this relationship with Beta,' president of worldwide distribution ...
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Nimbus plans modern version of Miss Julie with Staermose
Danish production outfit Nimbus is plotting a new film version of August Strindberg's Miss Julie with plans to shoot in late 2008.Here at the AFM, the film's producer Jesper Morthorst has revealed details of the project, about the destructive relationship between an aristocratic woman and her valet. The idea is ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Lopez and Antony's El Cantante
UK-based Moviehouse Entertainment is now handling international sales for El Cantante starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.The film is about Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe (and wife Puchi) following his tumultuous life from the 1960s to the 1980s.Producers are Julio Caro, Lopez and Simon Fields, who did the deal ...
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Mirovision leads Korean buying charge at AFM
South Korea is re-emerging as a buying force at this market with several Korean distributors making multiple acquisitions of hot US and international product. Mirovision has been the most aggressive on the buying front, acquiring nine titles, including Ed Zwick's Defiance from Essential Entertainment, The Women from Inferno Distribution and ...
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Weinsteins closes Attenborough's Ring with Content
The Weinstein Company has taken US rights to Richard Attenborough's Closing The Ring from ContentFilm International.The film had its world premiere in Toronto. The epic love story, set in the present day and World War II, is about an American woman who looks back on a wartime promise. Shirley MacLaine, ...
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CJ pre-sells Park Chan-wook's new project to France, Russia
Korea's CJ Entertainment has pre-sold Park Chan-wook's Untitled Project, set to star Song Kang-ho, to France's Wild Side Films and Russia's Maywin Media. Currently in pre-production, the film is about a small-town priest who volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire. It was previously ...
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Brittany Murphy Wakes Up For 3:30am with Future
Brittany Murphy has come on board to play the lead in psychological horror film 3:30am, which will be written and directed by Mick Davis (Modigliani). Future Films is backing the project. Ellen Wander at Film Bridge International is handling world sales. Costa Theo and Joy Mellins at Milcoz Films are ...
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Intandem to finance and sell $25m thriller Tatua
Intandem Films has taken on rights to action thriller Tatua and will raise and structure the financing of the $25m project.The sci-fi action thriller is written by comic book veterans Rob Prior and Paul Jenkins. Todd Breau and Kari Hollend will produce.Gary Smith, chief executive of Intandem Films, said: 'This ...
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The Works gets investment boost from Milcoz; takes UK rights to Mongol
The Works Media Group has also announced that Milcoz Films has made an equity investment of $1.6m (£763,097), bringing its stake to 29.9%.Also, The Works UK Distribution continues its AFM deals by picking up UK rights to Mongol. Production and finance company Milcoz is run by Costa Theo, who has ...
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Jang to direct Korean remake of A Better Tomorrow
Veteran Korean filmmaker Jang Hyun-soo is attached to direct the Korean remake of John Woo's classic 1980s Hong Kong action film A Better Tomorrow. Jang's most recent film, Everybody Has Secrets (2004) starring Lee Byung-hun and Choo Sang-mee, was a sexy romantic comedy, but he is best remembered for noirish ...
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iDream takes on Santosh Sivan's Boy With Grenade
Mumbai and London-based iDream Independent Pictures has boarded Boy With Grenade, the latest project from Indian filmmaker Santosh Sivan whose Before The Rains screened at Toronto this year. iDream will fully finance and handle international sales on Boy With Grenade which was one of the selected projects at this year's ...
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Cinemavault sells Australia on Canvas to All Interactive
Cinemavault Releasing International has sold key territories on the drama Canvas with Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Pantoliano and horror film Scar 3D.Rights to Canvas have gone to Australia (All Interactive), Greece (Seven Films), the Middle East (Front Row), and Portugal (Lusomundo).Joseph Greco's film won the Alice In The City ...