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City Lights takes US rights to The Year My Parents Went On Vacation
New York-based City Lights Pictures has acquired US rights to Cao Hamburger's Brazilian film The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (O Ano Em Que Meus Pais Sairam De Ferias). The announcement comes just one month after the distributor picked up Jason Kohn's 2007 Sundance documentary Grand Jury Prize winner ...
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Pretty Pictures strikes deal for Kenyan comedy Malooned in Zanzibar
At the 10th annual event which ended July 8, the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) can report its first deal. France's Pretty Pictures acquired world rights (outside Africa) to Kenyan comedy Malooned directed by Bob Nyanja. Pretty Pictures also acquired the remake rights to the story, which is about a ...
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TWC homes in on Chan's Invisible Target
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up all rights for North America, Australia and South Africa to Benny Chan's upcoming action drama Invisible Target from Hong Kong 's Universe Films Distribution. The $8m martial arts actioner is set to open in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Malaysia on July 19. ...
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Halo-8 takes rights to documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals
Halo-8 Entertainment, the label distributed by Ryko Filmworks and Warner-Elektra-Atlantic, and taken worldwide theatrical and home video rights to animal rights documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals from Indie Genius Productions. Curt Johnson, who previously worked on Thoth, directs the project about young animal rights activists and their detractors. 'Curt Johnson ...
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Anywhere Road takes US rights to Brad Gann's Black Irish
Anywhere Road has picked up all US rights to writer-director BradGann's family drama Black Irish starring Michael Angarano and BrendanGleeson.The fledgling San Francisco-based distributor plans an autumn releasefor the story of a Boston youngster who tries to win the affection ofhis emotionally remote father and maintian intimacy with other membersof ...
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German Films Previews offers 17 projects to international buyers
The European representatives of such US distributors as The Weinstein Company, Paramount Vantage, and Miramax are among over 50 international film buyers attending the German Films Previews showcase which are being held for the first time in Cologne from July 12 until the weekend. Other companies confirmed as coming to ...
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Muriel Sauzay joins Pathe to head international sales
Muriel Sauzay has been named deputy managing director of Pathe Distribution (France) in charge of international sales. She will be based in Paris, while head of international sales Mike Runagall will continue to be based in London. The two offices will work together under Sauzay's supervision. She had been director ...
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Telepool picks up Ruzowitzky's new feature Lilly The Witch
Telepool will handle the international sales for Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky's new feature Lilly The Witch (Hexe Lilli) which is shooting for six weeks at the Babelsberg Studios before moving on to locations in Austria. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, producer Corinna Mehner of blue eyes fiction said that the German-Austrian-Spanish ...
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AV Pictures strikes UK deal for The Tournament with Entertainment
AV Pictures has sold UK rights to action thriller The Tournament to Entertainment Film Distributors. The film, starring Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames and Kelly Hu, is about a fight between the world's greatest assassins. AV likens it to 'a grown-up Battle Royale.' First-time feature director Scott Mann will start shooting ...
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Remakes: Thai take two
Remake rights for Thai genre movies are increasingly in demand from film-makers in Asia and the US. Silvia Wong reports. Initial Entertainment Group's take on Danny and Oxide Pang's 1999 action thriller Bangkok Dangerous stars Nicolas Cage and is directed by the Pang brothers themselves.It is the first high-budget English-language ...
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Reality check
As the theatrical documentary boom slows, distributors are looking for more innovative release strategies. Ahead of the UK's BRITDOC festival (July 25-27), Peter Bowen explores the future for feature documentaries. After a few years of strongly performing feature documentaries, a recent slowdown in the number of breakouts has left many ...
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Documentary case study: Sicko
Michael Moore's Sicko may be drumming up hype because of its subject matter. But for The Weinstein Company, the director is the real story. Peter Bowen reports. After Fahrenheit 9/11 grossed more than $220m worldwide, it became clear that a Michael Moore film was not your everyday documentary. For his ...
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Documentary case study: Air Guitar Nation
Peter Bowen explains why a debut documentary with a jokey-sounding title was the right fit for a new distributor.The plot of Alex Lipsitz's first documentary feature Air Guitar Nation sounds like a joke. A smattering of hopeful US air guitarists, with names like Bjorn Turoque and C-Diddy, follow their dreams ...
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Toby Melling to head Content's new library sales division
Toby Melling has joined ContentFilm International as head of film library sales, the company's newly launched division which has a library of 100+ feature films. Melling had been vice president sales at Granada International and previously worked at BBC Worldwide, Capitol Films and Pandora in Paris. He will also run ...
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German sales company Cine-International to close its doors
Munich-based world sales company Cine-International Filmvertrieb has announced that it will be shutting down operations as of tomorrow (Wednesday). Rumours had been circulating within the film industry in Germany that the company was having problems, and speculation was fuelled further when Cine-International did not attend the MIP-TV in April or ...
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CMG takes international rights to Owl And The Sparrow
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has snapped up all international rights to Stephane Gauger's Owl And The Sparrow, which won the Los Angeles Film festival's audience award for best narrative feature at the weekend. Shot in more than 30 locations in and around Saigon, Vietnam, Owl And The Sparrow ...
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Bavaria Film International picks up The Anarchist's Wives
Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights to Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr's new feature The Anarchist's Wives which begins its German shoot at the MMC Studios in Cologne today (Friday). The German-Spanish-French co-production between Noelle and Sehr's P'Artisan Filmproduktion, ZIP Films (Barcelona), KV Entertainment/Ibarretxe & Co. (Bilbao), ...
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Networkmoves into theatrical withFlight Of The Red Balloon
UK-based Network has taken TV, theatrical and DVD rights three Cannes 2007 titles: Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Flight Of The Red Balloon, and Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short The Red Balloon and 1953's precursor White Mane. The Flight Of The Red Balloon stars Juliette Binoche as a single mother who hires ...
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UK sales companies join forces for new group Film Export UK
Thirty-one UK sales companies have joined forces to create the new trade association Film Export UK.The group's remit is to give the sales companies the strength of a united voice to lobby their interests; to create a platform to discuss common practices - especially in tricky areas such as new ...
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Warner Bros Germany to distribute Breloer's Buddenbrooks
Warner Bros. Pictures Germany will distribute writer-director Heinrich Breloer's feature film debut Buddenbrooks - Ein Geschaeft Von Einiger Groesse which begins shooting from Aug 1. The adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks about the life and decline of a 19th-century mercantile family is being produced by Bavaria Film and Colonia ...
