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New Wave takes on Un Certain Regard winner Tulpan
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has taken on yet another Cannes title: Tulpan.New Wave acquired all UK rights for Tulpan from sales company The Match Factory on Friday night. Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan then won the top prize in Un Certain Regard on Saturday.The ...
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Met Film student shoots Kenya-based Ndugu
Aman Sahota, a student at London's Met Film School, has just finished the Kenya-based shoot for her short film Ndugu (Brother). Fellow students Judy Tjin, Michael Ghelfi and Ricardo Nunes assisted with the shoot.Kenya-born Aman wrote, directed, shot and co-produced the film about two friends from different tribes. She wrote ...
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Goalpost takes on sales for Al-Daradji's Um-Hussein
UK-based sales company Goalpost has come on board for world sales of Mohamed Al-Daradji's Um-Hussein.Al-Daradji previously made Oscar submission Ahlaam and War, Love, God and Madness. The project is being backed by the UK Film Council's Develpment Fund, Fond Sud (CNC), Screen Yorkshire's Development Fund, and the Kurdish and Iraqi ...
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Metrodome takes all UK rights to Danish hit Flame & Citron
UK distributor Metrodome continues its Cannes deals by taking all UK rights to Flame & Citron from The Match Factory.Ole Christian Madsen directs the film, based on a true story. Mads Mikkelsen and Thure Lindhart star. The film is one of Denmark's largest productions ever, budgeted at Euros 8m, and ...
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UK's New Wave continues Cannes deals with Egoyan's Adoration
Pam Engel and Robert Beeson's new UK distribution company New Wave Films continues a busy Cannes by acquiring UK rights to Atom Egoyan's Competition entry Adoration.Charlotte Mickie at Maximum Films International is selling the film. Sony Pictures Classics has already taken rights for the US and several other territories.The Canadian ...
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Palm Tree sells Moffat's Seven Crosses To Thailand
Palm Tree Entertainment has sold Robbie Moffat's Seven Crosses to Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand.Also, three Japanese buyers -- Medalion, 9 Miles and Take-Shobo -- have each bid on a catalogue of Moffat titles including Dark Side Of Heaven, Winter Warrior, Bonehunter and Axe Raiders. As previously reported Palm Tree is now ...
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Network takes all UK rights to 4 Cannes titles including Soi Cowboy
UK-based distributor Network has taken all UK rights to four new titles in Cannes.They are Afterschool, Rumba, Soi Cowboy, and (as reported separately) Tony Manero.Antonio Campos' Afterschool, in Un Certain Regard, was sold by The Coproduction Office. The film is about a young American student who captures the tragic death ...
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3DD sells Day After Peace to Deltamac for Hong Kong
3DD, which had the world premiere of Jeremy Gilley's documentary The Day After Peace in the Cannes market, has closed the first deal for the film with Deltamac for Hong Kong. The film, about the film-maker's crusade to create a world peace day, also stars Jude Law. 3DD said a ...
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UK's New Wave moves into 24 City
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has acquired Cannes Competition entry 24 City directed by Jia Zhangke.The film is sold by MK2. Beeson and Engel set up New Wave earlier this year after being long-time art-house distributors at Artificial Eye.'We are very pleased to ...
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Soothsayer sees Emilia Fox; AV Pictures to handle sales
Producers Paul Cowan and Chris Wheeldon of Territorial Film Developments (TFD) have cast Emilia Fox (Flashbacks of a Fool) as the lead in Richard Blanshard's supernatural thriller Soothsayer.The project will shoot this summer. The cast also includes Tehya Hadley, Thekla Reuten, Kate Atkinson and John Standing.Barry Langley wrote the script ...
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Jinga shows some love for Hiller's gangster story
UK-based sales company Jinga Films has taken world rights to Danny Hiller's thriller Love Me Still.Andrew Howard, Geoff Bell, Alex Reid and Tom Bell star in the story of a violent confrontation between two brothers after one is released from prison to find the other holding his wife hostage.As announced ...
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Gilliam's Doctor Parnassus sells to UK, Australia and Japan
Mandate International says it is continuing brisk sales in Cannes for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, and Mandate president of international Helen Lee-Kim expects all territories to sell out by the end of the market.The biggest deals in Cannes thus far are to the UK (Lionsgate UK), Australia ...
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Warner Bros takes Spanish rights to How To Lose Friends
Warner Bros has acquired Spanish rights to Robert Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People from Intandem.The comedy, based on Toby Young's book of the same name, stars Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst and Jeff Bridges. MGM has struck a deal for North America and Paramount for the UK. Both ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to The Chaser from Fine Cut
UK distributor Metrodome, which earlier this week struck a deal with backer Media Pro, has taken all UK rights to Korean crime thriller The Chaser. The deal was brokered between Metrodome's general manager - home entertainment Tom Stewart and CEO Peter Urie with and EJ Cho Cho of Fine Cut. ...
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Diffusion guns for Adam Yauch's basketball doc
UK distributor Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights to Adam Yauch's Gunnin' For That #1 Spot.The deal was struck with new sales company Oscilloscope Pictures who are handling the US and international rights. Oscilloscope is releasing the film in the US on June 27 and Diffusion will release in ...
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Spall and Broadbent join Sheen in The Damned United
Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent have joined the cast of Tom Hooper's The Damned United, which starts principal photography on Sunday May 25. As reported Michael Sheen takes the lead role as legendary football manager Brian Clough, and Spall will play his right hand man Peter Taylor while Broadbent plays ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival announces 2008's Trailblazers
The Edinburgh International Film Festival, now in June, has here in Cannes announced its new set of Trailblazers.The initiative, created with Skillset, recognizing up-and-coming talents in the UK.This year's class is:Lol Crawley, cinematographer of Better Things David Bloom, co-writer of Donkey PunchLisa Trnovskii, producer of Mum And DadTony Slater-Ling, cinematographer ...
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Metrodome rushes in for Korea's The Chaser
UK distributor Metrodome, which earlier this week struck a deal with backer Media Pro, has taken all UK rights to Korean crime thriller The Chaser. The deal was brokered between Metrodome's general manager - home entertainment Tom Stewart and CEO Peter Urie with and EJ Cho Cho of Fine Cut. ...
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Terence Davies back at the BFI
Terence Davies is again BFI-bound. The revered British director made his first features (including The Trilogy, Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes) under the auspices of the British Film Institute's now defunct production arm. Now, his latest film, Of Time And The City, screening in official selection ...
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K5 introduces Visitor to Spain, Greece, Middle East
K5 International has confirmed further sales on Tom McCarthy's The Visitor. The film has now gone to Spain (Isaan), Greece (Art Free), and the Middle East (Prime Pictures). Several other deals are imminent in Cannes.The Visitor, his follow-up to The Station Agent, is produced by Groundswell and Participant. It has ...