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NewsFSC takes world on Filthy Gorgeous
The Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide sales rights to Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story, Barry Avrich’s documentary that premiered on Monday night (September 9).
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NewsVirgil Films finds Foreclosure
Virgil Films has closed a US deal in Toronto on the horror tale Foreclosure starring Michael Imperioli from The Sopranos.
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Cohen takes Unjust doc
Cohen Media Group has acquired all North American rights to Shoah director Claude Lanzmann’s Toronto entry The Last Of The Unjust.
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News'App' downloaded to North America
Bobby Boermans’s thriller about smartphone-addicted teens makes first sales to English-language territories.
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NewsCBS Films confirms F Word deal
UPDATED SEPT 10: CBS Films top brass said on Tuesday evening (September 10) they had acquired US rights to Michael Dowse’s The F Word in a deal understood to fall between $2.5m and $3m.
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NewsNonStop finds When Jews Were Funny
EXCLUSIVE: NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavian, Icelandic and Baltic rights from The Film Sales Company to Alan Zweig’s documentary When Jews Were Funny.
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NewsImage, Film Arcade buy Midas Box
Image Entertainment and The Film Arcade have struck a deal in Toronto for US rights to $25m action fantasy The Adventurer: The Curse Of The Midas Box starring Michael Sheen and Lena Headey.
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NewsCorman to cameo in Dante’s biopic
Joe Dante set to direct a long-gestating biopic about legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman.
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NewsFogelson out at Universal
In a stunning development Adam Fogelson has left Universal Pictures as chairman and Jeff Shell has been named chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.
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NewsBAFTA/LA to honour Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen will receive the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award For Excellence In Comedy on November 9 in Los Angeles.
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NewsIFC Midnight enters The Station
The distributor has acquired US rights to Marvin Kren’s Midnight Madness entry about a group of scientists at a German Alpine research lab who encounter a horrifying biological force.
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NewsKino Lorber reunites with Auteuil
Kino Lorber has picked up all US rights from Pathé International to Daniel Auteuil’s latest two features, Marius and Fanny. Separately, Music Box has acquired the French supernatural mini-series The Returned.
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NewsMillennium acquires Fading Gigolo
Millennium Entertainment has paid in the region of $3m for US rights to Fading Gigolo in the latest Toronto deal to emerge at the festival.
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NewsFilmBuff makes beeline for Buzz
FilmBuff has acquired US rights to TIFF Docs entry Burt’s Buzz and will release in theatres and on VoD in 2014.
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NewsTIFF momentum set to stay high
With two major $7m deals in the can and interest in Fading Gigolo, Horns and All Is By My Side, the Toronto momentum showed no sign of letting up heading into a busy Sunday night.
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NewsEdgerton to shoot debut in California
EXCLUSIVE: Weirdo to be produced by Australia-born, US-based Rebecca Yeldham.
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NewsSPWA swoops on Therese
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has licensed the UK and a raft of territories from Exclusive Media to the Toronto entry Therese.
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NewsPeriscope eyes German market
Submarine Entertainment, Dakota Group and NFP Marketing & Distribution in Germany have launched Periscope Pictures, a joint venture distribution imprint and label in Germany.
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NewsLA, Beijing connect in Ivanhoe
Financier Robert Friedland, producer John Penotti and Beijing-based media veteran Ray Chen have launched Ivanhoe Pictures, a film and TV finance and production company that will work on projects with “broad appeal to a global audience.”
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NewsWorldview, Roth eye Inferno sequel
Fresh from Saturday night’s (7) world premiere of The Green Inferno, wheels are in motion on Beyond The Green Inferno. Exclusive Media will reprise its role as international sales agent and CAA arranged financing and represents US rights.