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NewsScreen Media takes US rights to Sonny Liston biopic Phantom Punch
Screen Media has acquired US rights from Toronto-based sales agent Cinesavvy to Robert Townsend’s biopic Phantom Punch.
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NewsWerc Werk Works to back Jill Sprecher's latest
Werc Werk Works, the independent production and finance outfit behind Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime, will produce and fully finance The Convincer, the latest film from Jill Sprecher (13 Conversations About One Thing)
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NewsNew Wave picks up Rivette, Dumont films for UK
UK art house distributor New Wave Films has picked up a title apiece from Venice and Toronto.
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NewsMK2 acquires Pedro Gonzalez Rubio's To The Sea
MK2 has acquired rights to Pedro Gonzalez Rubio’s To The Sea, which will premiere in the Toronto Vision section later this week.
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NewsFish takes Grade Five to Sienna
Toronto-based production company Sienna Films, producers of hip-hop title How She Move, are putting together two pictures with two Canadian screenwriters.
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NewsFilm Farm joins Wellington’s Journey
Toronto production shop The Film Farm is setting up a February shoot for Canadian filmmaker Peter Wellington’s next project, Journey To The Surface Of The Earth.
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NewsCarmody sets up Dowse’s Goon
It’s All Gone Pete Tong director Michael Dowse is setting up his next project, hockey comedy Goon, with Toronto-based super producer Don Carmody.
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NewsPuerto Rico extends 40% tax credit to 2019
Puerto Rico has extended its 40% film tax credit until 2019 in a move that the territory’s Governor said confirmed its status as “the Mecca of film production on the Caribbean.”Announcing the extension of Law 362, Governor Luis G Fortuno said investors could also look forward to less red tape ...
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NewsAbu Dhabi Film Commission reveals 2009 conference line-up
Fox International Productions chief Sanford Panitch, producer Walter Parkes, UK industry stalwart Stewart Till and UTA’s Rich Klubeck will be among the keynote speakers and attendees at the Abu Dhabi Film Commission’s 2009 Circle Conference.
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NewsUS buyers cautious as Toronto's first weekend ends
A stong reaction and best actor prize for Colin Firth place Tom Ford’s A Single Man in the vanguard of hot titles that are expected to inject life into an otherwise muted first few days for US buyers in Toronto.
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NewsMeyer's Sierra launches with Play, Day
Nick Meyer is assembling the initial slate on his Los Angeles-based international sales company Sierra Pictures and is talking to buyers in Toronto about Passion Play and Mother’s Day.
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NewsHyde Park International wields Machete from Rodriguez
LA-based sales outfit takes on action thriller starring Danny Trejo and his Heat compadre Robert De Niro.
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NewsMyriad boards international sales on Women In Trouble
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures has picked up all international rights to Sebastian Gutierrez’ comedy Women In Trouble and will commence sales here.
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NewsIcon to handle worldwide sales on East Is East sequel
Sales outfit has come on board to handle worldwide sales on West Is West, the sequel to BAFTA-award winner East Is East which grossed over £10m in the UK in 1999.
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NewsHigh Point takes on sales to The Be All And End All
High Point Films is in Toronto to introduce Bruce Webb’s bittersweet drama to buyers.
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NewsStrand picks up US rights to Lou Ye's Spring Fever
US independent sets spring 2010 release for Chinese drama which played in competition at Cannes and is in TIFF this week.
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NewsTurtle sets out on seven territory European launch after TIFF
Wildlife documentary Turtle:The Incredible Journey has its world premiere in Toronto this weekend, then sets out on a theatrical journey starting in Germany, Austria, Italy and Benelux in October.
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NewsVisit Films adds Shirley Adams, Dear Lemon Lima to Toronto sales slate
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron’s Visit Films has acquired international sales rights to Toronto entry Shirley Adams and Dear Lemon Lima.
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NewsJohn Greyson pulls out of TIFF over Israel-focused sidebar
Film-maker John Greyson has pulled his short film Covered out of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival in protest against a sidebar dedicated to films from the Israeli capital Tel Aviv.
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NewsOMDC unveils 43 projects in International Financing Forum
New projects from Deepa Mehta, Chris Landreth, Thom Fitzgerald, Hany Abu-Assad, Ralph Fiennes, Terence Davies, Kevin Macdonald and Tony Grisoni selected for Sept 13/14 event in Toronto.