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Intandem signs on for $25m supernatural thriller Mortis Rex
UK-based Intandem Films has taken on world rights for and will executive produce supernatural action thriller Mortis Rex.The film will mark the directorial debut of Peter Briggs, who was one of the writers on Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy and has been a writer-for-hire for studio films.The $25m project will shoot ...
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La Fabrique De Films launches NY sales outfit for low-budget films
In a bold move underlining the growing market appetite for competitively priced genre fare, French independent distributor La Fabrique De Films is setting up its own sales outfit Overlook Entertainment, devoted to lower budget horror and cult comedies in English and foreign language.The aim is for Overlook, which will be ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 5
Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights from Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's Visit Films to the drama Momma's Man following its London Film Festival screenings.The film premiered at Sundance and tells of a man who visits his parents' loft apartment in Manhattan on a business trip and decides not ...
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Wide's Ex-Drummer goes to Mongrel Media
Koen Mortier's controversial Ex-Drummer, the Flemish film about an abrasiverock band formed by disabled musicians, has been snapped up by Mongrel Media for Canada. The film is sold by Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management.Wide Management arrives in Santa Monica with a bulging slate headlined byVolker Schlondörff's Gigola, starring Asia Argento. ...
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Cast lines up for Mario Van Peebles' thriller Kerosene Cowboys
Cam Gigandet, Shane West, Rachael Leigh Cook and Troy Garity havejoined the cast of Svarog-Afterburner Films' upcoming action thrillerKerosene Cowboys.Offers are out to Richard Dreyfus and Val Kilmer to round out the full cast, which includes Jason Gray-Standford, Jacob Vargas and J C Chasez.Mario Van Peebles will direct from a ...
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TLA Releasing takes North America on Finding Me
TLA Releasing has acquired North America and Caribbean basin rights to OmeProductions' drama Finding Me from first-time director Roger S Omeus Jr.The distributor plans a spring 2009 release on the story of a browbeaten gay man with a homophobic father who gets a chance to find true love.RayMartell Moore, Ronald ...
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StudioCanal takes on sales for Yorkshire Ripper trilogy
StudioCanal has announced the acquisition of two new English-language projects which comprise four films in total. The first, The Red Riding Trilogy, is based on a series of cult British crime novels by David Peace inspired by the true story of the Yorkshire Ripper. The second, Cotton, is a faux-documentary ...
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TF1 International sells Gatlif, Veber, Jeunet at AFM
TF1 International has boarded Tony Gatlif's latest Korkoro, the story of a gypsy family facing persecution in World War II France which stars Marc Lavoine and Marie-Jose Croze. The film, currently shooting, will be released by TFM Distribution in France.TF1 is here with the world premiere of Francis Veber's latest ...
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Axiom in UK, Star Sands in Japan take on Dornhelm's La Boheme
UK distributor Axiom and Japan's Star Sands/Theaters have acquired Robert Dornhelm's film version of the Puccini opera La Boheme ahead of its market premiere at the AFM.According to sales agent Beta Cinema, the film featuring opera stars Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon has also been picked up by Palace for ...
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Showbox takes on Ski Jump, library, from KM Culture
Korea's Showbox Mediaplex has picked up KM Culture's upcoming sports action film Ski Jump (tentative title) directed by Kim Yong-hwa, who previously directed the hit 200 Pounds Beauty. Showbox has also made a deal to handle all KM Culture's upcoming and library titles for international sales, which include 200 Pounds ...
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Wolfe Video picks up North America on two before AFM
Wolfe Video has announced it has acquired North American rights ahead of AFM to the gay titles Whirlwind and Mulligans.Whirlwind explores non-monogamy, commitment and friendship in New York.Richard Le May directed and Bryan West, Alexis Suarez, Desmond Dutcher, Brad Anderson and Mark Ford star. The film won the audience award ...
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6 Sales enters Narrows, surfs Wave
On the eve of the AFM, 6 Sales has taken international rights to The Narrows, directed by François A Velle and starring Kevin Zegers (Transamerica), VincentD'Onofrio, Sophia Bush and Eddie Cahill. Deals already closed after the film's Toronto world premiere include to Movie Bank in Benelux and Koba Films in ...
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HanWay sees Afterlife with Gurinder Chadha
HanWay Films is starting worldwide sales here at the AFM on Gurinder Chadha's next film, It's A Wonderful Afterlife. The family comedy will start shooting in February 2009.Chadha bills the project as My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Shaun Of The Dead. The film is set in multi-cultural London, where ...
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Voltage enters The Bubble Factory's Tomb
Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights to The Bubble Factory and Ringleader Studios' supernatural action title The Devil's Tomb starring Cuba Gooding Jr.Jason Connery directed the story of a team of mercenaries hired by a mysterious CIA operative to rescue a scientist from an archaeological site in the ...
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AFM: Artist View embraces Brothers War
Artist View Entertainment has taken on international rights heading into AFM to the action thriller Brothers War from producer Tino Struckmann.Jerry Buteyn directed the story set in the closing days of the Second World War as a German and a British officer join forces to save Europe from a new ...
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Cinemavault acquires international to The Hammer
Cinemavault has acquired international rights to the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival comedy The Hammer starring Adam Carolla and will introduce to buyers at AFM.Charles Herman-Wurmfeld directed the story of a 40-year-old underachiever who works on a construction site and lands a chance to try out for the US Olympic team.Heather ...
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AFM: Williams, Bonard launch ScreenOpus with US/French backing
Fledgling international film and television sales agency ScreenOpus, a joint venture between US-based Severance Pictures and Paris-based MK2 SA, arrives at AFM with launch titles The Hide and The Golden Age.Former MGM vice president of international sales and marketing Courtney Williams and former MTV International vice president of sales and ...
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Lightning takes international on Trailer Park Of Terror
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights to the comic book adaptation Trailer Park Of Terror heading into AFM this week.The Bogner Entertainment title is based on the Imperium Comics series about a group of students and their chaperone who are stranded in the mountains and left to ...
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Summit International takes on Tornatore's $30m Baaria
Summit International has boarded worldwide rights excluding Italy ahead of AFM to Giuseppe Tornatore's $30m epic Italian drama Baaria.Italy's Medusa Film and Tarak Ben Ammar's France-based Quinta Communications produced the story and Quinta had previously handled sales.Medusa holds Italian rights to the Sicilian-set comdy spanning three generations from the 1930s ...
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NewsMarket preview: American Film Market
Across the US, the buzzwords in store windows and nightly newscasts are slashed prices, bargains andcost-cutting. Yet the rallying cry ahead of this year’s American Film Market (AFM), which runs November5-12, is ‘bigger is better’.