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Coach 14 strikes deals for Proyecto Dos and Lazo Rotos
At the AFM, Paris-based sales company Coach 14 has sold new titles Proyecto Dos by Guillermo Groizard and Lazo Rotos from Miguel Garcia-Borda to Germany's Telepool. Dos and another new title, Galantuomini from director Edoardo Winspeare, have stirred interest from the US and the UK while the former is also ...
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Nordisk sells Bornedal's The Substitute to Grindstone in the US
In its second US sale of AFM, Nordisk has sold Thura Films' thriller The Substitute to Grindstone Entertainment.The deal follows on from the announcement earlier this week that Grindstone had also bought ghostly thriller Room 205 from Nordisk.Grindstone will be working in partnership with producer Ghost House Pictures on the ...
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ACI picks up worldwide rights to Bill Duke's thriller Covered
Los Angeles-based sales company American Cinema International (ACI) has picked up worldwide rights excluding North America to the thriller Covered starring Vivica A Fox and Louis Gossett Jr.Bill Duke directed the story of a woman who relies on her faith to hold her family together after she is accused of ...
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EFP to present foreign Oscar submissions in New York
In a new departure for the organisation, European Film Promotion is to present five foreign language film Oscar submissions to buyers as part of its sixth New York 'Industry Screenings,' which take place in New York on November 12th and 13th.The Oscar candidates from Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway and ...
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FilmExport launches co-production initiative with Dudu
Rome-based sales and production group FilmExport recently embarked on its first co-production The Thirteen Roses, with Spanish companies Enrique Cerezo PC and Pedro Costa PC, and is now planning further co-productions. Upcoming titles include Dudu - A Friend To Save, a $10 million English-language family drama about a panda ...
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David O Russell returns with Gyllenhaal, Biel, IM Global
David O Russell is set to direct his first film in three years with the $29m comedy Nailed starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel.Russell and former vice president Al Gore's daughter Kristin co-wrote the screenplay, which laces bawdy comedy with the film-maker's trademark political satire.It is understood the project is ...
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Bleiberg picks up international sales on Israeli hit Noodle
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment has picked up Ayelet Menahemi's Israeli drama Noodle and is commencing sales at AFM.Mili Avital, Anat Waxman and Baoqi Chen star in the tale of a flight attendant who looks after an abandoned Chinese boy whose immigrant mother has been deported. Waxman won best supporting actress ...
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Rezo seals Sayles on Honeydripper for UK, Spain, Brazil
Paris-based Rezo Films has sealed some major territorial deals on John Sayles' latest feature Honeydripper to Axiom in the UK, Seville/Entertainment One in Canada, Golem in Spain, Immovision in Brazil and Orlando Films in Israel.Meanwhile Alcine Terran in Japan bought two films from Rezo - veteran auteur Eric Rohmer's The ...
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National Lampoon seals three international output deals
National Lampoon has struck output deals with Force Entertainment in Australia, Front Row in the Middle East, and Equinoxe in Canada for its original productions.President of worldwide distribution Tom Daniels said he was close to signing deals in the UK, Russia, Latin America, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Benelux.National Lampoon is ...
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PorchLight closes deals on family drama The Ultimate Gift
US-based production and sales company PorchLight has closed deals here on Michael O Sajbel's drama The Ultimate Gift.Rights have gone to Germany (RRS), Spain (Telecinco), Australia/New Zealand (Village Roadshow), Mexico (Pentella), Italy (Mediaset), pan Latin America (LapTV), Turkey (D Productions), the Middle East (Falcon), and South Africa (Ster Kinekor).The Ultimate ...
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Ascot Elite steps in for Shoreline horror Senseless
Shoreline Entertainment has sold German-speaking European rights here to Ascot Elite on Simon Hynd's horror thriller Senseless.Based on Stona Fitch's novel, Senseless chronicles the kidnapping and torture of a US businessman whose ordeal is streamed online as part of a reality TV show. Jason Behr stars. The sale cements Shoreline ...
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Atrix takes on world rights to Hof title Beautiful Bitch
Beatrix Wesle's Atrix Films has taken on worldwide rights for Martin Theo Krieger's A Beautiful Bitch, starring Katharina Derr, from Hamburg Riva Film. The deal was negotiated between Wesle, CEO of Atrix Films, and Michael Eckelt CEO of Riva Filmproduktion GmbH, Hamburg. A Beautiful Bitch, which screened recently at the ...
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HungariCom hits the ground running at AFM
Budapest-based sales outfit HungariCom has announced sales on its animated feature, Egon & Dönci, at its first AFM. The film, about an eccentric rocket scientist and an overfed, cat-like creature, has gone to Focus in Brazil, Amazonia in Venezuela, Provision for ex-Yugoslavia and Best Hollywood in Eastern Europe excluding ex-Yugoslavia.The ...
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Tartan buys US rights to Silent Light from Bac International
Bac Films International has sold Carlos Reygadas' Cannes prizewinner Silent Light to the newly revitalized Tartan Films for the US. Tartan had previously handled the US on Reygadas' Battle In Heaven.Bac has also sold the film to Canada (Seville), Spain (Golem), Benelux (Lumiere), Switzerland (Look Now), Greece (Strada), Denmark (Ost ...
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Onoma guns for Depardieu gangster pic Kalach
Pascale Diot's Paris-based sales outfit Onoma announced yesterday that it has taken world rights to new $15 million gangster film Kalach, starring GerardDepardieu, Gerard Lanvin, Francois Berleand and Mathilde Seigner. The film, which will shoot in France and Thailand, is directed by Yves Renier, an actor, writer and filmmaker who ...
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Magnolia's Magnet takes on Toby Wilkins' Splinter
Magnolia Pictures' new genre label Magnet has swooped on its second acquisition in the last couple of days and taken North American rights to Toby Wilkins' directorial debut Splinter. The film is nearing completion and centres on a young couple on the run that finds themselves besieged in a ...
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H2O sees flood of deals for French action title Nitro
H2O Motion Pictures has closed key sales here on its latest acquisition, the French-language action film Nitro. Deals have closed in the UK (Revolver), Japan (Movie-Eye), Brazil (Alphaville), and Thailand (IPA).H2O's Mark Horowitz also announced the company has picked up Peter McNamee's thriller Let Him Be, about a film-maker who ...
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Mischa Barton has a Homecoming with Voltage
Mischa Barton has signed to star in the thriller Homecoming, which Voltage Pictures is introducing to buyers here.Barton will play an obsessive small town woman who tries to get back with her former high school sweetheart when he returns with his new girlfriend for homecoming football weekend.Morgan J Freeman will ...
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KWA takes on Carlos Saura's latest music project Caribe
Madrid-based Kevin Williams Associates is handling international sales on Caribe (Caribbean), the latest music project from revered Spanish director Carlos Saura.The film marks a reunion between Saura and Seville-based producer JuanLebron, with whom he collaborated on Sevillanas and Flamenco.Saura has long hoped to make a film on the music of ...
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Wang Xiaoshuai's latest lands at Films Distribution
Paris-based Films Distribution has closed a deal during AFM to represent In Love We Trust, the latest film from Wang Xiaoshuai, one of the leading figures in China's sixth generation of filmmakers. The new film is now in post-production and will be ready in time for Berlin. Given Xiaoshuai's glittering ...