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Bavaria picks up Kollek's Berlinale competitorRestless
Bavaria Film International has take on the world sales for Israeli independent filmmaker Amos Kollek's latest feature Restless which has been selected by the Berlinale for one of the places in the 2008 Competition lineup.The co-production between Israel, Germany, Canada, France and Belgium tells the story of the writer Moshe ...
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Berlinale expecting record numbers for market
Less than four weeks before the beginning of this year's Berlinale, the European Film Market (EFM) is is expecting to host more than 400 exhibitors from 50 countries at its market venues in the Martin Gropius Bau and the EFM Exhibitor Offices.To date, 420 exhibitors are registered with the EFM, ...
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Film4, Ingenious, Vertigo join for new sales company Protagonist
Confirming rumours that started swirling before the American Film Market, UK companies Film4, Ingenious and Vertigo Films have joined forces to launch a new international film sales company.The outfit, called Protagonist Pictures, is fully capitalised by its three partners (who are financing equally). The intial slate isn't announced yet and ...
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High Point to take on sales for Abrahamson's Prosperity project
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson has followed his Cannes Director's Fortnight hit Garage with Prosperity, a series of four related 'mini features' for Irish TV broadcaster RTE.High Point Media Group has taken on international rights to the project, and plans to launch it at Berlin's European Film Market rather than at ...
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Coach 14 takes on Berlin Panorama title Shiver
Coach 14 has announced the acquisition of Isidro Ortiz's Shiver. The Spanish horror film is produced by Fausto Producciones, Telecinco Cinema and ApuntoLapospo and stars Junio Valverde, Blanca Suarez.The action is set in a remote mountain village where a lonely teenager becomes a suspect in a series of odd events. ...
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Bac's three new projects include Amazonia, The Green Planet
Bac Films will offer three new projects at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris as well as screening three films. New to Bac's slate is Commis D'Office starry Roschdy Zem and directed by Hannelore Cayre. The film is produced by Dolce Vita Films and follows the 'education' ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes on Dennis Gansel's Sundance title The Wave
Celluloid Dreams has announced the acquisition of Dennis Gansel's The Wave. The film is a world dramatic competition entry at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.Produced by Christian Becker of Rat Pack films and co-produced by Martin Moszkowicz of Constantin Film, The Wave tells the story of a high school teacher, ...
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Delphis picks up international on X Filme's Max Minsky And Me
Montreal-based Delphis Films has picked up international rights to Anna Justice's feature debut Max Minsky And Me, a production of X Films Creative Pool. Delphis plans to screen the film at EFM in Berlin in February. The child-oriented comedy opened in Germany in September 2007 and won the Lion Prize ...
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One Missed Call
Dir: Eric Valette. US. 2008. 87mins.Generic and thematically uninspired, One Missed Call, the US remake of Takashi Miike's 2003 J-horror tale, flounders withitsliteral and ill-advised approach to its supernatural material. This Warner Bros. January castoff will lure fright fans uninterested in the season's award contenders and holiday leftovers, but even ...
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TF1 debuts two new projects at Rendez-Vous
TF1 International is debuting two new projects at this week's Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris as well as world premiering two anticipated films. The new projects are School's Out by Frederic Berthe, a teen comedy billed as 'the modern-day La Boum', and Philippe Harel's sequel to 1997 hit ...
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Wild Bunch strikes Magic! with four new projects at Rendez-Vous
Wild Bunch is bringing four new projects to this week's Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris. The sales company will introduce a promo reel of Philippe Muyl's Magic!, a family film about a boy, his single mother and the healing power of the circus. Marie Gillain stars with Louis ...
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Machin replaces Schoukroun as THINKFilm head of international
Will Machin has been named head of international at THINKFilm International. He had been head of co-productions and sales at London-based Carnaby International and previously worked as co-president of international sales at Lola Films.He joins THINKFilm as of January 14 and will start planning for Berlin immediately. Machin will report ...
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Contender takes on UK rights forBattle For Haditha
Contender Films has acquired UK rights to Nick Broomfield's Iraq drama Battle For Haditha from HanWay Films.The deal comes after another UK distributor, Metrodome, handed back the UK rights to HanWay in late December.The drama is a feature film based on real events that occurred in November 2005 in Haditha, ...
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27 Dresses
Dir: Anne Fletcher. US, 2008. 111minsWell cast, slickly produced and performed with enough spirit to counterbalance its frequently stupendous lack of originality and plausibility, 27 Dresses pulls all the right levers for (mostly female) diehard romantic comedy audiences looking for just a pinch of wistfulness to go alongsidestray wish-fulfillment scenarios.Having ...
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Veterans of TF1, UGC launch new sales outfit Elle Driver
A new sales outfit will debut next week at the Unifrance Paris Rendez-Vous. Elle Driver, headed up by Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur has taken up residence at Stephane Celerier's Mars Distribution offices and, with help from an outside investment fund, will work 'with quality films that can travel,' ...
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Films Distribution to premiere three new features at Rendez-Vous
French sales outfit Films Distribution has announced the world premieres of three new titles at the upcoming Rendez-Vous with French cinema. The event, organized by French film export body Unifrance, runs Jan 10-14 in Paris.At the Rendez-Vous, Films Distribution will screen The Maiden And The Wolves directed by Gilles Legrand ...
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Metrodome hands backUK rights to Haditha to HanWay
UK distributor Metrodome has agreed to hand back UK rights for Nick Broomfield's Battle For Haditha to sales company HanWay Films. Each company has released the other's obligation with immediate effect. The Channel 4-backed drama recreates a fight between US soldiers and Iraqi civilians in November 2005. Broomfield 's drama ...
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NonStop to sell sequel to Gnomes And Trolls
NonStop sales will handle international sales for Gnomes and Trolls II, after selling the original film this year.The 3D animated fairy tale is from White Shark AB with executive producers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (Toy Story, Garfield).The first Gnomes and Trolls is in production and will be finished in ...
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Contentfilm/Fireworks take on CBC library
ContentFilm's division Fireworks International has struck a deal to acquire international distribution rights for CBC's international sales assets. The library includes a programme catalogue of about 135 titles, representing 700 hours of TV programming. Canada-based CBC still retains broadcasting rights and archives. The transaction is subject to due diligence and ...
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Berlin's EFM to welcome 25 new exhibitors including IM Global
Companies from the US, the UK, Spain, Ukraine, and Brazil are among 25 first-timers confirmed so far as exhibitors at the Berlinale's forthcoming European Film Market (EFM). Participants with stands for the first time in the EFM's central venue of the Martin Gropius Bau include such sales agents as ContentFilm ...