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Pretty Pictures acquires French rights to Hallam Foe
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights to David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe from UK-based sales company Independent.Mackenzie's drama, which won the Silver Bear in Berlin, stars Jamie Bell and Sophia Myles.Pretty Pictures head James Velaise negotiated the deal with Independent's head of sales Abigail Walsh. 'We are absolutely thrilled that ...
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High Point closes UK TV deal for Extraordinary Rendition with BBC
High Point Media Group has sold UK TV rights to the BBC for Jim Threapleton's Extraordinary Rendition. The feature, starrin Andy Serkis and Omar Berdouni, is about an innocent man who is suspected of terrorism. High Point has also sold the project for Danish TV (Danmarks Radio) and all Benelux ...
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Beta takes on sales for Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo
Beta Film will handle world sales for director Paolo Sorrentino's much awaited film The Divo (Il Divo), Andrea Occhipinti of Italy's Lucky Red confirmed. Sorrentino's film is inspired by the life of Giulio Andreotti, who served as Italian Prime Minister seven times whose name is a symbol for Italian ...
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Look
Dir: Adam Rifkin. US. 2007. 102 mins.Shot to give the impression its action was entirely captured by the surveillance cameras that are becoming ever present in modern life, Look is a cleverly made curio that's as entertainingly watchable as the soaps and tabloid TV shows it often resembles. Whether its ...
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Central Partnership sells Revenge, Wolfhound to Weinstein Company
Russian sales company Central Partnership has struck a number of deals in the wake of the American Film Market earlier this month. Titles that have lured buyers include thrillers Revenge and fantasy epic Wolfhound, already a substantial box-office hit in Russia. Revenge has been sold to North America/UK/Australia/New Zealand and ...
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Baltic Event selects 12 projects for Tallinn co-production market
Films from Croatia, Romania, Estonia and Armenia are among a dozen projects selected from a record 37 submissions for the Baltic Event's third co-production market which will be held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn from Dec 3-4. This year's lineup features: Barabbas, dir: Aleksei Muradov (Russia), a drama set ...
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High Point sells Storm Force to MTI for North America
High Point Television, a division of UK-based sales company High Point Media Group, has sold the North American TV and video rights for Storm Force to MTI.The Belgian helicopter-rescue action film, starring Kevin Janssen, is produced by Peter Bouckaert of MMG Film & Television. High Point also sold the film ...
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Sony Classics to distribute Menzel's King Of England in North America
Sony Pictures Classics will distribute Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England in North America. The deal was signed at AFM, according to the film's Czech producer AQS. The film is the Czech Republic's submission for foreign-language Oscar consideration. 'We are very proud to have as our American distributors ...
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Focus Features International scores big in Japan at AFM
Focus Features International chief Alison Thompson hailed a resurgent Japanese buying contingent at AFM as she announced key sales following the market earlier this month.'As far as we're concerned Japan is back in action,' Thompson said. 'We really did have an extremely good AFM. It was substantially better than last ...
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BFS moves into theatrical with US deal for Tom Collins' Kings
North American distributor BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited will move into theatrical distribution with its acquisition of Tom Collins' Kings. The film, partly in the Irish language and the Irish submission for Foreign-Language Oscar consideration. The big-screen adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings Of The Kilburn High Road stars ...
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Intandem books strong AFM sales on How To Lose Friends
UK-based sales company Intandem Films has reported a strong level of sales done at the recent AFM. Robert B Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, starring Kirsten Dunst and Simon Pegg, was sold to Germany (Concorde/Telemunchen), Italy (Mikado), Portugal (Lusomundo), Turkey (Sanat Ozen), Korea (MFI), Poland (Hagi) and ...
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There Will Be Blood
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson US, 2007. 158minsThere Will Be Blood is a vivid, sprawling parable about greed and moral corrosion. Set in the majestic American Southwest circa 1900, Paul Thomas Anderson's film will ride to the box-office largely on Daniel Day Lewis's volcanic performance as Daniel Plainview, the monstrous rags-to-riches ...
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NonStop sells Gnomes and Trolls to Turkey and China
NonStop Sales has sold further territories on its animated family feature Gnomes and Trolls. The project has gone to China (HGC Entertainment) and Turkey (A Arti). NonStop previously did a deal for CIS (Ukranian Rights Management). White Shark's 3D animated project is in production now, with executive producers Joel Cohen ...
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Pathe's hot AFM sellers include The Duchess and Eden Lake
In addition to the recently announced sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe, Pathe International has announced a slew of further sales done at the recent AFM. Saul Dibb's The Duchess, which Pathe launched in Toronto, sold to Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Best Film), Greece and the Balkans (Audiovisuals), Portugal (Lusomundo), ...
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Telepool takes on teamWorx's Mogadishu Welcome
Germany-based sales company Telepool has added Mogadishu Welcome to its sales slate.The deal was done with teamWorx Television & Film before the project started principal photography in Casablanca.Roland Suso Richter will direct the Degeto Film/SWR 90-minute feature, intended for TV. Telepool will handle world sales excluding the co-production territories, France ...
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CMG closes multiple territories on No Man's Land: Reeker 2
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) closed multiple territory sales at AFM on Dave Payne's horror sequel No Man's Land: Reeker 2.Rights went to Germany (Capelight Pictures), Brazil (Flashstar Films), Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines (Suraya Films), Indonesia (P T Rapi Films), and Central America (Passatiempo).Deals closed prior to ...
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Korea's Studio2.0 scores sales on Epitaph, Lovers
Korean production and sales company Studio2.0 clinched a string of sales on new titles Epitaph and Lovers Of 6 Years at the recent AFM. Horror title Epitaph, directed by the Jung Brothers and starring Kim Tae-woo and Kim Bo-kyung, was sold to Taiwan 's Scholar Multimedia and Encore for Singapore, ...
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Norway's Kill Buljo sells to 26 territories for Imagination Worldwide
Norwegian directors Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen's $163,700 (Eu112,600) project Kill Buljo-The Movie has sold to 26 territories following the AFM, including the US, the UK, Australia (The Weinstein Company). The US-based sales agent Imagination Worldwide has also licensed the film to Brazil (Europa Filmes), Japan (New Select), Germany ...