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Lumina swims with Maringouin's Big River Man
Lumina Films has taken on worldwide rights (excluding the UK) for John Maringouin's documentary Big River Man.The film is now in post-production, and Lumina is helping with finishing funds. A Sundance launch is possible.Big River Man follows eccentric Slovenian endurance swimmer Martin Strel as he attempts to swim the Amazon.'It's ...
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Image strikes US home video deal for Lumet's Devil
Image Entertainment has taken US home video, broadcast and digital rights to Sidney Lumet's Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke and Albert Finney star in the story of two brothers who hatch an ill-fated plan to rob their own parents.The deal was struck with ...
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Martha Fiennes works with Intandem for Blown
UK-based Intandem Films has acquired worldwide rights to the espionage thriller Blown, which Martha Fiennes will direct.The story delves into the world of espionage, terrorism and big business through the eyes of a ruthless MI5 agent.The $15m film's cast will include Thandie Newton, who will play a high-class call girl. ...
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Little Film books sales for Stone's War and Satanas
The Little Film Company has closed key territories on Lithuania Film Studios' supernatural action thriller Stone's War and Dynamo & Rionegro Producciones' Colombia's foreign language Oscar submission Satanas. Deals on Stone's War closed in Italy (Media One), Mexico (Quality Films), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Canada (Equinoxe), and Greece (Spentzos). Marko Makilaakso's film ...
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TLA takes US, UK rights for Filmax's comedy Boystown (Chuecatown)
TLA Releasing has acquired all North American and UK rights from Filmax to Juan Flahn's Spanish comedy Boystown (Chuecatown) and plans a late 2008 release in North America.The madcap story centres on an estate agent who murders elderly women and offers their apartments to upwardly mobile gay couples in a ...
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The Works takes UK rights to Joy Division
The Works UK Distribution has taken UK rights from Katapult Films to Grant Gee's Toronto hit documentary Joy Division. The deal was negotiated between Mark Ankner of Endeavor, David Jourdan of Katapult and Laurence Gornall from The Works. The Works plans a UK theatrical release in 2008.The film has already ...
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Wolfe takes rights to Spider Lilies, Surveillance 24/7
Wolfe Video has acquired North American rights to a slew of titles here headed by Zero Chou's Taiwanese drama Spider Lilies.The film stars Rainie Yang and Isabella Leong in the story of a webcam exhibitionist who falls for a tattoo parlour employee when she requests a special tattoo.Conspiracy thriller Surveillance ...
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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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Rome's Business Street hopes to move further away from AFM
The Rome Film Fest's Business Street is not aspiring to become the new Mifed. That was the message at the AFM this week by Sylvain Auzou, The Business Street Manager. Some have been suggesting that Rome could eventually become a replacement for the old Mifed (which ended in 2004) but ...
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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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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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Velvet Octopus gets tangled with 3-D animated Spyro
Velvet Octopus will handle sales for a new 3-D CGI animated feature based on Vivendi Games' Spyro franchise.Ash Shah's The Animation Picture Company has optioned the rights to Spyro from Vivendi's Sierra Entertainment division.John Davis (I, Robot, Eragon) will produce The Legend Of Spyro, which has just started production. Creative ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...