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Sanchez promoted at NBC Universal Television Distribution
Maria Sanchez has been promoted to senior vice president liaison, Latin America, Spain and Portugal at NBC Universal International Television Distribution (NBC UITD).Sanchez most recently served as vice president liaison, Spain and Portugal, and will continue to be based in NBC Universal's Madrid office, reporting to NBC UITD president Belinda ...
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Weinsteins strike US deal for El Rey De La Montana
The Weinstein Company has picked up US and Latin American rights to El Rey De La Montana, a world premiere in Toronto's Discovery section.The film, sold by Paris-based sales house Coach14, also sold to Seville Pictures for Canada after having concluded deals with the UK's Optimum, Madman for Australia and ...
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Odd Lot's Suburban Girl moves in with Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment has taken US theatrical, home video and non-broadcast digital rights to Suburban Girl and Undead or Alive.Both films were sold by Odd Lot Entertainment.Suburban Girl is a romantic comedy starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin. Marc Klein wrote and directed the project based on two short stories ...
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Joy Division director Grant Gee plans next film
As buyers continue to negotiate for hot documentary Joy Division, which had its world premiere here, the creators of the film are already eyeing their next projects.Director Grant Gee, who previously made 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy, says he isn't ruling out future music related ideas, and would ...
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Voltage plans six creature features with Insight
Los Angeles based financing and sales company Voltage Pictures has announced another six creature feature films to be produced with Vancouver's Insight Films Studios.The first, Odysseus And The Isle Of Mists, is in post-production and will be directed by Terry Ingram and star Arnold Vosloo from The Mummy franchise.Riddles Of ...
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Paramount Vantage starts buyer talks for Traitor and Harvey
Paramount Vantage co-president Nick Meyer has commenced talks here with international buyers on Overture Films' terrorism thriller Traitor and romance Last Chance Harvey.Meyer and Overture chiefs Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett are testing the waters after announcing their partnership in Cannes, under which Overture has access to Vantage's international sales ...
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New distributor KinoSmith pumps up with Bodybuilder
Canada's distribution business has grown by one, as Toronto-based marketing and distribution veteran Robin Smith launches his KinoSmith Independent Films.Freshly greenlit through Telefilm Canada's low-budget independent distribution program, KinoSmith will release Brian Friedman's Hot Docs audience prize winner The Bodybuilder And I. Produced by January Films and the National Film ...
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Midler, Bergen and Fisher join The Women for Inferno
Bette Midler, Candice Bergan and Carrie Fisher have joined the case of Inferno Distribution's comedy The Women, which is currently shooting in New York and Boston.Annette Bening, Eva Mendes and Jada Pinkett Smith also star in the story of a wealthy New Yorker who leaves her cheating husband and bonds ...
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Strand takes on Jacques Nolot's Before I Forget
Strand Releasing has picked up all North American rights from Colifilms Diffusion to Jacques Nolot's Before I Forget (Avant Qur J'Oublie), which gets it world premiere here on Thursday.This is Strand's second acquisition of a Nolot film after Le Chat A Deux Tetes, which was released in the US as ...
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THINKFilm strikes $3m deal for Hunt's Then She Found Me
In the first major deal to be struck at the festival, THINKFilm isbelieved to have paid just under $3m for US rights to Helen Hunt'sdirectorial debut Then She Found Me.The distributor was among a pack of buyers chasing rights after theKiller Films production's world premiere on Friday, finally closingthe deal ...
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Arts Alliance takes North America for Never Forever
Arts Alliance America, formerly Hart Sharp Video, has picked up North American rights to the Vera Farmiga drama Never Forever and will co-distribute with South Korea's Prime Entertainment.The company plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2008 followed by DVD rollout.Never Forever premiered at Sundance and stars Farmiga ...
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Myriad takes on rights to Farlinger's All Hat
Los Angeles-based financing, production and sales company Myriad Pictures has picked up international rights on Leonard Farlinger's Toronto entry All Hat.Based on the book by Brad Smith, the comedy Western centres on the exploits of an ex-con who struggles to stay on the straight and narrow after he returns to ...
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Weinsteins take world rights to John Crowley's Boy A
The Weinstein Company (TWC) made the first big play of the festival as it announced on Friday it had swooped on worldwide rights excluding UK TV for Boy A. John Crowley's UK drama centres a young ex-con after he is released from prison for committing a murder as ...
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Redacted goes worldwide with HDNet
HDNet Films sealed most territorial deals on Brian De Palma's Iraq war drama Redacted ahead of its Venice world premiere.The film, which screens here on Monday and goes on to play the New York Film Festival, sold to TFM in France, New Select in Japan, AE/Eagle Pictures in Italy, On ...
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Memento strikes Venice deals for Under The Bombs
Since receiving an emotional standing ovation in Venice, Philippe Aractingi's Under The Bombs has sealed two distribution deals just as Toronto gets underway.Memento Films, which is handling world rights to the film, has sold it to the UK's Channel 4 and Italy's Fandango. Memento's Tanja Meissner says she is also ...
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IFC takes North America for Kormakur's Jar City
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Baltasar Kormakur's crime thriller Jar City, which started screening here on Thursday. Vice president of acquisitions and production Arianna Bocco and director of acquisitions and production Lizzie Nastro did the deal with ICM and Trust Films' sales executive Natja Noviani Rosner at ...
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Voltage electrifies buyers with Diary Of The Dead
Zombie film George A Romero's Diary Of The Dead has already proved a major draw to international buyers ahead of its world premiere in Midnight Madness tonight.Voltage Pictures has sold rights to the UK (Optimum), Japan (Presidio), Germany (Legend), France (Bac), Twister (Russia), Italy (Sharada), Brazil (Imagem), and Argentina (Pachamama).Further ...
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Content on board for Liebesman's Manbreak starring Sevigny
ContentFilm International has taken on foreign sales for suspense thriller Manbreak, directed by Jonathan Liebesman. CAA has domestic sales rights.Liebesman previously directed 2006 hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.Chloe Sevigny is attached to star and further casting will be announced soon.Manbreak is about four people who sign up for ...
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Telepool works on new comedy from Lives Of Others producer
Munich-based Telepool has boarded U-900, the third feature by The Lives Of Others producer Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, as a sales agent and co-financier.The comedy about a submarine on the run in 1944 Germany is being directed by Sven Unterwaldt (7 Zwerge) and features Atze Schroeder, Oliver K. Wnuk, Yvonne ...
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Equinoxe joins Future Films and Arcadia on Purple America
Jorge Torregrossa's Purple America is now going ahead with a Canadian co-producer, Equinoxe Productions. The $6.3m (Euros 4.5m) production was developed by Spain's Arcadia Films with the help of El Deseo and London-based Future Films. Future's Stephen Margolis has led the financial arrangements. The project is set to go ahead ...