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Cineclick Asia picks up Pang Ho-cheung's Exodus
Korea-based sales agent Cineclick Asia is repping Hong Kong director Pang Ho-cheung's new thriller Exodus - recently announced in the Toronto and San Sebastian film festival line-ups. Licensor Filmko Entertainment reserves rights to Chinese-speaking territories (mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore), along with Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. Pang, whose ...
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Bavaria picks up Argentinian title
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up international rights for Argentinian filmmaker Anahi Berneri's latest film Encarnacion which will be having its world premiere in the Visions sidebar of the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.The co-production between Argentina's BD Cine and Spain's Wanda Filmes about an ageing actress trying to ...
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Bavaria acquires international rights to Toronto title Encarnacion
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up international rights for Argentinean filmmaker Anahi Berneri's latest film Encarnacion which will be having its world premiere in the Visions sidebar of the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The co-production between Argentina's BD Cine and Spain's Wanda Filmes about an aging actress trying ...
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Fortissimo takes international rights to Israeli doc Children Of The Sun
Fortissimo Films hasacquiredinternational sales rights outside Israel and North America to Lama Films'documentary Children Of The Sun, directed by Ran Tal.Thefilm follows the lives of people brought up in the Kibbutzim in 1920s and 30s Israel.The film premiered to critical acclaim at the Jerusalem Film Festival, where it won a ...
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Lucky Red acquires Italian rights to TWC titles 1408 and Halloween.
Italian distributor Lucky Red has announced the acquisition of two high-profile genre titles from The Weinstein Company. Those titles are 1408 by Mikael Hafstrom starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson as well as Halloween by Rob Zombie. The deals constitute the first between Lucky Red and The ...
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Korea's nTorino scores $2m pre-sale to Japan
Korean investor nTorino Corp has announced the $2m pre-sale of the film Sookmyung (original title) to Japan's Formula Entertainment. The film features pan-Asian stars Kwon Sang-woo (Once Upon A Time In High School), Song Seung-hun (Make It Big) and Ji Sung (Blood Rain) in a story of four friends who ...
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Bavaria picks up international rights to $20m Mann adaptation
Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Heinrich Breloer's lavish adaptation of Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize-winning novel Buddenbrooks which is currently shooting on location in the historical Hanseatic city of Luebeck. The $20m (Euros 15m) production by Bavaria Film and Colonia Media Filmproduktion of Die Buddenbrooks ...
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German fund managment group buys sales company Atlas
Further changes are afoot in the German world sales scene after the decision by the film financing and fund management group Entertainment Value Associates (EVA) to acquire a majority interest in the Munich-based family-run sales company Atlas International Film through its subsidiary EVA Finance. The sales outfit with a catalogue ...
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Odyssey takes on sales for $65m Nutcracker: The True Story
UK-based sales company Odyssey Entertainment has struck a deal to handle international sales and distribution of Anderi Konchalovksy's Nutcracker: The True Story (working title).The $65m film is set in 1920s Vienna and adapts the classic story that inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet. Konchalovsky and Chris Solimine wrote the screenplay, and the film ...
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Film Sales Company takes on NYC Serenade
Andrew Herwitz' Film Sales Company has acquired worldwide rights to Frank Whaley's NYC Serenade, which will premiere in Toronto next month. Whaley's third feature stars Freddie Prinze Jr, Chris Klein and Jamie Lynn Sigler in a coming-of-age tale about two boyhood friends who try to work out their place ...
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Fortissimo takes worldwide sales on Love Comes Lately
Fortissimo has taken worldwide rights outside Germany to Jan Schuette's Love Comes Lately from zero fiction film / zero west filmproduktion.The English-language drama, which will screenas anofficial selection inToronto, is based on short stories by Nobel prizewinner Isaac Bashevis Singer. The film stars Otto Tausig, Rhea Perlman, Barbara Hershey and ...
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16 films feature at Nordic Co-Production Forum
16 new Scandinavian and German feature film projects, with budgetsbetween $1.2 and $9m (Euros 0.9m-7m), will be presented at the second NordicCo-Production Forum, which takes place between Aug 22-23 as part of theNew Nordic Films market during the Norwegian International FilmFestival in Haugesund. Total production volume exceeds $68m (Euros 50m.)Last ...
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IFC takes North American rights to The Last Mistress
IFC Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Catherine Breillat's drama The Last Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse) and will be release theatrically and on its On Demand platform. The Last Mistress was announced today in the line-up of the 45th New York Film Festival that runs from Sept ...
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Beneath The Rooftops of Paris (Sous Les Toits De Paris)
Dir: Hiner Saleem. France, 2007. 100minsThis study of old age and solitude finds exiled Kurdish director Hiner Saleem divesting himself of the mischievous drive and wicked sense of humour which permeated such earlier efforts as Vodka Lemon and Kilometre Zero. Launched in a light, warm and humanistic vein which keeps ...
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The Match Factory picks up German tragicomedy
The Match Factory has picked up international distribution for Neele Leana Vollmar's second feature Friedliche Zeiten (literal translation: Peaceful Times) which has begun shooting in Munich and surroundings. The tragicomedy, based on Birgit Vanderbeke's 1996 novel of the same name, is being produced by Vollmar and Caroline Daube's joint production ...
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Indian Film Company works with new Imtiaz Ali project
The Indian Film Company has acquired worldwide rights to Imtiaz Ali's new film, produced by Shree Ashatavinayak Cine Vision. The film - as yet untiltled until the results are tallied from a consumer poll - is a musical romantic comedy set in North India. Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor star ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan selects 35 projects for 10th edition
The Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) has announced the line-up for its tenth anniversary edition. 35 projects from 18 countries have made the final cut, out of more than 200 submissions. Once again the PPP mixes masters and newcomers, including Cannes Camera D'Or winner Bahman Ghobadi, Berlinale Silver Bear winner Wang ...
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Be Wild takes Japanese rights to Royston Tan's musical drama 881
Be Wild has taken on all Japanese rights to Royston Tan's new musical drama 881, making it the first pre-sale ever of a Singapore film to Japan. The deal also marks the first international acquisition for Be Wild, a producer of Japanese films such as Kaza-hana, What the Snow Brings, ...
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Kinowelt International picks up Venice Days film Head Under Water
Kinowelt International has taken on international sales for Andreas Kleinert's thriller Head Under Water (Freischwimmer) which has been selected for its world premiere at this year's Venice Days sidebar at the end of the month. This is Kleinert's first feature film for almost ten years since his Paths In The ...
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Park Circus takes on world rights to Icon back catalogue
UK distributor Park Circus has struck a deal with Icon Entertainment International to handle Icon's back catalogue worldwide, both theatrically and non-theatrically. The library includes more than 350 titles such as The Passion Of The Christ and The Big Easy. The deal represents Icon productions and also other properties including ...