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    German sales company Cine-International to close its doors

    2007-07-03T12:23:00Z

    Munich-based world sales company Cine-International Filmvertrieb has announced that it will be shutting down operations as of tomorrow (Wednesday). Rumours had been circulating within the film industry in Germany that the company was having problems, and speculation was fuelled further when Cine-International did not attend the MIP-TV in April or ...

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    CMG takes international rights to Owl And The Sparrow

    2007-07-02T21:32:00Z

    Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has snapped up all international rights to Stephane Gauger's Owl And The Sparrow, which won the Los Angeles Film festival's audience award for best narrative feature at the weekend. Shot in more than 30 locations in and around Saigon, Vietnam, Owl And The Sparrow ...

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    Bavaria Film International picks up The Anarchist's Wives

    2007-06-29T12:54:00Z

    Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights to Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr's new feature The Anarchist's Wives which begins its German shoot at the MMC Studios in Cologne today (Friday). The German-Spanish-French co-production between Noelle and Sehr's P'Artisan Filmproduktion, ZIP Films (Barcelona), KV Entertainment/Ibarretxe & Co. (Bilbao), ...

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    Networkmoves into theatrical withFlight Of The Red Balloon

    2007-06-28T17:49:00Z

    UK-based Network has taken TV, theatrical and DVD rights three Cannes 2007 titles: Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Flight Of The Red Balloon, and Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short The Red Balloon and 1953's precursor White Mane. The Flight Of The Red Balloon stars Juliette Binoche as a single mother who hires ...

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    UK sales companies join forces for new group Film Export UK

    2007-06-27T00:01:00Z

    Thirty-one UK sales companies have joined forces to create the new trade association Film Export UK.The group's remit is to give the sales companies the strength of a united voice to lobby their interests; to create a platform to discuss common practices - especially in tricky areas such as new ...

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    Warner Bros Germany to distribute Breloer's Buddenbrooks

    2007-06-26T18:25:00Z

    Warner Bros. Pictures Germany will distribute writer-director Heinrich Breloer's feature film debut Buddenbrooks - Ein Geschaeft Von Einiger Groesse which begins shooting from Aug 1. The adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks about the life and decline of a 19th-century mercantile family is being produced by Bavaria Film and Colonia ...

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    MDC takes on sales for Meletzky's Shanghai winner Plan

    2007-06-25T15:52:00Z

    Berlin-based sales company MDC has picked up international distribution rights for Franziska Meletzky's According To The Plan (Frei Nach Plan) which won best film honours at the Jin Jue Awards in the competition section of the Shanghai International Film Festival this weekend. The film, which is Meletzky's second feature after ...

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    Cannes prizewinner Jellyfish finds sales

    2007-06-24T08:15:00Z

    Pyramide International has completed a sale of its Cannes Camera d'Or winner Jellyfish to Nanni Moretti's Sacher in Italy. The film was also recently acquired in the US by Zeitgeist. Moretti is known for buying very few films but had a soft spot for Shira Geffen and ...

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    London UK Film Focus to screen 40 films to about 150 buyers

    2007-06-22T04:00:00Z

    The London UK Film Focus (LUFF), which runs from June 25-28 at the revamped BFI Southbank, is expected to attract around 150 buyers to London. Around 40 films will be screening. The event, a showcase for British films, is now in its fourth year. LUFF's organisers claim that approximately $2m ...

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    When LUFF comes to town

    2007-06-21T00:00:00Z

    Cementing its place in the international calendar, the London UK Film Focus (June 25-28) is attracting influential buyers and a growing number of premieres. Geoffrey Macnab reports. Four years after its inception, the London UK Film Focus (Luff) is now an established part of the calendar. UK sales agents are ...

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    Dolmen strikes deal for 50 Cristaldi classics including Cinema Paradiso

    2007-06-20T14:24:00Z

    Dolmen Home Library has acquired DVD distribution rights for 50 films from the Cristaldi Film Library, including several Oscar-winning titles produced by the legendary Italian producer Franco Cristaldi. The deal was signed by Cristaldi library heirs Zeuda Araya and Massimo Cristaldo with Dolmen chief Alessandro Usai. Titles in the package ...

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    Shanghai film market has slow first edition

    2007-06-20T13:19:00Z

    Shanghai International Film Festival's (SIFF) film market wrapped yesterday with only a few sales concluded. And although it could have potential, most buyers at the three-day event felt there was a lot to be improved. By the time that festival workers began to dismantle the booths, there were only two ...

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    Australian distributor Kojo to launch with 4 Months, 3 Weeks

    2007-06-19T10:06:00Z

    Kojo Pictures is launching itself into Australian theatrical distribution with a very high-profile title: Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The abortion-themed story from director Cristian Mungui is likely to go into cinemas by October and will first screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival next ...

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    Shanghai Film Forum delegates talk finance, festivals

    2007-06-18T14:34:00Z

    Marketing is no longer a dirty word in the new China and indeed a whole day was devoted to the topic on the second day of the Jin Jue International Film Forum at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF). In a session entitled 'Increasing Film Market Value - Revolution ...

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    ARRI picks up world sales for Sanders-Brahms' new feature Clara

    2007-06-18T11:25:00Z

    ARRI Media Worldsales has picked up international distribution rights for Helma Sanders-Brahms' drama Clara which begins the German part of its shoot in North Rhine-Westphalia from tomorrow. The German-French-Hungarian co-production between Integral Film/Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion, B.A. Produktion, France's MACT Productions and Budapest-based Objektiv Filmstudio had been shooting at locations in ...

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    Paramount Australia picks up its first local project, The Final Winter

    2007-06-14T15:48:00Z

    Paramount Pictures Australia has acquired Australian rights to the low-budget drama The Final Winter, its first local pick-up since UIP split into Paramount and Universal at the beginning of the year. The film is directed by Jane Forrest and Brian Andrews and written by Matt Nable, who also plays the ...

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    Attendance up 38% at second Film Screenings Of Madrid

    2007-06-13T18:00:00Z

    The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 10-12) closed on Tuesday night with a turnout that was 38 percent larger than last year.More than 138 buyers from 33 countries travelled to Madrid, where 56 recent Spanish features were screened and more than 100 tiles were available ...

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    Cinefile takes UK rights to True North and Change Of Address

    2007-06-13T15:43:00Z

    Scottish-based distributor Cinefile has acquired the UK theatrical rights to Emmanuel Mouret's Change Of Address (Changement D'Adresse) and Steve Hudson's drama True North. As a specialist in French-language titles, Cinefile is best known for the UK release of Cedric Klapisch's L'Auberge Espagnole (also known as The Spanish Apartment or Pot ...

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    Tribeca prize winner We Are Together partners with ONE Campaign

    2007-06-13T04:00:00Z

    Documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye), which won prizes at IDFA and Tribeca, is working with the ONE Campaign to promote the film in the US. The film is already partnered with Alicia Keys' charity Keep A Child Alive and now is also working with Bono's ONE organisation, which fights ...

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    HandMade books $50m in Cannes, led by Good Friday and Planet One

    2007-06-12T17:05:00Z

    HandMade Films, the sales arm of the revived HandMade plc, has reported $50m-plus sales at the Cannes Market, the best in the company's history. Sales were led by HandMade's $50m remake of The Long Good Friday and its $54m CGI animated feature Planet One. Paul WS Anderson's contemporary US version ...