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THINKFilm confirms more Cannes deals on Oxford Murders
THINKFilm International has announced its flurry of deals from Cannes. Alex de la Iglesia's thriller The Oxford Murders, now in post-production, closed further territories including Germany (Koch Media), Brazil (Imagem), Eastern Europe (Paradise MGN, Vision and Pro-vision), the Middle East (Front Row), Greece (Audiovisual) and Hong Kong (CMC). Un Certain ...
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Coach 14 books healthy sales during first Cannes
At its first Cannes, Coach 14 steamed ahead with healthy sales on four of its titles.Project El Rey De La Montana, by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego concluded pre-sales with the UK's Optimum, Madman in Australia and New Zealand, Eureka Pictures in Korea, France's WildSide and Canada's Seville Pictures.The US, Switzerland, Germany and ...
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Senator continues Weinstein relationship with four more titles
German producer-distributor Senator Film has consolidated its close working relationship with The Weinstein Company (TWC) by acquiring another four titles from the US independent during last week's Cannes festival. The quartet of acquisitions are headed by Michael Moore's 'out of competition' film Sicko and include Rian Johnson's romantic comedy The ...
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Concorde picks up 4 Months and Band's Visit for Germany
Germany's Concorde Film has picked up Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Golden Palm winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days from Wild Bunch and will release the film theatrically in German cinemas later this year. Among Concorde's other acquisitions from Cannes include Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard hit The ...
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Producers close in on Miramax deal for Boys Are Back In Town
The producers of the Australian/UK co-production The Boys are Back in Town are in negotiations to pre-sell US rightsto Miramax on the project, which is Australian director Scott Hicks' first film shot in Australia since hit Shine. Australian producer Tim White, of Southern Light Films, would not comment when contacted ...
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Little Film Company takes on rights to Satanas
The Little Film Company has acquired worldwide rights from Dynamo & Rionegro Producciones to Andres Baiz' thriller Satanas. Rodrigo Guerrero (Maria Full Of Grace) produced the film, which stars Damian Alcazar, Marcela Mar and Blas Jaramillo in a story that explores the ripple effect of misguided actions on a group ...
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Wide Management sells Shelter to US
Wide Management has announced sales at the just-wrapped Cannes Market on Shelter from director Marco Puccione and starring jury member Maria de Medeiros. The film went to Wolfe for the US and Canada, France's Epicentre, Pride Films in Spain and Portugal and ex-Yugoslavia's MGF. MGF also picked ...
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Artificial Eye picks up three Cannes Competition titles
UK arthouse distributor Artificial Eye has acquired three Competition titles at Cannes.The company has picked up Cristian Mungiu's Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days from Wild Bunch, Catherine Breillat's Cannes Competition debut An Old Mistress from Pyramide International and Christophe Honore's Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour) from ...
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Deltamac snaps up Diving Bell, Lionsgate titles
Hong Kong distributor Deltamac had a busy Cannes where it picked up competition film The Diving Bell And The Butterfly and two other titles. Julian Schnabel's French-language The Diving Bell And The Butterfly is produced by Pathe Renn and sold by Pathe Pictures International. Deltamac also pre-bought two titles from ...
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Black Book's Carice Van Houten to play South African writer
Dutch actress Carice van Houten will play the lead role in the biopic Smoke and Ochre about revolutionary South-African writer Ingrid Jonker. Dutch company Riba Film is developing the project, which will shoot in 2008.Dutch director Paula van der Oest is directing the project, which will be her first English-language ...
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Persepolis to have English-language makeover from SPC
Sony Pictures Classics is set to record an English-language version of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's warmly received Cannes competition title Persepolis, an animated project based on Satrapi's bestselling graphic novels.Catherine Deneuve, who plays the role of the mother in the French version, is re-recording her part this summer, joined ...
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Nordisk pre-buys three hot titles including Pompeii
Nordisk Film has struck Cannes deals for a number of films, including Roman Polanski's forthcoming $130m Pompeii. Nordisk also bought Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex, based on the true story of German terrorists. Stefan Aust, author of the book of the same name, will write the script with producer Bernd Eichinger. Uli ...
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Miramax dives deep for Schnabel's competition title Diving Bell
Miramax films has struck a deal for all North American rights to Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon), the well-received Cannes competitor sold by Pathe Pictures International.Sources put the value of the deal at about $3m. The film has been the subject of ...
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Momentum takes UK and Spain for Zwick's Defiance
In Cannes, Momentum Pictures has taken UK and Spanish rights to Defiance, the WWII action drama being planned by Ed Zwick.Bedford Falls and Grosvenor Park are producing and financing. As previously reported, Daniel Craig will star in the film, based on the true story of four brothers who built an ...
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Antonia Bird will produce Daradji's next Iraqi feature
Mohammed Daradji has arrived in Cannes fresh from location scouting inIraq.The young Baghdad-born director, who had festival success with hisfirst feature Ahlaam (Dreams), 2005, has teamed up with Britishdirector-producer Antonia Bird to produce his second film, also to be shotin the war-torn country. Bird, who has a particular interest in ...
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Monsoon and IdtV make first co-production with Nadra
Singapore production company Monsoon Pictures and Dutch filmmakers IdtV Film are joining forces to co-produce $6.5m drama Nadra.The project, which marks the first co-production between Singapore and the Netherlands, tells the true story of a 13-year-old Dutch girl at the centre of a fierce custody battle between her birth parents ...
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New German $242m fund already backs 24 projects
The Germans were in bullish mood in Cannes yesterday, talking up their 'lean, straightforward' new Federal Film Fund to an audience of international producers. The Fund, worth $242m (180m) Euros from 2007 to 2009, is open to international co-productions. In the five months of its existence, it has already backed ...
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Myriad closes more deals on Death Defying Acts
Myriad Pictures has sold the romantic adventure Death Defying Acts starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones to Italy (Eagle), South Korea (Screen) and Brazil (Imagem).Rights also went to Mexico (Gussi), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Russia and The Baltics (Pyramid), Greece (Audiovisual), Israel (Shapira), Portugal (LNK), Eastern Europe (AQS), Indonesia (PT Camila), the ...
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Madman buys Imagi's animated Highlander
Madman Entertainment has acquired rights for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Imagi International Holdings' Highlander: The Search For Vengeance.The first animated feature in the 20-year-old Highlander franchise, the film is directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.Starz Media has US and UK rights while Tohokushinsha pre-bought Japanese rights. Hong Kong and ...
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Seoul Commission works with Landed on Anti Hero
Seoul Film Commission has announced Canadian-based production company Landed Entertainments will be shooting a $7m feature in Seoul early next year. Casting is in progress for the Canadian-Korean co-production Anti Hero, to feature stars from Hollywood and Korea. Korean-Canadian director Junga Song is to make her feature debut with the ...