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Double Edge comes on board for King Of Fighters
Taiwan's Double Edge Entertainment has boarded King Of Fighters: The Movie which it will jointly finance and produce with Japan's Micott & Basara and Arclight Films/Easternlight Films.Bobby Sheng, CEO of the Los Angeles and Taipei-based production and finance outfit, will produce alongside Axis Entertainment's Joseph Chou and Convergence Entertainment's Tim ...
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Arthouse takes North American DVD rights to Cartier-Bresson box
Arthouse Films has acquired North American DVD rights to the Henri Cartier-Bresson double DVD box set, featuring five films by the master photographer and several documentaries on his life and work.The deal was struck with French sales company MK2's head of sales Mathilde Henrot by David Koh, head of acquisitions ...
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AV Pictures' crocodile thriller Black Water sells widely
Buyers are swarming round crocodile thriller Black Water, being sold by AV Pictures. Buyers snapping down on the film are The Works (UK), Brazil (PlayArte), Indonesia & Malaysia (Ram Indo), Middle East (Falcon Films), Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (J-Bics) and Turkey (Horizon International) have also bitten on the film. Deals had ...
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Madman picks up six including Flight Of Red Balloon
Distributor Madman Entertainment has picked a slew of titles in Cannes for Australia/New Zealand distribution.Madman has struck deals for Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Un Certain Regard opener Flight Of The Red Balloon along with Albert Lamorisse's classics Le Ballon Rouge and Crin-Blanc, all from Films Distribution.Also, Madman bought Bleiberg Entertainment's UCR title ...
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Medb Films strikes three-picture Target deal with Brenda Blethyn project
Target Entertainment has signed a three-picture deal with Jan Dunn and Elaine Wickham's UK-based Medb Films. Target's Alison Rayson will executive produce the films, which Dunn will direct and Wickham will produce.The first under the deal is The Calling, Dunn's story about a university student who suddenly decides to become ...
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Inmoa kicks up Bright Star and Get Some
Korean importer/distributor Inmoa Entertainment has picked up Bright Star from Pathe Pictures International and Get Some from Summit Entertainment.Thomas Kim, president of international business at Inmoa, said he picked up Bright Star because 'it's directed by Jane Campion, who does love stories well, and it stars Ben Whishaw from Perfume: ...
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Italy moves into CGI with Winx Club's Lost Kingdom
Italy is moving en force into CGI animation with a Euros 25m feature based on the hugely successful original animated TV series Winx Club produced by Rainbow, RAI Cinema and RAI TV.Winx Club the Secret of the Lost Kingdom, present at the Cannes market has had multiple sales including Independent ...
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Cinemavault closes deals for Outsourced
Cinemavault has closed multiple territory sales here on John Jeffcoat's comedy Outsourced.Telemunchen has rights for German-speaking Europe to the story starring Josh Hamilton as a novelty product salesman who travels to India to train his replacement.Cinemavault also closed deals in: Australia (Starz), South Africa (Nu Metro), India (PVR Cinemas), Romania ...
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Endgame to produce A Chorus Line documentary
Jim Stern's Endgame Entertainment will produce and finance the documentary Every Little Step: The Journey Of A Chorus Line about the making and revival of the Broadway hit.Stern and Adam Del Deo will co-direct and produce and WMi is handling worldwide rights here on A Chorus Line's famously tumultuous career. ...
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Myriad previews Dario Argento's long awaited The Third Mother
Journalists got the first glimpse of the graphic trailer of Italian horror master Dario Argento's long-awaited film The Third Mother, the final chapter of The Mother of Tears trilogy, in Cannes. The film has its market debut for international sales handled by Myriad Pictures.Italy's Medusa produced Mother (in post), and ...
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Rebel State lines up rapper Kano for Black Market
UK producers Rebel State Films, headed by Anthony Alleyne and Rachel McClelland, are in Cannes to discuss their slate of four films with potential co-producers.The first project set to shoot is Black Market, written and to be directed by Alleyne, with 28 Weeks Later star Idris Elba and rapper Kano ...
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The Works works Buscemi's Interview
The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Steve Buscemi's Interview, which stars Buscemi and Sienna Miller. Cinemavault is handling sales. The project is Buscemi's fourth as a director and it played in Sundance and Berlin.The drama follows a fading political journalist who has to interview a popular ...
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Taviani Brothers' Lark Farm flies to RAI Trade
Italian sales company RAI Trade has added the Taviani's latest film, The Lark Farm, to its Cannes slate.The film, which played in Berlin, is the latest effort from Paolo and Vittorio Taviana, who won the Palme d'Or in 1977 for My Father, My Master and a special jury prize in ...
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Storm rises for Santiago Parra's Guadalupe
Storm Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales on Guadalupe, Santiago Parra's tale of two scientists who investigate the apparition of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe in Mexico.Pedro Armendariz stars alongside Ivana Mino and Aleix Albaredo. The Versatile Group of Hollywood is also representing the feature, which shot in Spain and Mexico.
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Shane Meadows gets shorts in shape with EM Media, Warp and Film4
EM Media, the UK's East Midlands regional screen agency behind Anton Corbijn's Directors Fortnight hit Control, has joined forces with Warp Films and Film4 to create a new website that will offer downloads of Shane Meadows' large back catalogue of shorts.Meadows, who most recently made the award-winning This Is England ...
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Wide racks up Cannes sales for titles including Counterparts
Wide Management has started strong at the Cannes Market. Wide has already completed sales on Fortnight title Counterparts by director Jan Bonny, A Casa De Alice by Chico Teixeira, Philippe Aractingi's Bosta, Ballerina from Bertrand Normand and two new Edith Piaf documentaries: Le Concert Ideal and Sans Amour On 'est ...
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Spain's S2 sings for The Turtle Song
Stephane Sorlat's Madrid-based S2 International has rights in Spain and Portugal to Nick Stringer's documentary The Turtle Song from Sola Media.Produced by the UK's Film And Music Entertainment, the film tells the story of the little loggerhead turtle and her journey from a beach in Florida to the frozen north ...
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Revolver dances along with Vida Ballet documentary
Revolver Entertainment has pre-bought the UK rights to feature documentary Vida Ballet from director Beadie Finzi, who previously co-directed and produced Unknown White Male.Giorgia Lo Savio produced the film, which is executive produced by Tigerlily's Nikki Parrott. Vida Ballet follows a year in the life of two teenagers, Irlan and ...
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Lebanese films start to take the spotlight in Cannes
Lebanon, unlike most other Arab nations this year, is having a good Cannes. Besides Danielle Arbid's A Lost Man and Nadine Labaki's hot Caramel in Directors' Fortnight, and a showcase of recent productions as part of Tous les Cinemas du Monde, the state-funded Fondation Liban Cinema is promoting a raft ...
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Crook steals his way into Third World People
Paris-based Chic Films has added Mackenzie Crook to the cast of its Kristin Scott Thomas romantic comedy Third World People.Antoine Desrosieres will direct the English-language French, South African and German co-production, about Europeans' views on third-world people.Other projects on Chic's line -up include the currently-shooting Black starring French rap artist ...