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Seville clocks up Berlin deals on Poor Boy's Game
Seville International has closed multiple sales on Clement Virgo's Berlin Panorama entry Poor Boy's Game starring Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland and Laura Regan. Tot Media bought the film for Spain, CCV for Scandinavia, All Interactive Distribution for Australia, Epelpol for Poland, Video Filmes for Brazil, Teleview International for the Middle ...
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AV Pictures closes Berlin deals on Black Water and Daylight Robbery
London-based sales company AV Pictures finished this year's EFM with a slew of deals on several films in its slate. Australian crocodile thriller Black Water sold to 11 territories including Presidio Film in Japan, FEG in Benelux and Notro Films in Spain. Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich are directing and ...
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Ascot Elite takes German-speaking rights to Shrooms
Switzerland 's Ascot Elite has bought rights to all German-speaking territories for Paddy Breathnach's horror thriller Shrooms. Capitol Films closed the deal after a bidding war during Berlin's European Film Market. Capitol's head of sales James Norrie and Ascot Elite COO Stephan Giger negotiated the deal. Shroomsstars Lindsay Haun and ...
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Bavaria seals deals on Competition films and market titles
Bavaria Film International has closed a slew of deals on Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale competition this afternoon. The adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's novel starring Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and Julia Jentsch was sold to Distribution Company (Argentina, Chile, ...
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Sony Classics gets North American rights for The Children Of Huang Shi
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights to Roger Spottiswoode's The Children Of Huang Shi. The epic tale is set in war-ravaged China in 1938. Production on the project ends today in Shanghai, with a cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Arthur Cohn ...
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Delpy's latest sparks sales boom for Rezo
The Works UK Distribution has taken UK rights on Julie Delpy's Two Days In Paris, one of the buzz titles in this year's Berlinale. The film, which screened as a Panorama special, stars Delpy, Adam Goldberg and Daniel Bruhl. It's about a New York-based couple on holiday in Europe, trying ...
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Fortissimo enjoys documentary sales
Fortissimo Films has seen a healthy first market for its documentary Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens. The film sold to Haut et Court for France and Lucky Red for Italy, with deals to Germany, Japan, Australia and Benelux pending. 'Berlin is always a good market for us. We've done ...
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GreeneStreet scores UK deal on The Nines, Germany deal on Bill
Greenestreet Films International (GSFI) continued a busy EFM here as it sold Sundance pick-up The Nines to Optimum for the UK. Sales chief Ariel Veneziano did the deal with Optimum's Will Clarke on the three-part story starring Ryan Reynolds, Hope David and Melissa McCarthy.GSFI also closed deals on the Aaron ...
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Solid sales business boosts growing EFM
The EFM was winding down yesterday with many buyers already on their way home and complaints that new product was underwhelming, especially when the hottest titles here were documentaries - Morgan Spurlock Untitled which Wild Bunch sold throughout the world, First Look International's Larry Charles Project and Fortissimo's Rolling Stones ...
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M&FC takes Woo/Chang production Brothers for Korea
Korean producer/distributor M&FC has bought the John Woo and Terence Chang produced Blood Brothers for Korea.B.K. Cha, head of M&FC's film division, signed with CMC Entertainment production marketing manager Joseph Liao.Fortissimo Films hold worldwide rights for Blood Brothers outside of Asia.M&FC, originally a music rights company - whose president Sungwoo ...
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Bruges, Doomsday, Road fly out of Focus at EFM
Focus Features International (FFI) has finalised key territory sales at EFM led by new titles In Bruges, Doomsday, and Reservation Road.SND bought rights for all three in France, while Concorde took German rights for Doomsday, and Mikado took Italian and Sun acquired all Latin American rights for In Bruges. Scanbox ...
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Cyborg sold to Tokyo Theaters in Japan by CJ Entertainment
CJ Entertainment has sold Berlinale competition title I'm a Cyborg but That's Okay to Tokyo Theaters for Japan, and Generation title Like a Virgin to Amuse for Japan. 'Japan's become difficult - not like 2004 or 2005 - but we're still doing steady business,' says Tom Oh, senior vice president, ...
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Hyde Park unveil EFM deals on Spottiswoode, Ivory films
Hyde Park International has closed a slew of deals here on its EFM slate, headed by Roger Spottiswoode's drama The Children Of Huang Shi starring Chow Yun-Fat.Rights have gone to: Metropolitan (France); MGM (CIS); Paris Films (Brazil); Gussi (all remaining Latin American rights); Village Roadshow (Greece); RCV (Benelux); Lusomundo (Portugal); ...
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Mandate takes Passengers overseas at EFM
Los Angeles-based production and sales company Mandate Pictures has reported brisk business on the drama Passengers starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson, which started production in Vancouver three weeks ago.Rights have gone to RTL Universum (Germany), Toshiba (Japan), Cinevideo (Mexico), Dea Planeta (Spain), I Vision (South Korea), West (CIS), Conquest ...
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NonStop sells Mikkelsen-starrer Exit to France, Germany
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen's performance as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, and his role in Danish director Susanne Bier's Oscar-nominated After the Wedding, have certainly added to his international bankability, per ceo of Stockholm-based NonStop Sales, Michael Werner.Swedish director Peter Lindmark's Mikkelsen starrer, Exit, has now sold German-speaking countries (Galileo ...
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Wolfe takes Shelter for US from Wide
Loic Magneron's Wide Manaagement has closed a slew of deals as the EFMwinds down, including a US deal on Marco Simon Puccioni's Italian Panorama entry, Shelter.The film, about two young Italian women who find a Moroccan immigrant hiding in their car, has sold to Wolfe Releasing. The film stars Portuguese ...
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Film London, LFF partner on UK's new Production Finance Market
Here in Berlin, Film London announced plans for the UK capital's first Production Finance Market, which will run October 22-23 in association with The Times BFI London Film Festival (Oct 17-Nov 1).The two-day event in central London will bring together more than 100 film producers, and financiers from the UK, ...
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Shochiku sells over 50 territories on Genghis Khan at EFM
Shochiku has sold epic drama Genghis Khan - To The Ends of the Earth and Sea to over 50 countries at EFM including a multi-territory sale for Germany, Austria and Benelux to Splendid Film.The $30m Japan-Mongolian co-production, directed by Shinichiro Sawai (W's Tragedy), commemorates the 800th anniversary of the founding ...
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Wild Bunch continues a prosperous Berlin with TWC, SPC
The Wild Bunch selling spree continued in Berlin Tuesday with sales of Michel Ocelot's Azur And Asmar to The Weinstein Company and Laurent Tirard's Moliere to Sony Pictures Classics in the US. Azur And Asmar also sold to Japan's Studio Ghibli.Further sales were also completed on Morgan Spurlock's hunt-for-Bin-Laden documentary ...
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Buyers line up to scale Red Cliff with Summit
Summit Entertainment is close to completing its patchwork of deals for John Woo's upcoming Chinese military epic The Battle Of Red Cliff - which, at a reported $75m, is the most expensive Asian film in history.The film, which will start shooting in March with a cast led by Chow Yun-Fat ...