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Kino takes US rights to North Korea documentary Crossing The Line
Panorama documentary title Crossing the Line, about the last US defector to North Korea, has sold to Kino in the US and Madman in Australia.Narrated by Christian Slater, the film was directed and produced by Dan Gordon, and co-produced by Nick Bonner - the latter two documentarians have focused on ...
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iHQ sells Daisy to Germany
iHQ has sold Jeon Ji-hyun-starrer Daisy to Splendid Film for Germany. Featuring Jeon with other pan-Asian stars Jung Woo-sung and Lee Sung-jae in a love triangle, the film is a police thriller directed by Andrew Lau in a solo flight - apart from Infernal Affairs co-director Alan Mak.Jenny Kim, iHQ ...
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Independent strikes Hallam Foe German deal with Prokino
UK-based sales company Independent has sold Berlinale Competition title Hallam Foe to Prokino for Germany and Austria. The film has also sold to Nordisk for Scandinavia, Rosebud for Greece, Monopole Pathe for Switzerland and VTI/Karantanija Cinemas for the former Yugoslavia. Independent said negotiations are ongoing for a US sale.David Mackenzie's ...
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Tenderness sells for GreeneStreet to Italy, Russia, Scandinavia
Greenestreet Films International (GSFI) has almost sold out the Russell Crowe thriller Tenderness after closing four more key territories.Rights went to Mediafilm (Italy), 21st Century (Russia), Nordisk (Scandinavia), and Alfa (Argentina).GSFI chief Ariel Veneziano is in active negotiations on Germany and France, while Japanese rights are still available. Jon Foster ...
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Aachi & Ssipak sold to Studio Canal for France
Studio2.0 has sold comic animation Aachi & Ssipak to StudioCanal for France.Studio2.0's head of sales Choi Eun-young signed the deal with StudioCanal's Laurent Campagne. The animation is set in a futuristic world which is powered by human faeces and the government regulates its citizens by keeping them addicted to popsicles.The ...
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Goya's Ghosts finds domestic home with Samuel Goldwyn Films
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights for Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts starring Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgard.The story is told through the eyes of the celebrated Spanish painter, played by Skarsgard, and focuses on events that unfold when a powerful clergyman falls for Goya's muse.Saul Zaentz ...
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High Point Films closes three deals on The Front Line
UK-based sales company High Point Films has sold David Gleeson's thriller The Front Line to Film Entertainment Group for Benelux, Alberto Bitelli International Films for Brazil (planning a summer release), and Falcon Films for The Middle East. High Point's Elisar Cabrera is in final negotiations for deals covering France and ...
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Intercinema lands deal for The Island
Aki Kaurismaki is Russia-bound. The Finnish director's work is rarely seen in the country, but thanks to Raisa Fomina' sales and distribution outfits Intercinema, Russian audiences will soon be able to lap up almost every movie Kaurismaki has ever made.First, Intercinema released A Man Without A Past and Lights In ...
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Martial arts duck flies for Golden Network Asia
Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia has sold the comic Thai martial arts animation Duck Fight to three territories - Global Motion Picture's Luxor brand for Eastern Europe including Russia, Golden Films for Brazil, and Gulf Film for the Middle East.Billed 'the ultimate under-duck movie,' the animated film is set during ...
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Lionsgate strikes US, UK and Australia deal for BBC's Earth
Lionsgate has acquired the US, UK and Australian distribution rights for BBC Worldwide's documentary feature Earth.The 90-minute documentary project, shot in 35mm and HD, has been in the works for five years and is due for an autumn 2007 release. The film looks at the influence of the sun on ...
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Senator boards Falorni's Heart
Germany 's Senator Film has boarded Luigi Falorni's fiction feature debut Heart Of Fire as co-producer and acquired German distribution rights. Based on Senait Mehari's bestselling autobiography Heart Of Fire, the film follows her experiences serving in the Eritrean Liberation Front and witnessing the horrors of a guerrilla war. The ...
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Wild Bunch seals deals with Picturehouse, Magnolia, Goldwyn
Wild Bunch may have broken off official relations with the Berlinale and set up shop in a jerry-built cabin, but the French sales powerhouse has had its best EFM ever, including three US deals.Morgan Spurlock's untitled documentary has been an especially hot seller. UK rights have now gone to Optimum, ...
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Voltage initiates buyers into The Tribe
Voltage Pictures has taken international rights to Jorg Ihle's action horror movie The Tribe. Sales chief Nicolas Chartier described the project as a cross between Predator and Lost and already closed deals ahead of the market with Flashstar in Brazil and Prosieben.Sat for German TV. The Tribe centres on a ...
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Mango Films takes on Jean Charles de Menezes drama
After a recent BBC television project about Jean Charles de Menezes was abruptly scrapped after four weeks of pre-production, UK-based Mango Films has picked up the exclusive rights to the story of the innocent Brazilian electrician shot and killed by London police in a tube station in the days following ...
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Tartan, Legend take on Ex Drummer
Tartan Films has taken North American and UK rights for controversial Belgian feature Ex Drummer, while German rights have been sold to Legend Home Entertainment.Loic Magneron at Wide Management struck the Tartan deal with head of acquisitions Jane Giles. Magneron said other major territory deals will close in the next ...
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Buyers go gaga for Estonian Lotte From Gadgetville
Buyers are going gaga for Estonian animated feature Lotte From Gadgetville. Midway through the EFM, the film - aimed at pre-school kids in the 3-to-8 age range - Lotte has now sold to 15 territories for theatrical. Lotte, on Sola Media/Atrix Film's EFM slate, has gone to Finland (Filmkempaniet), Poland ...
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Schafer's gay and lesbian film doc finds buyers
Andre Schafer's Here's Looking At You, Boy is tickling the fancy of buyers worldwide. Schafer's documentary, telling the story of the coming-out of gay and lesbian cinema, has sold worldwide in advance of its premiere in Panorama later this week.Amsterdam-based sales agent Sydney Neter of SND Films has closed deals ...
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Levinson comedy books major territory sales for 2929
2929 International has closed a raft of sales on Barry Levinson's upcoming comedy What Just Happened'Rights have gone to Telemunchen (Germany), Medusa (Italy), TF1 (France), and Manga (Spain).Shooting is scheduled to begin on Mar 22 with Robert De Niro in the lead as a desperate producer in the throes of ...
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Megabox targets women with new acquisitions label
Major Korean exhibitor Megabox Mediaplex debuts a new acquisitions label in EFM. The Megabox label will acquire foreign films for theatrical release in its multiplexes, then to go to cable on sister company On*Media's new film channel Movie OnStyle.Megabox owns 10 theaters with a total of 91 screens nationwide, and ...
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Sony sells Japanese anime to France
Rezo Films has acquired French rights from Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) to the Japanese anime title Tekkonkinkreet, whichreceived its world premiere in Berlin's Generation 14Plus strand.Rezo has set an April 25 theatrical release date for the Studio 4°C andAniplex co-production, which will be renamed Amer Beton for the Frenchmarket.Tekkonkinkreet is ...