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Artificial Eye strikes UK deal for Lady Chatterley
Artificial Eye has acquired the UK rights to Lady Chatterley, which is playing in Berlinale Panorama.Films Distribution is handling international sales.Pascale Ferran directed the France-Belgium co-production, an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's story John Thomas and Lady Jane. Ferran recently won best director at the Lumiere Awards, with actress Marina Hands ...
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Trapped Ashes picked up by horror-hungry Lionsgate
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights from Darclight Films to the horror anthology Trapped Ashes. The four-part tale tells of seven strangers on a Hollywood studio tour stranded inside a House of Horrors exhibit. The protagonists are forced to share their most terrifying personal stories in order to get ...
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Three Dots closes key Asian territories on Spider Lillies
Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment has sold Panorama title Spider Lilies to CNS Entertainment for Korea, Sahamongkol for Thailand, and Passion Entertainment for Singapore. The sole Taiwanese feature in this year's Berlinale official selection, the film is Zero Chou's second feature drama. Her debut Splendid Float won Best Taiwan Film at ...
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Digital rights issue causes buyer/seller strife in Berlin
The European Film Market is struggling to cope with the arrival of an important new factor in the film sales world - digital rights.Buyers are desperately trying to acquire rights for downloads, video-on-demand and online distribution but many content owners are simply refusing to sell.Digital media is now a mainstream ...
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TWC seals Berlin deals on Spurlock doc, Inside
Continuing a ferocious buying spree that began at Sundance, The Weinstein Company (TWC) has swooped in Berlin on North American rights to Morgan Spurlock's Osama Bin Laden documentary and all English-speaking territories on Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's thriller Inside.Harvey Weinstein reportedly flew into town on Saturday to see footage ...
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Joe Dante gets Sayles, Scorsese on board for Corman feature
Gremlins and The Burbs director Joe Dante is in Berlin's Co-Production Market with his next film, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes.The $7m project is being produced by Dante with Los Angeles-based Elizabeth Stanley and UK-based Mia Bays. A chunk of the budget has already been raised through a Japanese pre-sale.The ...
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Lucky Red buys two from Trust including Trier horror
Lucky Red has pre-bought the Italian distribution rights to Lars Von Trier's first horror film Antichrist as well another film from Trust Film Sales - How To Get Rid Of The Others by Anders Rønnow Klarlund. Trier is enjoying something of a renaissance in Italy. His last film The Boss ...
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Fortissimo sells Lost Children to Zeitgeist, Red Envelope for US
Fortissimo Films has sold US rights for award-winning documentary Buddha's Lost Children to Zeitgeist Films for theatrical and Red Envelope Entertainment for DVD. Catherine Le Clef, newly appointed senior vice president, TV and ancillary, brokered the deal with both companies. Directed by Mark Verkerk, Buddha's Lost Children has won multiple ...
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Lightning takes on Open Sky's Cougar Club
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights from Open Sky Entertainment to The Cougar Club. Christopher Duddy directed the comedy from a screenplay he co-wrote with Glenn Garland and Cris Mancuso about college graduates who establish a club of young men who pursue sexually desirable ...
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EastWest strikes deals for three comedies
UK- and Austria-based sales company EastWest Filmdistribution has announced several sales on its trio of English-language comedies. HBO Central Europe took rights to UK comedy 12 In A Box by John McKenzie. The black comedy stars Brian Mitchell, Anjella Mackintosh, Kenneth Collard, Katy Wix, Paul Williamson and Clare Welch.Alexander Hahn's ...
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The Match Factory to handle new Hamer feature
Michael Weber's The Match Factory has picked up worldwide rights, excluding Scandinavia and German-speaking territories, to Bent Hamer's latest project O'Horten which began shooting in Norway on January 29. The film, which follows locomotive driver Odd Horten on a fatefully absurd odyssey on his first days of retirement, has actor ...
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GreeneStreet first to The Nines
GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) has picked up internationalrights to John August's trippy directorial debut The Nines fresh fromits world premiere at Sundance.GSFI president Ariel Veneziano sealed the deal early on Saturdaymorning and by last night was already poised to close deals in twomajor territories.August's first turn in the director's chair ...
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Lilly The Witch prepares to fly with Ruzowitzky
Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, whose latest feature The Counterfeiter had its world premiere in the Berlinale's Competition this weekend, is changing genres again with his next project, the children's film Lilly The Witch (Hexe Lilli).The $11.7m (Euros 9m) co-production between Munich-based blue eyes fiction, animation and VFX specialist Trixter, Studio ...
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Studiocanal sends out The Signal to France
Studiocanal has picked up French-speaking Europe from Shoreline Entertainment to the recent Sundance world premiere The Signal.David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry's high-def horror film follows a man's efforts to save his lover after a mysterious transmission turns the citizens of a fictitious town into violent killers.AJ Bowen, Chad ...
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Madman signs on for In The Shadow Of The Moon
Channel 4 International has signed an Australia/New Zealand deal with Madman for documentary In The Shadow Of The Moon. David Sington's documentary about the US space programme sold to THINKFilm for North America during Sundance, where it won the world documentary audience award. The film, originally commissioned by Channel4's Hamish ...
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Picturehouse and TWC pick up The Orphanage
Picturehouse has taken US rights from Wild Bunch to theSpanish-language horror tale The Orphanage (El Ofanato), with TheWeinstein Company reportedly taking the UK, Australia and Italy.J A Bayona is directing the Rodar Y Rodar and Estudios Picassoco-production about a woman who returns with her husband and boy tore-open the abandoned ...
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Tartan, Prokino among buyers wooing Chaotic Ana
Julio Medem''s Chaotic Ana is stirring buyers'' juices. Early in the EFM, Sogepaq has closed deals on a number of major territories. The film has gone to the UK (Tartan), Germany and Austria (Prokino), Benelux (Cineart and A-Film) and Greece and Cyprus (Prooptiki).Starring Manuela Velles and Charlotte Rampling, the $6.5 ...
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Lucas and Roth steal leads in Six Bullets
Production has started on Myriad Pictures' heist thriller Six BulletsFrom Now with Josh Lucas, Tim Roth and Dermot Mulroney set to star.Myriad chief Kirk D'Amico is in Berlin pre-selling the project, whichrecounts the 1972 break-in at New York's luxury Pierre Hotel in whichrobbers dressed in dinner jackets made off with ...
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Katapult scores with Zidane documentary
Katapult Films Sales has closed deals on several titles here, led byDouglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's experimental documentary Zidane:A XXI Century Portrait.Rights have gone to Kinowelt in Germany and Circulo in Spain. Salesagent David Jourdan completed a deal for Italian rights with Dolmenbefore the market.Meanwhile Maria Maggenti's romantic comedy Puccini ...
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BFI, Bac sign French deal for Distant Voices Still Lives
The British Film Institute struck a deal with Bac Films for all Frenchrights to the BFI's restoration of Terence Davies' Distant Voices StillLives. The BFI will re-release the film theatrically in the UK in April followed by a new DVD release. Bac Film's Jean Labadie negotiated the deal with BFI ...