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Wide's Ex-Drummer goes to Mongrel Media
Koen Mortier's controversial Ex-Drummer, the Flemish film about an abrasiverock band formed by disabled musicians, has been snapped up by Mongrel Media for Canada. The film is sold by Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management.Wide Management arrives in Santa Monica with a bulging slate headlined byVolker Schlondörff's Gigola, starring Asia Argento. ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 5
Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights from Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's Visit Films to the drama Momma's Man following its London Film Festival screenings.The film premiered at Sundance and tells of a man who visits his parents' loft apartment in Manhattan on a business trip and decides not ...
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StudioCanal takes on sales for Yorkshire Ripper trilogy
StudioCanal has announced the acquisition of two new English-language projects which comprise four films in total. The first, The Red Riding Trilogy, is based on a series of cult British crime novels by David Peace inspired by the true story of the Yorkshire Ripper. The second, Cotton, is a faux-documentary ...
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TF1 International sells Gatlif, Veber, Jeunet at AFM
TF1 International has boarded Tony Gatlif's latest Korkoro, the story of a gypsy family facing persecution in World War II France which stars Marc Lavoine and Marie-Jose Croze. The film, currently shooting, will be released by TFM Distribution in France.TF1 is here with the world premiere of Francis Veber's latest ...
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Axiom in UK, Star Sands in Japan take on Dornhelm's La Boheme
UK distributor Axiom and Japan's Star Sands/Theaters have acquired Robert Dornhelm's film version of the Puccini opera La Boheme ahead of its market premiere at the AFM.According to sales agent Beta Cinema, the film featuring opera stars Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon has also been picked up by Palace for ...
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Wolfe Video picks up North America on two before AFM
Wolfe Video has announced it has acquired North American rights ahead of AFM to the gay titles Whirlwind and Mulligans.Whirlwind explores non-monogamy, commitment and friendship in New York.Richard Le May directed and Bryan West, Alexis Suarez, Desmond Dutcher, Brad Anderson and Mark Ford star. The film won the audience award ...
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6 Sales enters Narrows, surfs Wave
On the eve of the AFM, 6 Sales has taken international rights to The Narrows, directed by François A Velle and starring Kevin Zegers (Transamerica), VincentD'Onofrio, Sophia Bush and Eddie Cahill. Deals already closed after the film's Toronto world premiere include to Movie Bank in Benelux and Koba Films in ...
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HanWay sees Afterlife with Gurinder Chadha
HanWay Films is starting worldwide sales here at the AFM on Gurinder Chadha's next film, It's A Wonderful Afterlife. The family comedy will start shooting in February 2009.Chadha bills the project as My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Shaun Of The Dead. The film is set in multi-cultural London, where ...
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Voltage enters The Bubble Factory's Tomb
Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights to The Bubble Factory and Ringleader Studios' supernatural action title The Devil's Tomb starring Cuba Gooding Jr.Jason Connery directed the story of a team of mercenaries hired by a mysterious CIA operative to rescue a scientist from an archaeological site in the ...
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AFM: Artist View embraces Brothers War
Artist View Entertainment has taken on international rights heading into AFM to the action thriller Brothers War from producer Tino Struckmann.Jerry Buteyn directed the story set in the closing days of the Second World War as a German and a British officer join forces to save Europe from a new ...
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Cinemavault acquires international to The Hammer
Cinemavault has acquired international rights to the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival comedy The Hammer starring Adam Carolla and will introduce to buyers at AFM.Charles Herman-Wurmfeld directed the story of a 40-year-old underachiever who works on a construction site and lands a chance to try out for the US Olympic team.Heather ...
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HS Media launches sales arm Exclusive with Peter Weir film
HS Media, the parent company of Spitfire Pictures and Hammer Films formed by Dutch investment group Cyrte Investments that was announced in Cannes, has unveiled Exclusive Film Distribution as its in-house sales and distribution arm.The London-based division led by head of sales Peter Naish will be tempting buyers at AFM ...
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Basner's back with FilmNation, deals with MRC, Samuels, Endgame
Several months after leaving his post as head of international at The Weinstein Company, Glen Basner returns to the fray with his new sales and distribution company FilmNation Entertainment and will commence pre-sales at AFM on M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller Devil.Backed by equity investors including Steve Samuels, New York-based ...
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AFM: Spanish sales companies look beyond horror
The last few years have all been about horror films from Spain but 2009 promises a more diverse slate of projects. One of the few scary movies in the works is Filmax's [Rec 2] which will be offered to buyers for the first time at the AFM. Jamie Balauguero is ...
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AFM: Williams, Bonard launch ScreenOpus with US/French backing
Fledgling international film and television sales agency ScreenOpus, a joint venture between US-based Severance Pictures and Paris-based MK2 SA, arrives at AFM with launch titles The Hide and The Golden Age.Former MGM vice president of international sales and marketing Courtney Williams and former MTV International vice president of sales and ...
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Lightning takes international on Trailer Park Of Terror
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired international distribution rights to the comic book adaptation Trailer Park Of Terror heading into AFM this week.The Bogner Entertainment title is based on the Imperium Comics series about a group of students and their chaperone who are stranded in the mountains and left to ...
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Cinemavault takes on sales for Where God Left His Shoes
Toronto-based Cinemavault has picked up from Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions the drama Where God Left His Shoes starring John Leguizamo.Salvatore Stabile directed the take of a down-and-out boxer who takes his young son on a journey around New York City to look for a home on Christmas Eve.The film premiered ...
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Shoreline takes on worldwide rights to Tom Cool
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights ahead of AFM to director Ron Carlson's comedy Tom Cool.Mila Kunis, Clifton Collins Jr, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Michael Rapaport, Jason Mewes and Tony Todd star in the story of a young man who lands his dream job as a driver for an escort ...
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Berlin to showcase German film industry to Bollywood
The German film industry will showcase its services and funding opportunities to Bollywood in a special presentation to the Indian film industry in Mumbai.The event will be organised by Berlin-Brandenburg Film Commission (BFFC) and inward investment agency Berlin Partner on November 2.India 's burgeoning film industry has recently been building ...
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Peace Arch picks up three for international sales
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has picked up international rights to the dark comedy Nobel Son, the drama Explicit iLLS and the thriller Two: Thirteen.The company will showcase all three films at the AFM along with Goal 3: Taking On The World, the final episode in the Goal football trilogy.Nobel Son ...