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Reiko Bradley moves to head Seven Arts International
Heading into the AFM, Reiko Bradley has been named president of Seven Arts International.Bradley will oversee all aspects of Seven Arts Pictures' burgeoning international sales and distribution operations as well as domestic distribution and the marketing of all Seven Arts titles. She will also play a key role in evaluating ...
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Le Pacte acquires world rights to Bonnell's La Dame De Trefle
French sales and distribution company Le Pacte has acquired world rights to the latest film from director Jerome Bonnell, La Dame De Trefle. Le Pacte will handle the French release and will commence sales at the AFM next week.A drama with a thriller bent, the film stars Malik Zidi, Florence ...
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Celluloid Dreams acquires Wagenhofer doc, Let's Make Money
Celluloid Dreams has acquired Erwin Wagenhofer's documentary, Let's Make Money. Produced by Allegro Film's Helmut Grasser, the film is a behind-the-scenes look at the ways in which ordinary people are implicated in the political and economic machinations of the international finance market through a simple bank deposit.Celluloid will premiere the ...
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Beta Cinema presents four market premieres at AFM
The Munich-based sales agent will be having market screenings for the first time of:Robert Dornhelm's $ 6.4m (Euros 5m) production of the Puccini opera La Boheme with star singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, which has been released so far in Austria (Constantin Film) and Germany (NFP/Warner);Nicolai Rohde's drama 10 ...
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Goldcrest Independent boards Marceau-Lambert drama Percussions
Goldcrest Independent has acquired international rights to Thelma Films and Cine Nomine's upcoming French romance Percussions starring real-life couple Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert.Executive president of sales Pierre Weisbein will introduce the project to buyers at AFM following a seven-week shoot in the Colombia city of Cartagena.Currently in post-production in ...
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Berry and Skarsgard go before camera on Frankie and Alice
Principal photography has commenced on Geoffrey's Sax drama Frankie and Alice, starring Halle Berry and Stellan Skarsgard in the lead roles. Produced by Toronto-based Access Motion Pictures, the project will makes its first market appearance at the AFM through Cinesavvy, Access' partner sales company, which is handling world rights.Set against ...
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Delphis takes international rights on Dutch family hit Letter For The King
Montreal sales company Delphis Films has acquired international sales rights to Dutch filmmaker Pieter Verhoeff's chivalric adventure Letter For The King. The deal is for rights outside Benelux and German-language territories. The German release is scheduled for November.Budgeted at Euros 7.5m and shot on location in Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, ...
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Easternlight picks up international rights to Champions
Arclight Films' Easternlight division will handle international sales, excluding certain Asian territories, to recently completed martial arts action epic Champions, produced by Hong Kong-based Sundream Motion Pictures. The film, which is directed by veteran filmmaker and Sundream president Tsui Siuming, centres on the Chinese martial arts team that participated in ...
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Byzantium Entertainment set to debut at AFM with Aladdin
Alan Mehrez and business partner Aileen Rodriguez' new production, finance and international sales company Byzantium Entertainment will debut at AFM next week with the live-action adventure Aladdin.The company plans to produce two to three films a year in the low to mid budget range. Aladdin is funded through private equity ...
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Mudge's Worldwide boards Lonely Street, Stone's Point
Barbara Mudge's Los Angeles-based boutique sales agency Worldwide Film Entertainment has boarded international rights ahead of AFM to the comedic murder mystery Lonely Street and thriller Stone's Point.Lonely Street is based on Steve Brewer's series of novels about a private eye who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a tabloid reporter's murder. ...
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Lightning picks up Spanish ghost story The Beckoning
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain to Elio Quiroga's Spanish ghost story The Beckoning.Quiroga wrote and directed the story about a traumatised young doctor who moves to the country after her child dies of cot death and is haunted by mysterious ...
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Natalie Portman steps onto Don Roos film for Incentive
Natalie Portman has replaced Jennifer Lopez in Don Roos' upcoming drama Love And Other Impossible Pursuits, the first film from the $100m Incentive Filmed Entertainment fund launched by Screen Capital International and William Morris Agency at Cannes.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the under-$15m film ...
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Intrepid's Cold Light Of Day gets AFM launch from Essential
Essential Entertainment has boarded international rights to the thriller Cold Light Of Day from Intrepid Pictures, riding high following the success of the Rogue Pictures summer release The Strangers.Jere Hausfater will commence pre-sales at AFM next week on the story of a young man thrown into an international conspiracy when ...
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Arsenal takes German rights to Argentinian music doc El Ultimo Aplauso
Arsenal has bought German rights to German Kral's Argentinian music documentary El Ultimo Aplauso, following its world premiere at the Hof Film Festival. The deal was closed on Sunday night with Beatrix Wesle's Atrix Films.The company plans an early 2009 release.The film follows a group of forgotten Tango singers, who ...
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Nick Love starts UK shoot of Vertigo production The Firm
Principal photography has started on The Firm, written and directed by Nick Love (The Business, The Football Factory) starring newcomer Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab (The Football Factory) and Daniel Mays (Shifty).The $4m (£2.5m) film is produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson of Vertigo Films. Shooting will take place in ...
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TIFFCOM wraps successful edition despite competition
Tokyo's TIFFCOM (Oct 22-24) wrapped Friday night with delegates agreeing the market was good for meetings involving Japanese counterparts, and was getting bigger and better. Despite being sandwiched between MIPCOM and the AFM, and taking place at the same time as the Rome Film Festival, the market was busier than ...
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IMAX expands theatre deal with Ukraine's Triumph
IMAX Corp. and Kyiv-based media company Triumph have added a third cinema to its giant-screen roll-out in the Ukraine. Triumph's exhibition arm, Kinokompaniya Triumf, will now have theatres in Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov. The Kiev site was installed last month, while the Odessa site is expected to be operational by ...
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Summit picks up The Book Of Eli
Summit International has picked up international rights to The Book Of Eli starring Denzel Washington and will introduce the apocalyptic tale to buyers at AFM next month. The Book of Eli marks the first theatrical project from Albert and Allen Hughes since From Hell opened in 2001. Washington ...
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Arclight picks up rights to The Red Baron
Arclight Films has acquired worldwide rights excluding German-speaking Europe and the Czech Republic ahead of AFM to the $23.3m (Eu18m) German aerial action title The Red Baron. Matthias Schweighofer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey and Joseph Fiennes star in the Niama Film tale of the legendary first world war German ...
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TIFFCOM: Asmik Ace dresses Asia in Handsome Suit
Japanese producer-distributor Asmik Ace closed several Asian deals for new comedy The Handsome Suit on the second day of the TIFFCOM market. The film was sold to Golden Harvest for Hong Kong and Macau; Serenity picked up Taiwanese rights, and Encore acquired rights for Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Bids for ...