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Pathe sees strong Cannes Market; including a dozen Cheri deals
Pathe International has announced a slew of deals after a successful Cannes Market.Stephen Frears' Cheri, making its market premiere, sold to Italy (Rai), Latin America (California Filmes), CIS (Maywin Media), South Korea (Mars Film), Portugal (Castello Lopes), the Middle East (Teleview), Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Vizion), Greece (Audiovisual), ...
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Screen opinion- What's the big picture'
What's the headline for this year's Cannes'' a journalist from a European news agency asked Screen before the first screening had taken place.It's not a stupid question. Each year, there tends to be a trend that lends itself to neat and tidy summation. In recent times, we've had years that ...
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Cannes market- Deals or no deals
It is difficult to judge the success of the business done at the Cannes marketplace outside the context of the weight of hope, even expectation, that preceded it.After relatively flat markets at Toronto, AFM and Berlin, there was some hope Cannes would provide a necessary kick for business.Such hope was ...
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Cannes buyers snatch up Michael Moore's latest polemic
Michael Moore's follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11 led a strong Cannes sales market for Paramount Vantage, solidifying its credentials as an emergent heavyweight supplier.Moore descended on the Croisette to personally introduce the project - which he is now understood to be filming at undisclosed locations - and described it as a ...
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Liberation takes UK rights to Daylight Robbery from AV
UK distributor Liberation Entertainment has acquired UK rights to thriller Daylight Robbery from sales company AV Pictures.AV has also sold the film for Australasia (All Interactive), Benelux (European Film Partners), Brazil (PlayArte), CIS (Lizard), France (Swift Prods), Japan (New Select), Poland (Carisma), Thailand (J-Bics) and Turkey (Horizon International).Gavin Braxton, CEO ...
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Metrodome sees Mark Of An Angel with Celluloid Dreams
UK distributor Metrodome has taken all UK rights to French psychological thriller Mark Of An Angel from Celluloid Dreams.The deal was struck between general manager - theatricaland broadcast Sara Frain, acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Edwards and CEO Peter Urie for Metrodome, with Pierre Menahem for Celluloid Dreams.Safy Nebbou ...
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Kinowelt's Cannes acquisitions include Toback and Aronofsky
Germany's Kinowelt has announced its first raft of acquisitions from the Cannes official programme and market as well as projects picked up on the strength of their screenplays.James Toback's documentary Tyson, which screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar and won the Knock Out Award, was bought from Wild Bunch ...
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Fortissimo's racks up Cannes deals for Tokyo Sonata, Serbis
Fortissimo Films has announced further sales from its Cannes slate.Wong Kar Wai's Ashes Of Time Redux, which screened out of competition, sold to Korea (Sponge) and the UK (Artificial Eye).Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, in Un Certain Regard, sold to Korea (Sponge), France (ARP), Israel (United King), and Singapore (Cathay).Nathan Rissman's ...
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High Point continues Nothing To Lose sales, including US deal
High Point Films has racked up more sales on Pieter Kuijper's thriller Nothing To Lose.In Cannes, High Point closed deals for North America (BFS Entertainment), Latin American pay TV (LAPTV), German-speaking Europe (Ascot Elite), French-speaking Europe (Sidonis Productions), FYROM (MCF), and Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia (Suraya Filem).'Nothing to Lose ...
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SPC confirms double acquisition from Match Factory
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up US and Latin American rights to Ari Folman's Cannes competition entry Waltz With Bashir and North American rights to Bent Hamer's Un Certain Regard screener O'Horten.For more Cannes sales click hereSPC negotiated both deals with The Match Factory.In Waltz With Bashir, Folman, a former ...
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Boomtown Media seals sales on music doc
Berlin-based sales company Boomtown Media International closed a number of distribution deals for major territories at last week's Cannes market for Thomas Grube's new theatrical documentary Trip To Asia / The Quest For Harmony. For more Cannes sales click hereThe 'fly on the wall' documentary on the Berlin Philharmonic's tour ...
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IFC makes another Cannes killing with Italian Mafia tale
IFC Films has swooped on US rights to Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's Cannes Grand Jury Prize winning Italian Mafia tale that drew wide acclaim following its competition screening.For more Cannes sales click hereThis is IFC's fifth acquisition of Cannes 2008 entry following last week's deal for Steve McQueen's Un Certain Regard ...
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Beta Cinema closes about 40 deals at Cannes market
Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema has concluded around 40 deals at this year's Cannes market, including US pickups for the family entertainment film The Three Investigators And The Secret Of Skeleton Island, Veit Helmer's quirky comedy Absurdistan and Jo Baier's TV drama Stauffenberg. For more Cannes sales click hereFlorian Baxmeyer's ...
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FilmSharks International closes more deals on The Desert Within
Buenos Aires based FilmSharks International has sold Rodrigo Pla's Cannes critic's title The Desert Within to seven more territories following its screening at Cannes.Pla's anti-religious parable has been picked up by Action Film for Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Pantheon Entertainment for Portugal, Seven Films in Greece and Alliance Lumiere ...
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Artificial Eye takes The Class, Il Divo and two other Cannes titles
UK distributor Curzon Artificial Eye has picked up four films from Cannes, including Palme d'Or winner The Class (Entre Les Murs).The other acquisitions are Il Divo, O'Horten and Ashes Of Time Redux. Laurent Cantet's The Class, starring Francois Begaudeau, was sold by Memento. The French production is about a teacher's ...
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Coproduction Office picks up Delta sales
The Coproduction Office has announced further sales on its major titles coming out of the Cannes market.Competition feature Delta by Kornel Mundruczo - which won the FIPRESCI prize, sold to Lumiere and Filmmuseum in Benelux, France's Le Pacte, Look Know! in Switzerland, Silenzio in Spain, Seven Films in Greece, Bulgaria's ...
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New Wave takes on Un Certain Regard winner Tulpan
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has taken on yet another Cannes title: Tulpan.New Wave acquired all UK rights for Tulpan from sales company The Match Factory on Friday night. Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan then won the top prize in Un Certain Regard on Saturday.The ...
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Number of countries represented at Cannes market tops 100
The Cannes Market had increased attendance this year up 2% over last year with a significant jump in the number of countries represented. There were 101 countries at the market as compared to 92 in 2007. For market review click hereNew faces came from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Jordan, Macedonia ...
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Jupiter picks up French-speaking territories to Yasukuni
Jupiter Communications has picked up all rights for French-speaking territories to Li Ying's documentary Yasukuni, from Hong Kong-based sales agent The Film Library. The controversial film, about the Yasukuni shrine to worship the war dead in Tokyo, was released in Japan on May 3. It was originally scheduled to open ...
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MK2 add sales for 24 City
MK2 has announced sales on Jia Zhang Ke's 24 City .Deals were closed on the official Cannes competition film in the UK with New Wave, Benelux with Cineart, Greece with Seven Group, Korea with With Cinema, Portugal's Atalanta, Ex-Yugoslavia's Megacom and Austria's Stadtkino.MK2 said that negotiations were pending in Brazil ...