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Pre-Cannes, Waltz With Bashir sold to France, UK and Germany
A week ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir has been sold by The Match Factory to France (Le Pacte), the UK (Curzon Artificial Eye) and Germany (Pandora Filmverleih).'We are very excited about the fact that this unique animated documentary ...
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Simon West to direct Let It Ride for Intandem
Producer Mace Neufeld and director Simon West will reunite for the new heist thriller Let It Ride. The pair previously worked together on The General's Daughter for Paramount in 1999.The $22m thriller is out to cast now, with a waiver in place for any potential SAG strike.Let It Ride will ...
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Abel Ferrara finishing juvenile crime project Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Rome-based sales company and producer Minerva Pictures Group will be in Cannes with a new project from Abel Ferrara, Napoli, Napoli, Napoli.Currently in post-production, the film - which is destined for a theatrical release - interweaves documentary with narrative footage by combining interviews with three female inmates with scripted scenes ...
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Fortissimo to debut Dance Subaru! at Cannes
Fortissimo Films has boarded pan-Asian co-production Dance Subaru! as sales agent outside of Asia, and will be introducing the film at this year's Cannes film festival.Several Asian powerhouses are joining forces on the film (see related articles below), including Japan's Avex Entertainment, Korea's SM Entertainment, Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and ...
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Pete Travis starts shoot for Endgame starring William Hurt
Fresh off Vantage Point for Sony, director Pete Travis has started principal photography on his next feature, another political thriller entitled Endgame. The project is shooting in the UK and South Africa.Penny Wolf is pre-selling the film in Cannes on behalf of Target Entertainment.Endgame's cast features William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, ...
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Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life planted at Summit
Summit Entertainment has acquired international rights to Terrence Malick's modern-day drama Tree Of Life starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain.River Road is financing Tree Of Life, currently shooting in Texas from Malick's original screenplay. River Road founder Bill Pohlad is producing alongside Malick regularsSarah Green and Grant Hill ...
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Shoreline travels West Of Brooklyn and to Serbian Stars
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment acquired worldwide rights ahead of Cannes to the comedy West Of Brooklyn and action adventure Serbian Scars.West Of Brooklyn is directed by Danny Cistone and stars Ronnie Marmo, Natalia Livingston and Joe Mantegna in the fish-out-of-water story of an Italian American who moves from New York ...
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European Film Export Association lines up 16 arbitrators
The European Film Export Association (EFEA) has named their arbitrators - 16 in all- whose role will be to assist in resolving problems that crop up between exporters and distributors - the association's president Jacques-Eric Strauss, and vice president Adrianna Chiesa told ScreenDaily.The 16 arbitrators completed a training session in ...
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Odeon Sky Filmworks takes UK rights to Lynch's Surveillance
Distributor Odeon Sky Filmworks has acquired the UK rights to thriller Surveillance, which will screen out of competition at Cannes.Arclight Films is selling the title. Head of Odeon Sky Filmworks Tony Miller struck the deal with Arclight's executive vice-president Liz Mackiewicz.Jennifer Lynch writes and directs and her father David Lynch ...
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3DD to present Cannes market premiere of The Day After Peace
3DD Entertainment is planning a Cannes launch for The Day After Peace, a feature documentary featuring Jude Law. Jeremy Gilley directs the BBC/Passion Pictures/Peace One Day production.A Cannes market screening, the world premiere, will be at the Olympia Cannes on May 19 at 6 pm and Jude Law is expected ...
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Fortissimo takes on Madonna-produced I Am Because We Are
Fortissimo Films has acquired the documentary I Am Because We Are, which is produced, written and narrated by Madonna.The deal, for all rights outside of North America, was brokered between Fortissimo's Senior Vice President, Sales & Acquisitions Winnie Lau and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents the film.I Am Because ...
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Bavaria takes on sales for Critics Week title Moscow, Belgium
Bavaria Film International is handling international distribution on Christophe van Rompaey's feature debut Moscow, Belgium (Aanrijding In Moscou) which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week sidebar in Cannes.Produced by A Private View, the Flemish romantic comedy about a woman (played by actress-director Barbara Sarafian) whose life is full ...
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Jinga takes on The Disappeared starring Harry Treadaway
UK-based sales company Jinga Films has added supernatural horror The Disappeared, directed by Johnny Kervorkian, to its Cannes sales slate.The film is a London-set contemporary ghost story about a man searching for his missing brother.The cast features Harry Treadaway (Brothers Of The Head, Control, City Of Ember), Tom Felton, Greg ...
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Visit Films takes international on Quinzaine closer Pleasure
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's boutique New York-based sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Josh Safdie's Director's Fortnight closing night film The Pleasure Of Being Robbed.The film stars Eleonore Hendricks as a young woman who often brings joy to strangers' lives while robbing them of their possessions.Kampe ...
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Filmax International acquires international rights to Invitation Only
Spanish outfit Filmax International has acquired the international sales rights excluding Asia, Germany and Poland and the distribution rights for Spain for the Asian horror production Invitation Only directed by Kevin Ko.Filmax International will present a promo of the film, which is currently in post production, at Cannes and will ...
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High Point gears up for The Race with Grand Pictures
High Point Films has taken on international rights for Irish family feature The Race, currently in pre-production.Andre F Nebe, who directed the award-winning short Tricky Fingers, will direct. Michael Garland and Paul Donovan of Grand Pictures (Nic Roeg's Puffball) will produce with Germany-based Martin Hagemann of Zero Fiction will co-produce.Colm ...
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Intandem takes on sales for Dan Ireland's Jolene
London-based Intandem Films has added US drama Jolene to its slate ahead of Cannes.Dan Ireland (The Whole Wide World) directed and international art dealer Riva Yares produced for Arizona-based Next Turn Productions.Dennis Yares wrote the script inspired by EL Doctorow's short story Jolene: A Life, about a young woman who ...
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Elle Driver adds Anna, Painless, Changing Sides to slate
Gearing up for its first Cannes, Elle Driver has added a series of new films to its slate. For its debut Cannes outing, the company boasts 4 Nights With Anna; a story of obsessive love from director Jerzy Skolimowski which will open Directors' Fortnight.Meanwhile, currently in pre-production are Juan Carlos ...
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Sony lands on Moon for English-speaking markets
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up all English-speaking rights to Liberty Films' sci-fi thriller Moon starring Sam Rockwell.Independent Film Company will handle all other territories on the title, which marks the feature directorial debut of commercials director Duncan Jones of Liberty Films and was shot at the ...
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Sony becomes first major to release DVD titles in Vietnam
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has signed a DVD distribution deal for Vietnam with that country's Galaxy Studio.The deal marks the first time a US major will release its titles on DVD in the South-East Asian market and will kick off on May 9 with 15 films including Casino Royale, ...