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Universal movies find TV home in Flemish-speaking Belgium
NBC Universal International Television Distribution has licensed exclusive free television rights to a number of major movies to Vlaamse Media Maatschappij (VMMa) for Flemish-speaking Belgium.The agreement covers upcoming and current Universal features like Wanted, The Incredible Hulk, The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum and ...
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Schloendorff's Gigola on Wide Management Cannes slate
Wide Management will handle international sales on the newest project from director Volker Schloendorff, Gigola.Based on the book by Laure Charpentier, the film follows the life of George, an adventurous young woman - one of the last of the era's 'garconnes' - as she navigates the depths of the Parisian ...
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Odin's Eye sets up sales office in New York
Dave Pederson, a producer on the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, is to represent Australian sales agent Odin's Eye Entertainment (OEE) in New York. His title will be vice president of international sales, but as head of the new office he will also be sourcing product for the fledgling Sydney-based ...
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Swipe to handle Cannes market title Vanechka
Frank Mannion's UK-based Swipe Films will be handling international sales at Cannes on the Russian film Vanechka, which will have its international premiere in the Cannes market on May 17.The film is set during 1998, against the backdrop of Russia in an economic crisis and centres on an aspiring actress ...
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iDream bolsters Cannes slate with Ocean Of Pearls
London-based sales agent iDream Independent Pictures has added Ocean Of Pearls, directed by Dr Sarab Singh Neelam, to its Cannes line-up. Shot in Los Angeles, the film tells the story of a young US-born Sikh surgeon who finds that his religious beliefs of wearing a turban and beard make him ...
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Red-Carpet Reality: the prospects for theatrical docs
It is a big year for documentaries at Cannes. Three are in official selection: Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, which premiered at Sundance and is screening at the Croisette out of competition, Israeli director Ari Folman's animated film Waltz With Bashir in the Competition, and James Toback's film ...
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Media Luna picks up Family Rules, three market debuts for Cannes
Cologne-based sales company Media Luna Entertainment has picked up international distribution for Marc Meyer's ironic comedy Family Rules (Wir Sagen Du! Schatz) and is lining up another three market premieres for Cannes.Meyer's feature debut, starring Samuel Finzi, Nina Kronjaeger, and Anna Maria Muehe, was the closing film at last year's ...
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TLA signs deal with Jinga for Richards' Summer Scars
Jinga Films has signed an all-rights North American deal with TLA Releasing for Julian Richards' Summer Scars.TLA will release through its TLA Presents and Danger After Dark labels.The coming-of-age thriller recently won two Welsh BAFTA Awards.'This success is all about the newcomers,' said Julian Richards at the BAFTA Cymru Awards ...
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HAF's Esther Yeung joins Fortissimo Hong Kongoffice
Fortissimo Films has announced a restructuring of its Hong Kong executive team.Esther Yeung has been hired as director of marketing & special projects, replacing Raymond Phathanavirangoon, who is leaving the company.Yeung was previously one of the managers ofthe Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) at the Hong Kong International ...
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Protagonist takeson sales forBBC Films' In The Loop
New UK sales company Protagonist Pictures has taken on its first third-party project, Armando Iannucci's In The Loop.Principal photography has now started on the BBC Films, UK Film Council and Aramid Entertainment project.Optimum Releasing has pre-bought UK theatrical rights to the political comedy.Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi, ...
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The Works International takes on sales for Palka's Good Dick
UK-based sales company The Works International has taken on rights for Good Dick, which premiered at Sundance.Glasgow-born Marianna Palka directed, produced and stars in the Los Angeles-set film, about an awkward romance between a porn-addicted loner and a video-store clerk. The cast also features Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, ...
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Fox picks up Australian rights for Children Of Huang Shi
Australia producer Jonathan Shteinman has extricated The Children Of Huang Shi from Icon's take-over of Dendy Films and done a deal that will see 20th Century Fox Film Distributors release the film in Australia.The film premiered in China in early April and Fox will release the film in Australia in ...
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Kinowelt International unveils 'long-lost' Lubitsch
Kinowelt International will be unveiling a 'long-lost' film by Ernst Lubitsch and the 'Director's Cut' of Percy Adlon's 1987 international hit Bagdad Cafe as market premieres at the forthcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.Made in 1921, Lubitsch's The Loves Of Pharaoh (Das Weib Des Pharao) was his last large-scale production ...
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Lightning picks up Aussie horror Gates Of Hell
US sales agent Lightning Entertainment has picked up world rights to horror film The Gates Of Hell just in time for Cannes. Australian writer/director Kelly Dolen met all but one of the private investors that put up the $1.1m (A$1.2m) to make the film while installing theatre systems in their ...
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Critics Week adds special screening of Swiss Home
Paris-based Memento Films has confirmed that its Swiss black comedy, Home, has been added as a special screening in Critics Week.Directed by Ursula Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet, the film has been scheduled into the prestigious Sunday night slot which was reserved for Juan Antonio Bayona's The ...
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Blindness to open Cannes Film Festival
Fernando Meirelles' Blindness is to open the Cannes Film Festival and will join the Competition line-up, it has been confirmed.The film, about a city hit with a plague causing most of the population to go blind, was adapted by Don McKellar from the novel by Jose Saramago.The cast is led ...
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Pyramide's Cannes line-up calls for Snow
Pyramide International has announced the addition of Critics Week title Snow to its line-up for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The film is directed by Aida Bejic and focuses on residents of a small village whose lives are disrupted by visiting businessmen just before a storm hits. Also on the ...
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Fortissimo picks up Mendoza's Cannes-bound Serbis
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside of France and the Philippines to Brillante Mendoza's Serbis, the first Filipino film to screen in competition at Cannes in 24 years. The last Filipino film to screen in Cannes competition was the late director Lino Brocka's Bayan Ko: My Own Country. The ...
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Fuji TV's Shaolin Girl sells throughout Asia
Katsuyuki Motohiro's martial arts action comedy Shaolin Girl has sold to eight Asian territories, co-producer Fuji TV announced today. Gaga Communications, which is handling international sales on the film, has closed deals with Bill Kong's Edko Films for Hong Kong and Macau, San-Byte Hong Kong Co for Taiwan, Sahamongkol Film ...
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Cannes quartet taken on by The Match Factory
Martin Blaney in Berlin The Match Factory will be handling international sales for four films selected to the official programme of next month's Cannes Film Festival.After last year's The Edge Of Heaven, Michael Weber's Cologne-based company has another film in this year's Competition: Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, ...