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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, ...
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M-Appeal adds five titles to line-up for Cannes market
Fledgling Berlin-based company M-Appeal has added another five titles to its sales line-up, which will have their market premieres at the forthcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.M-Appeal will be handling international distribution on the following films:Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi's documentary Suddenly, Last Winter about homophobia in Italy, first shown ...
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Kadokawa acquires Chen Kaige's Mei Lanfang
China Film Group Corporation has announced that it has sold all Japanese rights to Chen Kaige's biopic Mei Lanfang to Kadokawa Pictures. Although the amount of the deal was not disclosed, CFGC chairman Han Sanping said it is the highest price in recent years for a Chinese film sold to ...
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Bavaria Film International picks up Critics' Week title
Martin Blaney in Berlin Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Emily Atef's second feature film The Stranger In Me (Das Fremde In Ihr), which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week in Cannes.The drama of a young mother who is thrown into emotional turmoil after ...
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New Figgis feature to screen at Tribeca and Cannes
Danny Plunkett in LondonLove Live Long , the first feature from Mike Figgis since 2003's Cold Creek Manor, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28. It will launch internationally in the market at Cannes on May 18.Written and directed by Figgis, the film was shot over seven ...
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UK's New Wave adds Unrelated, Tricks, Quiet Chaos
New Wave Films, the new UK distributor set up by Artificial Eye veterans Pam Engel and Robert Beeson in February 2008, has acquired three new films for its initial slate.The new acquisitions are Unrelated, Tricks and Quiet Chaos.Joanna Hogg's Unrelated from the UK won the Fipresci prize at the 2007 ...
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Beta Cinema lining up two market premieres for Cannes
German sales company Beta Cinema will have two market premiere screenings at next month's Marche du Film during the Cannes Film Festival.Beta will be presenting Thomas Roth's biopic Falco - Quit Living On Dreams, about the larger-than-life Austrian pop star whose international hit Rock Me Amadeus became the first German ...
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Film Consultancy, High Point team for McGuckian's Inconceivable
Penny Wolf's The Film Consultancy Partners and Carey Fitzgerald's High Point Media Group have joined forces to handle international sales for Mary McGuckian's Inconceivable, the third film in the director's 'amorality trilogy.'The film, previously known as Art In Las Vegas, is a UK-Canadian co-production between the UK's Pembridge Pictures, Canada's ...
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UK's Warp, Australia's Madman pact for at least two low-budget films
Mark Herbert, managing director of Warp Films in the UK, said he wanted to get involved with Australian filmmakers when he visited in October last year; he has turned out to be a man of his word. Warp, which is based in Sheffield in Yorkshire, plans to work with ...
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Telepool takes on sales for German box-office hit Summer
Telepool will handle world sales for Mike Marzuk's Summer (Sommer) which has gone straight to the top of the German box-office chart on its first four days of release with over 230,000 admissions from 407 screens.The Walt Disney release of the SamFilm production had the weekend's best screen average of ...
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Morales steps down as Miromar CEO, Heizmann to take over
Michel Morales has stepped down from his post as CEO of the Ludwigsburg-based production house Miromar Entertainment to concentrate on the creative aspects of filmmaking and will be succeeded by Peter Heizmann.Morales, who co-produced the Heather Graham romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal (known as Miss Conception in the US), has ...
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Momentum signs first-look deal with producers See-Saw
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has signed a first-look deal with the new London- and Sydney-based production company See-Saw Films.Momentum previously worked with one of See-Saw's founders, Iain Canning, with Anton Corbijn's hit Control.See-Saw, formed by Canning and producer Emile Sherman, is concentrating on producing and executive producing UK and Australian ...
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Momentum signs first-look deal with producers See-Saw
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has signed a first-look deal with the new London- and Sydney-based production company See-Saw Films.Momentum previously worked with one of See-Saw's founders, Iain Canning, with Anton Corbijn's hit Control.See-Saw, formed by Canning and producer Emile Sherman, is concentrating on producing and executive producing UK and Australian ...
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The Match Factory to handle Petzold's new feature Jerichow
The Match Factory will handle international sales on Christian Petzold's new feature Jerichow which begins shooting in the east German town of Wittenberge, the Prignitz region and along the Elbe from today. It is the sales agent's second Petzold film after his 2007 competition film Yella and marks the director's ...
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TF1's Patrick Binet in police custody, French press reports
According to press reports, TF1 International chief Patrick Binet has been taken into custody by police following the discovery of a dead body in Binet's Parisian residence.For the moment, details are sketchy but some French media report that the victim was a man in his 40s and may have succumbed ...
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Antonia's Line team back with My Father's Notebook
Marleen Gorris and Hans de Weers, the director/producer team behind Oscar winner Antonia's Line, are reuniting on a new feature, My Father's Notebook. The film, based on the bestseller by Kader Abdolah, is set at the time of the revolution in Iran and then in Holland a generation later. It ...
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Japan's Usen pulls out of film production and acquisition
Japanese media and communications giant Usen Inc has announced its withdrawal from feature film production and acquisitions, which is currently handled by its wholly-owned subsidiary Gaga Communications. The announcement was made by Usen CEO Yasuhide Uno at the semi-annual shareholders meeting yesterday (April 16).Gaga Communications will cease acquisition of foreign ...
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Films du Losange takes on Schneider's Es Kommt Der Tag
Les Films du Losange will handle international sales on screenwriter Susanne Schneider's directorial debut Es Kommt Der Tag which began shooting at locations in Baden-Wuerttemberg and the Alsace region this week. The German-French co-production between Wueste Film Ost, Strasbourg-based Unlimited, Stuttgart's Filmtank, Wueste Film West, and broadcasters SWR, WDR and ...
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Sofia Neves moves from Capitol to HanWay Films
UK-based sales company HanWay Films has hired Sofia Neves as director of worldwide salesand distribution.Neves starts at HanWay this week after departing her position as sales director at Capitol Films. Before her three years at Capitol, she worked at Renaissance Films and for producer Paulo Branco.She reports to Thorsten Schumacher, ...
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Icon takes UK rights to James Marsh's Man On Wire
Icon Film Distribution (IFD) has acquired UK theatrical and home entertainment rights to James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire.The deal was done with UK production company Wall To Wall.Man On Wire won the jury prize and audience award in the World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance.The film is about Philippe ...