All Markets articles – Page 91
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Standard Operating Procedure
Dir. Errol Morris, USA, 2008, 117minsWhatever the future brings in Iraq, the US role there will always be remembered for the abuse of prisoners documented in the photographs taken by American guards in 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. Errol Morris's cold Standard Operating Procedure scrutinizes the pictures and ...
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Ceylan's Daydreams are happy for Pyramide
Pyramide has been enjoying a strong response at EFM to Daydreams, the latest film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan which, like his last two features, is expected to be in competition at Cannes.BIM bought the film for Italy, Imagine for Benelux, Rosebud for Greece, Filmcoopi for Switzerland, Maywin for ...
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Cherry Blossoms (Kirschblüten - Hanami)
Dir: Doris Dorrie, Germany, 2008, 127minsDoris Dorrie's bittersweet film is a story of mourning and the futility of trying to recover something lost. A Bavarian husband who is nearing retirement loses his wife suddenly, and flies to Japan to visit sites that she never had a chance to see while ...
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IFC takes US, Lionsgate takes UK on Maximum's Waiting Room
IFC Films has taken US rights and Lionsgate has acquired the UK from Maximum Films International to Roger Goldby's drama The Waiting Room.Maximum Films Distribution is handling the Canadian release on the interwoven tale of the lives and loves of a group of young Londoners. Anne-Marie Duff and Ralf Little ...
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Miromar lays out slate of films in English and German
Michel Morales's German company Miromar Entertainment, co-producer on the Heather Graham romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal and the Viggo Mortensen drama Good, has unveiled a slate of English and German-language feature projects in development.The English language genre projects - with budgets up to Euros 7m - include the action film ...
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Rezo takes on sales for Mikhail Khodorovsky documentary
Rezo Films is handling international sales on Cyril Tuschi's feature documentary Rise And Fall of Mikhail B Khodorovsky which begins shooting in Moscow today (Feb 11).The film will feature interviews being conducted with members of the former oil magnate's family and schoolfriends. The co-production between Tuschi's LaLa Films and Leipzig-based ...
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Transylvanian Film Festival to launch development fund for local writers
Cluj's Transylvanian International Film Festival (TIFF) is to launch a development fund dedicated to local screenwriters at this year's edition from May 30 to June 8. 'We are looking for new stories and new people in Romania in the first year', TIFF's honorary director Tudor Giurgiu told Screendaily.com. 'Euros ...
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Voltage closes key sales on Kutcher/Pfeiffer drama Effects
Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures has closed key sales on the upcoming Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer drama Personal Effects.Rights have gone to Germany (ARD), Mexico (Gussi), Minerva (Italy), CIS (EEAP), Brazil (Imagem), South Korea (Cinema Valley), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Hollywood) and the Middle East (Gulf).Deals also closed in the Philippines ...
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CJ Entertainment sells four-pack to Germany's Splendid
Korea's CJ Entertainment had a busy weekend selling to both Europe and Asia - sealing a four-picture deal with Germany's Splendid and selling three Asian territories on A Man Who Was Superman, starring Jun Ji-hyun.Splendid has pre-bought all German rights to The Divine Weapon, which wrapped two weeks ago, on ...
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Fandango Portobello stirs up deals for Quiet Chaos
Fandango Portobello has seen chaotic interest in Competition title Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo). The Italian drama, directed by Antonello Grimaldi and sarring Nanni Moretti and Valeria Golino, has sold to nine territories ahead of official Competition screening tomorrow. Deals have been struck with France (BAC), Spain (Alta), Benelux (Cineart), Switzerland ...
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Slingshot Hip Hop finds sales home in Celluloid Dreams
Celluloid Dreams has picked up international sales rights to Sundance documentary competition entry Slingshot Hip Hop.The film was directed by Jackie Reem Salloum and produced by Rumzi Araj, Jackie Reem Salloum and Waleed Zaiter. Featuring the Palestinian Artists: DAM, Abeer, PR, Mahmoud Shalabi and Arapeyat. The deal was brokered between ...
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Nordisk, Trust rack up EFM sales, with US deal on Bornedal thriller
Nordisk Film has sold Ole Bornedal's Just Another Love Story to Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment and Koch Lorber Films in the US following on from its screening in world dramatic competition at Sundance last month.The deal was negotiated by Thom Zadra of Red Envelope Entertainment, Richard Lorber of Koch Lorber ...
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Beta Cinema takes on Norwegian Film Fund-backed Orange Girl
Norwegian director Eva Dahr's The Orange Girl (Appelsinpiken), from Jostein Gaarder's novel, is one of six new Norwegian features the Norwegian Film Fund gave the go-ahead by channelling $9.1m (NOK 50.3 million) production funding into the projects, closing almost half of the $20.4m (NOK 112 million) budgets.At the European Film ...
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Beeson, Engel launch new UK distributor New Wave Films
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel have launched a new UK distribution company called New Wave Films. The London-based outfit is planning to release films theatrically while also setting up a label for 'classic' DVDs.Here at the EFM, New Wave has already made its first acquisition, picking up UK rights to ...
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Arsenal Pictures picks up Locarno, CineVegas film Loren Cass
Arsenal Pictures has picked up international sales rights on Chris Fuller's adolescent drama Loren Cass.Fuller and Kayla Tabish produced and star alongside Travis Maynard and Jacob Reynolds in the story of intersecting lives at the time of the 1996 riots in St Petersberg, Florida.The film played at CineVegas and Locarno, ...
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Montage, Quality, MGN among buyers for IM Global's Shelter
IM Global has reporting a storming business on the upcoming $25m supernatural thriller Shelter set to star Julianne Moore. Jonathan Rhys Myers is a recent addition to the cast.Deals have closed in South Korea (Montage), Latin America (Quality), Russia (MGN), Benelux (RCV), the Middle East (Gulf), Greece (Village Roadshow), Turkey ...
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Sony takes Australia, Latin America on Frozen River
Sony Pictures has acquired Australia/New Zealand and Latin American rights fromWilliam Morris Independent (WMI) to Courtney Hunt's drama Frozen River. Sony Pictures Classics had already acquired the film for North America in Sundance where it won the grand jury prize in dramatic competition.Melissa Leo stars in the film as a ...
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SPE buys North America on Leiner's Balls Out
Sony Pictures Entertainment picked up North American rights to Danny Leiner's comedy Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story (aka Gary The Tennis Coach) in an eight-figure deal that closed late on Sunday night [Feb 11].Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group's (SPWAG) Scott Shooman brokered the agreement with UTA acting on behalf ...
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Sparrow (Man Jeuk)
Dir: Johnnie To. Hong Kong. 2008. 87 mins.The spirit of Jacques Demy lives on in Hong Kong in prolific genre auteur Johnnie To's latest offering. Some of the scenes in this gentle romantic pickpocketing yarn are pure cinematic pleasure, but in the end the plot and the characters are too ...
