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Senator picks up Splice, Superhero Movie, Young@Heart
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has added the science fiction thriller Splice, blockbuster parody Superhero Movie and the documentary Young@Heart to its 2008-2009 distribution lineup.Senator acquired the German, US and Spanish rights to genre specialist Vincenzo Natali's Splice which will star Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley and be produced by Steve ...
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Contender, Seville buy Franklyn and Eddie from HanWay
Growing UK distributor Contender Films, now owned by Canada's Entertainment One, has acquired all UK rights for features Franklyn and Eddie The Eagle, both sold by HanWay Films.Also, Entertainment One's Seville Pictures took Canadian rights to both titles.Gerald McMorrow's feature debut Franklyn is a story of four lost souls in ...
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Warner Bros Germany checks into The Last Station
Warner Bros. Pictures Germany will distribute Michael Hoffman's The Last Station which begins shooting from April 7 at locations in Brandenburg as a production of Egoli Tossell Halle, a production-specific outfit set up by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film and the UK-based Zephyr Films run by Chris Curling.The drama of Count ...
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Fortissimo takes on Tribeca world premiere Chevolution
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside North America for the documentary Chevolution.Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment financed the film.Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez directed the documentary about Alberto Korda's iconic photograph of Che Guevara. The film's interviewees include Gael Garcia Bernal, Antonio Banderas, Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine ...
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Aspect Film takes on sales for Journal Of A Contract Killer
UK-based sales company Aspect Film Ltd has taken on worldwide rights to Tony Maylam's female assassin thriller Journal OfA Contract Killer.The story is based on true events in the UK and Italy about an assassin who turns on her mafia bosses after her child is kidnapped. Justine Powell and Isabella ...
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Rebranded Instinctive boards 13 Semesters, The Disposables
The Berlin-based international film production and finance company Instinctive Film - previously known as Invicta Entertainment - is boarding its first local German-language film, Frieder Wittich's coming-of-age student comedy 13 Semesters. The film begins shooting in Darmstadt next Monday (March 31).Instinctive Film will co-produce the debut feature with Munich-based Claussen-Woebke+Putz ...
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Ascot Elite adds to slate with Swiss sci-fi thriller Cargo
Zurich-based Ascot Elite Entertainment has unveiled a raft of new acquisitions, including the first ever Swiss science-fiction thriller Cargo by feature debutants Ralph Etter and Ivan Engler.The acquisition of rights to all German speaking territories are for: the action thriller The Tournament, starring Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu and ...
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HanWay to handle Jean Doumanian catalogue
Jean Doumanian Productions has appointed HanWay Films to represent worldwide sales and distribution rights for its catalogue.Titles include David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner, David Gordon Green's All The Real Girls, and Woody Allen's Don't Drink The Water. The library of titles also includes early roles from Cillian Murphy (Sunburn), Clare ...
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HanWay takes on library sales for British Film Institute
The British Film Institute has appointed HanWay films as its worldwide sales and marketing agent for its lucrative catalogue of more than 400 films.The BFI collection is comprised of BFI Production Board films, works from the BFI National Archive and a number of additional features, shorts and documentaries for which ...
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Easternlight Films acquires Legendary Assassin
Arclight Films' Asian label Easternlight Films has picked up worldwide rights to Wu Jing's action film Legendary Assassin at Filmart.The deal, which excludes Hong Kong and China, is the first between Easternlight and Paco Wong's production company Gold Label Pictures from Hong Kong.The $4m film marks the directorial debut of ...
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THE BUSINESS: Hong Kong Filmart round-up
Screen's team at Filmart look at some of the key deals concluded at this year's Filmart in Hong Kong.Click on headline to see storyUniverse kicks up a storm of pre-sales for Pang Brothers Hong Kong's Universe Films Distribution has scored a string of pre-sales on the Pang Brothers' The Storm ...
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Empress finds champion in Golden Network
Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia has picked up worldwide rights outside Asia to martial arts epic An Empress And The Warriors from United Filmmakers Organization.Hong Kong's Mei Ah Entertainment is handling Asian sales on the film, directed by action choreographer Tony Ching Siu-tung and starring Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen and ...
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Khoo, Tan and Tong top Raintree slate
Celebrating its 10th anniversary as Singapore 's leading producer, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures has unveiled a slate of five projects, including three by the most prominent local film-makers and two co-productions with Hong Kong 's Salon Films.Eric Khoo will direct Chinese Rose - a biopic of 'Queen of Striptease' Rose Chan, ...
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Ramy Choi's Fame to develop new Taiwanese talent
Former Fortissimo Films executive Ramy Choi has launched a production and talent management outfit, Fame Universal Entertainment, which aims to develop up-and-coming talent with a focus on Taiwan.The company is representing several award-winning Taiwanese films as international sales agent - including Singing Chen's Berlin Forum entry God Man Dog, Doze ...
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Lotte's Show goes on to Germany
South Korea's Lotte Entertainment has sold gangster drama The Show Must Go On to Splendid Film for Germany.Han Jae-rim's gritty film stars Song Kang-ho (The Host) as a middle-aged gangster struggling with work and family'Splendid and Lotte have done business together before and they had ex press ed interest in ...
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China focus for Locations World
Shooting in China will be the central focus of the second Locations World trade show, which is running alongside this year's Filmart.A record 13 mainland Chinese production services providers are taking part for the first time, including Hengdian Chinese Film Industrial Park, China Film Group Digital Film Production Base, Shanghai ...
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Joel Kennedy joins Revolver as senior acquisitions manager
Joel Kennedy has joined UK distributor Revolver Entertainment as senior acquisitions manager.Separately, the company announced that it has acquired Sundance hit The Wackness starring Ben Kingsley, and buzz French title Female Agents starring Sophie Marceau. The Wackness is sold by Celluloid Dreams and Female Agents by TF1 International.Kennedy will acquire ...
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MK2 blasts off with nWave's 3D Fly Me To The Moon
Ben Stassen of nWave Pictures has sold another major territory on animated feature Fly Me To The Moon, which made history in Berlin last month as the first 3D film to screen as part of the European Film Market.The latest deal Stassen has concluded on the film post-Berlin is with ...
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Progress takes on sales for German kids film Morphus
Progress Film-Verleih will handle world sales on Karola Hattop's new children's film Morphus which is shooting in Berlin until Easter after completing location work near Berchtesgaden and Wernigerode.The story of a young boy's adventure to recover the last composition by Ludwig van Beethoven, which was stolen from him by two ...
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Peace Arch acquires worldwide rights to A Lobster Tale
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to family film A Lobster Tale starring Colm Meaney as a struggling lobster fisherman in Maine whose life is turned upside down when he discovers a strange moss with magical healing powers.Peace Arch Home Entertainment will release the film on DVD ...