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NewsFinal Destination on top overseas with $17.3m weekend haul
The Final Destination led Hollywood’s overseas box office charge with a $17.3m haul from approximately 2,900 screens in 28 territories through Warner Bros Pictures International and independent distributors for a $55.25m running total.
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NewsUS buyers cautious as Toronto's first weekend ends
A stong reaction and best actor prize for Colin Firth place Tom Ford’s A Single Man in the vanguard of hot titles that are expected to inject life into an otherwise muted first few days for US buyers in Toronto.
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NewsLebanon, Colin Firth take top Venice honours
Lebanon, directed by Samuel Maoz and set largely inside a tank stranded inside enemy territory on the first day of the Lebanon War in June 1982, has won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Best Film.
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NewsMeyer's Sierra launches with Play, Day
Nick Meyer is assembling the initial slate on his Los Angeles-based international sales company Sierra Pictures and is talking to buyers in Toronto about Passion Play and Mother’s Day.
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NewsThe Messenger takes grand prize at Deauville
Oren Moverman’s The Messenger was awarded the grand prize at the Deauville Festival of American Film which wrapped Sunday night. Moverman’s war drama also picked up the critics prize.
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NewsHausner's Lourdes sells to Palisades in the US
Philippe Bober’s CoProduction Office has closed a raft of deals on Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes, which earlier this week won the FIPRESCI Award in Venice.
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NewsHyde Park International wields Machete from Rodriguez
LA-based sales outfit takes on action thriller starring Danny Trejo and his Heat compadre Robert De Niro.
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NewsAmanda Crew, Adrianne Palicki join Myriad's Breaking The Girl
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures has set Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki to star in Jamie Babbit’s thriller Breaking The Girl.
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NewsIFC Films acquires US rights to Last Stop 174
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Last Stop 174, which premiered here a year ago and was Brazil’s foreign-language Oscar contender.
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NewsFortissimo closes Italian deal on Venice prizewinner Wartime
Archibald Enterprise Film has picked up Italian rights to Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime just a day before the film won the Golden Osella for best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival.
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NewsThe Works International picks up hot Swinton title at Venice
London-based sales outfit picks up Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love (Io Sono L’Amore) about a Milanese family dynasty.
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NewsOdin’s Eye sells Crush into North America
Australian sales agent Odin’s Eye has sold North American rights for Australian thriller Crush to Phase 4 (formerly Peace Arch Home Entertainment).
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NewsOptimum chews on Fine Cut’s Chaw
South Korean sales agent Fine Cut has announced its first deal at the Toronto festival, selling the man-eating boar comedy Chaw to Optimum Releasing for UK.
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NewsWorld premiere of Disney's A Christmas Carol to kick off festive season
London will host the world premiere of Disney’s A Christmas Carol across three screens simultaneously, in what it is claimed will be the biggest UK 3D screening to date.
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NewsVallée lines up Café De Flore for Item7
Jean-Marc Vallée, director of Toronto closing night film Young Victoria, is preparing production on Café De Flore with Montreal-based start-up production house Item7.
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NewsGrondin signs for Le Bomin’s Insoupconnable
Quebecois actor Marc-Andre Grondin is set to star alongside French actress Laura Smet in Gabriel Le Bomin’s second film Insoupconnable for Paris-based Films Oblige and StudioCanal.
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NewsEric Canuel to direct My Oma for January Films
Bon Cop, Bad Cop director Erik Canuel has signed to direct My Oma for Toronto-based January Films.
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NewsKimmel, Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet board Mourning After
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, A Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet Films have acquired Obsessed screenwriter David Loughery’s supernatural thriller pitch Mourning After.
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NewsJean van de Velde speaks out over Oscar row
The furore over the Dutch Oscar entry The Silent Army has been fuelled after the film’s director Jean van de Velde hit back at producers criticising its selection.
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NewsMyriad boards international sales on Women In Trouble
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures has picked up all international rights to Sebastian Gutierrez’ comedy Women In Trouble and will commence sales here.