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Mother Of Christ does business for Media 8
Media 8 Entertainment has closed a slew of sales here in Berlin on its Biblical drama Mary Mother Of Christ and the biopic Dali. Mary Mother Of Christ, which stars Camilla Belle, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Peter O'Toole, has sold to Eastern Europe (SPI), Portugal (Lusomundo) Middle East (Gulf), Turkey ...
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Germany's Ascot Elite chews up Chaw
South Korea's Fine Cut has clinched a trio of pre-sales on Shin Jung-won's $7m creature feature Chaw, including the sale of all German-speaking rights to Ascot Elite. The film, about a man-eating boar terrorising a Korean village, has also gone to J-bics for Thailand and IOF Entertainment for India. Hans ...
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Independents must consolidate, says Ben Waisbren
In a hard-hitting keynote speech at yesterday's Screen International European Film Summit, film financier Ben Waisbren, who is president and CEO of Continental Entertainment Capital, predicted that the independent film business will go through a prolonged period of contraction and restructuring. 'Don't hesitate - consolidate,' he urged.Fewer films will be ...
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Verma in Berlin to finance Sinyor's Bollywood pic
Producer and actor Deepak Verma is in Berlin to raise financing for Johnny Bollywood, an Anglo-Asian comedy written and to be directed by Gary Sinyor. The film is described as 'Bollywood with a distinct British twist'. It tells the story of super-star Johnny who falls for English tourist Charlie in ...
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Paolo Branco plots Cosmopolis
In his most ambitious project to date, international producer Paolo Branco is plotting a $10m-12m film based on the novel Cosmopolis by legendary US writer Don DeLillo. Branco's Alfama Films is producing the film about a day in the life of a young billionaire financier who, over the course of ...
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Buyers get Sympathy for Kimmel
Kimmel International has reported brisk sales on Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut drama Sympathy For Delicious about a paralysed man who gains the power to heal starring Christopher Thornton, Orlando Bloom, Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich and Ruffalo. The picture is currently shooting in Los Angeles and has gone to ...
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NewsLocarno's Open Doors to focus on Greater China
Greater China will be the focus region of the Open Doors co-production platform at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
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Elephant Eye scores precious Icon deal on Push
Icon Film Distribution has picked up UK and Australian rights to Lee Daniels' Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire, the Sundance sensation which won both the jury and audience awards in US dramatic competition. The deal was closed by international sales agent Elephant Eye Films which screened Push to ...
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M-Line seals European, Japan deals on Flower
Seoul-based sales agent M-Line Distribution has sealed a raft of deals on recent pick-ups A Frozen Flower and Scandal Makers, which are both currently huge hits in Korea. Yu Ha's A Frozen Flower has gone to Splendid for Germany and Benelux, Impacto Films for Spain, KNTV for Japan, Good Films ...
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The Ghost scares up deals for Summit
Summit International has announced major territory sales on a high-prestige EFM slate led by deals with Pathe in France, Kinowelt in Germany and Rai/01 in Italy on Roman Polanski's thriller The Ghost starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. Eagle Pictures in Italy, which had already taken rights on Twilight follow-up ...
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Fireball deals snowball for Golden Network
Golden Network Asia has scored a slew of deals on Thai action title Fireball, including sales to the UK's E1 Group, France's Metropolitan and Germany's Splendid. The fast-paced combination of martial arts and basketball also went to Spain's TOT Media, Greece's Strada Films, Brazil's Global Media, Turkey's Horizon International and ...
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Lionsgate UK gets Heartless from Omega
Lionsgate UK has picked up UK rights to Philip Ridley's psychological thriller Heartless from Omega Entertainment. Jim Sturgess stars as a troubled young man struggling to cope with the mindless violence taking place on the city streets around him.The film, currently in the final stages of post-production, will have its ...
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Gosetti returns to Venice
Giorgio Gosetti is on the way back to Venice. The much-travelled festival programmer and curator is to return to the Lido as Delegate General of Venice Days, the event he founded in 2004 as the Venice Festival's answer to the Cannes Director's Fortnight. The appointment comes as Fabio Ferzetti steps ...
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Szasz signs for The Notebook
Agota Kristof's award-winning anti-war novel The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier) is to be adapted for the cinema screen by Hungarian writer-director Janos Szasz. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, producer Sandor Soth of Intuit Pictures said that he had secured the film rights against stiff competition. He is looking in Berlin for ...
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Production Finance Market dates announced
This year's edition of the Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) will take place on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October 2009. The only event of its kind in the UK, the PFM brings together producers and major financiers not only from the UK but Europe and the rest of ...
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South By Southwestmakes deal with genre specialists Fantastic Fest.
The South By Southwest Film Festival will introduce its inaugural midnight programme when the event kicks off in March following a deal with genre specialists Fantastic Fest. The full SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest At Midnight will be unveiled towards the end of February. Festival organisers also unveiled that former Picturehouse ...
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Berlin sales deals update
Protganist Unmade BedsLondon based sales company Protagonist Pictures has closed a deal for France on Alexis Dos Santos' Unmade Beds with Rezo and for Benelux with Cineart. RTVE Mediterranean Food TVE has sold Joaquin Oristrell's Spanish comedy Mediterranean Food to Zootrope Films in France, Epelpol in Poland, Swallow Wings in ...
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Gubbins steps down as editor of Screen International & ScreenDaily.com
Michael Gubbins is stepping down as editor of Screen International and ScreenDaily.com after five years in the role and will be leaving on Feb 11.He is leaving to pursue new ventures in film and the wider media. Gubbins oversaw a redesign of the weekly magazine and the website and made ...
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Jan Chapman honoured by Adelaide Festival
Ten days before the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) opens, the board has announced that celebrated producer Jan Chapman is to receive the 2009 Don Dunstan Award, which recognizes outstanding contribution to the Australian film industry. Chapman's filmmaking spans 16 years and includes the period love story The Piano, which was ...
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Russia steps up as fourth biggest European market
The Russian Federation became Europe's fourth largest cinema market in terms of cinema attendance in 2008, according to estimates from the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO). Russian cinemas posted the biggest year-on-year increase in absolute terms among 31 European countries with a 16% increase. Russian admissions rose by 17.3m to ...