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Babelgum gets 24 from Content Republic
Babelgum, the free-to-view independent web TV service, has sealed a deal with digital distributor Content Republic to present 24 world cinema films on Babelgum as online exclusives. The titles include Lars Von Trier's The Boss Of It All, Milcho Manchevski's Before The Rain and Steve Barron's Choking Man. Two films ...
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Wellcam welcomes Taras Bulba to Korea
Early in the EFM, Russian outfit Central Partnership has closed a Korean deal for its historical epic Taras Bulba with Wellcam. The deal was closed on Friday in Berlin. The historical drama, directed by Vladimir Bortko, is currently in post-production and will be unveiled to buyers in the Cannes market. ...
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Noble picks up two from Vantage
Scandinavian buyer Noble Entertainment has picked up Scandinavian rights to Gela Babluani's 13 and Joel Hopkins' Last Chance Harvey from Paramount Vantage International. Noble founder and CEO Per Samuelsson confirmed the deals yesterday. 13, Babluani's English language remake of his own 13 Tzameti stars Sam Riley, Mickey Rourke and Jason ...
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Mangold to direct thriller for Bold Films
Los Angeles-based Bold Films is developing an untitled legal thriller with James Mangold and Cathy Konrad's Treeline Films in the vein of The Verdict and All The President's Men. Mangold is attached to direct the true story of a pair of New Orleans lawyer brothers who take on Big Oil ...
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Bleiberg picks up AIDS drama Pedro
Bleiberg Entertainment has picked up international rights to BMP Films' biopic Pedro written by the Oscar nominated Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Bleiberg is talking to buyers in Berlin about Nick Oceano's story on the life of Pedro Zamora, the young AIDS campaigner who dedicated his life to raise awareness ...
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Coach 14 to remake Proyecto Dos with Rosa Entertainment.
French sales company Coach 14 has announced a remake deal for Guillermo Fernandez Groizard's thriller Proyecto Dos with LA-based Rosa Entertainment. The original, directed by Guillermo Fernandez Groizard, is set in contemporary Madrid where a biochemist discovers that his ordinary life is not what he thinks. Buena Vista released the ...
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Centurion strides out for Pathe
Pathe International has pre-sold Neil Marshall's Romans in Britain yarn Centurion to Constantin in Germany, Aurum in Spain, Hopscotch in Australia, Scanbox in Scandinavia and Odeon in Greece. The film will start principal photography on 22nd February in Scotland. LOL (Laughing Out Loud), directed by Liza Azuelos, has sold to ...
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Depp to narrate Strange for DiCillo
Johnny Depp is to record a new narration for When You're Strange, Tom DiCillo's documentary about The Doors which had its world premiere at Sundance and plays here in berlin in Panorama Dokumente. DiCillo himself had provided the original voiceover, but he announced at Saturday night's screening that Depp would ...
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EU's MEDIA International funding increased by$3m for 2009
The European Commission's MEDIA International initiative has more than doubled its budget for 2009, isencouraging new approaches to distributionand will expand to include projects designed to reach new audiences. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of this year's MEDIA Info Day today, Aviva Silver, head of the MEDIA Unit, explained that ...
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Sally Caplan to stay at the UKFC until2010
Sally Caplan hasagreed to staywith the UK Film Council which will see her stay onuntil May 2010as head of the Premiere Fund. She has been in the role since 2005.Caplan was previously president of Icon Film Distribution. Prior to that, she worked as senior vice president of acquisitions and business ...
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3D fails to fly, says Stassen
nWave Pictures' Ben Stassen, who produced 3D feature Fly Me To The Moon, is warning that the 3D revolution has failed to materialize. While 3D films are being made and released in abundance, Stassen argues that the industry is now in 'a much longer transition phase than anybody had hoped ...
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Jaa starts shooting Ongbak 3
Thailand 's Sahamongkolfilm International has started shooting the third installment in its successful Ong Bak franchise - starring Muay Thai maestro Tony Jaa.As with Ong Bak 2, Jaa is directing and producing as well as starring in Ong Bak 3, which is shooting in Thailand for release in December this ...
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Negativ gets animated with Alois Nebel
Czech production outfit Negativ is venturing into feature length animation with a film version of cult graphic novel Alois Nebel, by Jaroslaw Rudis and Jaromir 99. Tomas Lunak has signed on to direct. The project, which was presented at last month's Rotterdam CineMart, has now been picked up by The ...
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Other Angle collars Bambou
New Paris-based sales outfit Other Angles Pictures has added a new title to its inaugural EFM slate, the company is to handle world rights on Didier Bourdon's new feature Bambou.Bambou stars Didier Bourdon, Anne Consigny, Pierre Arditi and Eddy Mitchell. The film is about a bank worker and his piano ...
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Sophie goes to Turkey for Atlas
Turkey's Horizon has picked up Leif Bristow's family film Sophie which begins shooting in Canada this week with Brittany Bristow, John Rhys-Davies, Augustus Prew and German actor Thure Riefenstein in the cast. Describing the deal with Horizon as 'the fastest in my career', Philipp Menz, of the film's sales agent ...
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Protagonist seals deals on Loop, Beds
London based sales company Protagonist Pictures has sealed a two-picture deal on its Sundance hits In The Loop and Unmade Beds with Madman in Australia. Meanwhile Protagonist chief Ben Roberts said that Grindstone has bought North American rights to Tom Shankland's horror movie The Children and confirmed that IFC Films ...
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Festival titles find sales berths midway through Berlinale
French outfit Les Films Du Losange has closed a deal to take worldwide sales on Sweet Rush (Tatarak), the latest feature from venerable Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda which screens in competition on Friday. Les Films Du Losange will also be releasing the film in France through its distribution arm. Meanwhile, ...
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Buyers hungry for CJ's Thirst
Bucking the cautious buyer trend, South Korea's CJ Entertainment has sealed a string of pre-sales on Park Chan-wook's Thirst and Bong Joon-ho's Mother, along with effects-laden action title Haeundae. Park's vampire thriller Thirst and Bong's Mother, about a woman attempting to prove her son's innocence after he is accused of ...
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Match Factory joins Tanovic's Cirkus
The Match Factory (TMF) will handle international sales for Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic's Cirkus Columbia (working title) which will be his first feature to be shot in his Bosnian homeland. The adaptation of the debut novel of the same name by Croatian journalist Ivica Djikic is being prepared by Tanovic ...
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Wintour doc a hot issue for Elle Driver
The September Issue is flying off the shelves asParis-based sales outfit Elle Driver racks up sales on RJ Cutler's fashion documentary including a UK deal with Momentum Pictures, a French sale to Diaphana and a Japanese sale to Klockworx. NonStop has bought rights in Scandinavia and Madman in Australia. As ...