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Schmidtz Katze lines up English language thriller slate
German production outfit Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv (SKF) is in Berlin to look for an international sales partner for a three-picture slate of English-language thrillers. According to SKF managing director Patrick Knippel, each thriller will be budgeted at around $2.6m (Euros 2m) and the idea is to shoot them back to ...
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Media Luna picks up Memory, Jennifer
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up Memory, the second feature by Matthias Luthardt, who is the president of the 'Dialogue en perspective' jury of young German and French film buffs for this year's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar. The drama starring Franziska Petri and Pasquale Aleardi premiered at the Hof Film ...
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US moviegoers get into New Line romcom
Romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You was this weekend's top earner as a quartet of new releases produced another big haul at the US box office. The Warner/New Line romcom opened significantly better than expected, grossing an estimated $27.5m from 3,175 screens, for a per-screen average of $8,649. ...
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Benjamin Button big in international market with $31m weekend
Multiple Oscar nominee The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was the big winner at the international box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $31m from 5,126 screens in 47 markets. Taking its international total so far to $72.5m, the Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett drama opened at number one in Spain and ...
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Slumdog's night at the BAFTAs: winners list
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire won best film as it took seven of the 11 BAFTAs it was nominated for at the Orange BAFTA Film awards.The film also won six other awards: director for Danny Boyle, adapted screenplay, music, cinematography, editing and sound. Boyle said it felt 'amazing' to win, adding ...
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Jinga sells The Disappeared and Summer Scars
UK based sales company Jinga Films has closed an all rights on North America distribution deal for Johnny Kevorkian's The Disappeared with IFC Films. The supernatural thriller's cast includes Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Tom Felton and Alex Jennings. Jinga Films has also sold Julian Richards coming of age thriller Summer ...
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Milk, Slumdog, Bashir march onwards with WGA Award wins
Milk and Slumdog Millionaire were the big winners at the Writers Guild Of America's 2009 awards at the weekend.Dustin Lance Black took the original screenplay prize for Milk while Simon Beaufoy kept the Slumdog Millionaire bandwagon going with a win in the adapted category based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q ...
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Filmmuseum ramps up acquisition business
Amsterdam's Filmmuseum has taken Dutch rights to a slew of films led by Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy sold by Memento, Edwin's Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly which premiered in Rotterdam last month, and Swiss master's Peter Liechti's The Sounds Of Insects - Record Of A Mummy. They follow ...
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Films Boutique picks up Rots, Jude titles
Berlin-based sales company Films Boutique has picked up four new titles for international distribution, including two Forum titles - Esther Rots' Can Go Through Skin and Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude's The Happiest Girl In The World. Films Boutique's Jean-Christophe Simon also told Berlinale ScreenDaily that he has take on international ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment closes raft of territories on Adam Resurrected
Bleiberg Entertainment has closed a raft of further territories on the Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected, including German-speaking territories to 3L Filmverleigh and Brazil to Flashstar.Deals have closed in Israel (United King Films), Portugal (Valentim), Greece (Village Roadshow), Turkey (Horizon), Iceland (Myndform), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and ...
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Arrow Cuts Loose with Verheyen
Canadian outfit Arrow Entertainment has taken world rights excluding Benelux to Cut Loose, from the prolific Flemish director Jan Verheyen. Cut Loose was produced by the team behind Flemish hits The Alzheimer Case and Ben X. Based on the best-selling novel by Tom Naegels, the film is about a crusading ...
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Shoreline is ata forkin the road
Morris Ruskin's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Jim Kouf's comedy A Fork In The Road. Shoreline will seek to tempt buyers in Berlin with the story of an escaped convict and a murderous farmers wife who go on the run ...
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Dragon Tattoo set for European rollout, English version
In Berlin this weekend, Yellow Bird's Soren Staermose has revealed further details of the hugely ambitious roll-out plans for the film of Stieg Larsson's world bestseller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, sold here by Zodiak International. The film will be released theatrically in late February in Sweden and Denmark, ...
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High Point takes on Haïti Cherie
High Point Films, the theatrical sales division of Carey Fitzgerald's London based High Point Media Group, has taken on international rights outside France and Italy to Claudio Del Punta's Berlin selection, Haïti Cherie. Selected for the culinary cinema section at the Berlin Film Festival, Haïti Cherie takes a dramatic, Neorealist ...
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iDream sells three to Turkey
London and Mumbai-based sales company iDream Independent Pictures has sold a package of three films, including Santosh Sivan's Tahaan, to Turkey's Horizon International here at the EFM. The package also includes Shivajee Chandrabhushan's Frozen and Irfan Kamal's Thanks Maa. Produced by India's Quantum Films, Thanks Maa is a story about ...
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Pierpoline, Lormand see Red with Mei
Joyce Pierpoline and Richard Lormand, the producers behind competition entry Happy Tears, are working to put together their next project Seeing Red with first-time director Liselle Mei.The project, which is budgeted between $4m and $6m, is being scheduled for an autumn shoot in New York's Chinatown. Mei, a Chinese-English woman, ...
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The Works seals deals on Loft, Wire
London based The Works International has sold rights to Loft, Man On Wire, The Market and Good Dick for a number of territories. Erik Van Looy's Flemish film, Loft has been sold to Atlas Film in Germany. Loft follows five close friends, all of them married, who share a loft ...
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US sellers get tough on bad buyers
A group of leading rival US sales companies are plotting a post-EFM get-together to share information about - and take steps against - the rising tide of cash-starved buyers who are not honouring contracts. Frustrated by international buyers who they say renege on deals by failing to pay balances on ...
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K5 brings Size, World to buyers
Germany and UK based sales outfit K5 International has picked up two new titles which it is pitching to buyers here: A Matter Of Size and A Wonderful World. Comedy A Matter Of Size is directed by Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor. Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon of UCM ...
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KWA adds four to slate
Madrid-based Kevin Williams Associates has picked up Albert Arizza’s thriller Ramirez about a lonely young night stalker and drug dealer, preying on young women he can pick up and seduce.KWA has also acquired Mexican drama Limbo, about a 12-year-old gay boy who suffers an accident and goes to limbo, a ...