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    Mirovision boards The Boat

    2009-02-07T06:31:15Z

    South Korea 's Mirovision has picked up international rights to Kim Young-nam's drama The Boat, starring Korean actor Ha Jung-woo and Japan's Tsumabuki Satoshi. Scripted by Aya Watanabe (Josee, The Tiger And The Fish), the film follows a Korean smuggler and his counterpart in Japan whose lives are entwined when ...

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    Cinemavault picks up Canadian, sales on Lovely, Still

    2009-02-07T06:31:11Z

    Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing has picked up international sales and Canadian distribution rights to Nik Fackler's directorial debut Lovely, Still, which premiered at Toronto and stars Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn. Cinemavault is presenting the picture in Berlin as the producers work on a new cut and plans to premiere the ...

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    Cineart goes on pre-Berlin buying spree

    2009-02-07T06:31:05Z

    Benelux distributor Cineart/Cinelibre has picked up three titles in official selection in Berlin: Francois Ozon's competition entry Ricky from Le Pacte, Simone Bitton's Forum documentary Rachel from UMedia and Philippe Lioret's Panorama title Welcome sold by Films Distribution. Cineart/Cinelibre has also been busy pre-buying. It has now snapped up Ken ...

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    E1 peddles Souls to Madman

    2009-02-07T06:31:01Z

    E1 Films International has sold Australian rights to Sophie Barthes' comedy Cold Souls to Madman, hot on the heels of Samuel Goldwyn Films' acquisition of US rights following the world premiere at Sundance. Sales chief Charlotte Mickie also announced that Memento has acquired French rights to Cherien Dabis' Palestinian immigrant ...

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    BBC Films, HanWay groom teen spies with Cherub

    2009-02-07T06:31:00Z

    BBC Films is to tap into the teen market with the adaptation of the first book of Robert Muchamore's teenage spy series. Cherub;The Recruit, which is being introduced to buyers in Berlin by HanWay Films, marks the start of what BBC Films hopes will be a book franchise aimed at ...

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    Noel Clarkesigns on to star in Centurion

    2009-02-07T06:31:00Z

    BAFTA Orange Rising Star nominated actor, writer and director Noel Clarke has signed on to star in Centurion, the Rome-era actioner being produced by Slumdog Millionaire Oscar nominee Christian Colson and his Celador Films. Pathe International is handling sales in Berlin. Clarke previously wrote the screenplays for Kidulthood and Adulthood, ...

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    Index sells further shares in Nikkatsu studios

    2009-02-07T06:31:00Z

    Index Holdings has sold a 7.11% share in group company Nikkatsu to Amusement Media Entertainment Group (AMG). Nikkatsu is here at the EFM selling Takashi Miike's Yatterman which had its world premiere at New York Comic Con last night (Feb 6). The film is a live-action version of the manga ...

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    Content opens doors to Strange

    2009-02-07T06:30:55Z

    ContentFilm International has taken worldwide sales rights to When You're Strange, Tom DiCillo's documentary about The Doors which had its world premiere at Sundance. The feature documentary is about the iconic rock band The Doors and tells the band's story through vintage footage, much of it previously unseen. The biopic ...

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    MPI Media chews off North American rights to Jinga's Gnaw

    2009-02-07T06:30:00Z

    Jinga Films has closed a North American distribution deal for Greg Mandry's horror debut Gnaw with MPI Media Group. The sales agent has also sold Gnaw to Sahamongkolfilm for Thailand.Gnaw tells the gruesome story of six friends on vacation in the countryside who find themselves on the menu of a ...

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    Greg MacGillivray shoots documentary about surfing culture

    2009-02-06T17:19:00Z

    Greg MacGillivray is shooting a documentary examining 50 years of surfing culture in cinema with particular emphasis on the troubled production of John Milius' 1978 Big Wednesday.The untitled project will draw from archival material ranging from Thomas Edison's first Hawaiian surfing footage in 1906 to excerpts from iconic imagery from ...

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    Celluloid to handle sales on Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut

    2009-02-06T17:14:00Z

    Celluloid Dreams has signed on to handle international sales of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut,Jack Goes Boating,billed as an unconventional romantic comedy.

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    Arterton to star in CinemaNX's The Disappearance Of Alice Creed

    2009-02-06T16:40:00Z

    CinemaNX announces cast for its sixth feature film, TheDisappearance Of Alice Creed, to begin shooting February 9 on The Isle of Man.Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace, St Trinian’s), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky, Hancock) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, Red Road) will star in The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, a contemporary kidnap ...

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    NonStop Entertainment in joint venture with Warp X

    2009-02-06T15:24:00Z

    NonStop Entertainment has announced that it will have the first look for upcoming films on the slate of UK-based digital feature film studio Warp and the companies will look to other joint ventures. Warp X is allied to Warp Films, the company behind This Is England and Dead Man's Shoes ...

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    Scottish, Danish and Irish production houses form film partnership

    2009-02-06T14:05:00Z

    Scotland's Sigma Films, Denmark's Zentropa and Ireland's Subotica Entertainment are forming a partnership to develop eight new films from emerging UK and Irish film-makers. The partnership referred to as Advance Party II (APII) will build on the success of Andrea Arnold's Red Road, and Morag McKinnon's forthcoming Donkeys, which were ...

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    Independent sells Moon and New Town Killers

    2009-02-06T13:54:00Z

    UK sales and production outfit Independent has sold Duncan Jones' Moon and Richard Jobson's New Town Killers to Telepool for German speaking territories. Sci-fi thriller Moon premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The film was directed by Duncan Jones, stars Sam Rockwell and features the voice of Kevin ...

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    Aniston and Bateman to star in The Baster

    2009-02-06T13:03:00Z

    Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are the stars of romantic comedy The Baster which is set to shoot in spring. Mandate International is introducing the project to buyers here. Blades Of Glory directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon are reuniting on the Mandate Pictures tale of a woman who undergoes ...

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    Irish arts minister urged to end delay in appointing Irish film board

    2009-02-06T10:52:00Z

    An opposition senator has today called on the Irish arts minister to end the delay in appointing members of the Irish Film Board. An Irish Labour party senator, Dominic Hannigan, has called on the minister for arts, Martin Cullen, to explain the delay in appointing a new board for the ...

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    UK 's Pinewood and Shepperton Studios win Bafta award

    2009-02-06T10:06:00Z

    Pinewood and Shepperton Studios will receive a Bafta contribution award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Sunday 8 February 2009. The studios, which are behind such classics as The African Queen and Dr Strangelove as well as recent blockbusters Casino Royal and ...

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    Berlin in pictures

    2009-02-06T08:14:00Z