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Pathe seals deals on Frears' Cheri with Lumiere, Nordisk
On the eve of EFM, Pathe International announced deals on two major territories for Stephen Frears' Cheri which screens in competition here on Feb 10. Lumiere has taken the film for Benelux and Nordisk for Scandinavia.The film, written by Christopher Hampton from Colette's novel stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Felicity ...
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Barnz signs on to direct edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films
Daniel Barnz has signed on to direct the edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films.
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NonStop Entertainment in joint venture with Warp X
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 will look to other joint ventures. Warp X is allied to Warp Films, the company behind This Is England and Dead Man's Shoes by Shane ...
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Kinowelt's Ziannis sets up new sales shop Aktis
Former Kinowelt world sales chief Stelios Ziannis is in Berlin with his new sales company Aktis Film International. The Leipzig-based outfit's first acquisition is Rudolf Thome's black tragicomedy Pink which will have its world premiere in the festival's Berlinale Special sidebar. Starring Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Panzner (Valkyrie), Guntram Brattia (The ...
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Wide gives Hand to Strand for US
French sales outfit Wide Management has announced a raft of new sales on its new slate including Give Me Your Hand and Ah! The Libido. Pascal Alex-Vincent's Give Me Your Hand has been taken by Strand Releasing for the US and by Peccadillo Pictures for the UK. Meanwhile, Michel Rosier'comedy ...
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Autlook takes world on Panorama doc War + Love
Vienna-based sales outfit Autlook has swooped to take world rights on Berlinale Panorama entry War + Love in Kabul directed by Helga Reidemeister. 'This is an incredible Romeo and Juliet drama that feels like fiction, a very intimate love story in a country that only knows war...' Autlook's managing-director Peter ...
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Atrix boards Murnberger's Bone Man
Beatrix Wesle's Munich-based Atrix Films has taken all international rights, excluding German-speaking territories, to Wolfgang Murnberger's laconic mystery drama The Bone Man (Der Knochenmann) which will be having its world premiere in Panorama. Starring Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Josef Bierbichler and Birgit Minichmayr, the adaptation of Wolf Haas' cult novel ...
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Pinball Films pitches Fuckart
UK producer Pinball Films is pitching two films at Berlin which form part of its micro-budget digital feature film slate. The slate received 20% funding from the Northern Film and Media's Atomic Pictures scheme. Dogwoof Pictures is in discussions to distribute the features - Fuckart and Dog Knife Wife - ...
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High-Fliers acquires UK rights to New Town Killers
London based distributor, High Fliers Films, has acquired UK rights to New Town Killers from production and sales outfit Independent. The thriller is directed by Richard Jobson and produced by Luc Roeg. It stars Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie and James Anthony Pearson and tells the story of two bankers who ...
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Thai master Weerasethakul lines up Uncle Boonmee
Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who has won multiple prizes for previous films like Syndromes And A Century, Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady, is preparing Uncle Boonmee: A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which will be handled internationally by The Match Factory. It is being produced by London-based Illuminations ...
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Rotterdam and Berlin could overlap in 2010
The Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals are on a potential collision course with their dates for 2010 when the Berlinale will be celebrating its 60 th anniversary. At the end of this year's edition last weekend, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced that its 2010 dates will be Wednesday ...
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Echo Bridge sells far and wide on Ruins, Inhale
Heading in to the EFM Los Angeles-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has closed key territories on My Life In Ruins, Virgin On Bourbon Street and Inhale. Rights to the romantic comedy My Life In Ruins have gone to Warner Bros in the UK, Splendid Films in Germany, Fox Searchlight in Australia ...
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Alien goes international with Little
The Little Film Company has boarded international rights to RW Goodwin's 1950s sci-fi homage Alien Trespass and is commencing talks with buyers in Berlin. Eric McCormack and Robert Patrick star in the story of a benevolent alien that inhabits the body of a Californian astronomer in the hopes of saving ...
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Yes Men land at Rezo
The Yes Men are back in town and they're promising to wreak mischief in Berlin. New film from the merry pranksters The Yes Men Fix The World, which screened at Sundance and is opening this year's Berlin Panorama, has been picked up for international sales by Rezo. Directed by Andy ...
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Dean Spanley goes to US with Miramax
Miramax Films has taken US rights to Toa Fraser' much feted comedy-drama Dean Spanley starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole. The UK/New Zealand coproduction, which screened at the Toronto, London and Pusan festivals last year, was produced by Matthew Metcalfe and Alan Harris, with David Parfitt, Finola Dwyer, ...
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T&C Pictures Internationalpacks Black Dynamite
David Jourdan's fledgling sales agency T&C Pictures International has picked up Scott Sanders' Sundance blaxpoitation pastiche Black Dynamite, while celebrating a North American deal with Summit Entertainment on its first film comedy musical Lock And Roll Forever. Jourdan closed the Black Dynamite deal with Endeavor Independent's Graham Taylor and Mark ...
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Loveridge launches Meridiana with first slate
Industry veteran Helen Loveridge, who co-founded Fortissimo Film Sales, has announced details of her new, London-based sales outfit, Meridiana Films. 'This is my first active market,' Loveridge commented. 'I will be starting slowly, looking to build up as we did with Fortissimo.' The company will be handling both dramatic features ...
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Content gets Ironclad
ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Mythic International Entertainment’s Ironclad which stars James Purefoy and Paul Giamatti. Directed by Jonathan English (Minotaur), Ironclad is an ultra violent medieval action thriller. It is set to go in production in the summer.It tells the true story of a group of ...
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Sundance winners team for Second Child
Lee Daniels, fresh from his Sundance triumph as director of multiple prize-winner Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire, is teaming up with Chilean film-maker Sebastian Silva, whose film The Maid won the world cinema dramatic grand jury prize at Sundance, to produce Silva's next film Second Child.Daniels is here ...
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Memento closes on Larrieu brothers' This Is The End
Paris-based Memento Films International has taken on international sales to This Is The End, the new $13m (Euros 10m) end-of-the-world epic from Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu. Produced by veteran Bruno Pesery in association with Backup Films through their Coficup fund, the film stars Matthieu Amalric, Sergi Lopez, Catherine Frot and ...