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Goalpost starts sales on Jean Charles de Menezes story Brazuca
Brazuca, the Jean Charles de Menezes project formerly known as Leave To Remain or Jean Charles, has finished principal photography after shooting in both the UK and Brazil.UK-based Goalpost Film is launching international sales here at the AFM, and Imagem Group will handle Latin American sales. The film will be ...
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Transmission shifts into Nadda's Cairo Time from Maximum
Australia's Transmission Films has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Ruba Nadda's romantic drama Cairo Time from E1's sales company Maximum International. Produced by Daniel Iron of Toronto's Foundry Films (Away From Her) and David Collins of Dublin's Samson Films (Once), the Canada-Ireland coproduction stars Patricia Clarkson as a ...
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Entertainment takes five pack for UK from The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has sold a five-picture package to the UK's Entertainment Film Distributors, marking the first time that Nigel and Trevor Green have done business with Harvey and Bob Weinstein.The move follows the closure of former Entertainment supplier New Line International. The package contains Stephen Daldry's drama The ...
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La Fabrique De Films launches NY sales outfit for low-budget films
In a bold move underlining the growing market appetite for competitively priced genre fare, French independent distributor La Fabrique De Films is setting up its own sales outfit Overlook Entertainment, devoted to lower budget horror and cult comedies in English and foreign language.The aim is for Overlook, which will be ...
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Relativity Media lines up output deals in nine key territories
Ryan Kavanaugh has slotted the latest pieces into Relativity Media's single-picture international distribution jigsaw after announcing its first tentative steps at Cannes.The company has signed multi-year output deals with nine key buyers as it attempts to fill the vacuum left by the demise of New Line International.Relativity has signed output ...
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Katapult's Jourdan leaves to head up T&C Pictures International
Former Katapult Films Sales chief David Jourdan has jumped ship and will be talking to buyers about three films in his new role as managing director of T&C Pictures International.The company is part of production and finance entity T&C Pictures, run by founding president Arata Matsushima, a former vice president ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 5
Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights from Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's Visit Films to the drama Momma's Man following its London Film Festival screenings.The film premiered at Sundance and tells of a man who visits his parents' loft apartment in Manhattan on a business trip and decides not ...
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Wide's Ex-Drummer goes to Mongrel Media
Koen Mortier's controversial Ex-Drummer, the Flemish film about an abrasiverock band formed by disabled musicians, has been snapped up by Mongrel Media for Canada. The film is sold by Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management.Wide Management arrives in Santa Monica with a bulging slate headlined byVolker Schlondörff's Gigola, starring Asia Argento. ...
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Serafinowicz joins cast of Universal's Couples Retreat
British actor-comedian Peter Serafinowicz has joined Jason Bateman,Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn on the cast of Universal Films' CouplesRetreat directed by Peter Billingsley.The story centres on a couple on the verge of separating who convincetheir friends to go with them on holiday at a couples resort on atropical island.Filming is ...
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UCLA's Formato takes Goldwyn Writing Awards top prize
UCLA student Austin Formato has won the first prize of $15,000 in the53rd annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for his project Self Help.Robyn Paris took the $7,500 second prize for Odd Man Out and J JNelson and Richard Rapoza tied for the $4,000 third prize for Out OfRoad and The ...
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Cast lines up for Mario Van Peebles' thriller Kerosene Cowboys
Cam Gigandet, Shane West, Rachael Leigh Cook and Troy Garity havejoined the cast of Svarog-Afterburner Films' upcoming action thrillerKerosene Cowboys.Offers are out to Richard Dreyfus and Val Kilmer to round out the full cast, which includes Jason Gray-Standford, Jacob Vargas and J C Chasez.Mario Van Peebles will direct from a ...
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Donald Sutherland to preside over Whistler jury
Veteran actor Donald Sutherland will be the president of the jury at the eighth annual Whistler Film Festival, December 4 to 7. Joining Sutherland on the jury are Canadian directors Patricia Rozema and Sturla Gunnarsson.Held in the British Columbia ski resort, the festival will be presenting a number of world ...
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TLA Releasing takes North America on Finding Me
TLA Releasing has acquired North America and Caribbean basin rights to OmeProductions' drama Finding Me from first-time director Roger S Omeus Jr.The distributor plans a spring 2009 release on the story of a browbeaten gay man with a homophobic father who gets a chance to find true love.RayMartell Moore, Ronald ...
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AFM sales
Peter Block's A Bigger Boat kicks off with thriller FrozenSPWAG confirms multi-territory acquisition of The Book Of Elihere! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5 Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close First Independent takes US rights to Aselton's Gigantic DAY FIVE SALES Image takes US ...
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AFM stories
Peter Block's A Bigger Boat kicks off with thriller FrozenSPWAG confirms multi-territory acquisition of The Book Of EliParis Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picturehere! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5 Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close First Independent takes US rights ...
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Q & A:Richard Ellis, co-founder of MTM London/ Vanessa Arden-Wood, Director of operations at Illumina Digital
Why did you get involved with Take 12'Richard:It is just such a great project. The UK film industry needs a bit of a pick me up - there is so much talent and it is not always utilised fully. The changes that have started to happen to the market are ...
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Q&A: Morgan Holt, Director, HUGE Entertainment
Why did you get involved with Take 12'I'm attracted to the notion that strategy, particularly digital strategy, can help creative companies. There can be a slightly frustrating sense that being creative is all about instinct and is blind to planning for the future. But I believe creative people create their ...
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NewsIn Focus: Take 12 bridges the digital gap
Introduction: Nesta/UKFC Digital Innovation Programme - Take 12
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StudioCanal takes on sales for Yorkshire Ripper trilogy
StudioCanal has announced the acquisition of two new English-language projects which comprise four films in total. The first, The Red Riding Trilogy, is based on a series of cult British crime novels by David Peace inspired by the true story of the Yorkshire Ripper. The second, Cotton, is a faux-documentary ...
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TF1 International sells Gatlif, Veber, Jeunet at AFM
TF1 International has boarded Tony Gatlif's latest Korkoro, the story of a gypsy family facing persecution in World War II France which stars Marc Lavoine and Marie-Jose Croze. The film, currently shooting, will be released by TFM Distribution in France.TF1 is here with the world premiere of Francis Veber's latest ...