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Johan Kling to follow Darling with Trust Me
Swedish director Johan Kling's Trust Me took $1m (Euros 0.7m) of the $1.8m Swedish Film Institute support for10 local productions.Kling'sfeature debut, Darling, was named Best Swedish Film 2007 by the Association of Swedish Film Critics,Darling went on to win the Nordic Film Prize at the Göteborg Film Festival and to ...
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Axiom strikes UK deals for Goodbye Solo, Sugar, The Sea Wall
UK distributor Axiom Films has picked up three titles from Toronto to add to its growing slate. They are Goodbye Solo, Sugar and The Sea Wall.Memento is selling Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which won the Fipresci prize at Venice Critics Week. The story follows an African-born cab driver who befriends ...
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Rome to open third festival with Huit/Eight and The Man Who Loves
The International Film Festival of Rome has announced Huit/Eight and The Man Who Loves will share credits as opening films for the upcoming third edition, which runs October 22-31. Huit/Eight, which was previously announced, will be presented out of competition as a Special Event, organisers specified today, even though ...
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London boasts 14 world premieres, plus Bond, W and Frost/Nixon
With 14 world premieres and screenings for the new Bond, Oliver Stone's W and opening film Frost/Nixon, artistic director Sandra Hebron says The Times/BFI London Film Festival has become an international launch pad for major films.'Film-makers and film companies are starting to see that London as a festival offers a ...
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Summit picks up Hurt Locker, IFC Films gets Che at Toronto
Summit Entertainment has picked up US rights to Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker in the second significant domestic deal of the festival. The distributor closed the deal late on Tuesday night and plans to release the film in 2009. The deal follows a successful North American premiere for the war ...
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Rampling, Bruhl, Friel to star in Amiel's WWI comedy Angel Makers
Charlotte Rampling will star alongside Daniel Bruhl and Anna Friel in London-based The Producers' first world war dark comedy Angel Makers which Jon Amiel will direct.Benno Furmann, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anne-Marie Duff and John Hurt round out the key cast. The Producers principal Jeanna Polley is producing and is currently scouting ...
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Toronto Sales
Toronto deals round-upMemento Films International sold Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo to Imagine in Benelux and Xenix in Switzerland.Regent Releasing acquired North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Serbis, which will screen at the New York Film Festival on October 12.Maximum Film Distribution took Canadian rights on Disgrace from Fortissimo Films, ...
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Ole Christian Madsen plans sex addiction drama
Ole Christian Madsen, here at TIFF with Danish smash hit Flame & Citron (The Match Factory has sold to 25 territories including IFC for the US), has several new projects in the works. The first to shoot will be a film about sex addiction to shoot in Denmark in December ...
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Newton heats up next projects after Three Blind Mice
Australian actor/writer/director Matthew Newton, here with Three Blind Mice, has two new scripts in development.People People is about a 40-year-old married couple trying to stay together. 'It's about comfort versus freedom,' Newton says. 'It's like an anti-rom-com, about how we relate to each other.'He also has LA-set genre piece about ...
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Maximum takes six films apiece from Fortissimo, Cinetic
After an earlier TIFF deal for Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Canadian distributor Maximum Film Distribution has taken on a package of six films from Fortissimo's current slate.Maximum has also taken Canadian rights to six titles from New York-based Cinetic Media as part of an exclusive output agreement between the two companies ...
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Buyers look into Carlos Sorin's Window
Bavaria Film International has continued more sales here on Toronto titles. Carlos Sorin's The Window (La Ventana) has been sold to Benelux (Cinemien) and Brazil (Imovision). There are several French offers in play and a deal is expected by the end of TIFF.The Patagonia-set film about an elderly man and ...
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Palisades Tartan extends Fortissimo library deal
Palisades Tartan UK, the Palisades Pictures subsidiary formed with the takeover of the library of the now-defunct Tartan Films, has struck a deal to extend its UK distribution rights to Fortissimo Films titles.The library includes more than 30 films including Mysterious Skin, Capturing The Friedmans, 2046, Super Size Me, The ...
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Rai strikes four deals for Venice title Il Papa di Giovanna
Rai Trade has closed several deals on Pupi Avati's Il Papa di Giovanna, which won the Venice best actor prize for Silvio Orlando.Sales have been done with France (Paradis), Belgium and The Netherlands (ABC Films), Australia (Palace Pictures), and Switzerland (MFD).Orlando stars as a father who tries to help his ...
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India's Moser Baer ramps up theatrical distribution
Following the release of family comedy Air Buddies and romantic drama Feast Of Love, India's Moser Baer is extending its theatrical distribution plans by releasing psychological thriller Righteous Kill, starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, in India this week. Moser Baer, which has carved a strong home video presence ...
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Kazakhstan's Gift To Stalin to open Pusan film festival
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) will be presenting a record 315 films this year from 60 countries, with a total of 85 world and 48 international premieres. The fest will open Oct 2 with the world premiere of award-winning Kazakhstani filmmaker Rustem Abdrashev's The Gift To Stalin and ...
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Arclight, Escape Factory and Infinity team up for Altitude
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, Vancouver-based Escape Factory and Infinity Features will produce the supernatural thriller Altitude.Short film-maker Kaare Andrews will direct the story of a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends who battle a malevolent force when their plane malfunctions. Paul A Birkett wrote the screenplay.Principal photography is set ...
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Cantet's The Class to close Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class will close the 37th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema. A long-time Cantet supporter, the FNC awarded him its 2001 Louve d'Or for Time Out (L'Emploi Du Temps). The Class (aka Entre Les Murs) will open the New York Film Festival on Sept 26.Other ...
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DeVito, Winkler, Zwick honoured by Israel Film Festival
Danny DeVito, Irwin Winkler and Edward Zwick will be honoured at the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival, which runs in New York from October 29-November 13.DeVito will receive the Lifetime Visionary Award, Winkler the Lifetime Achievement Award and Zwick the Outstanding Achievement In Film award. Zwick's second world war Resistance ...
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MEIFF names eight films in competition, Laila's Birthday screening
Eight films have been set for the international competition feature film and documentary sections at the second annual Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi (Oct 10-19)Toronto festival favourite Laila's Birthday from Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi will also have its Middle Eastern premiere at the festival. The film, about ...
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IFC Films picks up North American rights to Everlasting Moments
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Jan Troell's pan-Scandinavian co-production Everlasting Moments screening here and will release the film next year through IFC In Theatres.Troell wrote the screenplay with Niklas Radstrom and Agneta Ulfsater Troell; the story depicts cultural shifts told through the history of a late ...