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Cannes quartet taken on by The Match Factory
Martin Blaney in Berlin The Match Factory will be handling international sales for four films selected to the official programme of next month's Cannes Film Festival.After last year's The Edge Of Heaven, Michael Weber's Cologne-based company has another film in this year's Competition: Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, ...
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M-Appeal adds five titles to line-up for Cannes market
Fledgling Berlin-based company M-Appeal has added another five titles to its sales line-up, which will have their market premieres at the forthcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.M-Appeal will be handling international distribution on the following films:Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi's documentary Suddenly, Last Winter about homophobia in Italy, first shown ...
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Kadokawa acquires Chen Kaige's Mei Lanfang
China Film Group Corporation has announced that it has sold all Japanese rights to Chen Kaige's biopic Mei Lanfang to Kadokawa Pictures. Although the amount of the deal was not disclosed, CFGC chairman Han Sanping said it is the highest price in recent years for a Chinese film sold to ...
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Cannes 2008: The Screen Guide
The buzzCannes Buzz: Competition Cannes Buzz: Out of competitionCannes Buzz: Director's fortnightCannes Buzz: Hot picksIn Focus: Searching for a new supply line Blindness to open Cannes Film FestivalHunger to open Un Certain RegardInterview Thierry FremauxThe line-upCannes competitionCompetition/ out of competition/ special screeningsUn Certain RegardDirectors FortnightCritics WeekCinefondation/ shortsCannes 2007Festival and market ...
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Tribeca 2008: full list of reviews
Click on a film title to see Screen's review Opening FilmBaby Mama (Michael McCullers. US)GalaRedbelt (David Mamet. US) Bart Got A RoomEncountersBart Got A Room (Brian Hecker. US)The Caller (Richard Ledes. US)The Chicken, The Fish, And The King Crab (Jose Luis Lopez-Linares. Spain)I Am Because We Are (Nathan Rissman. US)Lake ...
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Del Toro to direct Hobbit double bill
Guillermo Del Toro has landed his 'dream' job as the confirmed director of TheHobbit for New Line and MGM, the studios and executive producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh announced on Thursday.The move was widely expected after it emerged four months ago that Jackson would serve as executive producer on ...
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Sarah Marshall hopes 8 territories won't forget this weekend
The start of the blockbuster season is almost upon us and with one week to go before Paramount Pictures International (PPI) unleashes Marvel's Iron Man around the globe, the release schedule is predictably subdued.Universal's comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall gets a push this weekend with eight launches through UPI including Russia ...
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Wild Bunch picks up world rights to Khoo's My Magic
France's Wild Bunch has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding France and Singapore, to Eric Khoo's Cannes competition-bound My Magic. Khoo's Singapore-based production outfit Zhao Wei Films has separately sold the film to ARP for France. The new picture represents the first from Singapore to play in competition at Cannes. Khoo's ...
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Air drumming comedy Adventures Of Power berths at Shoreline
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up international rights ahead of Cannes to Ari Gold's air drumming comedy Adventures Of Power, which premiered at Sundance.Gold's feature directorial debut stars himself as a small-town dreamer who tries to become the world's greatest air-drummer.Adrian Grenier from the hit HBO series Entourage also stars with ...
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Film Source acquires screwball sci-fi comedy Fingerman...
Alex Massis' The Film Source has acquired AJ Rickert-Epstein's screwball sci-fi comedy Fingerman, Dr London And The Triangle Project.Rickert-Epstein and Stephen Murray produced the story of an ordinary suburban man who has to thwart a plot by evil scientists from the future. Christopher Clark and Dan Davidson star.Film Source's vice ...
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Silverdocs to honour Spike Lee at June event
Silverdocs will honour Spike Lee at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, the centerpiece of the eight-day documentary festival that takes place in June just outside Washington DC.Lee was selected for his 'unyielding commitment to telling stories that challenge America's consciousness of social injustice, while also celebrating the resilience and power of ...
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Cloud Ten signs domestic distribution deal with Koch, CNI
Cloud Ten Pictures, the Los Angeles producer of faith-based content, has signed a distribution deal for its library titles and upcoming features with New York-based Koch Entertainment and Nashville's CNI Distribution.Koch will replace Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as Cloud Ten's North American DVD and video retail distributor of the existing ...
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Connecticut company launches campaign to attract international producers
The Connecticut Film Center (CFC) will reach out to international producers at Cannes next month in a bid to strengthen its claim to be one of the most attractive production locations on the East Coast.CFC representatives will be on the Croisette to promote the company's facilities, the state's aggressive 30% ...
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Bold Films hires Joseph Ruben to direct thriller Jack
Bold Films co-presidents Gary Michael Walters and David Lancaster are preparing the thriller Jack in time for an early autumn start of production.Worldwide president of distribution Stephanie Denton of the newly formed sales arm Bold Films International will introduce the project at Cannes.Joseph Ruben, whose credits include Sleeping With The ...
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Special report: Hollywood goes anglophile
'Britain isin a golden era right now, particularly with directors,' says David Livingstone, worldwide president of marketing and distribution at UK powerhouse Working Title.Will and actors' strike benefit UK talent'At that company alone, there are new projects in the works from Edgar Wright, Joe Wright, Kevin Macdonald and Paul Greengrass. ...
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The critical view: the art of the film ending
Those of you who have been living in a forest hut for the last year and haven't got around to seeing the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men should stop reading here.This week my subject is film endings - in particular the frustratingly brilliant climax to their adaptation of ...
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Australia - Hopscotch jumps to next level
Independent Australian distributor Hopscotch is reinventing itself. The company's ambitious managing director Troy Lum wants to transform Hopscotch from a theatrically-focused distributor to a vertically integrated, content-driven entity.'When the digital era really hits, producers will reap the rewards,' says Lum. 'Distribution is changing because people consume content in different ways ...
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Screen opinion: The changing face of distribution
In any list of over-rated virtues, suffering for one's art should come pretty high. Of course, there's the great myth of the tortured artist - slicing off the occasional ear or slaving in a cockroach-ridden garret is meant to get the juices flowing.Most, however, find it possible to operate effectively ...
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Filmaka- the contest Engine
Deepak Nayar's original idea in hatching Filmaka in late 2006 was to create a platform for pitching material that would then be judged by peers and a panel of A-list judges.The concept was that aspiring film-makers submit one to three-minute short films to the site on designated themes. Every month, ...
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Set visit: Lone Scherfig's An Education
It is the Easter holidays and in a quiet Japanese school in West London, Danish director Lone Scherfig is shooting a scene with a school orchestra in an airy assembly hall.With its dark wood the hall looks right at home in the early 1960s period in which An Education is ...