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Little Film books sales for Stone's War and Satanas
The Little Film Company has closed key territories on Lithuania Film Studios' supernatural action thriller Stone's War and Dynamo & Rionegro Producciones' Colombia's foreign language Oscar submission Satanas. Deals on Stone's War closed in Italy (Media One), Mexico (Quality Films), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Canada (Equinoxe), and Greece (Spentzos). Marko Makilaakso's film ...
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TLA takes US, UK rights for Filmax's comedy Boystown (Chuecatown)
TLA Releasing has acquired all North American and UK rights from Filmax to Juan Flahn's Spanish comedy Boystown (Chuecatown) and plans a late 2008 release in North America.The madcap story centres on an estate agent who murders elderly women and offers their apartments to upwardly mobile gay couples in a ...
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The Works takes UK rights to Joy Division
The Works UK Distribution has taken UK rights from Katapult Films to Grant Gee's Toronto hit documentary Joy Division. The deal was negotiated between Mark Ankner of Endeavor, David Jourdan of Katapult and Laurence Gornall from The Works. The Works plans a UK theatrical release in 2008.The film has already ...
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Wolfe takes rights to Spider Lilies, Surveillance 24/7
Wolfe Video has acquired North American rights to a slew of titles here headed by Zero Chou's Taiwanese drama Spider Lilies.The film stars Rainie Yang and Isabella Leong in the story of a webcam exhibitionist who falls for a tattoo parlour employee when she requests a special tattoo.Conspiracy thriller Surveillance ...
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Barbados to host film finance conference
The inaugural Barbados Film Market and Finance Conference is scheduled for December 6-7 at the Barbados International Film Festival. Confirmed panelists already lined up include Mark Damon of Foresight Unlimited, Adrian Ward of IDB, Warren Fergus of Magnolia Lane, investment banker Peter Dale, Stephen Roberts of Film Production Capital, Warren ...
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Coach 14 strikes deals for Proyecto Dos and Lazo Rotos
At the AFM, Paris-based sales company Coach 14 has sold new titles Proyecto Dos by Guillermo Groizard and Lazo Rotos from Miguel Garcia-Borda to Germany's Telepool. Dos and another new title, Galantuomini from director Edoardo Winspeare, have stirred interest from the US and the UK while the former is also ...
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Film Solutions launches Web photo approval system
Film Solutions LLC is launching PhotoKill Online, a talent photo-approval platform.The web-based photo approval system is specifically designed for talent approval and photo management for production companies. PhotoKill Online provides provides secure access to a photo library online, also representing a more environmentally friendly system than using printed photos and ...
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Rome's Business Street hopes to move further away from AFM
The Rome Film Fest's Business Street is not aspiring to become the new Mifed. That was the message at the AFM this week by Sylvain Auzou, The Business Street Manager. Some have been suggesting that Rome could eventually become a replacement for the old Mifed (which ended in 2004) but ...
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ACI picks up worldwide rights to Bill Duke's thriller Covered
Los Angeles-based sales company American Cinema International (ACI) has picked up worldwide rights excluding North America to the thriller Covered starring Vivica A Fox and Louis Gossett Jr.Bill Duke directed the story of a woman who relies on her faith to hold her family together after she is accused of ...
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Asian Content Center launched with NHK support
Former Amuse executives Hisashi Yamamoto and Takaomi Deguchi have launched a film and TV production outfit, Asia Content Center (ACC), with an innovative financing model backed by its ties to Japanese public broadcaster NHK. NHK has first option to pre-buy ACC productions for up to 80% of each project's budget ...
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UFO beams up Empress And The Warriors
Hong Kong production house United Filmmakers Organization (UFO) is attending the AFM to directly sell romantic action picture An Empress And The Warriors, directed by Tony Siu-Tung Ching. The $15m production, which recently wrapped in mainland China, features a top Asian cast including Donnie Yen, Leon Lai and Kelly Chen. ...
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David O Russell returns with Gyllenhaal, Biel, IM Global
David O Russell is set to direct his first film in three years with the $29m comedy Nailed starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel.Russell and former vice president Al Gore's daughter Kristin co-wrote the screenplay, which laces bawdy comedy with the film-maker's trademark political satire.It is understood the project is ...
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Nordisk sells Bornedal's The Substitute to Grindstone in the US
In its second US sale of AFM, Nordisk has sold Thura Films' thriller The Substitute to Grindstone Entertainment.The deal follows on from the announcement earlier this week that Grindstone had also bought ghostly thriller Room 205 from Nordisk.Grindstone will be working in partnership with producer Ghost House Pictures on the ...
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Golden Network pacts with Dadi Century for three
Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network Asia has picked up three titles from China 's Dadi Century Film, including martial arts drama Wushu, which now has Jackie Chan on board as executive producer. Directed by Antony Szeto, the $6m drama follows a group of children under-going a gruelling training programme ...
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FilmExport launches co-production initiative with Dudu
Rome-based sales and production group FilmExport recently embarked on its first co-production The Thirteen Roses, with Spanish companies Enrique Cerezo PC and Pedro Costa PC, and is now planning further co-productions. Upcoming titles include Dudu - A Friend To Save, a $10 million English-language family drama about a panda ...
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EFP to present foreign Oscar submissions in New York
In a new departure for the organisation, European Film Promotion is to present five foreign language film Oscar submissions to buyers as part of its sixth New York 'Industry Screenings,' which take place in New York on November 12th and 13th.The Oscar candidates from Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway and ...
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UK's Magnet Films starts shoot for James Abadi's UK comedy
Principal photography has started on UK comedy The Story of ____. Finlay Robertson, Lee Boardman, Tamsin Egerton, Peter Bowles and Rik Mayall star.The film is about the record industry travails of a band named FUCK, which is played by Andrew Thomas Jones, Joe Absolom, AMeet Chana and Desire Dubunet. James ...
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Kiarostami's first non-Iranian feature to be shot in French
MK2 has announced a shift in its Abbas Kiarostami project which was initially announced in Cannes. The film, entitled Certified Copy, was originally scheduled to be shot in English but with the final casting has been switched into French. The film will star Sami Frey and Juliette Binoche in what ...
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Michael Moore receives IDA tribute
Michael Moore will receive the 2007 International Documentary Association's (IDA) Career Achievement Award in Los Angeles on Dec 7.'Michael Moore still has many more extraordinary films ahead of him,'IDA president Diane Estelle Vicari said.'Our members are thankful for his fearless commitment to tellcompelling stories. He is a role model for ...
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First Look takes US rights to Blood Brothers
First Look Studios has acquired US rights to John Woo and Terence Chang-produced Blood Brothers, which is being sold by Fortissimo Films. The $10m gangster noir closed this year's Venice Film Festival and features a top Asian cast including Daniel Wu, Chang Chen, Liu Ye and Shu Qi. Directed by ...