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Global Entertainment buys remake rights for Hungarian comedy
Australian company Global Entertainment has purchased English-language remake rights of Hungarian romantic comedy S.O.S. Love! 'It is a great script and a great story,' said Scowcroft. 'It has universal appeal - everyone wants to be loved.' Global Entertainment's Stuart Scowcroft and Rezso Bodonyi said that they had purchased English-language remake ...
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Kimmel closes Japan and Italy on Kaufman's Synecdoche
Kimmel International has closed key deals on its new Cannes films, kicking off with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York which went to Asmik Ace in Japan and Bim in Italy.Meanwhile Kimmel sales chief Mark Lindsay reported that MovieEye in Japan and Senator in Germany bought Tarsem Singh's political ...
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Latido pre-sells The Horn Of Plenty to CNC
Spanish sales outfit Latido has pre-sold The Horn Of Plenty, directed by Juan Carlos Tabio (Guantemara, Strawberry and Chocolate), to Belgium (CNC).Latido has also sold its Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary Running With Arnold to Madman (Australia) and Turkey (Barbar) and is in advanced negotiations with Italy, Switzerland and German. The Spanish ...
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Luke G-Jones goes green with Cool Hand
Luke G-Jones, the former head of co-production and finance at New Films International, has launched an innovative 'carbon credit' scheme for film production via his LA-based Cool Hand International.Cool Hand, says G-Jones, is a carbon-neutral company and any film in which he gets involved will be a carbon-neutral production. The ...
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Scanbox co-produces three new Swedish features
As it gets more involved in Swedish production, Scanbox Entertainment has announced details of three new Swedish features it is co-producing. The move into co-production includes the films Iskariot, directed by Miko Lazic and produced in cooperation with Ironwood Films, Tjuvarnas Marknad by Jan Guillou, which will start shooting in ...
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Cyclops and Little Mo forecast Hitler's Weatherman
Pint-sized UK comedian Lee Evans (Mousehunt, There's Something About Mary) is to star as Adolf Hitler's personal meteorologist in $8m comedy, I Was Hitler's Weatherman, being produced by Cyclops Vision with Little Mo Films.The part of Hitler is under offer to Stanley Tucci.The film is scripted by Stuart Silver and ...
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Palme d'Or winner Wajda plans September release for Katyn
Polish director Andrej Wajda will premiere his new film Katyn Sept. 17 at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. 'It's a personal story for me because my father was killed in Katyn,' Wajda told Screen International.Katyn (Post-Mortem) examines the Katyn massacre of 1940, in which Soviet troops killed thousands of ...
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Melbourne festival starts networking event for producers
The Melbourne International Festival (MIFF) has established an international film networking event which will take place at the beginning of this year's festival from July 26 to 28.Called 37 South: Bridging The Gap, the event is designed to bring together Australian film producers with a range of potential partners.Up to ...
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Lightning strikes on Bonneville deal
Aimee Schoof and Isen Robbins have partnered with Los Angeles production and sales company New Films International (NFI) to build aslate of up to 10 films a year.The producing duo, formally of New York-based Intrinsic Value Films,teamed with NFI on the recent thriller The Alphabet Killer, which isin post-production and ...
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Spain's Gomez re-elected as FIAPF president
Oscar-winner Andres Vicente Gomez from Spain has been re-elected as FIAPF's General Assembly as FIAPF President. Argentinean producer Luis Alberto Scalella was newly-elected as 1st Vice-President, alongside representatives of Asia and Australasia, Europe, North and South America. The International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), which gathers 26 producers' associations ...
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Charity amfAR comes on board for Dubai Film Festival
The organisers of Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) have teamed up with amfAR, the American foundation for AIDS research.This year's festival, Dec 9-16, will host a version of the Cinema Against AIDS event, the star-studded fundraiser that's become an annual fixture at Cannes.DIFF chairman Abdulhamid Juma confirmed that Sharon Stone, ...
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Arthouse takes on urban graffiti documentary Next
Arthouse Films has taken all North American, Australian, New Zealand, and South African rights (without TV) to feature documentary Next: A Primer on Urban Painting.The film is director Pablo Aravena's first documentary feature and was co-produced by Aravena, Lovestreams & agnes b. and executive produced by Claude Girard and Nadja ...
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Brett Ratner and Quincy Jones team for Carnaval 3D
Brett Ratner and Quincy Jones are teaming up on the US-Brazil co-production Carnaval 3D: The Magic And The Music.Jones will appear on camera profiling the high and low life surrounding the week-long Rio De Janeiro Carnaval. A portion of the film's profits will go improving the lives of impoverished Brazilian ...
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Aspect takes rights to Bad Day - WWII
New London-based sales company Aspect Film Limited, run by Hugh Edwards, have taken rights to Jerry G. Angelo and Jonathan Artemis Pierce's action drama feature Bad Day - WWII. Directed by Jerry G. Angelo and starring Christopher Showerman and Basil Hoffman, the film is about US and UK soldiers in ...
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Viacom forms joint venture with India's TV18 Group
Viacom and India 's TV18 Group have announced a 50:50 joint venture, Viacom-18, spanning film, television and digital media content. Under the terms of the agreement, which is subject to regulatory approval, Viacom-18 will launch a new Hindi-language general entertainment cable and satellite channel in India within the next year. ...
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Shanghai film festival unveils competition line-up
The Shanghai International Film Festival (June 16-24) has announced the competition line-up for this year's Jin Jue Awards. Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Go Master, Doghead from Spanish filmmaker Santi Amodeo and Yoji Yamada's Love And Honour are among 16 films competing for the Jin Jue Awards (see full line-up below). The ...
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EFP names members of board, adding Simon Perry
During the Cannes Film Festival, European Film Promotion members elected a new board of directors at its general assembly. The six-member board serves for two years.The board is now comprised of:Germany's Christian DorschSpain's Pilar Torre Germany's Renate Rose The Netherlands' Claudia Landsberger Switzerland's Francine Brücher Hungary's Éva Vezer Ireland's Simon ...
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Zhang Yimou to head Venice competition jury
Beijing-based director Zhang Yimou will preside over the competition jury -comprised only of directors - of the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival during the Biennale's Jubilee 75th anniversary.Zhang has won the most major awards at Venice including two Golden Lions in 1992 for The Story of Qui Ju ...
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Sweden's Triangelfilm files for bankruptcy
Swedish distributor-exhibitor Triangelfilm - co-owner of Swedish cinema circuit, Astoria Cinemas, which is currently under reconstruction - filed Monday (May 21) for bankruptcy in Stockholm.'Everything has an end, and the competition in the quality film market has become increasingly complicated,' explained Triangelfilm/Astoria Cinemas CEO, Mattias Nohrborg. 'Furthermore, a few years ...
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Perlmutter appointed to top post at Canada's NFB
Tom Perlmutter has been appointed to the top position at Canada's National Film Board (NFB). Perlmutter, who joined the NFB in 2001 as the director general of the English programme, was elevated to the position of government film commissioner and chairman of the NFB. The appointment was made by Canadian ...