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Trust ramps up international sales with Bier, Troell films
Oscar-nominated Danish director Susanne Bier (After The Wedding) is to make an international drama about a Holocaust survivor. Julius - the project's working title - is about a former prisoner at notorious death camp KZ who moves to Israel. Here, his past eventually catches up with him. The producer of ...
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Contender strikes UK deal for Weirdsville
Contender Entertainment Group has taken all UK rights from Shoreline Entertainment for Weirdsville. The black comedy recently opened the Slamdance Film Festival. Pump Up The Volume and Empire Records veteran Allan Moyle directed. Nicholas Tabarrok of Darius Films produced and Morris Ruskin of Shoreline executive produced. Weirdsville follows two slackers ...
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Cry Of The Owl picked up by Myriad
Myriad Pictures has picked up worldwide sales on the upcoming UK-Canadian Patricia Highsmith adaptation Cry Of The Owl starring Sarah Polley and David Morrissey. Jamie Thraves adapted the screenplay and will begin filming in Canada in June. Julia Sereny of Canada's Sienna Films and MACT Production's Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre will ...
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Frears, Morgan and Sheen reunite for The Damned Utd
The team behind Oscar-nominated The Queen will reunite for a project based on controversial 1970s English football manager Brian Clough, said producer Christine Langan, who recently joined BBC Films from Granada. Stephen Frears will direct The Damned Utd, while Peter Morgan is currently writing the screenplay adapted from David Peace's ...
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F&ME moves into UK distribution with Maiden Voyage
Prolific UK production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) is entering into the distribution business with a new joint venture with London-based distributor Maiden Voyage Pictures. The companies will back the distribution business 50/50, and will release F&ME co-productions as well as third-party acquisitions, including those with F&ME's network of ...
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Glue picked up by Picture This!
Picture This! Entertainment has picked up North American rights from Lumina Films to first-time director Alexis Dos Santos' film Glue: Historia Adolescente En Medio De La Nada (Adolescent Story In The Middle Of Nowhere). The comedy-drama traces the coming-of-age antics of three bored small-town teenagers and stars Nahuel Viale Munoz, ...
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Lionsgate and Twisted team up for REPO!
Lionsgate and Saw franchise creator Twisted Pictures have announcedtheir next collaboration, teaming up on the horror tale REPO! TheGenetic Opera.Lionsgate president of international sales Stephanie Denton will showbuyers here a 12-minute promo-reel created by director Darren LynnBousman at a special event to be announced.Denton, president of acquisitions and co-productions Peter ...
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Moviehouse takes on Selim's Sweetland
London-based Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Ali Selim's Sweetland Sweetland is a love story in the 1920s US, when a mail-order bride arrives from Norway to start her new life. The ensemble cast features Alan Cumming, John Heard, Alex Kingston, Ned Beatty, Elizabeth Reaser and Tim Guinea. The ...
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Thinking outside the box office - the future of UK independents -
These are turbulent times for independent distribution in the UK. The British market may be the third most valuable in the world after the US and Japan, but with 450 films released every year, there is a fear the territory is beginning to suffer from over-supply.On top of that, takeover ...
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Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright goes with his gut for next films
Several weeks before Hot Fuzz's now-successful launch, Edgar Wright seemedremarkably relaxed for someone on the verge of unleashing the much-anticipated follow-up to 2004's Shaun Of The Dead. It is not only fans, but also the industry waiting to see if the new film can match the runaway success of the ...
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Jentsch cast as Girl In The Cafe
Silver Bear-winning actress Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl - The Final Days), who appears in Jiri Menzel's Competition film I Served The King Of England this year, has been cast opposite Jan Josef Liefers (Knocking On Heaven's Door) in the German version of Richard Curtis' The Girl In The Cafe.The Egoli ...
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Boyle, Byrne, Thomas, and McCaul first Dublin Festival award winners
Consolata Boyle, Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Thomas and Brendan McCaul to receive first four Volta Awards. The inaugural Dublin International Film Festival Volta Awards for excellence in film were launched this evening by actor Stephen Rea. Oscar nominee Consolata Boyle (Costume Design - The Queen) became the first recipient of the ...
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The Works books Venus into more territories
UK-based sales company The Works International has started the EFM with several new sales on Roger Michell's Bafta- and Oscar-nominated Venus starring Leslie Phillips and Peter O'Toole.The latest deals are to Hexagon for Japan, Ecofilmes for Portugal, Ster-Kinekor for South Africa, Cine Video y TV for Mexico, MC Films for ...
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ContentFilm on board for William H Macy's directorial debut
William H Macy will make his directorial debut with Keep Coming Back, to star Salma Hayek, Mos Def, Steve Buscemi and Macy himself. ContentFilm International has international sales rights, with CAA handling North America. Rachel Rothman, Tucker Tooley and Dan Keston are producing. The coming-of-age story, written by Will Aldis, ...
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Rai Trade's Caravaggio heads to Japan with Tokyo Theatres
On the eve of the European Film Market in Berlin, Rai Trade has announced an eyecatching Japanese deal on its new title, Angelo Longoni's Caravaggio. On the basis of the rushes, Tokyo Theatres have picked up all rights to the biopic, which tells the story of the troubled but brilliant ...
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MySpace film competition launched
MySpace launched its Mymoviemashup competition to open doors for new talent with a presentation, panel discussion and Big Lebowski-themed party last night at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes in London. The $1.9 million (£1m) feature film project is a partnership between MySpace, Film4 and Vertigo Films, and has the support of Shooting ...
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20 features selected for Sundance grants
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Programme has announced its second round of grants for 2006 with 20 feature-length documentaries receiving a total of $600,000. The grants were selected by a committee of human rights experts and film professionals from more than 300 global projects. 'The films funded in this round ...
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Richard Branson to star in global warming awareness expedition
Arctic and Antarctic explorer and environmental campaigner Will Steger has begun production on the documentary Baffin Island Expedition '07: The Explorers featuring famed Mount Everest mountaineer Ed Viesturs, Richard Branson and his son Sam. The project marks the launch of the newly established Will Steger Foundation's Global Warming 101 education ...
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Avanzit buys out Notro Films
Spanish distributor and producer Notro Films has been acquired by media company Avanzit. Notro founding partner Jose Maria Irisarri, former CEO and current advisor of TV powerhouses Globo Media and Grupo Arbol, has been named executive president of Avanzit's media filial. Notro - which was launched in September 2004 by ...
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Nordisk invests in Maipo with view to European expansion
Danish major Nordisk Film has purchased a major stake in Oslo-based production house Maipo Film & TV-Produksjon. Set up in 2000 by Norwegian producer Dag Alveberg, who has produced 15 features, Maipo has backed 10 films and a television series - including the Oscar-nominated Elling, by Petter Næss - to ...