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Pretty Pictures acquires Crossing The Line
France's Pretty Pictures hasacquired documentary Crossing The Line, about the last American defector still living in North Korea, whichrecently received its world premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival. Directed and producedby Daniel Gordon, the film tells the story of Comrade Joe - akaVirginia-born James Joseph Dresnok - a US ...
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Magnolia seals Dynamite deal on Thai actioner
In the first domestic deal of the market, Magnolia Pictures has closed on North American rightsto Thai action adventure Dynamite Warrior (Tabunfire), starringThailand's latest action export Dan Chupong.Sahamongkolfilm producedand is selling the high-octane title, from the team behind Ong Bak - producer Prachya Pinkaew and actionchoreographer Panna Rittikrai.Directed by ChalermWongphim, ...
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A-Film taps Erik Engelen for Belgium office
Ambitious Dutch distributionoutfit A-Film is continuing to ramp up. Here in Santa Monica, company CEO PimHermeling has announced that former Paradiso executive Erik Engelen is to runthe company's new Belgian arm from the offices in Antwerp.Hermeling also revealed thatA-Film is looking to set up a production fund. The idea, he ...
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Pyramide's AFM slate includes hot-selling doc Let's Say
Pyramide International ishitting the AFM with a hot new documentary project, three new films to screen,the first images from Catherine Breillat's latest and a quirky comedy starringMarianne Faithfull.The documentary, Let'sSay, is directed by Francoise Marieand will be ready for Cannes 2007. The director went to various differentregions in France to ...
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IFTA says AFM attendance breaks records
Hailing 'the biggestAFM yet', the Independent Film and Television Alliance top brass welcomeda record 435 exhibitors from 36 countries and projected a best-ever 8,400attendees from 65 countries compared to 8,014 last year.Organisers have scheduled592 screenings rising from 534 last year, and 431 market premieres compared to382. Both are records.Numerous internationaldelegations ...
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Wong Kar-wai remodels classic Ashes Of Time
Wong Kar-wai is reworkinghis 1994 martial arts epic Ashes Of Time and the film is being sold at AFM by Fortissimo Films under the title AshesOf Time - Redux.Currently inpost-production, the project is described as the definitive version of thecritically-acclaimed film, which was shot by Christopher Doyle with Sammo Hungas ...
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Universal wins remake battle for Korea's The Host
Universal Pictures has won a hard-fought battle forEnglish-language remake rights to Bong Joon-ho's South Korean horror smash TheHost.Gold Circle Films chief Paul Brooks and Vertigo Entertainmentco-chiefs Roy Lee and Doug Davison will serve as producers. Cineclick Asia,which handled sales on the original, negotiated the remake deal.Scott Niemeyer and Norm Waitt ...
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Levant to direct Ex Games for Bauer Martinez
Bauer Martinez Studios hashired Brian Levant to direct the comedy Ex Games and is introducing the picture to buyers at AFM.The company swooped on WillFetters' screenplay about three men with failed marriages who plot to marry offtheir wives to avoid paying alimony, only for one of them to discover that ...
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Capitol on board for new Knightley, Lohan film
London-based sales companyCapitol Films has announced it has taken on financing and worldwide sales forJohn Maybury's The Best Time Of Our Lives and Rigoberto Castaneda's Blackout. The Best Time Of OurLives (working title) stars KeiraKnightley and Lindsay Lohan in the story of an unlikely friendship betweenDylan Thomas' former sweetheart Vera ...
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Fintage House renews Hungarian contract for Said Boudarga
Globalentertainment services company Fintage House has renewed its contract with SaidBoudarga until the end of 2010. Boudarga has been with FIntage since 2000 andwill continue as managing director of the Budapest-based Fintage Magyar,supervising the office and international licensing agreements and royalty collections.'Said is keyexecutive in our Film & Television division ...
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Myriad takes on sales for The Trailer Park Boys
Myriad Pictures has securedworldwide rights excluding Canada to Mike Clattenburg's Canadian smash TrailerPark Boys: The Movie. The raucous comedy arriveson a wave of publicity following screenings at the Toronto International FilmFestival and is based on Clattenburg's long-running Canadian television serieson Showcase Television.Ivan Reitman served asexecutive producer on the feature-length version, ...
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Celestial to remake two Shaw Brothers classics
Hong Kong-based CelestialPictures is introducing remakes of two martial arts classics in its ShawBrothers library - Five Deadly Venoms and The Flying Guillotine - here at the AFM and has attached leadingdirectors to both.Kirk Wong is set to direct FiveDeadly Venoms - to be producedby Celestial's vice president of new ...
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EFP may face budget cuts from EU's Media Programme
This year marks the ninthconsecutive year in which European Film Promotion (EFP) has attended theAmerican Film Market, but will EFP be back in Santa Monica next year' In the run-up to this year'sevent, there have been rumours that the promotional organisation will be facedwith budget cuts that may prohibit it ...
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Kathy Morgan takes on Mackenzie's Camille
Kathy Morgan International(KMI) has picked up international rights to the fantasy romance Camille starring Sienna Miller and James Franco.KMI will show buyers a promoreel on the project, which is in post-production and is being produced by AlRuddy and directed by Gregory Mackenzie.Miller plays an idealisticyoung bride who goes on honeymoon ...
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Future Films opens US office to cash-flow state credits
London-based film financingand production company Future Films is launching a new US office with the aimof cash flowing the growing number of state-sponsored film productionincentives. Simon Horsman will be CEO of Future Films USA LLC, which will bebased in Los Angeles.Future's US arm will havemore direct contact with projects and ...
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Celluloid Nightmares goes Inside
Underlining its increasingappetite for genre fare, Celluloid Dreams' is to handle world sales on new French horrorpicture, Inside, through itsgenre arm Celluloid Nightmares. Starring Beatrice Dalle andAlysson Paradis, directed by duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, Inside (A L'interieur)is produced through Frank Ribiere and Verane Frediani's French distribution/production outfit La ...
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Lena Headey tapped for next Sean Ellis feature
UK actress Lena Headey hasbeen cast as the female lead in Sean Ellis' forthcoming spy thriller Broken. Ellis is writing anddirecting with Lene Bausager producing. The London-based shoot starts nextweek. The plot follows a woman who leaves a coffee shop and sees herselfdriving past in a car. Ellis, previously aphotographer, ...
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Grand Illusions teams with Steiner for equity, sets initial slate
Jonathan Sanger, Ed Elbertand Sarah Ryan Black at Los Angeles-based Grand Illusions Entertainment haveannounced they will independently develop, package and fund feature andtelevision projects in the $5m to $30m range.David Steiner, owner ofSteiner Equities Group and Brooklyn-based Steiner Studios is on board asfinancial partner.Projects in the pipelineinclude the Fred Schepisi ...
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Greenaway wraps shoot for Nightwatching
Peter Greenawayhas wrapped a seven-week shoot in Poland and Wales for his Rembrandt story Nightwatching, which is timed with the 400thanniversary of the painter's birth.Martin Freemanstars as the Dutch master, with the cast also including Eva Birthistle, JodhiMay, Emily Holmes and Chris Britton.The mystery/dramais set in 1642 follows the events ...
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Lampert and Mazgedian Anna take top roles at Village Roadshow Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures has named Jeffrey Lampert executive vice president of worldwide feature production and Melissa Mazgedian Anna senior vice-president of worldwide distribution and marketing.Lampert will report to Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment (VRPE)president of production Dana Goldberg.She will oversee a slate that includes the upcoming Music And Lyrics starring Hugh ...