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IDT's animated Yankee Irving sells well at AFM
IDT Entertainment Sales hasclosed multiple territory deals at AFM on the CG-animated family title YankeeIrving.Rights have gone to LNK inPortugal, Luxor Group in CIS, Baltic States and Bulgaria, Tuck International inthe former Yugoslavia, J-Bics in Thailand, and Sam Film in Iceland, amongothers."We weren't planning onselling Yankee Irving until earlynext year," ...
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Arclight's Ohio logs key territory sales
Arclight Films has closed araft of deals at AFM on Ambush Entertainment's comedy The Oh In Ohio, which stars Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito,and Liza Minelli.Rights have gone to Telepoolin Germany, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Dutch Film Works in Benelux, Castello Lopezin Portugal, Gulf Films in Middle East, and SPI ...
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THINKFilm, Starz begin production on slasher doc
THINKFilm and StarzEntertainment Group (SEG) have begun principal photography on Jeff McQueen'sdocumentary Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film.Based on Adam Rockoff's bookof the same name, the picture will explore the roots and cultural associationsof the horror genre, with particular reference to slasher films.THINKFilm holds worldwidetheatrical ...
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Lions Gate scores big Catacombs deals
Lions GateInternational has closed a slew of sales at AFM on the horror project Catacombs.Rights were sold to Redbus for the UK, Universum forGermany, Metropolitan for France, Eagle for Italy, Paradiso for Dutch andFrench Benelux, CMC for Taiwan, and LNK for Portugal. As previously announced,the picture has sold to Digital ...
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Braddel promoted to senior vp distribution at SPRI
Mark Braddel has beenpromoted to senior vice president of distribution in Eastern Europe, the MiddleEast and Africa at Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Braddel will continue toreport to SPRI senior executive vice president Mark Zucker and assumesresponsibility for all theatrical distribution operations in his assignedterritories.'It's a true pleasureto recognise Mark's role ...
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Flemish fund terminates managing director's contract
The Board of Governors of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF) has terminated the contract of its managing director Luckas vander Taelen. Financial director Hans Everaert and Pierre Drouot (producer of Toto The Hero) will take over the running of the Fund until a new MD is appointed. The reasons for ...
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New Serko deals for Diot's Onoma
Pascale Diot's Paris-basedOnoma has closed new deals on Serko,the 19th Century-set Russian adventure on which it is co-producer aswell as sales agent. Italy's Lucky Red and Switzerland's Monopole Pathe have joined distributors announced at AFM such as Seville Pictures for Canada and Cineartfor Benelux. Directed by JoelFarges, the film follows ...
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Six films shortlisted for the Prix Louis-Delluc
France's Ile de France FilmCommission has announced a strong increase in local production for 2004, with2005 promising further success.In total, films shot for 611weeks in Paris and its environs, the regionoverseen by the Ile de France Commission, in 2004. That figure represents a 25%jump over the previous year.Shooting had fallen ...
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Six films shortlisted for the Prix Louis-Delluc
France's Ile de France FilmCommission has announced a strong increase in local production for 2004, with2005 promising further success.In total, films shot for 611weeks in Paris and its environs, the regionoverseen by the Ile de France Commission, in 2004. That figure represents a 25%jump over the previous year.Shooting had fallen ...
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Frappier's Max sells Saint-Martyr to four
Roger Frappier's Max Filmshas completed sales on four territories at the AFM for Robin Aubert's featuredebut St. Martyrs Of The Damned (Saint-Martyr-Des-Damnes). Produced by Frappier and LucVandal, the psychological thriller has sold to Japan through AK Company,Germany through Media Corp. One, Benelux through Film Freak Distributie andBrazil through California Films. ...
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New incentives reconnect French production
Film shoots in Paris recovered strongly in 2004 with promise of further success this year, according to the Ile de France FilmCommission.Last year, productions shot for 611weeks in the capital and its environs. That figure represents a 25%jump over the previous year.Shooting had fallen intodecline between 2001 and 2003 but ...
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Russian indie reveals ambitious plans after takeover
Russia's biggestindependent film company Central Partnership is promising an ambitious production programme and new studio facilities after itstakeover by Prof-Media, a subsidiary of industrial giant Interros."Most of the newfunds secured from the undisclosed deal will be invested in film production and newprojects," Central Partnership's generaldirector Ruben Dishdishian told Screen, He ...
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Shooting begins on The Front Line
Principal photography has startedin Dublin on The Front Line. Directed and written byDavid Gleeson (Cowboys and Angels)and produced by Nathalie Lichtenthaeler, The Front Line has a mixed Irish and internationalcast including Eriq Ebouaney(Kingdom of Heaven), Gerard McSorley (Omagh, Veronica Guerin) and James Frain(Into the Blue, The Count of Monte Cristo).The ...
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Sony Classics picks up EV Confidential
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has picked-up North American and English speaking rights to ElectricEntertainment and Plinyminor's politically charged documentary, EVConfidential. SPC plans a 2006 release onthe picture, which explores the development and demise of the electric car andpresents the story in the style of a murder-mystery. Dean Devlin's ElectricEntertainment financed the ...
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Lucky thirteen pitch to producers at Cottbus
Thirteenprojects will be pitched to potential production partners during this year'stwo-day Connecting Cottbus co-development forum between November 10-11.Theyinclude new films from:Bulgaria's Art Fest, co-producer of the omnibus film Lost And Found; Germany's Noirfilm, producer of Didi Danquart's Offset; ...
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MonteCristo seals pre-sales on Apartment 1303
Michael Taverna'sMonteCristo Entertainment has completed a raft of pre-sales on horror title Apartment1303, which centres on theterrifying circumstances surrounding a rental apartment. Rights have gone to UniKoreain South Korea, DNC Entertainment in Italy, Flins y Pinniculas in Spain, NewWorld in Thailand, Ram Indo in Singapore/Malaysia, and Noble Entertainment inScandinavia. Amuse ...
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Shoreline acquires rights to Sudden Storm
Shoreline Entertainment hasacquired worldwide rights to Sudden Storm Productions' erotic thriller BarstoolWords. Jeff Glickman's directorialdebut centres on two high school friends who become ensnared in a web ofintrigue when they encounter a femme fatale from their past. Vincent Kartheiser, SarahCarter, Geoffrey Arend, Colm Feore and newcomer Krystin Pellerin star in ...
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Wolper acquires rights to story of Palestinian would-be suicide bomber
Wolper Organization hasacquired feature rights to Love And Terror, based on David France's true story about a teenage Palestinian girl'sarrest and conviction for conspiring to carry out a suicide bombing. Wolper is ramping up forproduction in association with Pterodactyl Productions and Plain Brown WrapperProductions. Mark Wolper and KevinNicklaus are producing ...
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AFM hails all-time record attendance numbers
Overall attendance at theAFM reached an all-time high of 8,014, market organisers said this week. Attendance is up 13% againstlast year's comparable figure of 7,064. The final tally of buyers is 1,583 from62 countries, with France, Brazil, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong reportingsignificant rises in the number of buyers ...
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EFM announces record sign-up levels
Asthe AFM draws to a close, Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) has announced arecord 240 companies signed up to take part in the event (Feb 9-19).Coincidingwith the 56th Berlin International Film Festival, the EFM hasalready attracted delegates from 45 countries in the year it moves to its newlocation in the ...