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Lions Gate international sales soar before AFM
Riding high on Saw II's one-two punch following record North American and UK weekendlaunches that generated $31.7m and $3.8m respectively, Lions Gate FilmsInternational has announced a slew of major territory sales on three otherhorror pictures heading into AFM.The company has closed sales on most territories for James Isaac'swerewolf feature Skinwalkers ...
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Pathe, Reason team on Apted's football documentary
Pathe Pictures and LA-based ReasonPictures are teaming up for Michael Apted's new feature documentary aboutfootball around the world. The film will feature sixintertwining stories in what Pathe calls a "moving examination of the socialimpact of the game across the world."It is currently inproduction, with footage already shot in South Africa, ...
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Wild Bunch: From Penguins To Polar Bears
Hot off announcing a $145mnjoint-venture devoted to co-producing and acquiring big budget films, France'sWild Bunch enters the AFM with a new $7m nature documentary that echoes its USmega-success The March Of The Penguins.The company has signed withNational Geographic Feature Films to handle Call Of The North, a five-year odyssey in ...
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Echo Bridge takes domestic rights to The Big White
Echo Bridge Entertainment has picked up all North American rightsfrom Capitol Films to Mark Mylod's black comedy The Big White starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunterand Woody Harrelson. Williams plays a desperate travel agent in Alaska who fakes areport of his brother's death as part of an insurance scam. Ascendant Pictures'Christopher ...
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Cinemavault spins into SJP's butter
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International is bringing a line-upof 10 titles to AFM including Sarah Jessica Parker's first feature producercredit in Spinning Into Butter and the high school sports drama 30 Days starring Ellen Burstyn and Taye Diggs.Directed by Mark Brokaw, Spinning Into Butter stars Parker as the dean of a ...
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Italian home entertainment company buys into theatre distribution
Italy's Mondo Home Entertainment has acquired a 51% stake in ambitious local theatrical distributor Moviemax.MondoHE is Italy's leading company in the home entertainment and video-on-demand sector. Itsparent company, Mondo TV, is Italy's premier animation outfit was only thesecond entertainment company after Mediaset to be listed on the Milan StockExchange.The$3m (Euros ...
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Tartan buys US rights to Father's Den
Salesagent NZ Film has sold US rights to psychological drama In My Father's Den to Tartan Films, which is looking to release thefilm theatrically in May 2006.Itseems a little late for the UK/New Zealand co-production to be making such asale given that it was one of the darlings of the ...
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Cineclick generates market buzz with Korean duo
Korean sales agent CineclickAsia is introducing two new productions to international buyers at the AFM- Blue Swallow, based onthe true story of Korea's first female aviator, and Bong Joon-ho's $10m monstermovie The Host. Both films were stirring upbuyer interest at the recent market Pusan film market, held alongside the PusanInternational ...
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Goalpost hopes to score on debut with Clubland
Fledgling UK sales agent Goalpost Filmis backing Australian drama Clublandas its first project.The film, starring BrendaBlethyn, and directed by Cherie Nowlan starts shooting in Sydney at the beginning of nextyear.Clubland producer Rosemary Blight of RB Films said the coming of agecomedy about a shy and inexperienced young man and his ...
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Hong Kong's Focus sells First Cuts, Love to Japan
Hong Kong star Andy Lau'sFocus Films has sold its entire FOCUS: First Cuts series of Chinese-languagefeatures to Japanese distributor and talent management company IMX. In addition, the company hassold romantic drama All About Love,starring Lau, Charlie Young (Seven Swords) and Charlene Choi (Twins Effect) to Japan's Movie Eye Entertainment and ...
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Kiwi festival favourite finally makes it to the States
Sales agentNZ Film has sold US rights to the psychological drama In My Father's Den to Tartan Films, which is looking to release thefilm theatrically in May 2006.It's beenslow progress for the UK/New Zealand co-production that was one of the darlingsof the international festival circuit in 2004, but it was ...
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Korine's Mr Lonely features Pallenberg, Morton, Luna
Colourful details have emerged of Mister Lonely, the latest feature from Tennessee and London-basedmaverick Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy). 60s icon Anita Pallenberg is to play the Queen OfEngland, Denis Lavant will portray Charlie Chaplin, Samantha Morton is MarilynMonroe and Diego Luna will play a Michael Jackson impersonator"I am ...
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New Films International takes Folks overseas
NewFilms International has picked up international rights to Raymond de Felitta'sroad movie The Thing About My Folks,which stars Reiser, Peter Falk, Olympia Dukakis and Elizabeth Perkins. NewFilms is commencing sales at AFM this week on the story of a father and son whoembark upon a road trip in search of ...
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Rotterdam to host a record 30 Bals-supported titles
The upcoming Rotterdam Film Festival has selected 36 filmprojects to receive funding from the Hubert Bals Fund - as a record thirtycompleted fund-supported titles are set to screen at the festival itself (January25-Feb 5).The 36 projects, which include new works from Babak Payami,Josue Mendez, He Jianjun and Lisandro Alonso, will ...
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Aardman Licenses Mobile Content In Global Deals
Aardman Animations, theUK-based company behind Wallace and Gromit, has signed a numberof deals licensing its content for mobile phone platforms. Tied to the release of Wallaceand Gromit: The Curse of theWere-Rabbit, Aardman has struck an exclusive partnership withOrange UK to cover movie downloads, wallpapers, voice tones and screensavers. Aardman has ...
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Perry appointed chief executive of Irish Film Board
In a widely-rumoured move, theIrish Film Board has confirmed the appointment of Simon Perry as CEO, effectiveJanuary 9 of next year.Perry, a former producer andhead of British Screen Finance between 1991 and 2000, is currently President ofAteliers du Cinema Europeen (ACE), the Paris based advanced professionaltraining initiative for European producers. ...
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Rezo takes on sales for Finnish martial arts movie Jade Warrior
Paris-based Rezo FilmsInternational is to handle sales on AJ Annila's Jade Warrior, the Scandinavian-Chinese co-production billed asFinland's first ever martial arts movie.Blind Spot Pictures, theFinnish co-producer of Lars Von Trier's Dancer In The Dark, is producing in association with San Fu Maltha's FuWorks in the Netherlands (Maltha's A-Films will release ...
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Celluloid Dreams handles international sales on Atomised
CelluloidDreams is to handle international sales for Oskar Roehler's adaptation ofcontroversial French author Michel Houellebecq's best-selling novel Atomised(Elementarteilchen) which is currently in post-productionand may premiere at next year's Berlinale.Theco-production between Constantin Film and MOOVIE - the art of entertainment isthe first of Constantin's local in-house productions to be handled by ...
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THINKFilm picks up worldwide rights to Beastie Boys doc
THINKFilm has picked up worldwide rights to the Beastie Boysconcert documentary Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That and plans a spring 2006 theatricalrelease.Nathaniel Hornblower aka band member Adam Yauch directed thepicture, which features 50 difference audience perspectives from an October2004 concert in Madison Square Garden after the band handed out cameras ...
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IMAX, Epic to build three giant screen theatres in Israel
IMAX Corp. and US-based EpicEntertainment have signed an agreement to install three giant-screen cinemas atmultiplexes throughout Israel. The new facilities willprogramme digitally re-mastered Hollywood films. Specific locationannouncements are pending. In a statement, Epic's Bennett Kaplan and PeterIsraelson said the company hopes to build on the success of its originalinvestment, a ...