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Three shortlisted for Sutherland Trophy
Three films have been shortlisted for the British Film Institute's Sutherland Trophy, awarded to the director of the most original first feature film screened at The Times bfi London Film Festival.The three are Kari Paljakka's For The Living And The Dead, Giorgio Diritti's The Wind Blows Round, and Ali Mosaffa's ...
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Vaughn sprinkles Stardust on struggling UK industry
The beleagured UKindustry has received a much-needed boost with news that British directorMatthew Vaughn is planning to shoot his next film primarily on home soil. Vaughn’s £50 million fantasy film Stardust, basedon a Neil Gaiman book, will be based at PinewoodStudios. It will also shoot at locations elsewhere in Britain. ...
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LGFI acquires international rights to First Descent
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has picked up worldwide rights excluding the US to MD Films'snowboarding documentary First Descent and will give the title its market premiere at AFM next week.Universal Pictures holds domestic theatrical and home entertainment rights andwill release the picture on Dec 2.First Descent chronicles the riseof snowboarding seen ...
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Bavaria adds Heaven, Offside to AFM slate
Bavaria Film International has added two new titles - Ed Herzog's Almost Heaven and BuketAlakus' Offside(Eine Andere Liga) - to its market slate for the upcoming AFM nextmonth.Herzog's feelgood movie about a wannabee German country singer mistaking Jamaica forNashville stars Heike Makatsch, WotanWilke Moehring and Ivan Shvedoff, and was released ...
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ContentFilm International boosts AFM slate with The Moguls
ContentFilmInternational has lined up a prestigious slate of titles for AFM including workby Peter Greenaway, Keith Gordon and Paul Verhoeven, as well as comedy pick-up TheMoguls from Michael Kuhn's QwertyFilms.Following parent company ContentFilm's decision to shift its focus towardslibrary content with last summer's acquisition of Fireworks International,ContentFilm International's managing director ...
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Arclight takes international rights on Bobby
Arclight Films has acquiredinternational sales rights to Emilio Estevez' Bobby Kennedy assassination dramaBobby, which boasts an all-starcast including Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Elijah Wood, Sharon Stone, LindsayLohan, Nick Cannon and Freddy Rodriguez.Arclight's president of international sales Jonathan Deckter will commencesales at the AFM next week on the Bold Films production, ...
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Bleiberg bulks up with Champagne Spy, Love & Dance
Ehud Bleiberg's fledglingBleiberg Entertainment is to co-produce and handle worldwide sales on theespionage documentary The Champagne Spy and the drama Love & Dance.The Champagne Spy, a BleibergEntertainment production in association with July August Productions, followsan Israeli agent who goes undercover to sabotage an Egyptian weapons programmeand becomes addicted to his ...
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SKE enters Breach with Universal
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment(SKE) has come aboard as co-financer on Universal's spy thriller Breach, written and to be directed by Billy Ray in hisfirst feature since Shattered Glass.Kimmel International will commence sales at AFM on the project and Universalwill oversee production and retain all North American rights.Based on true events, Breachstars ...
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Malaga brings forward festival dates
The Spanish Film Festival of Malaga has moved its dates forward a monthto March and added several new awards for its 9th annual editionnext year.Organisers also announced that veteran Spanish scriptwriter Rafael Azcona, who has dozens of film credits to his nameincluding Oscar Award winner Belle Epoque, will receive this ...
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The Legend Of Zorro poised to take over the world
All eyes will be on TheLegend Of Zorro this weekend as the adventure sequel launches on more than5,900 prints in 50 territories mostly through Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI).The distributor opens the picture day-and-date with North America in France on685 prints on Oct 26, Germany and Russia a day later on ...
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Lightning strikes for Adam & Eve
Lightning Entertainment haspicked up international sales on Jeff Kanew's romantic comedy Adam & Eve and is partnering up with National Lampoon for adomestic theatrical release.New Line Home Entertainment will release on DVD and video the story of a collegestudent who dates a virgin and battles to stay faithful until she ...
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Oscar-winner Arnold sets off along Red Road
Oscar-winningdirector, Andrea Arnold starts principal photography on her first feature, Red Road, in Glasgow thisweek.The film is being produced by Red Road Films, a subsidiary of Glasgow-based Sigma Films. It is a collaboration with Zentropa Films - part of Lars von Trier's experimental project, The Advance Party.Red Road is the ...
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Gaule takes High Point global sales role
UK-based sales company HighPoint Films has appointed Tara Gaule as its newsenior sales executive. Gaule will be responsible forworld sales outside English-speaking territories. Gaule previously worked for Mercury Media International,Minotaur International and Nelvana.The company noted that Gaule would boost its presence in France; High Point recently took on sales forFrench-language ...
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India's Adlabs enters international distribution
Adlabs-Reliance, a jointventure between India's largest film company Adlabs and Reliance Infocomm, has startedacquiring Hindi films for overseas distribution. The company announcedthat it has acquired international rights to Rajesh Roshan's Krrish, starring Hritik Roshan, and RaviChopra's Babul, starring AmitabhBachchan. It is reported to have paid$2.2m for the overseas and Indian ...
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New bond company aims to shake up market
The emergence of Media RiskManagement (MRM) is significant news for independent filmmakers, given only ahandful of companies offer completion bonds and the difficulty of securingreinsurance usually prevents new players from appearing.Melbourne-based GeorgeAdams, who was one of the executive producers on Wolf Creek, and Roger Brewitt have set up in association ...
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Foreign producers take issue with UK tax proposals
The UK is in danger of losing its status as a topco-production partner for international film-makers if the government pressesahead with its new tax proposals, foreign producers argued at a heated filmseminar this week.The Co-production Express,presented by the UK MEDIA Desk, the UK Film Council (UKFC), and the Times bfi ...
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Ex-Egoli Tossell exec Damian unveils 27 Films' debut slate
Former Egoli TossellFilm executive Oliver Damian has set up his own production outfit 27 FilmsProduction to develop and produce international co-productions, with aparticular focus on projects from Eastern Europe and Asia. Among 27 Films' first projects are Oscar-nominated Georgian directorNana Djordjadze's fantasy comedy The Rainbow Maker; Sidewayscinematographer Phedon Papamichael'sdirectorial debut ...
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Australia gets serious about the truth
Australian documentarymakers who were encouraged to pitch full-length features are now seeing their projectsmove into pre-production or production.Films now underway thanks tothe initiative, introduced by the Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) lastyear, include Rampage, about a youngupcoming rap star, which is now being shot in Miami by director/writer/producerGeorge Gittoes. Moviehouseis ...
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UK's Trinity acquires Magician from Moviehouse
New UK distributor Trinity Filmed Entertainment has madeits first acquisition, for Scott Ryan's TheMagician, in a deal struck with sales company MoviehouseEntertainment.The film is a darkly comic mockumentary about a professional hitmanbeing documented by an amateur film-maker. Ryan wrote, directed, and plays thelead character. Michelle Bennett (Chopper) and Nash Edgerton ...
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Lightning adds Junebug, Wal-Mart doc to AFM slate
Lightning Entertainment hasbulked up its AFM slate by taking international rights to Phil Morrison'sfamily drama Junebug and RobertGreenwald's documentary Wal-Mart: TheHigh Cost Of Low Price.The Los Angeles-based salesand distribution outfit swooped on Junebugfollowing the demise of UK-based sales house Renaissance Films. The picture,which earned a Special Jury Prize at Sundance ...