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AFM: Pathe International takes on IFC's American Gun
Pathe PicturesInternational is handling sales on IFC FilmsC; American Gun, starring Donald Sutherland, Marcia GayHarden and Forest Whitaker. IFC will distribute the film in North AmericaThe deal,announced by Pathe sales chief Alison Thompson and Jonathan Sehring, presidentof IFC Entertainment and executive producer on American Gun, marks a strengthening of the ...
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AFM: Pathe International takes on IFC's American Gun
Pathe PicturesInternational is handling sales on IFC Films' American Gun, starring Donald Sutherland, Marcia GayHarden and Forest Whitaker. IFC will distribute the film in North AmericaThe deal,announced by Pathe sales chief Alison Thompson and Jonathan Sehring, presidentof IFC Entertainment and executive producer on American Gun, marks a strengthening of the ...
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AFM: Southwick, CDI team up for international businessAFM: Southwick, CDI team up for internaitonal business
BradSouthwickC;s Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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AFM: Emperor to handle own sales slate
Hong Kong's Emperor MotionPictures (EMP) is making its debut at the AFM as a fully-fledged sales outfit,handling world sales on a busy slate of product headed by Jackie Chan actionadventure The Myth.Since rebranding last year,the production and distribution outfit has worked with Sydney-based sales agentArclight Films on select titles, typically ...
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Stockholm announces full festival line-up
The Stockholm International Film Festival has unveiled itsfull line-up for this year's event (Nov 18-28).The 15th anniversary of the festival sees a strong programmeconsisting of 170 films from more than 40 nations - divided into 14 sections.Half of the films in this year's competition for directorsmaking their first, second or ...
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Genre house New Arc launches
Live action and animationgenre production house New Arc Entertainment launches at AFM with a slate ofpictures including an anthology of 13 one-hour titles from horror veteransincluding John Carpenter and George Romero.John W Hyde is named chiefexecutive officer of New Arc. Hyde is also chief operating officer of IDTEntertainment, which will ...
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Fortissimo enters martial arts arena with Tsui's Seven Sword
Netherlands and HongKong-based Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up Seven Swords, the newfilm by celebrated Asian action director Tsui Hark.The $18m film, which is nowin production, is a return to the martial arts action-adventure genre whichTsui was instrumental in shaping earlier in has career. It is also the biggestinvestment to ...
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Armada sells domestic rights to teen horror pic to Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films has picked up North American distribution rightsto Armada Pictures and D H Blair Pictures' teen horror project Drive Thru, which is due to begin principalphotography in January.Armada Pictures International will begin international sales at AFMthis week on the project, which is being directed and is written by ...
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France's ARP falls for Spanish Queens
France's ARP has picked uplocal rights to star-studded romantic comedy Queens (Reinas) fromFortissimo Film Sales. The deal was struck over the phone on the eve of theAFM.The Euros4.5m film, whichcompleted its principal photography last month, is the first Spanish-languagefilm to be handled by Fortissimo. It was produced by Warner Bros' ...
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Artists Independent Films launches sales op with Malkovich, Cronenberg pics
John Malkovich,Nastassja Kinski and David Cronenberg are involved in projects lined up forIndependent Film Sales, the new sales division of production operation Artists Independent Films (AIF).Malkovich andKinski, clients of sister management business Artists Independent Management(AIM), are to star The Holy Beast. Erich Breuer is directing the gothic horror from his ...
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Moviehouse debuts four new titles led by Blinded
Blinded, a thriller starring acclaimed UK actor PeterMullan, heads a quartet of new titles that London-based MoviehouseEntertainment is screening as market premieres at the AFM.Blinded, which played in the British Gala section of theEdinburgh International Film Festival, is billed as exploring the darker sideof jealousy, passion and sexual desire. It ...
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Hotel Rwanda booked into Spain, other territories, by Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films International has announced a raft of sales on HotelRwanda, Terry George'sToronto Audience Award winning drama starring Don Cheadle.Thepicture has sold to On Pictures in Spain, LNK for Portugal, Audio Visual forGreece, Shaw Renters for Singapore, Eagle Films for the Middle East, Box OfficeEntertainment for Thailand and New ...
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Stiles cast opposite Butler in Content International's Burns
Julia Stiles is to playRobert Burns' muse in Burns,ContentFilm International's story of the legendary Scottish poet.The US actress, whosecredits include The Bourne Supremacy and Mona Lisa Smile, willplay Jean Armour, the woman that the roistering 18th century bardeventually married.The cast includes GerardButler as Burns and Brian Cox, John Hannah, James ...
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Southwick, CDI team up for international business
BradSouthwickC;s Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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Capitol seals two-picture deal with Constantin for Slevin, Dust
Capitol Filmsclosed some high profile territorial deals on the eve of AFM on its ganglandthriller Lucky Number Slevin after the news that Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman had joinedthe cast.Constantin Filmbought the Paul McGuigan-directed film for Germany in a two-picture packagealong with Robert Towne's Ask The Dust starring Colin Farrell ...
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Dragon launched as first production services company in China
Underlining the growinginterest in China as a production location, the country's first productionservices company Dragon Studios was launched this week at the AFM.The company, which aims toprofessionalise and rationalise the Chinese industry, is a joint venture between Santa Monica andBeijing-based producer Peter Loehr, Er Yong, one of China's top line ...
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Summit teams with Constantin on Goldie Hawn, Impact Pictures pics
PatrickWachsberger's Summit Entertainment arrives at AFM with Goldie Hawn'sdirectorial debut, a new Impact Pictures video game adaptation and Tom Tykwer'sPerfume cast andready to go.Hawn's AshesTo Ashes and Impact's DOA:Dead Or Alive are backedby Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film and continue the long relationship betweenConstantin and Summit.Ashes ToAshes is being producedby Hawn's ...
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Myriad takes worldwide rights to true-life drama Dark Matter
Myriad Pictures has picked up worldwide rights in all mediato the true-life drama Dark Matter starring Meryl Streep,Greg Kinnear and Chinese star Liu Ye, who stars in Chen Kaige's ThePromise .Filming is scheduled to begin in spring 2005 in Utah andChinese opera director Chen Shi-Zheng will make his feature directorial ...
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Eurocine takes on international sales rights to El Rey
VenerableFrench sales and production house Eurocine has picked up international salesrights on El Rey, the Colombiansubmission for the foreign-language Oscar.Thefilm documents the origins of the drug-cultivation in 1940s Colombia, the USpolitical intervention that initially supported production and the origins oftrafficking when the political winds changed.El Rey is directed by Jose ...
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New Films turns producer on The Mermaids Singing
LosAngeles-based distributor New Films International is moving into productionwith the announcement that it is co-producing an adaptation of Lisa CareyC;sromantic novel The Mermaids Singing starring Jessica Lange,Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.New FilmsInternational will retain all worldwide distribution rights to the $10mproject, which is due to begin filming in Eastern ...