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AFM: Strings ties up key pre-sales
Danish film Strings, which is already being tipped as a contender for Official Selection at Cannes, has tied together a number of key pre-sales.The film, a dark fantasy adventure told with string puppets, was sold by Trust Film Sales to Ascot Elite for Switzerland, Russian Report for Russia, Haut Et ...
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AFM: France's Gemini does due Process
France's Gemini Films has taken on international sales duties for Process, the experimental thriller by CS Leigh, which screened as a special event at this month's Berlin festival.Containing next to no dialogue, only 29 edits and the cinematography of Yorgos Arvanitis, the film is an unusual look at a woman's ...
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AFM: New Select prays on Belgian sex fantasy
Japan's New Select was an early buyer for Belgian sexual fantasy film Praying Mantis.Lou Broclain plays a woman involved in a love triangle, who despite her best intentions feels herself turning into a praying mantis, the female insect that kills its partners immediately after mating. Directed by veteran film-maker Marc ...
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AFM: Sunflower takes root for Zhang
Chinese director Zhang Yang starts production next week in Beijing on Sunflower, a family story set against the backdrop of China's 'Cultural Revolution' in the late 1970s. The film stars Joan Chen as a mother focusing on finding a larger apartment for her family.Fortissimo Film Sales is handling world sales ...
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Parker steps down as UK Film Council chair
Alan Parker is leaving as chairman of the UK Film Council after five years, the film support body confirmed this week.Stewart Till, vice-chairman of the council and head of UIP, is seen as a potential replacement for the position, which is expected to be filled over the summer. Parker will ...
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THINKFilm acquires Sundance winner
THINKFilm has picked up all North American rights to ShaneCarruth's micro-budget thriller Primer, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's SundanceFilm Festival.Carruth wrote, directed, produced and starred in the picture,which centres on the discovery by two men of a device that enables them to doanything they want. Newcomer ...
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New Films Int'l acquires Holedigger duo
New Films International, the recently launched worldwideproduction and sales arm of the eight year-old distribution outfit, has signeda two-picture deal with Holedigger Films to handle international sales on Marie& Bruce and OffThe Map.Both films were produced by Holedigger. Marie And Bruce, which premiered at the Sundance FilmFestival last month, stars ...
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MIFED unveils AFM counter-offensive
Launching an all-out counter-offensive against the AFM, MIFED has announced that it is officially moving its dates forward by three weeks, and will now host the 71st edition of the Milan market from October 12 - 16, 2004.AFM, which kicks off today, is holding a second market this year, from ...
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AFM: Focus clinches key sales on Synergy, Seed Of Chucky.
Focus Features has closed a score of deals on two key titles inthe run-up to the American Film Market, which starts today in Santa Monica.Synergy,the new comedy from Paul and Chris Weitz, which stars Dennis Quaid, ScarlettJohansson, Topher Grace and Selma Blair, will open domestically in the thirdquarter through Focus' ...
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AFM:Maria full of sales for HBO
Maria Full Of Grace, the Spanish-language story about female drug 'mules', was one of Berlin chief Dieter Kosslick's first selection forcompetition and has proved a strong draw for buyers.Buoyed by Berlin andSundance successes, HBO Films London, its sales house, has now closed deals on Maria with ARP for France, Icon ...
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Shochiku crosses swords again with Yamada
Shochiku is to produce andsell Kakushi Ken Oni No Tsume,the next picture by Yoji Yamada, director of this year's foreign language Oscarnominee Twilight Samurai.Production begins this month with the Japanese release scheduled for the autumn.The picture is anotherperiod Samurai drama that includes a love story that transcends class barriers.It is ...
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Sharif, Chaplin in line for Spanish honours
Omar Sharif and Geraldine Chaplin will travel to Spain to receive honorary lifetime achievement awards at the upcoming Las Palmas International Film Festival and the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga, respectively.Las Palmas, which celebrates its 5th annual edition March 12-20, will bestow its Lady Harimaguada prize to the Egyptian-born actor ...
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Sylvain Chomet does tartan jig
Oscar-nominated animator Sylvain Chomet is reported to be considering establishing a base in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh.Chomet, an Oscar contender for The Triplets Of Belleville, will be working with Four Way Pictures, the Scottish company established by Robert Carlyle, Antonia Bird, Irvine Welsh and Mark Cousins.The Triplets Of Belleville ...
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Focus closes key sales on Synergy, Seed Of Chucky
Focus Features has closed a score of deals on two key titles inthe run-up to the American Film Market, which starts today in Santa Monica.Synergy,the new comedy from Paul and Chris Weitz, which stars Dennis Quaid, ScarlettJohansson, Topher Grace and Selma Blair, will open domestically in the thirdquarter through FocusC; ...
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Focus closes key sales on Synergy, Seed Of Chucky.
Focus Features has closed a score of deals on two key titles inthe run-up to the American Film Market, which starts today in Santa Monica.Synergy,the new comedy from Paul and Chris Weitz, which stars Dennis Quaid, ScarlettJohansson, Topher Grace and Selma Blair, will open domestically in the thirdquarter through FocusC; ...
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Fortissimo handles third Eye
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to The Eye- Infinity, the thirdinstalment in the wildly popular Asian horror series.The third film, just like the first two, will be directed bybrothers Danny and Oxide Pang and is set to start shooting this spring fordelivery in early 2005.The Eye 2is set ...
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French wine flows into production sector
French wine producers have begun actively sponsoring French production in return for their wines being prominently displayed in films.The next work from Claude Lelouch, Les Parisiens - the first part of a trilogy called Le Genre Humaine - benefited from a sponsorship deal with the Conseil Interprofessionnel Des Vins d'Alsace ...
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Working Title launches training scheme
Working Title Films is launching a nation-wide search for three trainees who will work for a year at the UK's leading film company.The scheme, titled Action, aims to cut through film industry nepotism by providing a route into film for people without personal connections in the sector.Instead, the company, whose ...
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CZECH REPUBLIC Production Lists - Febuary 25 2004
IN PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BEST FILMS OF OUR LIVES (NEJLEPSI FILMY NASEHO ZIVOTA)(Negativ) Black comedy. A Tajik emigre comes to the US to show a stolen film at a film festival, an American crook is disowned by his daughter for acting in a porn movie when he was young, and two Japanese ...
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Code 46 set for UK premiere at Birmingham fest
Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 will receive its UK premiere as the closing night film of this year's Birmingham Screen Festival.The event opens on March 4 with the UK Premiere screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else.The festival's line-up includes films from directors such as Julio Medem (Basque Ball); Martin Scorsese (The ...