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Giffoni, AFMA Foundation give birth to Teen LA
One of Europe's leading youth-oriented events, Italy's Giffoni Film Festival, has sealed a landmark deal with the AFMA Foundation to establish a twin event in Los Angeles next summer, to be called Teen LA.'Giffoni isn't just a festival. It is a year-round operation dedicated to promoting cinema for young ...
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Cattleya charges ahead with Winspeare drama
Italian director Edoardo Winspeare, whose last film The Miracle screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival, is now preparing to direct a WW2 picture about an Italian Lawrence of Arabia.Winspeare is currently writing the film, which will focus on the life of Amedeo Guillet, an Italian cavalry officer who ...
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ET creator dials up Dark animation
Legendary ET creator Carlo Rambaldi is lining up an animation feature about a human being who ends up on another planet.The picture, entitled Jo Dark, will be directed by Rambaldi's son, Victor, whose credits as director include 1995's Decoy and 1988 movie Primal Rage.Jo Dark, which is planned as an ...
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Japan's Movie-Eye kicks off with Arclight's Crash
Movie-Eye Entertainment, the new Japanese production, distribution and management company, has acquired its first international film here, Crash starring Heath Ledger and Brendan Fraser, from Arclight Films.The company, run by former Gaga Communications executives Kaz Tadashiki and Taku Ushiyama, was formed this summer with shareholders including the two principals and ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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Camel trots into France with ARP
ARP has bought French rights to The Story Of The Weeping Camel, one of the surprise hits of the Toronto Film Festival and the official Mongolian entry for this year's best foreign language film Academy Award. Sold to the French independent by Menemsha Entertainment, which has worldwide sales rights, the ...
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KWA takes off with Astronautas, Bolchevique
Madrid-based sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has just picked up world-wide distribution rights to two new Spanish pictures: Astronautas and La Flaqueza Del Bolchevique.Santi Amodeo's Astronautas is a bittersweet comedy about an alcoholic artist who gets back onto the straight and narrow with the help of a young girl. ...
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Intolerable Cruelty boosts its int'l running total
Universal's black comedy Intolerable Cruelty grossed $6.4m from 2,382 sites in 24 countries through UIP at the weekend to raise its international running total to $46.4m.The film finished its third week at number one in Italy, where it dropped 18% and has grossed $8m to date, and added $1.2m in ...
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Cineclick's Old Boy conjures up Euro deals
Old Boy, a thriller about a man who is challenged to find out why he was kidnapped, is drawing market and remake heat for Cineclick Asia.The film, which is one of the hottest titles at Mifed, has already closed a number of deals. France's Wild Side bought the Park Chan-Wook ...
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UGC steers Camel, Return to UK
UGC Films UK has picked up UK rights to two recent festival hits and foreign Oscar submissions - surprise Toronto hit The Story Of The Weeping Camel from Menemsha Films.and Venice Golden Lion-winner The Return from Intercinema Art Agency.Andrei Zvygatinsev's The Return is the story of two teenagers on a ...
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Kundalini, Entera make Candy together
LA-based production outfit Kudalini Pictures has teamed with pan-European film financing, production and distribution outfit Entera Entertainment to produce Caribbean Candy directed by Fina Torres (Woman On Top, Oriana). Kundalini is an LA company headed by Dileep Singh Rathore which previously produced Indian festival hit Maya directed by Digvijay Singh ...
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Memories sparks sales for CJ
CJ Entertainment, the powerful conglomerate which bestrides the domestic Korean scene, has struck a series of key deals with its true-life murder mystery Memories Of Murder. The film, which broke box office records and won major prizes at the San Sebastian film festival, has been sold to Cinequanon for Japan, ...
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Constantin to launch home entertainment label
As part of a closer working collaboration with Highlight Communications, Constantin Film is to launch its own home entertainment label "Constantin Film" from January 1, 2004, taking over responsibility for Highlight's activities in rights acquisition and theatrical distribution in the future.While the agreement for the new video label will see ...
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Film Library undergoes Cultural Revolution
China's Cultural Revolution is the theme of three new films on the slate of Film Library, the Hong Kong and Los Angeles sales outfit.The company has expanded its Mifed sales slate thanks to a diversification into production.Jiang Jie, a stylish look at the turmoils of the 'Cultural Revolution' via the ...
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Media Luna strikes Tender deals
Ida Martins' Cologne-based world sales group Media Luna has signed a string of deals on its new Spanish picture Kill Me Tender. Directed by Ramon De Espana the darkly comedic tale of a widowed baker and an unscrupulous younger woman, was sold to Constellation Pictures for Mexico, Overseas Movie for ...
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Fortissimo improves English-language grasp
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world rights to More Than Scarlet, an Australian drama from the stable of Jan Chapman, producer of Lantana and The Piano. The company is also poised to pick up two other Aussie pictures in moves that underline its growing influence in the English-language sector. ...
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First Look takes Perfect Strangers to US
New Zealand's box office sensation Perfect Strangers has been picked up by First Look Pictures for North America. The chilling romance, which was directed by Gaylene Preston and stars Sam Neill and Rachael Blake, will be released early in 2004. Sales were handled by the New Zealand Film Commission's Kathleen ...
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Martian flies out of Office
France's Co-Production Office may have only picked up the film in the hours before Mifed, but it is selling strongly on adult animation film Mercano The Martian from Argentina.The irreverent youth-oriented picture by Juan Antin denounces globalisation with a mixture of irony and black humour. It won the jury ...
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Martian flies out of Office
France's Co-Production Office may have only picked up the film in the hours before Mifed, but it is selling strongly on adult animation film Mercano The Martian from Argentina.The irreverent youth-oriented picture by Juan Antin denounces globalisation with a mixture of irony and black humour. It won the jury ...