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Libra balances Esposito with Glasser
Anthony Esposito, president of Leading Pictures Inc, and independent producer Richard Glasser have formed a production/distribution outfit called Libra Entertainment which has a first-look production deal with David Glasser's Cutting Edge Entertainment. Richard Glasser is also director of acquisitions at Cutting Edge.Libra will concentrate on projects with Canadian content that ...
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Alan Parker set to direct for Intermedia
Alan Parker appears to be close to a deal to direct the drama The Life Of David Gale for Intermedia Films.Written by Charles Randolph, the project tells the story of a professor who advocated banning capitol punishment who is falsely accused of murdering a fellow activist and is put on ...
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Orfeo adds Samsara to cross-cultural slate
Samsara - a Himalayan-set story of one man's struggle to find spiritual and sexual freedom that was written and directed by Pan Nalin, a Paris-based Indian director - is among several cross-cultural projects being sold by MIFED debutant Orfeo, the Cologne-based outfit formed earlier this year as a joint venture ...
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Hilltop seals $50m Korean financing pact
LA-based Hilltop Entertainment and Korea's Media Film International (MFI) have sealed a $50m production, financing and distribution deal to deliver five action films with an average budget of $10m per picture. The two companies will jointly finance the films through direct investment and from a previously agreed financing facility arranged ...
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Keitel, Warren head up Mai's US debut
Harvey Keitel and Leslie Ann Warren head the cast of Snatch, the first film to be produced in the US by Denmark's Thomas Mai.The $4m satirical comedy is set to shoot in January, under the direction of Cecilia Miniucchi, director of Selena Remembered and Nitsch 98. The film is a ...
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Trust picks up Selby's latest cult adaptation
Zentropa's international sales arm, Trust Film Sales, has picked up worldwide rights excluding Scandinavia to Fear The X, the English-language debut from Danish writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn.The thriller shoots in the US and Rio from February 2001 on a $6.5m budget. The script is written by Winding Refn and cult ...
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Fortissimo capitalises on Asian cinema boom
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up a trio of new films from Thailand and China, the hottest producing countries in Asia. And a string of top sales shows that buyers are now lapping up the Asian resurgence.First addition is Fata La Jone, a romantic comedy from Thailand, by Film Bangkok, ...
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Malick, Mandoki turn to Constantin
New projects from Terence Malick and Luis Mandoki are being developed by Constantin Film, the production arm of Bernd Eichinger's Neue Constantin, through its joint venture with Propaganda Films. In addition the German outfit has purchased two books in the UK through its joint venture with Impact Pictures.Malick - who ...
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Film Consortium gets greenlight to continue
UK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium has secured lottery funding for another three years after it cleared a mid-term review by film super body the Film Council.Although some Council board members were highly critical of the consortium, the Council said that it accepted that the operation had performed below ...
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Pandora, Warner show literary bent
Pandora Pictures, the new Los Angeles incarnation of what was formerly Paris-based Pandora Cinema, has unveiled the first two films to come through its co-financing arrangement with Warner Bros. Both are literary adaptations that represent a significant step up in budgets for the company.The White Oleander, a $17m female ensemble ...
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Capitol adds two more from Zoetrope
Capitol Films has added another two American Zoetrope titles to its sales slate from its output deal with VCL - Jennifer Lopez will star as Mexican icon Frida Khalo in an untitled biopic, while Robert Duvall will direct Assassination Tango.The UK-based operation also announced that Jeremy Davies, Gerard Depardieu, Billy ...
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Microsoft in talks for Sky Global stake
Microsoft is in talks to take a small minority stake in Rupert Murdoch's global satellite platform Sky Global Networks, according to The Wall Street Journal.The deal would make Microsoft the second high-profile investor in Sky Global following John Malone's Liberty Media which signed up for a 4.76% stake last month ...
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LONDON & MIFED DEALS
Pathe International's The Hole has emerged as one of the briskest selling UK titles of the market, where it was taken by Spain's Sogepaq, Germany's Tobis, Scandinavia's Sandrews and Italy's Nexo (buying outside its New Line output deal for the first time). Francois Ivernel, head of Pathe's UK operation Pathe ...
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Adriana Chiesa embarks on Indian Dream
Italy's Adriana Chiesa Enterprises has acquired worldwide sales rights to Francesco Ranieri Martinotti's Branchie - An Indian Dream, starring local rock idol Gianluca Grignani.Based on Niccolo Ammaniti's novel, Branchie is a surreal tale about a young man who escapes to Delhi to build the city's biggest aquarium and undergoes spiritual ...
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Scanbox unveils slate despite takeover
Sales operation, Scanbox International continues to demonstrate rude health despite the troubles of its parent Denmark's Scanbox Entertainment, once the largest independent distributor in the Nordic region and now in the process of being sold to Germany's VCL Film + Medien after suffering through three years of losses.Restructuring notwithstanding, the ...
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Hanway buyers go at it like rabbits
UK-based sales outfit HanWay has sold Rabbit Proof Fence, its Phillip Noyce-directed, Australian-set period story featuring Kenneth Branagh, to a brace of European markets including France and Germany.Bac took the picture in France, while Odeon boarded for Germany. Sales completed in the run-up to London included Sandrews Metronome for Scandinavia. ...
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Gaga takes Gaudi Afternoon for Japan
Japanese distributor Gaga Media has bought local rights to Gaudi Afternoon from Lolafilms UK, in a deal struck at the London market screenings last week.The Susan Seidelman directed film had previously been sold to Kinowelt for Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, Switzerland and Vietnam; to Lolafilms for Spain; Smile for Scandinavia; ...
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Rex Media rides high with Larson
Rex Media, which enjoys a multipicture relationship with Ray Stark's Rastar, is close to sealing a similar co-financing and sales arrangement with veteran TV producer Glen A Larson.The first picture to fall under the agreement will be a film version of long-running series Knightrider with original star David Hasselhof committed ...
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Kevin Williams Associates does the Mexican wave
Spain's KWA has partnered with Mexico's Videocine and Warner Bros to represent titles from their joint production venture, Coyoacan Films, starting with local box office sensation The Second Night (La Segunda Noche).The romantic comedy grossed $5.2m in Mexico at a time when several other local productions have also been taking ...
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Amuse, CMC join Miramax client roster
After a frantic week in London, Miramax International had closed most of its territorial package deals by the first day of play at MIFED. Two new clients - Japanese heavyweight Amuse Pictures and Taiwan's CMC - were among the regular buyers snatching the latest six-pack from worldwide distribution chief Rick ...