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Germany's SquareOne picks up Descent 2, Tell-Tale
Munich-based German distributor SquareOne Entertainment has announced new additions to its 2008 and 2009 release slate.SquareOne President Al Munteanu revealed that the company's latest acquisitions include Jeffrey Nachmanoff's action thriller Traitor starring Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce and Jeff Daniels, set for a fourth-quarter 2008 release.For 2009 releases, SquareOne has added ...
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Wild Bunchto handle sales and French distribution on Chanel film
Wild Bunch will handle international sales and French distribution on Chanel And Stravinsky. The film is to be directed by Jan Kounen and produced by Claudie Ossard and Chris Bolzli of Eurowide Film Production.Anna Mouglalis starring as the legendary designer.While other Chanel films are currently in the works, Wild Bunch ...
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Halcyon takes on UK for Critics Week title Moscow, Belgium
As it ramps up its UK distribution activities, Chris Coen's Halcyon Pictures has added another title to its fast growing release slate. The new acquisition is Christophe Van Rompaey's Moscow, Belgium (sold by Bavaria Film International).The film premiered in the Critics' Week in Cannes.'I loved it. I thought it was ...
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Mikado puts increased attention on 'original' commerical films
Italy's Mikado Film goes into the 2008 and early 2009 distribution season with a series of titles that reflect the company's auteur tradition - but which includes an increased investment in what CEO Alessandro Usai calls 'original' commercial films, as well as select Italian films aimed at un-tested markets here.Mikado's ...
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Films chosen for Melbourne fest's first market screenings
Paul Cox's latest film, Salvation, is one of 10 finished films that will be shown to buyers later this month as part of 37South, the market attached to the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).The films were chosen from a field of 20 and only one has a sales company attached ...
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Cracks sells to StudioCanal for France, UK, Benelux
StudioCanal has taken all rights for the UK, France and Benelux for Jordan Scott's debut feature Cracks. (StudioCanal's Optimum Releasing will handle the UK release.)Also, Alain Goldman's Legende Enterprises (La Vie En Rose) has joined the project, which is backed by Scott Free, Future Films and HandMade Films International.The Irish ...
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Trust takes on Zapas' Minor Freedoms from Greece
Trust Film Sales has taken on world sales for Minor Freedoms, by up-and-coming Greek director and writer Costas Zapas.Minor Freedoms is an unorthodox, cutting edge tale on family relations dominated by violence and sexual exploitation where, according to the director, 'the abolishment of any moral law leads to tragedy'.Produced by ...
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High Point flies with Larkin's Satellites & Meteorites
London-based High Point Films has picked up worldwide sales rights to Rick Larkin's debut feature Satellites & Meteorites.Larkin's company i-Wire Films executive produced the project and it was produced by Eimear O'Kane for Emu Productions and Dave Leahy for Warrior Films.The romantic fantasy is a love story between two people ...
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Delanic takes UK rights to Spread starring Ashton Kutcher
UK distributor Delanic Films continues to build its release slate by adding Spread starring Ashton Kutcher.David McKenzie's erotic comedy has been acquired for the UK and Ireland from Voltage Pictures. The story is about a womanising conman in LA who meets a female hustler.Spread is still in post and is ...
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Works closes more Somers Town, Man On Wire sales post-Cannes
As its filmsswept the prizes at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, London-based sales company The Works International has announced a number of new deals closed since Cannes.Shane Meadows' Somers Town sold to Taiwan (Filmware International).James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire sold to Taiwan (Filmware International), Japan (Shin Nippon), and Hungary ...
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Ealing signs UK deal for Julian Fellowes' film
Ealing Studios International has sold Julian Fellowes' From Time To Time to new distributor Delanic Films for the UK.Ealing has also announced other deals for the film including Australia and New Zealand (Hopscotch), Odeon (Greece) Castello Lopes (Portugal), and Shooting Stars (Middle East).The second directorial feature from the Oscar-winning writer ...
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Wesle's Atrix takes on sales for Kyrgyzstan love story Tengri
Beatrix Wesle's Munich-based sales agent Atrix Films has picked up international rights to Marie Jaoul de Poncheville's Tengri - Blue Heavens, a love story set in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia which has its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival this week.The film will then be screened for buyers at ...
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Eric Lagesse takes control of Pyramide Films
Eric Lagesse has taken a majority stake in French sales and distribution outfit Pyramide Films and will henceforth be the company's president.Fabienne Vonier, who owns the entirety of production company Pyramide Productions, will maintain a minority share in Pyramide Films.In mid-2005, Lagesse became managing director of Pyramide Films after having ...
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Eagle Pictures reveals first slate since Ben Ammar takeover
Eagle Pictures has announced the first titles to make up the 2008-2009 slate of the company since its take over last year by Franco-Tunisian financier Tarak Ben Ammar.Eagle Pictures head of acquisitions Maria Grazia Vairo told Screen the titles announced will be released in Italy, and in some cases will ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Gigantic picks up Dews documentary
Gigantic Releasing, the new distribution arm of New York-based Gigantic NYC, has acquired all North American and English-speaking rights to Morgan Dews' documentary, Must Read After My Death.The film will receive its US premiere on June 20 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Gigantic Releasing plans to open it ...
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Lightning takes international rights to Shortcut
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up internationalrights from Leomax Entertainment to the recently announced thrillerShortcut.Ingo Vollkammer's Leomax Entertainment is financing the film andco-producing with Adam Sandler's newly launched production label ScaryMadison.Nicholaus Goosen will direct from a script by Scott Sandler and DanHannon about two brothers who discover a strange ...
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Fortissimo picks up Baksy; Rezo sells Everybody to France
Fortissimo Films will handle international distribution on Guka Omarova's second feature Baksy (Native Dancer) which had its world premiere in competition at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Thursday night.The Russian-Kazakh-French-German co-production between the CTB Film Company, Kazakhfilm, Les Petites Lumieres, Kinofabrika, ...
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Icon takes UK, Australiarights to Transporter 3 from Europa
Icon Film Distribution (IFD) has acquired all UK and Australian rights to Transporter 3 from EuropaCorp.This third instalment of the franchise again stars Jason Statham in the lead, with Francois Berleand and Robert Knepper. Transporter 3 is directed by Olivier Megaton from a script written by Luc Besson and Robert ...