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    TrustNordisk racks up sales for projects including Mammoth, Dark Floors

    2008-05-23T10:40:00Z

    At its first Cannes as a joint operation, TrustNordisk has reported multiple sales on its Cannes slate. Deals closed include Dark Floors to Japan (Presidio Corporation) and Germany (MIG), Go With Peace Jamil to Portugal (Pantheon), The Green Butchers to Hungary (Cirko), and Heaven's Heart and Just Another Love Story ...

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    Metrodome takes all UK rights to Danish hit Flame & Citron

    2008-05-22T19:43:00Z

    UK distributor Metrodome continues its Cannes deals by taking all UK rights to Flame & Citron from The Match Factory.Ole Christian Madsen directs the film, based on a true story. Mads Mikkelsen and Thure Lindhart star. The film is one of Denmark's largest productions ever, budgeted at Euros 8m, and ...

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    UK's New Wave continues Cannes deals with Egoyan's Adoration

    2008-05-22T19:35:00Z

    Pam Engel and Robert Beeson's new UK distribution company New Wave Films continues a busy Cannes by acquiring UK rights to Atom Egoyan's Competition entry Adoration.Charlotte Mickie at Maximum Films International is selling the film. Sony Pictures Classics has already taken rights for the US and several other territories.The Canadian ...

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    Palm Tree sells Moffat's Seven Crosses To Thailand

    2008-05-22T15:39:00Z

    Palm Tree Entertainment has sold Robbie Moffat's Seven Crosses to Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand.Also, three Japanese buyers -- Medalion, 9 Miles and Take-Shobo -- have each bid on a catalogue of Moffat titles including Dark Side Of Heaven, Winter Warrior, Bonehunter and Axe Raiders. As previously reported Palm Tree is now ...

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    Network takes all UK rights to 4 Cannes titles including Soi Cowboy

    2008-05-22T12:14:00Z

    UK-based distributor Network has taken all UK rights to four new titles in Cannes.They are Afterschool, Rumba, Soi Cowboy, and (as reported separately) Tony Manero.Antonio Campos' Afterschool, in Un Certain Regard, was sold by The Coproduction Office. The film is about a young American student who captures the tragic death ...

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    Tony Manero dances along with five more deals for Funny Balloons

    2008-05-22T12:00:00Z

    Paris-based sales company Funny Balloons has struck five more deals on Pablo Larrain's Directors' Fortnight title Tony Manero.The film has sold in Cannes to the UK (Network), Italy (Ripley's Film), Australia/New Zealand (Vendetta) and Brazil (Imovision). As previously reported, Sophie Dulac Distribution pre-bought French rights.The Chile/Brazil co-production is about a ...

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    3DD sells Day After Peace to Deltamac for Hong Kong

    2008-05-22T11:39:00Z

    3DD, which had the world premiere of Jeremy Gilley's documentary The Day After Peace in the Cannes market, has closed the first deal for the film with Deltamac for Hong Kong. The film, about the film-maker's crusade to create a world peace day, also stars Jude Law. 3DD said a ...

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    CM Entertainment takes Darabont thriller and rom-com

    2008-05-22T07:49:00Z

    South Korean buyer CM Entertainment has snapped up two films from LA-based production and sales company The Film Department - serial killer thriller Law Abiding Citizen and rom-com The Rebound.'A lot of buyers from our territory were interested. Thrillers are the trend in Korea these days, and we snapped up ...

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    CJ Entertainment sells The Good, The Bad, And The Weird

    2008-05-22T07:47:00Z

    Korean sales agent CJ Entertainment has reported sales on its Out of Competition film The Good, The Bad, And The Weird, directed by Kim Jee-woon. The film had its first screening yesterday in the market and sold to Splendid for Germany and Benelux. Deals to other Asian territories and the ...

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    New Yorker gives home to 3 Monkeys

    2008-05-22T07:32:00Z

    New Yorker Films has acquired US rights to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's competition title 3 Monkeys from Pyramide International.Sales have also been completed on the well-reviewed film to the UK (New Wave Cinema), Canada (Mongrel Media), Italy (Bim), Columbia (Cine Columbia), Benelux (Imagine), Greece (Rosebud), Portugal (Atalanta), Italy (BIM), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), ...

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    Cannes market review

    2008-05-22T06:36:00Z

    Maybe it was the dollar exchange rate or the rain that has dampened enthusiasm, but the Cannes market has lacked the hoped-for punch.Certainly hopes that the Marche would mark the end a run of flat markets have not materialised.But this year has not been a failure. Plenty of business was ...

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    Bavaria Film International sales blossom

    2008-05-22T06:30:00Z

    Bavaria Film International made Cannes sales on Doris Dörrie's Berlinale competition entry, Cherry Blossoms - Hanami was sold to Canada (Mongrel Media), Brazil (Mostra International de Cinema), India (Allience Lumière) and Russia (Maywin Media). Maywin Media also picked up Bavaria's second Berlinale competition entry, Restless by Amos Kollek as ...

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    Kimmel International sells major territories on Motherhood, Synecdoche

    2008-05-22T06:00:00Z

    Mark Lindsay's Kimmel International has closed key territories on its slate, led by Killer Films and Ideal Partners' comedy Motherhood starring Uma Thurman and Charlie Kaufman's competition entry Synecdoche, New York.Sales on Motherhood closed with Telepool (Germany), Leone (Italy), Sponge (South Korea), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Paradiso (Benelux), Sun (Latin America), Village ...

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    Music Box Films takes US rights to Mouret's Shall We Kiss

    2008-05-22T06:00:00Z

    New US distributor Music Box Films has acquired all US rights from TF1 to Emmanuel Mouret's romantic comedy Shall We Kiss and plans a late summer release.Mouret wrote, directed and co-stars in the film, which stars Virginie Ledoyen, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen, Frederique Bel and Stefano Accorsi. Music Box partner ...

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    Elephant Eye strikes Korean deal with Mars for Planet B-Boy

    2008-05-22T06:00:00Z

    Elephant Eye Films has sold its breakdancing documentary Planet B-Boy to Mars Entertainment for Korea. Mars plans a theatrical release of up to 200 prints in August.Elephant Eye has also sold the film to Indonesia (Queen Films), Taiwan (Cineplex Films), and The Middle East (Prime Pictures). New York-based Elephant Eye ...

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    Koch Lorber picks up Rohmer's Astree And Celadon for North America

    2008-05-22T06:00:00Z

    Koch Lorber has acquired North American rights from Rezo Films to Eric Rohmer's The Loves Of Astree And Celadon (Les Amours D'Astree Et De Celadon).Richard Lorber plans an autumn release in New York on the story of an illicit affair between a shepherd and a shepherdess.Koch Lorber previously acquired Rohmer's ...

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    UK's New Wave moves into 24 City

    2008-05-22T06:00:00Z

    Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has acquired Cannes Competition entry 24 City directed by Jia Zhangke.The film is sold by MK2. Beeson and Engel set up New Wave earlier this year after being long-time art-house distributors at Artificial Eye.'We are very pleased to ...

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    Fine Cut/Cineclick does roaring sales on Leonera

    2008-05-21T16:31:00Z

    Fine Cut / Cineclick has closed a slew of deals starting with Competition film Leonera, (Lion's Den), to Halcyon for the UK, MFA+ for Germany, Alta Classics for Spain, Ad ZVitam for France, A-Film for Benelux, and AMA for Greece. Fine Cut is currently in discussions with buyers from Italy, ...

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    Typhoon whips up pre-sales

    2008-05-21T16:29:00Z

    Japan's Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV) has done a raft of pre-sales on Takashi Kaneshiro starrer K-20 and typhoon disaster film 252. K-20 sold to Tiberius for Germany, Festive Film for Singapore, and M Pictures for Thailand. Based on the original story by Kitamura Soh, K-20 featured Kaneshiro as a ...

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    FilmSharks sells key Latin American titles

    2008-05-21T10:37:00Z

    Buenos Aires based sales company FilmSharks International has sold Rodrigo Pla's Critic's Week title The Desert Within to Distrimax for the US.Pla's second feature, following last year's Venice and Toronto award winner La Zona, is an anti-religious parable, which swept the main awards in the Mexican section of the Guadalajara ...