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Curzon Artificial Eye picks up four including Assayas' Summer Hours
UK distributor Curzon Artificial Eye has acquired UK rights to four new films. Curzon Artificial Eye has taken on Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, Ari Folman’s Cannes competitor Waltz With Bashir, Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours and David Volach’s My Father, My Lord.Arnold’s Red Road follow-up FishTank in pre-production and was acquired ...
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Trevor Wright to head sales, North American operations at Omega
Trevor Wright has been named president of North American operations at Omega Entertainment and will oversee international sales from Los Angeles.Wright is in Cannes to talk up the alien abduction satire Little Green Men based on Christopher Buckley's bestseller and the thriller Heartless starring Jim Sturgess and Clemence Poesy.The slate ...
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Marcus Vigneron Coudroy joins Shyer's Eloise in Paris
Young 11-year-old French actor Marcus Vigneron Coudroy has joined the cast of Charles Shyer's new live-action feature Eloise In Paris, based on Kay Thompson's classic Eloise books.As previously reported, the cast also includes Uma Thurman and Australian newcomer Jordana Beatty.Vigneron Coudroy was selected from an extensive casting process in London ...
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Maximum takes Quinzaine title Boogie for the world
Maximum Films International (MFI) has picked up world sales rights on Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean's Quinzaine selection Boogie. The story of a man vacationing with his wife and child who has a crisis of lost youth when he encounters old friends at the same resort, the film stars Dragos Bucur, ...
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K5 takes on world sales for Yu's Ping Pong Playa
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on world sales rights to Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa.The film premiered at Toronto.Oscar winner Yu wrote and directed the comedy, about an Asian-American suburbanite who unexpectedly has to take over his family's ping-pong dynasty. Jimmy Tsai, Elizabeth Sung and Rodger ...
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THINKFILM Intl takes on sales for Down And Dirty Pictures, Radford's Mula
UK-based sales company THINKFilm International, the sister company to Capitol Films, has taken on two new projects for its Cannes sales slate. The company has taken on international rights to Michael Radford's La Mula and Ken Bowser's Down and Dirty Pictures. La Mula stars Spanish rising talents Oscar Jaenada and ...
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Penny Wolf launches new Film Consultancy Partners
UK-based sales veteran Penny Wolf is launching her new outfit The Film Consultancy Partners at Cannes this week.The London-based company is a boutique film consultancy working in international film distribution, marketing and financing.'I think there are so many sales companies in the UK so I didn't want to be another ...
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After Becker deal, Icon takes over sales on Hunger
Icon Entertainment International has taken over worldwide rights to Hunger, the CannesUn Certain Regard opening film.Steve McQueen directed the film about the 1981 IRA hunger strike in the Maze Prison. Michael Fassbender is said to give a star-making performance as Bobby Sands.Icon recently acquired Australian media group Becker Entertainment, including ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for James Toback's Tyson
Wild Bunch will handle international sales on James Toback's Tyson. The documentary, which looks at the prize fighter's life in and out of the ring, is running in competition in the Un Certain Regard sidebar.The film begins with Tyson's earliest memories of growing up in Brooklyn and traces his rise ...
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Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko starts shooting May 18
UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights.Daviegh Chase reprises her role as Donnie's younger sister. The cast for S. Darko also includes Ed Westwick (Son ...
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Myriad greenlights Aussie horror tale
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures will produce, finance and handle worldwide sales for the horror film Drive The Night, its latest project under its deal with comic book publisher Studio 407.Bill Bennett wrote and will direct the tale of a couple that gets lost on a haunted road in the Outback. ...
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Profile: Intandem
Gary Smith of Intandem Films takes a three-pronged approach to the film business. 'Our take is very simple - you've got to have a relationship with producers for quality, commercial source material, a relationship with a wide range of financiers for our executive production and financing, and good relationships with ...
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In Focus - the Cannes search for a new supply line
No-one would argue with New Line's worldwide distribution chief Rolf Mittweg when he says the demise of New Line's international sales operation 'leaves a major void in the international marketplace'.Not only was the operation, in the words of Mittweg, the executive who built it up during the late 1980s and ...
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Horn slashes both Picturehouse and Warner Independent
Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) will both cease operations, it was announced today by Alan Horn, president & chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Instead of merging the two operations, which came under the same Warner Bros umbrella following New Line Cinema's absorption into the company recently, it has ...
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Bavaria picks up international for Daniel Burman's Argentine hit
Bavaria Film International has taken on international distribution for Argentinean director Daniel Burman's current box-office hit Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio).All About My Mother's Cecilia Roth and Oscar Martinez star as a married couple in their prime suddenly confronted with the 'empty nest syndrome' the moment their youngest child leaves ...
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Pre-Cannes, Waltz With Bashir sold to France, UK and Germany
A week ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir has been sold by The Match Factory to France (Le Pacte), the UK (Curzon Artificial Eye) and Germany (Pandora Filmverleih).'We are very excited about the fact that this unique animated documentary ...
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Simon West to direct Let It Ride for Intandem
Producer Mace Neufeld and director Simon West will reunite for the new heist thriller Let It Ride. The pair previously worked together on The General's Daughter for Paramount in 1999.The $22m thriller is out to cast now, with a waiver in place for any potential SAG strike.Let It Ride will ...
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Abel Ferrara finishing juvenile crime project Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Rome-based sales company and producer Minerva Pictures Group will be in Cannes with a new project from Abel Ferrara, Napoli, Napoli, Napoli.Currently in post-production, the film - which is destined for a theatrical release - interweaves documentary with narrative footage by combining interviews with three female inmates with scripted scenes ...
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Fortissimo to debut Dance Subaru! at Cannes
Fortissimo Films has boarded pan-Asian co-production Dance Subaru! as sales agent outside of Asia, and will be introducing the film at this year's Cannes film festival.Several Asian powerhouses are joining forces on the film (see related articles below), including Japan's Avex Entertainment, Korea's SM Entertainment, Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and ...
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Pete Travis starts shoot for Endgame starring William Hurt
Fresh off Vantage Point for Sony, director Pete Travis has started principal photography on his next feature, another political thriller entitled Endgame. The project is shooting in the UK and South Africa.Penny Wolf is pre-selling the film in Cannes on behalf of Target Entertainment.Endgame's cast features William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, ...