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  • News

    Fox Latin America takes on Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation

    2007-10-01T06:31:00Z

    Fox Latin America has acquired all Latin American rights to Stone Village Pictures' Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation Love In The Time Of Cholera, which will receive its world premiere at the closing night of the Rio Film Festival on Oct 4. Fox plans a December holiday release in Central and ...

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    Latin American experts discuss piracy troubles in Rio

    2007-09-27T12:38:00Z

    Piracy is of the major concerns being discussed during RioMarket (Sept 21-Oct 3), the largest gathering of the audiovisual industry in Latin America.'The industry lost an estimated $6.1bn last year, with Latin America representing 16,7% of that,'' said Steve Solot, senior vice president for Latin America operations of the Motion ...

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    In focus - The call of the wild

    2007-09-27T00:00:00Z

    When French sales, distribution and finance outfit Wild Bunch signed a deal with US investment group Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) in early September, it marked yet another step in the company's bid to bolster a planned European distribution network.The deal is a rarity. With all the international banking and US ...

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    San Sebastian sales heat up as FiGa takes US rights to Eyes

    2007-09-26T11:16:00Z

    Los Angeles-based distributor FiGa Films has bought US and Canadian rights to the Argentinian prison drama Through Her Own Eyes (Por Sus Propios Ojos), a world premiere in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastian film festival, according to the film's producer Paula Grandio. Produced by Mandragora Producciones, director ...

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    Beta Film picks up Wehling's desert-set drama Kronos

    2007-09-25T14:07:00Z

    Beta Film has picked up the international distribution rights for Olav F. Wehling's Kronos which began shooting Monday on location in the Moroccan desert near Ouarzazate and Merzouga. The family drama is being produce d by Lisa Groezinger and Christopher Zwickler of the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg with the ZDFtheaterkanal, CP Medien, ...

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    3DD takes on international rights to Meat Loaf doc

    2007-09-24T16:44:00Z

    UK-based 3DD Entertainment is taking on international sales for the full-length documentary Meat Loaf: In Search Of Paradise. 3DD plans to start sales of the feature documentary and one-hour TV version at MIPCOM. Bruce David Klein directed the story about rock icon Meat Loaf on tour. Atlas Media Corp produced ...

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    Wild Bunch closes a slew of deals on Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame

    2007-09-24T12:05:00Z

    The screening of Hana Makhmalbaf's French-Iranian drama Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame in official competition at San Sebastian has sparked a flurry of international sales. Wild Bunch has secured sales of Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's first feature to the UK (Slingshot), Spain (Wanda), Canada (Crystal), Portugal (Lusomundo), Benelux (Imagine), Switzerland ...

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    Latido secures more sales for Saura's Fados

    2007-09-24T11:02:00Z

    Spanish sales outfit Latido Films has sold Carlos Saura's film Fados to countries across North, Central and South America. The musical drama, co-produced by Spain's Zebra Producciones and Portugal's Fado Filmes, has been sold to Canada (K Films Amerique), Mexico and Central America (Latino Vision), Venezuela (Amazonia). Deals were also ...

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    Berlin's EFM tightens access and starts premium first weekend rates

    2007-09-24T04:00:00Z

    Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) is introducing new access restrictions to its venue in the Martin Gropius Bau for the first weekend (Feb 9-10), which may lead some accredited professionals looking to go elsewhere to do business at the festival. Moreover, new premium screening rates will be introduced for the ...

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    Cancun festival plans international film market for 2008

    2007-09-22T15:35:00Z

    The new Cancun Riviera Maya International Film Festival is planning to expand next year to include an international market.The event debuts on Nov 5, opening with Mexican film Nonna's Trip and including titles from the US, Canada, Spain, Iceland, Germany, Italy and Latin America. But there are already plans for ...

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    Strategic Partners projects include Indigenes writer's debut

    2007-09-21T16:33:00Z

    At the recent Strategic Partners co-production market in Canada, producers revealed a number of new projects currently in the works. In total almost 200 industry figures from the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the UK were given the chance to pitch their projects to fellow ...

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    Atopia picks up Gauder's The District! for North America

    2007-09-21T15:05:00Z

    Montreal-based Atopia Distribution has acquired North America rights to Aron Gauder's animated musical The District! (Nyocker!). The Hungarian film made its North American premiere at Toronto in 2006 and went on to win 13 prizes across a swath of international film festivals. The social comedy tells the story of a ...

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    IFP hands out $100,000 in annual artist grants

    2007-09-21T04:00:00Z

    IFP, the nation's largest membership organization of independent filmmakers, named the recipients of its annual grants to individual artists at the conclusion of its 2007 Independent Film Week in downtown New York City. Cash, in-kind product donations and mentorship services were valued at more than $100,000.A grant of $10,000 was ...

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    ThinkFilm closes deals on Canadian sex comedy

    2007-09-18T22:12:00Z

    ThinkFilm International has sealed a slew of deals on Canadian sex comedy YPF (Young People Fucking). They include to the UK (Revolver), France (Euro TV), Spain (AZ Films), Italy (CDI), Russia (Lizard), Korea (Coral Pictures), Benelux (RCV), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Turkey (Fida), Poland (Poseidon), Greece (Hollywood), Israel (United King), ...

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    Eagle takes Italian rights to Zanasi's $2.2m Venice Days comedy

    2007-09-18T21:59:00Z

    Eagle Pictures has picked up Italian distribution rights to Italian Venice Days title Don't Think About It (Non Pensarci), directed by Gianni Zanasi.The Rome-based distributor picked up rights from France's PyramideInternational, which also made sales at Venice including Hopscotch forAustralia, Audiovisual for Greece, and Xenix for Switzerland. While Eagle has ...

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    First Look takes US rights to Bill for $3m

    2007-09-17T06:50:00Z

    As Toronto wound down over the weekend, First Look Studios paid just over $3m to US rights for Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann's comedy Bill starring Aaron Eckhart. Maple Films paid mid-six figures for Canadian rights. First Look Holdings co-chairmen Avi Lerner and Henry Winterstern and executive vice president ...

  • Reviews

    Married Life

    2007-09-14T12:01:00Z

    Dir: Ira Sachs, US, 2007. 90minsIra Sachs's new film Married Life commences with wonderfully droll cartoon-like credits that simultaneously amuse with their archness and efficiently evoke the 1940s era in which the film is set. Like the film as a whole, however, they promise a great deal that is, alas, ...

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    The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival boosts its industry profile

    2007-09-13T16:11:00Z

    At the launch of The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival's full programme, itwas clearthat the festival is looking to a higher industry profile, with the introduction this year of the Production Finance Market (PFM).The event, managed by Angus Finney (formerly joint-managing director ofRenaissance Films), takes place at the Tower ...

  • Reviews

    Mother of Tears

    2007-09-12T15:15:00Z

    Dir/Scr: Dario Argento. Italy. 2007 98mins .The new work of Italian horror specialist Dario Argento, Mother of Tears forms a trilogy of the two macabre, hyper stylized works that made his international reputation: Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980). The time away from the material has certainly not dulled the director's ...

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    China Clipper to fly with China's Hengdian, Canada's Long Tale

    2007-09-11T09:00:00Z

    Vancouver-based Long Tale Entertainment has signed with Chinese production colossus Hengdian Studios for the $30m Canada-China co-production China Clipper.Long Tale's Harry Sutherland put the package together with US MoviePlus, the LA-arm of worldwide film finance entity set up by Stuart Little producer Steve Waterman and Chris Brough, founder of Vancouver's ...