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Tartan buys eight in Cannes including Summit thriller P2
Tartan Films went on a buying spree in Cannes, picking up UK and Ireland rights on eight titles. The titles acquired are: P2, Mala Noche, Breath, Time, The Good, The Bad and The Weird, I Am a Cyborg But That's Okay, and - as previously reported - Silent Light and ...
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The Weinstein Company takes on WAZ from Pathe
In Cannes, Pathe Pictures International sold thriller WAZ to The Weinstein Company for North America. Other territories sold were Germany (Square One), Portugal (Lusomundo), Thailand (J-Bics), Latin America (Quality Films), CIS (Lizard), Spain (Vertigo), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Scandinavia (AB Svensk), Australia/New Zealand (All Interactive), Greece, Cyrpus, Former Yugoslavia, Romania and ...
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Beta Cinema takes on world sales for three new German productions
Beta Cinema has taken on world sales for new films featuring the award-winning German actresses Hannah Herzsprung, Nina Hoss and Julia Jentsch.Herzsprung, who came to wider recognition through her performance in another Beta title Four Minutes and received a Silver Lola for her role in Alain Gsponer's Life Actually last ...
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Global Film Initiative buys US rights to Bet Collector
Global Film Initiative has taken all US rights to award-winning Filipino drama The Bet Collector (Kubrador). The deal was negotiated by French sales outfit Wide Management's Matteo Lovadina. After making its world premiere in Moscow last year, the picture has travelled to about 40 film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards. ...
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Cineclick Asia announces slew of Cannes deals
Seoul-based seller Cineclick Asia has announced a raft of Cannes sales including a UK deal on Kim Jee-woon's The Good, The Bad And The Weird which went to Tartan Films. The film was previously sold to France's ARP during the market. Academy Award-winning Afghan director Siddiq Barmak's Opium War has ...
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Quiet Man a big seller for Bleiberg at Cannes
Bleiberg Entertainment, riding high following the sale in Cannes of North American rights on Un Certain Regard entry The Band's Visit to Sony Pictures Classics, has closed major territories on He Was A Quiet Man starring Christian Slater and Elisha Cuthbert.Deals closed with Spain (Manga), the UK (High Fliers), Germany ...
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Pathe picks up buzz titles from Cannes
Pathe has acquired rights to a quartet of buzz features from Cannes. Deals have been sealed for UK and French rights to Focus Features International's Blindness; UK rights to 2929 International's What Just Happened' and Fortissimo's Mama's Boy; and UK and French rights to Edko Films' Blood: The Last Vampire, ...
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Chaotic Ana, Summer Rain sell well for Sogepaq
Spanish distribution house Sogepaq has announced a round of sales at Cannes for Julio Medem's Chaotic Ana and Antonio Banderas' Summer Rain, the actor's second directorial effort.Chaotic Ana, the follow-up to Medem's successful Sex & Lucia, pre-sold at the festival in Korea (Sponge); Brazil (Visual Films); Israel (Shapira); Colombia, Peru, ...
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EastWest sells Fashion Victims to Austria and Germany
EastWest Filmdistribution finalised deals in Cannes for its comedy Fashion Victims with Germany (Filmlichter) and Austria (Poool Filmverleih). EastWest managing director Alexander Wieser negotiated both deals. German director Ingo Rasper makes his feature debut with the story of a man whose life falls apart when his son comes ouf of ...
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Fortissimo Cannes deals led by Live! and Pleasure Factory
Fortissimo Film Sales had a strong Cannes, with hot sellers including Tim Hamilton's comedy Mama's Boy, reality TV satire Live!, the Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones project Shine A Light, Singapore red-light story The Pleasure Factory and Bela Tarr's Competition Title The Man From London. Fortissimo co-chairman Wouter Barendrecht said: 'We ...
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Dreamachine sells all territories on Persepolis
New sales company Dreamachine reported a successful Cannes, including worldwide sales on all territories for Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud's animated coming of age story Persepolis, which shared the jury prize. Another hot seller was Naomi Kawase's competition drama The Mourning Forest, which won the Grand Prix. Deals for Persepolis ...
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The Works dives into UK deal for Mee Shee: The Water Giant
The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Mee Shee: The Water Giant from ContentFilm. The $27m family film is directed by John Henderson for the Jim Henson Creature Shop.The story follows a young boy's relationship with a sea monster. It will be released this summer.As previously reported, ...
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Velvet Octopus strikes major deals for The Moon Princess
UK sales outfit Velvet Octopus, which will be unveiling Peter Howitt's Dangerous Parking to buyers at the London UK Film Focus (June 25-28), has done brisk business on its Cannes slate. ' Cannes was a fantastic market for us,' Simon Crowe, managing director of Velvet Octopus, said. Following on from ...
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International buyers up 25%for second Madrid Screenings
The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid expects to attract 131 international film buyers this weekend - about 25 percent more than last year. And the growing interest is reflected not only in the number but also the stature of the buyers, according to the Spanish Producers' ...
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Telepool sells A Crude Awakening to UK's Dogwoof
Telepool has closed an all-rights deal for the UK with Dogwoof Pictures for the feature documentary A Crude Awakening by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack of Swiss-based Lava Productions. The film about how humans are sucking dry our most valuable, non-renewable resource - oil - was released by Columbus Film ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters
UK distributor Metrodome has taken all UK rights to Stefan Ruzowitzky's Berlinale hit The Counterfeiters.Sales agent Andreas Rothbauer of Beta Cinema negotiated the deal with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general manager - theatrical and broadcast Sara Frain and acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Falconer. Metrodome will release in the ...
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Kimmel has strong Cannes with Synecdoche, Unthinkable
Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsay has reported a successful Cannes in which he and his team closed key territories on Charlie Kaufman's feature directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, and Tarsem Singh's upcoming thriller Unthinkable.Rights to Synecdoche, New York, which is being produced by Spike Jonze and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, ...
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Film Sales Company strikes three new deals for Crazy Love
The Film Sales Company has announced theatrical rights sales of documentary Crazy Love to Tartan Films for the UK, Palace Films for Australia and Shani Films for Israel. All three distributors plan an early autumn release for the film, which is directed by Dan Klores and co-directed by Fisher Stevens ...
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Charlie Kaufman: worlds within worlds
Charlie Kaufman started production last week on his first feature as a director, Synecdoche, New York, with a cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the eve of the shoot, Kaufman and Spike Jonze, one of his producers, talked exclusively to Mike Goodridge. Oddly, I'm not scared,' Charlie Kaufman says ...
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Artificial Eye buys four more from Cannes, including The Banishment
UK distributor Artifical Eye has announced four more acquisitions from Cannes. They are Andrei Zvyagintsev’s The Banishment, Fatih Akin’s The Edge Of Heaven, Alexander Sokurov’s Alexandra, and Bela Tarr’s The Man From London.The Banishment (Izgnanie) stars Konstantin Lavronenko, who won the best actor prize in Cannes.Fatih Akin won the best ...