All Sales articles – Page 528

  • News

    Transylvanian Film Festival to launch development fund for local writers

    2008-02-12T06:00:00Z

    Cluj's Transylvanian International Film Festival (TIFF) is to launch a development fund dedicated to local screenwriters at this year's edition from May 30 to June 8. 'We are looking for new stories and new people in Romania in the first year', TIFF's honorary director Tudor Giurgiu told Screendaily.com. 'Euros ...

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    Rezo takes on sales for Mikhail Khodorovsky documentary

    2008-02-12T06:00:00Z

    Rezo Films is handling international sales on Cyril Tuschi's feature documentary Rise And Fall of Mikhail B Khodorovsky which begins shooting in Moscow today (Feb 11).The film will feature interviews being conducted with members of the former oil magnate's family and schoolfriends. The co-production between Tuschi's LaLa Films and Leipzig-based ...

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    Miromar lays out slate of films in English and German

    2008-02-12T06:00:00Z

    Michel Morales's German company Miromar Entertainment, co-producer on the Heather Graham romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal and the Viggo Mortensen drama Good, has unveiled a slate of English and German-language feature projects in development.The English language genre projects - with budgets up to Euros 7m - include the action film ...

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    IFC takes US, Lionsgate takes UK on Maximum's Waiting Room

    2008-02-12T06:00:00Z

    IFC Films has taken US rights and Lionsgate has acquired the UK from Maximum Films International to Roger Goldby's drama The Waiting Room.Maximum Films Distribution is handling the Canadian release on the interwoven tale of the lives and loves of a group of young Londoners. Anne-Marie Duff and Ralf Little ...

  • Reviews

    Sparrow (Man Jeuk)

    2008-02-12T00:01:00Z

    Dir: Johnnie To. Hong Kong. 2008. 87 mins.The spirit of Jacques Demy lives on in Hong Kong in prolific genre auteur Johnnie To's latest offering. Some of the scenes in this gentle romantic pickpocketing yarn are pure cinematic pleasure, but in the end the plot and the characters are too ...

  • Reviews

    Good Man Dog

    2008-02-11T15:51:00Z

    Dir: Singing Chen. Taiwan, 2007. 118 mins.Singing Chen's bleak but richly-detailed portrait of contemporary Taiwan has elicited praise for its artistic ambitions but will do well to move past the festival world and into art-house release.Her second feature boast four separate stories, each playing out separately with occasional overlap until ...

  • Reviews

    Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2007)

    2008-02-11T15:34:00Z

    Dir: Cathy Randall. Australia, 2008. 103minsThis charming, highly-accomplished first feature will gladden the hearts of parents everywhere looking for a film to watch with their pre-teens, especially girls. Directed by 35-year-old South-African-born newcomer Cathy Randall, who has been working in Australia for some years, this coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old ...

  • Reviews

    Son of a Lion

    2008-02-11T13:25:00Z

    Dir: Benjamin Gilmour. Australia/Pakistan. 2007. 92mins.Childrens' exposure to gun culture is fast becoming one of the fail-safe themes of world cinema, but we haven't yet seen it in quite the context presented by the inventive Pakistan-set drama Son Of A Lion.Benjamin Gilmour's no-frills DV feature, co-written with collaborators from the ...

  • Reviews

    Cafe De Los Maestros

    2008-02-11T12:13:00Z

    Dir: Miguel Kohan. Argentina/USA/Brazil. 2008. 92 mins.You can imagine the pitch: 'It's the Buena Vista Social Club of tango'. (Old-school tango, that is - before Nuevo Tango genius Astor Piazzola began to take the music in a more radical direction). And it really is: there's the gathering of the old ...

  • Reviews

    The Spiderwick Chronicles

    2008-02-11T04:00:00Z

    Dir: Mark Waters, 2008, USIn The Spiderwick Chronicles the Grace family find trouble when they move into their creaky New England home - and it isn't trouble with the mortgage. The house smells strange and creatures are heard moving behind the walls.Mark Waters's film is the adaptation of the popular ...

  • News

    Wild Bunch fields offers for Che films after footage screens at Berlin

    2008-02-11T00:21:24Z

    Three US buyers, including The Weinstein Company, are vying to acquire US rights to Steven Soderbergh's two-picture Spanish-language Che Guevara biopic which is currently in post-production.Wild Bunch screened ten minutes of footage on Friday to buyers here and sent DVD copies of the Soderbergh's promo to US buyers who haven't ...

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    Filmax picks up world sales on Gutierrez's Before The Fall

    2008-02-11T00:21:20Z

    Berlinale buzz Panorama title Before The Fall (3 Dias) from rising young Spanish auteur Francisco Javier Gutierrez has been picked up for world sales by Filmax Entertainment. The thriller, which was 'godfathered' by Spanish star Antonio Banderas, is coproduced by Maestranza Films, Green Moon Spain and Pentagramma Films.The deal was ...

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    Deckert picks up sales on Vaclav Havel documentary

    2008-02-11T00:21:18Z

    Citizen Havel, the groundbreaking feature-length documentary about Vaclav Havel, has been picked up for world sales by German sales outfit Deckert Distribution. Deckert has taken all rights on the film excluding Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. North American rights will be handled by the film's US co-producer Michael Wolkowitz.'This ...

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    Delphis seals slew of international deal for Winky's Horse sequel

    2008-02-11T00:21:09Z

    Buyers are galloping after Where Is Winky's Horse', the sequel to Dutch box-office hit, Winky's Horse. The film, on Montreal-based Delphis Films' EFM slate, has gone to Norway (Arthouse), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Denmark (Ost For Paradis), Luxembourg (PT Coms), Germany (Telepool) , Italy (Imago) and Spain (Films Y Piniculas.)Where Is ...

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    Roissy sells Seraphine to Joint Entertainment in Taiwan

    2008-02-11T00:21:01Z

    Mid-way through the market, Roissy is reporting strong buyer interest inSeraphine. Martin Provost's drama has now gone to Joint Entertainment for Taiwan, Roissy's Yohann Comte confirmed over the weekend.A French-Belgian co-production, Seraphine is the story of French artist Seraphine De Senlis. Born in the mid-19th Century, she worked as ...

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    3D animated adventure Fly Me To The Moon sells to four

    2008-02-11T00:21:00Z

    Ben Stassen, the film-maker behind 3D animated adventure Fly Me To The Moon, has closed four more deals on the film which will be released in late summer in the US by Summit.PlayArte has bought Brazil, Intersonic has taken Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary, R Films has taken Turkey and ...

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    A-Film pulls out from Indie Circle buying alliance

    2008-02-11T00:21:00Z

    It has emerged during the EFM that Dutch distributor A-Film has withdrawnfrom pan-European buying collective, Indie Circle. Henceforth, blue-chip Belgian distributor Cineart will handle Indie Circle projects across all of Benelux.This move follows on from A-Film's hook-up with French powerhouse Wild Bunch.Indie Circle's latest acquisition The Escapist, will be represented ...

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    MEDIA plans to set up new programme for third countries

    2008-02-11T00:20:55Z

    Closer cooperation between the audiovisual industries of the European Union and third countries could become part of a new and separate programme set up by the European Commission.At the MEDIA Day event in Berlin on Monday, Aviva Silver, head of the MEDIA Programme in Brussels, will be unveiling details of ...

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    Kross, Herzsprung to star in Habermann's Mill for Juraj Herz

    2008-02-11T00:20:53Z

    The Reader star David Kross and Germany's 'Shooting Star' Hannah Herzsprung are being lined up to appear in Juraj Herz's Habermann's Mill which is set to go into production later this year for Art Oko and KN Filmcompany. The Second World War drama set in the Sudetenland, which will be ...

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    Killer Pad, Young Rebels score EFM sales for Epic

    2008-02-11T00:20:51Z

    Epic Pictures has concluded a raft of deals on Robert Englund's comedy horror Killer Pad and drama Young Rebels.Daro took pay TV for Killer Pad in Asia as well as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Film Depot bought rights for CIS, Jiant for Thailand and Ster Kinekor for South Africa.Lionsgate holds ...