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Lakeshore reorganises, hires Deckter, promotes Burke. Longmuir
Lakeshore Entertainment chairman and chief executive officer Tom Rosenberg and president of worldwide marketing and distribution David Dinerstein have announced wide-ranging changes at the Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company.Former Arclight Films president of international sales and Morgan Creek International vice president Jonathan Deckter arrives as senior vice president ...
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Paul Taylor's Tribeca doc We Are Together lands UK deal with EMI
We Are Together (Thina Sumunye), which had its North American premiere here at the Tribeca Film Festival in the Documentary Competition, has struck a deal with EMI Music for theatrical, DVD and soundtrack rights in the UK.Paul Taylor's film, produced by Teddy Leifer, is about the children of the Agape ...
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TF1 International unveils Cannes slate
TF1 International has unveiled its slate for the upcoming Cannes Film Market. Among the official selections, TF1 is handling Directors Fortnight closer Mutum by Sandra Kogut.The company has also announced three new films.- Ca$h, directed by Babylon A.D. screenwriter Eric Besnard, stars Jean Reno, Jean Dujardin and ...
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Fortissimo on board for Bela Tarr's Cannes title The Man From London
Fortissimo Films has taken on worldwide rights outside of Germany, France and Hungary to Bela Tarr's The Man From London, from TT Filmmuhely, 13 Production, Black Forest Films, Von Vietinghoff and Cinema Soleil.The film will premiere in Competition in Cannes. It marks Tarr's first feature in seven years, after 2000's ...
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Summit back at Cannes with Walden, Polanski, Step Up 2
Patrick Wachsberger's Summit International, now embedded in the worldwide production and distribution company Summit Entertainment, has unveiled its Cannes sales slate.The roster includes two Summit productions - a second instalment in the nascent dance franchise Step Up and the teen fight club drama Get Some - as well as third ...
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TFI International acquires Tavernier's In The Electric Mist
TFI International has acquired In The Electric Mist, the new English-language film from director Bertrand Tavernier.TFM Distrbution will release Mist in France in 2008. TF1 is selling world rights outside the US and English-speaking Canada where Ithaca will handle the film. The pedigree cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, ...
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Sandra Den Hamer leaves Rotterdam International Film Festival
Sandra Den Hamer is to step down as director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Den Hamer, who has been involved with the event for more than two decades, will start work as director of Amsterdam's Filmmuseum from September 1.The Board of the Rotterdam Film Festival will start exploratory talks ...
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Cineclick Asia picks up Lucky Miles, Misencounter
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia, newly incorporated into Fantom Co Ltd, has today announced additional foreign pick-ups from Argentina and Australia for its Cannes market line-up, as well as the crank-up of Afghan title Opium War and other title updates. This follows its acquisition of world sales right for the ...
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Barmettler's Omega signs Rogers, slate from Baldwins
Former Lakeshore International president Peter Rogers (pictured above on the right) has resurfaced at Markus Barmettler's Swiss-based production, financing and sales company Omega Entertainment and will serve as president.Rogers will head up the expanded company's new London office and oversee all international operations. He will arrive in Cannes with a ...
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Fortissimo picks up worldwide rights to Pleasure Factory
Fortissimo Films has taken on worldwide sales rights to Thai writer-director Ekachai Uekrongtham's Singapore-set drama Pleasure Factory, which has been selected for Un Certain Regard as the only South-East Asian feature in Cannes ' official selection this year. Ekachai, whose directorial debut was the critically-acclaimed Beautiful Boxer, is a Singapore ...
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Moviehouse and Revolver on board for documentary Taking Liberties
Moviehouse Entertainment is taking on sales for documentary Taking Liberties, with all UK rights going to Revolver Entertainment. Chris Atkins, a longtime producer for Richard Jobson, wrote and directed the project for S2S Productions. Nicky Moss produced and also negotiated the Revolver deal. The film is described as 'a hilarious ...
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Tribeca Film Festival: growing gains
Five years ago, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff launched the first Tribeca Film Festival to contribute to the revival of Lower Manhattan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The five-day festival attracted 150,000 visitors to the downtown neighbourhood.By 2006, Tribeca had grown into an almost two-week ...
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New Summit studio launches with over $1bn in funding
Rob Friedman, the former vice chairman and COO of Paramount Pictures, and Patrick Wachsberger, the head of Summit Entertainment LP, have unveiled their long-in-the-works production and distribution company which has immediate access to $1bn in funds from a financing deal led by Merrill Lynch and a consortium of investors.The company, ...
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Cotter teams with Citi for new production, finance, sales outfit
Initial Entertainment Group partner Colin Cotter and financial conglomerate Citi have formed the full-service film production and finance company Continental Entertainment Group (CEG).Cotter will remain a partner in IEG and will serve as president and chief executive officer of CEG and its subsidiary Continental Pictures, a global sales company backed ...
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The Works takes on sales for Oudney's romantic comedy French Film
Ahead of the Cannes Film Festival, London-based The Works International has come on board for romantic comedy French Film.Shorts and commercials director Jackie Oudney makes her feature directorial debut with the bittersweet story starring Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff, Douglas Henshall, Victoria Hamilton and Eric Cantona. Producers are Arvind Ethan David ...
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Films Distribution takes on Lamorisse's Crin Blanc and Ballon Rouge
France 's Films Distribution has acquired world rights to Albert Lamorisse's Crin Blanc and its heralded companion piece Ballon Rouge. The first film won the short film grand prize in 1952 at Cannes and was followed by Ballon Rouge which won the short film Palme d'Or in 1956 and the ...
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Optimum strikes UK deal for Waititi's Eagle Vs Shark
Distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired the UK rights to Taika Waititi's debut feature Eagle Vs Shark. Separately, Capelight Films has taken the German rights. The New Zealand feature, a comedy about two misfits starring Loren Horsley and Jemaine Clement, premiered at Sundance before playing in Rotterdam and Berlin. Ainsley Gardiner ...
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Intermedia plans new international sales company with Ford at helm
Intermedia Films unveiled a new international sales and distribution venture yesterday with former First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford installed as president and managing director. Ford arrives at the unnamed Los Angeles- and London-based company with the bulk of the core team he assembled over the past year at ...
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India's iDreamlines upCannes market premieres
The international sales arm of India's iDream Production- iDream Independent Pictures (IIP)-is lining upfourmarket premieres for Cannes 2007: Americanising Shelley, Bombil And Beatrice, Telling Lies and Karma Confessions And Holi. In addition the company's sales slate also includes My Own Sky (Apna Aasman), Cape Karma and On Life & Enlightment-Principles ...
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Fortissimo's Eye In The Sky turns to Constantin
German distributor Constantin Film has acquired all rights to Hong Kong action thriller Eye In The Sky from Fortissimo Films. Fortissimo, which picked the film up on the eve of Hong Kong Filmart at the end of March, also recently sold it to French distributor ARP Selection. The Sundream Motion ...