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MK2 gets deep with Jacques Cousteau catalogue
France's MK2 has acquired the rights to the Jacques Cousteau catalogue for a period of ten years, the company has announced. Comprised of 111 documentaries and three narrative features, including Oscar and Cannes Palme d'Or winner, The Silent World, the library of titles was acquired from Europe Images International. MK2 ...
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ContentFilm takes on world sales of August starring Josh Hartnett
ContentFilm International has taken on worldwide rights to Austin Chick's August, which start shooting today in New York City. Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott and Rip Torn will star. Charlie Corwin, David Guy Levy and Clara Markowicz of Original Media are producing alongside Hartnett and Elisa Pugliese of 57th ...
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The smart money is on Singapore
As the Singapore International Film festival opens, Screen International examines how the territory is aiming to pull in new backers. A key global economic hub, Singapore has set its sights on becoming a media-financing centre for the 21st century and is positioning itself as a meeting point of finance and ...
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Celluloid Dreams and HanWay Films: the power of two
There is a temptation to see the merger between Hengameh Panahi's Celluloid Dreams and Jeremy Thomas' HanWay as a commentary on the scary state of today's arthouse business. But the real issue is what it says about the digital future.The most obvious conclusion to draw from the merger of two ...
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Set report: Kim Ki-duk's Breath
Kim Ki-duk's eyes gleam with concentration as he surveys his actors taking their places for the final scene of Breath, the director's 14th film. It is a freezing cold day in Seoul and Kim is shooting in a former Japanese colonial prison where Korean independence movement fighters were once tortured ...
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Buy the book
From Oscar-feted films such as The Last King Of Scotland and Notes On A Scandal to the new wave of fantasy films led by Eragon, book adaptations are scoring at the global box office and reaping critical acclaim. The literary option market is showing no sign of deflation, with producers ...
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Celestial strikes Malaysian, African deals for Shaw Brothers titles
Celestial Pictures has signed a home video distribution deal with Movie Master for the DVD release of more than 500 films from Shaw Brothers film library in Malaysia over five years. The titles include Justice, My Foot and Out of the Dark starring Stephen Chow and the Casino Tycoon series ...
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Film Movement: pick of the bunch
Since it was launched in 2002 by Larry Meistrich, New York-based Film Movement has released more than 100 foreign-language and independent features and shorts from 27 countries through its website, where members and non-members can buy a DVD of the month and peruse the ever-expanding catalogue.'We choose good titles that ...
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Industry has mixed reactions to HanWay-Celluloid merger
The announcement yesterday of the merger between HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams to create a new combined company, dreamachine, has provoked a mixed response from the European film industry. Some have welcomed the consolidation of the two companies. For example, Tartan Films founder Hamish McAlpine applauded the move. 'Hanway and ...
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Tine Klint takes international sales post at Nordisk
Tine Klint has taken over as the new head of international sales at Denmark-based Nordisk Film. Klint started her career at Trust Film/Zentropa Film in 1999 and worked as a sales executive and project manager. She leads the sales team that also consists of Susan Wendt, Sanne Arlo, Nicolai Korsgaard, ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams merge to create dreamachine
In a move that will shake up the international sales world, Jeremy Thomas' UK-based HanWay Films and Hengameh Panahi's Paris-based Celluloid Dreams are planning to merge. The new sales, production and financing venture, dreamachine, will be based in London, Paris and Toronto. Financial terms have yet to be disclosed, but ...
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Singapore's Scorpio East to distribute Shaw Bros titles
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has licensed Singapore video distribution rights to over 500 titles from its Shaw Brothers' film library to Singapore 's Scorpio East under a long-term agreement. Scorpio East will distribute titles ranging from comedies and martial arts to period dramas and action movies. Key titles include films ...
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Cineclick Asia seals raft of deals at Hong Kong Filmart
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia has announced a slew of sales concluded at Hong Kong Filmart last week, led by deals on Kim Ki-duk's upcoming title Breath and recent Berlinale Golden Bear winner Tuya's Marriage. Featuring Taiwanese star Chang Chen, Kim's fourteenth title Breath was sold to France 's ARP ...
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Artificial Eye buys Rivette and Costanzo titles after Berlin
UK distributor Artificial Eye has announced two more acquisitions on the back of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival. The company has taken UK rights to Jacques Rivette's Don't Touch The Axe (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache) starring Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli and Bulle Ogier. It also acquired Saverio ...
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AAM to offer digital VOD service to Cannes Market
Cannes' Marche du Film and Arts Alliance Media have announced a new partnership that will enable international buyers and sellers to watch films and projects for sale via the Internet from anywhere in the world. The new business-to-business video-on-demand service, Vizumi Pro, can replace the traditional posting of screeners. 'It's ...
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Filmart wraps with 20% increase in overseas visitors
Hong Kong Filmart closed on Friday (March 23) with organisers reporting a 20% increase in overseas visitors to 1,900, while the number of exhibitors was up 11% to 453 from more than 30 territories. The number of overall visitors, including those from Hong Kong, had not been calculated by the ...
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First Look International will continue as normal, says Nu management
First Look Studios (FLS) interim chief executive officer Trevor Short and First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford have moved quickly to confirm that FLI will continue to operate as normal heading into Cannes following Nu Image's acquisition of a controlling interest in FLS. Ford said last night [March 22] ...
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Virgin Snow leads sales charge for Korea 's CJ
Leading Korean company CJ Entertainment has announced a raft of sales concluded at Hong Kong Filmart, led by CJ-Kadokawa co-production Virgin Snow. The teen romance, was pre-sold to Hwa Yea Multimedia for Malaysia, Box Office for Thailand and BHD for Vietnam. Set in Kyoto, Virgin Snow stars Lee Joon-ki (King ...
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Lotte Entertainment sells three to Thailand, Malaysia
Korean sales agent Lotte Entertainment has sold three films to Thailand and Malaysia at Hong Kong Filmart. J Bics picked up Song Kang-ho-starring drama The Show Must Go On for Thailand, directly after the world premiere at Filmart. Song, who plays a father torn between his family and his job ...
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Messenger, Night-fragrant Flower among winners at HAF
Hong Kong-born director Clara Law's The Messenger clinched the HAF award for a Hong Kong project at the awards ceremony of the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum on Thursday (March 22). Part-love story and part-mystery drama, the project also won the Technicolor Thailand's post-production service award. Kore-eda Hirokazu's Night-fragrant Flower ...