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ICA picks up six films including Chabrol's Comedy Of Power
ICA Films has picked up six new titles for UK distribution.They are Sandhya Suri's I For India from Celluloid Dreams; musical documentary When The Road Bends: Tales Of A Gypsy Caravan from Fortissimo; Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building from BAC Films; Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon from Match Factory; Claude Chabrol's ...
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Notro lands more deals on Honor de Cavalleria
Notro Films has closed several new deals for Spanish director Albert Serra's Honor de Cavalleria with the UK (Soda Pictures), Argentina (791) and Benelux (Victory Production). The picture, which took the top prize at the last edition of the Turin Film Festival, is an ultra-minimalist take on Cervante's classic Don ...
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TLA takes UK rights to boxing drama Poor Boy's Game
TLA Releasing has acquired all UK rights from Montreal-based Seville Pictures to Clement Virgo's boxing drama Poor Boy's Game.The film received its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and is available for sale in the market here.The story stars Rossif Sutherland as a young white boxer ...
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Good News builds hot slate including Bin Laden title
Yacoubian Building producers The Good News Group have announced a four-title multi genre film slate that shows the group intends to forge ahead with controversial and hot topics about the Arab world as shown from their own perspective.Al-Qaeda will be the title of an Osama Bin Laden, Aiman el-Zawhiri themed ...
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Funny Balloons bats for Blue Eyelids
Paris-based sales agent Funny Balloons has announced the acquisition of Critics' Week title Parpados Azules (Blue Eyelids).The film, by Mexico's Ernesto Contreras, will be handled by Funny Balloons in all territories excluding Mexico.Eyelids has secured French distribution with Colifilms Diffusion. It was a top winner at the Guadalajara festival.
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Telepool books deals on Way To The Stars and Arn
Germany's Telepool has announced sales on several titles including the 3D feature animation Way To The Stars.That film, directed by Michael Hegner and Kari Juusonen, went to Turkey (Tiglon), while epic adventure Arn The Knight Templar by Peter Flinth went to Russia (Barnhill). Finally, Telepool has also sold the comedy ...
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Arthouse Films takes sales rights to Alice Neel documentary
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights, including all North American rights, to the feature documentary Alice Neel.The documentary on the American painter was directed by Andrew Neel and produced by Ethan Palmer, Rebecca Spence, and SeeThink Productions.Arthouse is handling the US release as well as world sales here in Cannes.
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A-Film picks up Small Gods for Benelux
Following its acquisition of Koen Mortier's controversial Ex-Drummer (sold by Wide Management), Benelux distributor A-Film has picked up another equally offbeat film from the same stable.Small Gods, made by brothers Dimitri and Nicolas Karakatsanis, is described by A-Films' Erik Engelen as 'extremely well shot and it is definitely a movie ...
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Screen East gets $4.4m investment boost from ERDA
UK regional screen agency Screen East has secured a $4.4m (£2.2m) investment fund for the East of England that will support a minimum of 20 fictional features, documentary, TV and digital media projects.The Content Investment Fund is backed by the European Regional Development Fund and will be used for production ...
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DeAPlaneta takes on new thriller 25 Carats
DeAPlaneta has initiated pre-sales for Madrid-based Iconica and Barcelona-based In Vitro's new joint project with the working title 25 Kilates (25 Carats).Paxti Amezcua's thief thriller, budgeted at Euros 2.5m film, will start shooting in September with a cast including Carmelo Gomez and Veronica Echejui.
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Haneke's White Ribbon to tie up in February 2008
Further details are beginning to emerge of Michael Haneke's next project, The White Ribbon, being made through Les Films Du Losange, X-Filme and Vega.Legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere has been working on the screenplay of the film, a period piece set during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.A sales agent ...
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Cathay Classics signs $1m deal with Malaysia's new Variety View
Singapore-based Cathay-Keris Films has inked a distribution deal with Variety View, a new distribution start-up in Malaysia, for 230 titles from its Cathay Classics library.Under the terms of the deal, worth close to $1m, the Malaysian company holds worldwide rights for theatrical, pay and free TV, DVD and other distribution ...
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Medavoy plans supernatural thriller Mile Zero
Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures, whose competition entry Zodiac screened in competition here on Thursday, is preparing the supernatural thriller Mile Zero.Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and James Vanderbilt will produce and Erik Van Looy will direct from an original screenplay by Holly Brix.The producers are out to casting on the ...
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Germany's Splendid takes on Jaa's Ong Bak 2
Germany's Splendid has become the first distributor to pounce on Ong Bak 2, starring and directed by Tony Jaa, since The Weinstein Company surrendered international rights to the project. TWC acquired all rights excluding Asia and the UK to the film last year, from Thailand's Sahamongkolfilm International, but recently renegotiated ...
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New Line takes North America on Darclight's Sick House
New Line Cinema has acquired North American rights from Darclight Films to the British horror film The Sick House.Directed and co-written by Curtis Radclyffe, the film tells the story of an archaeologist, played by Gina Phillips (Jeepers Creepers), who becomes trapped in an abandoned hospital and is preyed upon by ...
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Intramovies takes on sales for Olmi's One Hundred Nails
Italy's Intramovies has picked up international sales rights to One Hundred Nails, Palm d'Or winning director Ermanno Olmi's last feature to which is being represented in Cannes Tribute section.Olmi, who has now presented five films at Cannes won the Palme d'Or for The Tree of Wooden Clogs in 1979.One Hundred ...
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Lionsgate UK gets Independent's In The Hands Of The Gods
Lionsgate UK has taken the UK and Ireland rights to In The Hands Of The Gods, which had its world premiere in Cannes Market last night.Independent is handling sales on the feature, which is about five young British freestyle football fans who travel the world in hopes of meeting Diego ...
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Soda strikes UK deal for Gaelic-language Seachd
Seachd -The Inaccessible Pinnacle has become the first Gaelic-language Scottish feature to secure UK theatrical distribution. Produced by Christopher Young and directed by Simon Miller, it has been acquired by Soda Pictures for an autumn 2007 release in the UK.The film has its first Cannes market screening on Monday and ...
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Lumina strikes The Workshop deal with UK's Revolver
In the run-up to Cannes, increasingly aggressive UK distributor Revolver has been on a buying spree.Among a handful of titles it has picked up in recent weeks is Jamie Morgan's provocative documentary The Workshop, one of the buzz titles at last month's Tribeca Festival. (Lumina is selling the film in ...
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Fortissimo ties the knot with Iceland's Country Wedding
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside Scandinavia to Icelandic comedy Country Wedding, currently shooting in Snaefellsness, Iceland. The brainchild of editor-turned-director Valdis Oskarsdottir, the film is a road movie about two busloads of Icelanders attending a wedding in a small church in the country. Completion is scheduled in time ...