All Sales articles – Page 538

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    One Eyed adds Tony Manero and Others

    2007-02-10T04:00:00Z

    UK-based sales and production company One Eyed Films has added to its slate of Latin American offerings. The company is on board for Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero, a Chile/Brazil/Argentina co-production that is still seeking one more partner from Ibero-America. The comedy is about a criminal in 1970s Chile who wants ...

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    Sola Media takes on sales for $3m Turtle's Song

    2007-02-10T04:00:00Z

    Germany-based sales company Sola Media has picked up rights to nature documentary The Turtle's Song, from UK producers Film & Music Entertainment and Big Wave Productions. Sola has world rights excluding Austria and Finland to the theatrical feature produced by F&ME's Mike Downey, Sam Taylor and Zorana Piggott and Big ...

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    Sola Media takes on sales for $3m Turtle's Song

    2007-02-10T04:00:00Z

    Germany-based sales company Sola Media has picked up rights to nature documentary The Turtle's Song, from UK producers Film & Music Entertainment and Big Wave Productions. Sola has world rights excluding Austria and Finland to the theatrical feature produced by F&ME's Mike Downey, Sam Taylor and Zorana Piggott and Big ...

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    Whishaw and Goode take leads in HanWay's Brideshead Revisited

    2007-02-09T17:11:00Z

    HanWay Films has announced that Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode have taken the lead roles as Sebastian and Charles, respectively, in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Julian Jarrold is directing the project, and Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are producing through their Ecosse Films. HanWay is handling worldwide ...

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    Whishaw and Goode take leads in HanWay's Brideshead Revisited

    2007-02-09T17:11:00Z

    HanWay Films has announced that Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode have taken the lead roles as Sebastian and Charles, respectively, in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Julian Jarrold is directing the project, and Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are producing through their Ecosse Films. HanWay is handling worldwide ...

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    Israel's The Bubble picked up by Strand

    2007-02-09T13:22:00Z

    Strand Releasing has snapped up US rights to Israeli director Eytan Fox's Panorama title, The Bubble, it was confirmed this week. The deal was negotiated between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing and Pierre Menahem of Scalpel Films. Strand Releasing plans an August opening for the film across the US. The ...

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    Baker Street on road to US with Lionsgate

    2007-02-09T07:56:00Z

    Lionsgate has taken US rights from Relativity Media and Mosaic MediaGroup to the heist thriller Baker Street, also known as The Bank Job.ArclightFilms is handling international rights on the film, which stars JasonStatham and Saffron Burrows and recounts events surrounding an unsolved1971 bank robbery in London. Roger Donaldson is directing. ...

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    Dimension gets Buried Alive with Odd Lot

    2007-02-09T07:45:00Z

    Dimension Films has acquired the horror film Buried Alive from Odd Lot Entertainment's genre division Dark Lot.Tobin Bell, who plays the nefarious jigsaw in the Saw franchise, stars alongside Terence Ray and Leah Rachel in the story of a sorority initiation that goes wrong when a college student awakens an ...

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    IFC takes domestic rights to Day Night Day Night

    2007-02-09T07:42:00Z

    IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Julia Loktev's drama Day Night Day Night and will release through its theatrical and cable day-and-date platform IFC First Take on May 9.The story centres on a young woman who arrives in New York on a mysterious mission of extreme social importance. ...

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    Celluloid Dreams acquires Emotional Arithmetic

    2007-02-09T07:38:00Z

    Celluloid Dreams has acquired international rights to Emotional Arithmetic, it was announced today (Friday) in Berlin. The movie, produced by Triptych Media and BBR Productions, directed by Paolo Barzman and starring Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis and Max von Sydow is currently in post-production.Acquisitions and sales executive ...

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    Moviehouse takes on Selim's Sweetland

    2007-02-09T04:00:00Z

    London-based Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Ali Selim's Sweetland Sweetland is a love story in the 1920s US, when a mail-order bride arrives from Norway to start her new life. The ensemble cast features Alan Cumming, John Heard, Alex Kingston, Ned Beatty, Elizabeth Reaser and Tim Guinea. The ...

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    Lionsgate and Twisted team up for REPO!

    2007-02-09T04:00:00Z

    Lionsgate and Saw franchise creator Twisted Pictures have announcedtheir next collaboration, teaming up on the horror tale REPO! TheGenetic Opera.Lionsgate president of international sales Stephanie Denton will showbuyers here a 12-minute promo-reel created by director Darren LynnBousman at a special event to be announced.Denton, president of acquisitions and co-productions Peter ...

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    Glue picked up by Picture This!

    2007-02-09T04:00:00Z

    Picture This! Entertainment has picked up North American rights from Lumina Films to first-time director Alexis Dos Santos' film Glue: Historia Adolescente En Medio De La Nada (Adolescent Story In The Middle Of Nowhere). The comedy-drama traces the coming-of-age antics of three bored small-town teenagers and stars Nahuel Viale Munoz, ...

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    Cry Of The Owl picked up by Myriad

    2007-02-09T04:00:00Z

    Myriad Pictures has picked up worldwide sales on the upcoming UK-Canadian Patricia Highsmith adaptation Cry Of The Owl starring Sarah Polley and David Morrissey. Jamie Thraves adapted the screenplay and will begin filming in Canada in June. Julia Sereny of Canada's Sienna Films and MACT Production's Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre will ...

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    Contender strikes UK deal for Weirdsville

    2007-02-09T04:00:00Z

    Contender Entertainment Group has taken all UK rights from Shoreline Entertainment for Weirdsville. The black comedy recently opened the Slamdance Film Festival. Pump Up The Volume and Empire Records veteran Allan Moyle directed. Nicholas Tabarrok of Darius Films produced and Morris Ruskin of Shoreline executive produced. Weirdsville follows two slackers ...

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    Trust ramps up international sales with Bier, Troell films

    2007-02-09T04:00:00Z

    Oscar-nominated Danish director Susanne Bier (After The Wedding) is to make an international drama about a Holocaust survivor. Julius - the project's working title - is about a former prisoner at notorious death camp KZ who moves to Israel. Here, his past eventually catches up with him. The producer of ...

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    Gaumont previews Leclerq sci-fi feature in Berlin

    2007-02-09T04:00:00Z

    Gaumont has announced a $12 million first feature from director Julien Leclercq.Chrysalis, is a science-fiction action thriller set in Paris in the year 2020 about two people with nothing in common: an innocent girl looking for her lost memories and a cop forced to pay for his.The cast includes Albert ...

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    Cineclick sells rights to two features in Berlin

    2007-02-09T04:00:00Z

    Cineclick Asia has closed deals on Berlinale competition film Tuya's Marriage to Italy and Forum title Ad Lib Night to Japan. Italy's Lucky Red president Andrea Occhipinti signed with Cineclick managing director Young-joo Suh after viewing a rough cut tape of Wang Quan-an's Tuya in Rotterdam. 'It was a discovery ...

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    The Works books Venus into more territories

    2007-02-08T17:19:00Z

    UK-based sales company The Works International has started the EFM with several new sales on Roger Michell's Bafta- and Oscar-nominated Venus starring Leslie Phillips and Peter O'Toole.The latest deals are to Hexagon for Japan, Ecofilmes for Portugal, Ster-Kinekor for South Africa, Cine Video y TV for Mexico, MC Films for ...

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    ContentFilm on board for William H Macy's directorial debut

    2007-02-08T16:57:28Z

    William H Macy will make his directorial debut with Keep Coming Back, to star Salma Hayek, Mos Def, Steve Buscemi and Macy himself. ContentFilm International has international sales rights, with CAA handling North America. Rachel Rothman, Tucker Tooley and Dan Keston are producing. The coming-of-age story, written by Will Aldis, ...