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    Wide gets on board for controversial Belgian feature Ex Drummer

    2007-01-29T10:09:00Z

    In one of the first pick-ups of this year's Rotterdam Tiger competition, French outfit Wide Management is to handle international sales on Koen Mortier's Ex Drummer. The news was confirmed on Sunday in Rotterdam, just prior to the film's world premiere. All territories are open, except for Benelux, which is ...

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    Denmark's Trust Film Sales expands into distribution

    2007-01-26T14:47:00Z

    Zentropa's sister company Trust International Film Sales has set up Trust Film Distribution to handle releases for Zentropa projects as well as other titles.The new division is set up in time to release Anders Ronnow Klarlund's black social comedy How To Get Rid Of The Others nationwide today. In addition ...

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    Bruce McDonald, Jiri Menzel, Paulo Caldas films picked up pre-Berlin

    2007-01-25T16:20:00Z

    International distribution rights to films by Bruce McDonald, Jiri Menzel and Paulo Caldas are among the latest titles picked up by German sales agents ahead of this year's Berlinale and European Film Market (EFM). Bavaria Film International will handle international sales for McDonald's The Tracey Fragments, which will be the ...

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    Overture takes US rights to Theron-starrer Ferris Wheel

    2007-01-25T07:54:00Z

    Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett's Overture Films has made its firstacquisition, picking up all US rights to Charlize Theron's passion project Ferris Wheel.The Canadian shoot wrapped recently yet ICM's independent andinternational film division chief Hal Sadoff wasted little time,brokering the deal at Sundance after showing footage to buyers allweek. No ...

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    Films Distribution picks up Lost In Beijing

    2007-01-25T07:19:00Z

    France's Films Distribution has acquired worldwide rights to Chinese female director Li Yu's Lost In Beijing (Pingguo), produced by Fang Li's Laurel Films, which has been selected for competition at this year's Berlin film festival. The film is currently in post-production and is scheduled to be submitted to Chinese censors ...

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    Cinemavault to introduce The Listening to buyers at Berlin

    2007-01-24T08:37:00Z

    Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired international sales rights to political thriller The Listening and will introduce to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next month.Giacomo Martelli's film exposes the dangers of Echelon, a real-life surveillance system used by the National Security Agency that has been described in ...

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    Rambow sells for $7.5m to Paramount Vantage at busy Sundance

    2007-01-24T08:21:00Z

    Paramount Vantage finally made a big play at its maiden Sundance, swooping on Garth Jennings' coming-of-age tale Son Of Rambow and Ian Iqbal Rashid's hip-hop drama How She Move for an estimated combined cost of $11.5m.In another intense day of deals in Park City, the Weinsteins announced two more joint ...

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    Sundance deal-making starts slowly, but finally takes off

    2007-01-22T07:40:00Z

    After several days of toe-dipping, buyers in Park City finally took the plunge and closed a flurry of deals at the weekend.Corporate stablemates Picturehouse and New Line swooped on rights to Seth Gordon's Slamdance documentary The King Of Kong.The Weinstein Company paid in the region of $4m for worldwide rights ...

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    Discovery steps In The Shadow Of The Moon

    2007-01-19T16:56:00Z

    Discovery Communications and its Discovery Films unit have acquired rights to London-based DOX Production's and Passion Films' In The Shadow Of The Moon, set to get its world premiere here today (Friday).Discovery Films, the theatrical documentary unit of DCI, will take an equity interest in North American theatrical distribution, branding ...

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    Easternlight picks up worldwide rights to Fatal Contact

    2007-01-19T15:08:00Z

    Arclight Films' Asia-focused label Easternlight has picked up worldwide rights to Hong Kong action film Fatal Contact, which stars wushu champion and up-and-coming action star Wu Jing. Wu, who trained at the same Beijing martial arts school as Jet Li, most recently drew notice for his role as a cold-blooded ...

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    Shanghai International Film Festival to launch film market

    2007-01-19T08:20:00Z

    The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) is launching a film market at this year's edition which is scheduled to run June 16-24. In addition to creating an environment for the buying and selling of film rights, the 'Film Mart' aims to stimulate the development of co-productions between China and other ...

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    Sundance Channel gets US TV rights to Sundance doc Flying

    2007-01-18T02:10:00Z

    Sundance Channel has licensed exclusive US television rights to Flying: Confessions Of A Free Woman, Jennifer Fox' six-hour exploration of womanhood.The documentary will be presented as a special screening at the Sundance Film Festival, which begins on Jan 18, and Sundance Channel will air it as a six-part series in ...

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    A&E Indie Films buys US TV rights to hotly tipped Sundance doc

    2007-01-17T23:56:00Z

    A&E IndieFilms announced has made a preemptive acquisition of North American television rights to Amir Bar-Lev's documentary My Kid Could Paint That.The film gets its world premiere at Sundance this weekend and focuses on an internationally renowned four-year-old painter who sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of art before ...

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    Canada's Atopia picks up North America on Gutierrez

    2007-01-17T23:54:00Z

    Montreal-based distributor Atopia has picked up North American distribution rights for Heidi Specogna's 2006 Sundance world documentary competitor The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez, the story of the first US soldier killed in the invasion of Iraq. The Germany-Switzerland coproduction follows in the footsteps of one-time Guatemalan street urchin ...

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    Telepool boosts sales lineup ahead of Berlinale

    2007-01-17T12:28:00Z

    Munich-based world sales company Telepool has added four new titles to its sales catalogue ahead of Berlin's European Film Market (EFM), including Swiss director Mike Eschmann's youth drama Breakout which is being released by Buena Vista International in Switzerland on January 18.The production by Zodiac Pictures' Lukas Hobi and Reto ...

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    Berlin's market boasts record number of companies and buyers

    2007-01-17T04:00:00Z

    Beki Probst looks set to be able to celebrate her 20th year in the post of market director of the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) by breaking last year's records when the festival launched its new market venue in the Martin Gropius Bau (MGB). According to the latest figures obtained ...

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    Reeker 2 to kick off sales for CMG at Berlin next month

    2007-01-17T02:54:00Z

    Dave Payne is preparing No Man's Land: Reeker 2, the sequel to his 2005 horror film about an unfathomable entity that starts to kill a group of friends in the desert.Ed Noeltner's Los Angeles-based Cinema Management Group (CMG) will commence sales at the European Film Market in Berlin next month. ...

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    Cinemavault gets international rights to Canvas

    2007-01-17T02:38:00Z

    Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired international rights to the drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden, Joe Pantoliano, and newcomer Devon Gearhart.The Los Angeles-based company will screen the film for buyers at next month's European Film Market in Berlin.Joseph Greco wrote and directed the story of a family's struggle to cope ...

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    Optimum among buyers of Zinc's Botched from Darclight

    2007-01-17T02:33:00Z

    Darclight Films has closed a raft of sales on the comedy-horror caper Botched from Joel Silver's Zinc Entertainment.Rights have gone to Optimum in the UK, Legend Media in Germany, Dutch Film Works in Benelux, Ukrainian DVD in CIS and Eastern Europe, Imagem in Brazil, PT Amero in Indonesia, and Gulf ...

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    UK distributor and sales company The Works secures $4m in financing

    2007-01-16T18:25:00Z

    The Works Media Group has announced that in late December it successfully closed a share placing through Seymour Pierce Ellis. The share placing, when combined with a loan facility, gives the UK-based company a further $4m in financing. The Works' sales slate include Shane Meadows' This Is England and Sarah ...