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Mar Abadin joins new Spanish sales group 6 Sales
New Spain-based international sales consortium 6 Sales has hired Mar Abadin as its head of sales. Abadin was formerly a sales executive at Filmax, where she worked for six years. She will attend Berlin's European Film Market with 6 Sales managing director Marina Fuentes. 'I've known Mar a long time ...
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Driessen and Mackey promoted at Fortissimo
Sales company Fortissimo Films has announced that Nelleke Driessen has been promoted to managing director of the company, based at its head office in Amsterdam. She had been the co-managing director since 2004 and joined Fortissimo as an executive in 2000. Also, Fortissimo has promoted Nicole Mackey to executive vice ...
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The Works takes sales and UK rights to The Killing Of John Lennon
The Works International has taken on international sales rights to Andrew Piddington's The Killing Of John Lennon. Sister company The Works UK Distribution has taken UK rights to the film. Jonas Ball stars as Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer. The feature was shot during a three-year period on location ...
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EFP's sales programme backs 11 at Sundance
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support programme has backed the promotion of 11 European films at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The 10 European sales agents and production companies are given grants up to $6,470 (Euros 5,000) to promote European films to buyers. After Switzerland recently joined the EFP-backing MEDIA ...
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High Point's new Irish arm kicks off with Tom Collins feature
Film and TV sales and production company High Point Films will expand with a new Irish division, High Point Ireland, and a new London headquarters. High Point Ireland will offer co-production services as well as consolidating existing trans-continental relationships. The recently formed production arm, High Point Productions, has brough Irish ...
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Gaumont unveils Warnier's Seeds Of Death at Rendez-Vous
Gaumont will premiere Regis Warnier's latest film, Seeds Of Death, on Friday night at Paris' Unifrance Rendez-Vous of French film. The thriller stars Jose Garcia, Marie Gillain, Michel Serrault and Olivier Gourmet and is a sure to be a hot item amongst buyers at the weekend market. Also on Gaumont's ...
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Memento partners with ID and acquires Angosto
France 's Memento Films has joined with ID Distribution to create a partnership which will see the two companies work together on acquisitions, international sales, production and French distribution. Memento principals Emilie Georges and Alexandre Mallet-Guy and ID Distribution's Isabelle Dubar have combined their teams and are planning to 'take ...
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Fortissimo on board for Annie Leibovitz documentary
Fortissimo Films has taken all rights outside North America for Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens, directed by the photographer's sister Barbara Leibovitz. The documentary feature follows Annie Leibovitz's career for more than 30 years. Interviews in the film include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tina Brown, Graydon Carter, Rosanne Cash, Hillary Rodham ...
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Arclight sets up Australian production office with US to follow
Sales agent Arclight Films has appointed former Instinct Entertainment producer Nigel Odell to set up a Melbourne-based office to produce and co-finance Australian films. It will establish a US production office in the near future under Harrison Kordestani, who is already based there. Arclight wants to work with bankable Australian ...
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New US independent Outsider buys Apples, Klimt
Los Angeles-based distributor Outsider Pictures has picked up North American rights to Anders Thomas Jensen's Danish black comedy Adam's Apples and Raul Ruiz's biopic Klimt.Adam's Apples charts the relationship between a neo-Nazi and a priest and stars Danish cinema stalwarts Mads Mikkelsen and Ulrich Thomsen.Adam's Apples was Denmark's foreign language ...
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Goya's Ghosts to get gala in Goteborg
The Goya's Ghosts team - the Oscar-winning duo of director Milos Forman and producer Saul Zaentz, scriptwriter Jean-Claude Carriere and lead actor Stellan Skarsgard - will be on hand for the gala performance of the film, one of 450 titles on show at the 30th Goteborg (Gothenburg) International Film Festival, ...
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37 projects selected for Berlinale Co-Production Market
New feature film projects by Joe Dante, Reza Bagher, Wang Chao, Srdjan Koljevic, Sarah Polley and Luigi Falorni are among a total of 37 projects selected from 25 countries to be presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb 11-13) which is now in its fourth year. This year's Official Projects ...
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Gaumont hires Cecile Gaget for international division
French major Gaumont has announced the arrival of Cecile Gaget who will join the International division as executive vice-president international sales. Gaget was formerly head of international sales at Rezo Films and also spent 4 years at TF1 International. 'Gaumont is speeding up its international operations and Cecile, thanks to ...
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Beta Cinema picks up controversial Hitler comedy
Beta Cinema has picked up the international sales rights to Dani Levy's hotly debated new comedy Mein Fuehrer - The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler which X Verleih is opening with 250 prints in German cinemas on Jan 11. The Y Filme production has already aroused considerable interest internationally ...
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MediaPro, Grupo Arbol launch new sales company Imagina
Spain boasts a new international sales outfit, Imagina International Sales, handling feature films and television content. Imagina is a holding created by producer and rights broker MediaPro and TV producer Grupo Arbol, and has stakes in other key film and TV producers in Spain including Globomedia, Mercuri, Ovideo and Media ...
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TF1 to launch Female Agents and Shall We Kiss'
TF1 International will bring two brand new films to the Unifrance Rendez-Vous which gets underway this weekend in Paris. After having worked successfully with his last film, Arsene Lupin, TF1 International is selling Jean-Paul Salome's latest, Female Agents. Starring Sophie Marceau, Laura Smet, Julie Depardieu, Maya Sansa, Moritz Bleibtreu and ...
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Fox International takes Buffalo for Latin America
Fox International has snapped up Latin American rights to Jorge Hernandez Aldana's drama The Night Buffalo, one of the most anticipated films set to receive its world premiere at Sundance later this month.The distributor plans an April release on the film, which Guillermo Arriaga adapted from his own novel about ...
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Smith promoted to director of acquisitions at Roadside
Dustin Smith has been promoted to director of acquisitions at Roadside Attractions and will work closely with co-presidents Howard Cohen and Eric d'Arbeloff in identifying new projects.Smith, who was previously involved in the acquisition of The Road To Guantanamo and The Puffy Chair, among others, will travel to Sundance later ...
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Davis and Kelliher depart Beyond for new UK sales company
London-based production company Head Gear Films has launched a new international sales company, Bankside Films. The company has been co-founded with Hilary Davis and Stephen Kelliher, who previously headed rival sales outfit Beyond Films. Davis will be co-managing director and Kelliher will serve as director of sales & marketing. Antonio ...
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StudioCanal sets slate for Unifrance Rendez Vous
As French sales companies get ready for the annual Unifrance Rendez Vous this coming weekend, StudioCanal has announced its line up for the industry screenings event.From Pierre Jolivet comes the romantic comedy Je Crois Que Je L'Aime. Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Bonnaire star in a film about a man who ...