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SUNDANCE NEWS ROUND UP
Sundance sensation Push wins both jury and audience prizes David Mackenzie's Spread sold to Anchor Bay in $3.5m deal Arthouse Films picks up worldwide on Doug Pray's Art & Copy IFC Films takes UK comedy In The Loop for US distribution Sony Classics seals North American deal on Lone Scherfig's ...
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Sundance 2009 news and reviewsround-up
All the main stories, sales and reviews from Screen's team in Park CityClick section for moreSundance newsSundance reviewsSundance hope fornew indie dawn
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Film Sharks takes on international sales to Tear This Heart Out
Guido Rud's Argentina-based Film Sharks International has picked up sales rights outside Latin America to Roberto Sneider's Tear This Heart Out (Arrancame La Vida) which is on the shortlist of nine films for this year's best foreign language film Oscar.The film, which has drawn over two million admissions in Mexico ...
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Sony's Paul Blart a smash at powerful domestic holiday weekend
Sony's comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop starring Kevin James in his first solo lead role shunted Warner Bros' Gran Torino into second place as it stormed to the top on an impressive $33.8m estimated launch.The PG-rated comedy is expected to reach $40m by the end of the Martin Luther King ...
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DIC Animation enlists Bain for management buyout
DIC Entertainment chairman and CEO Andy Heyward has partnered with Bain Capital Inc in a management buyout of DIC from The Walt Disney Co. Heyward will continue as chairman and CEO of the animation studio which has more than 2,500 half-hours of programming in its library.DIC became a unit of ...
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Seven Pounds claims international crown with $19.8m take
Will Smith was the number one Hollywood attraction overseas at the weekend as Seven Pounds grossed an estimated $19.8m from 3,502 screens in 25 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International and has now reached $40.8m.Warner Bros Pictures International had not reported estimates on its wide launch of Bollywood title Chandni ...
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IFC picks up US rights to I'm Gonna Explode
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Canana Films' madcap Mexican drama I'm Gonna Explode (Voy A Explotar) and will push the film out later this year through its Festival On Demand VOD platform.Gerardo Naranjo's film will screen in Berlin next month and charts the exploits of two mischoevous ...
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Fortissimo complete French distribution deal for Marley
Fortissimo Films has finalised a deal for Wild Side Films to handle French rights to the Jonathan Demme documentary feature Marley. Wild Side, the specialised distribution company owned by Wild Bunch, will co-distribute on all media platforms in France with La Pacte Films. The film will be produced and directed ...
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Khlebnikov, Schipper, Ottinger and Lom premieres at Berlinale Forum
World premieres of new films by Boris Khlebnikov, Sebastian Schipper, Ulrike Ottinger and Petr Lom have been confirmed as the Berlinale's Forum section finalises its 2009 line-up of 48 films from 31 countries. Russian filmmaker Khlebnikov's Help Gone Mad about the adventures of a Byelorussian migrant coming to Moscow to ...
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Universaland Focus Features Internationalstrike dealwith Cattleya
Universal Pictures will acquire a minority stake in leading Italian film production company Cattleya, and in a separate agreement, Focus Features International and Cattleya will partner to develop, co-produce and distribute Cattleya films the companies announced today. The deal with Cattleya is the first time a major U.S. studio has ...
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Reality check needed on film finance procedures and projections
It is not meaningful or helpful to assert that Canada or a particular US state is more attractive than South Africa, the UK, or any other popular location, that’s according to two Australians whose business it is to assist producers to secure financial incentives across the world.‘Circumstances, including financing plans, ...
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Sony stumps up $2m for domestic rights to Black Dynamite
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquistions Group has paid what is believed to be in the region of $2m for all North American rights to Scott Sanders' blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite.The division and Black Dynamite's sales agent Endeavor Independent finally closed the festival's first all-night negotiation at about 6am today [January 19] ...
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Looking For Alibrandi finds five AFI Awards
Australia's third biggest local hit of 2000, teen flick Looking For Alibrandi, scooped five awards including best film at the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards on Saturday night (Nov 18). The other four awards went to school teacher Melina Marchetta's adapted script, lead actress Pia Miranda, supporting actress Greta Scacchi ...
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IFC broadens VOD initiative with South By Southwest
IFC has broadened its video on demand initiative in a partnership with the South By Southwest Film Festival that will broadcast five films from March's festival simultaneously on the IFC Festival Direct platform.The line-up includes Joe Swanberg's latest drama Alexander The Last, which will receive its world premiere at the ...
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Departures, Revanche take top prizes at Palm Springs Film Festival
Gotz Spielmann's Austrian foreign language Oscar submission Revanche was awarded the FIPRESCI prize for best foreign language film of the year as the The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival came to a close on January 19.Natar Ungalaaq received the FIPRESCI Award for best actor for his performance in ...
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Andre Des Rochers named partner at Gray Krauss LLP
New York-based law firm Gray Krauss LLP has promoted Andre Des Rochers to partner as several of the firm's attorneys attend Sundance as production counsel and counsel to 12 films in the festival.Leading the firm's Sundance team are named partners Jonathan Gray and Evan Krauss. Gray, who founded the firm ...
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Chandni Chowk takes $6.8m in India in first weekend for Warner
Warner Bros Pictures International's Bollywood release Chandni Chowk To China opened day-and-date in 30 markets at the weekend in the studio's widest release for a Bollywood film in India and North America.The film grossed $6.8m including previews in India from 1,319 screens and drew approximately 4.9million admissions. In North America ...
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Sundance favourite Humpday scores worldwide deal with Magnolia
Magnolia Pictures has paid above mid-six figures for worldwide rights to Lynn Shelton's crowd-pleaser Humpday, which attracted intense interest and drew offers from at least five bidders following its world premiere on Friday (January 16).Josh Braun and Kevin Iwashina of Submarine concluded the deal with Magnolia's Tom Quinn and Eamonn ...
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Beyond takes Australia and New Zealand on Little Dizzle
Beyond has taken all Australian and New Zealand rights from Visit Films to David Russo's The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle following its world premiere in Spectrum on Monday (January 19).Ryan Kampe of New York-based Visit Films brokered the deal with Beyond's Simone Ubaldi.The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle focuses ...