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Hong Kong's Triangle added to Cannes official selection
Hong Kong-Chinese action thriller Triangle, directed by Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To, has been added to Cannes official selection just days before the festival begins. The film has been programmed as an out-of-competition Midnight Screening on Thursday night/Friday morning at 12:20am. Cannes and the film's producers were waiting ...
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Singapore's RGM to finance Point Break sequel
Singapore-based RGM Entertainment will finance and executive produce Point Break 2, a sequel to the 1991 Hollywood hit, with key Asian actors to be cast in principal roles. 'The movie will be shot entirely in South-East Asia, including Singapore, to bring the flavours of the region to a world audience. ...
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Directors' Fortnight title Foster Child sold to France
Ad Vitam has acquired French rights to Filipino director Brillante 'Dante' Mendoza's Foster Child, which will play in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar at Cannes. In addition to France, the deal also covers French-speaking territories including Monaco, Andorra and French-speaking Switzerland and Benelux. Gregory Gajos of Ad Vitam and Philippines-based Ferdinand ...
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The Edge signs distribution deal with Echo Bridge
The Edge, the US financing, production and worldwide distribution company launched by John Travolta's longtime producer Jonathan Krane and Beau Rogers, has struck a distribution deal with Echo Bridge Entertainment.Echo Bridge will handle worldwide sales and distribution excluding North American theatrical on two of The Edge's initial slate and will ...
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San Sebastian to feature Henry King retrospective
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29) will feature a retrospective of the works by American cinema pioneer Henry King at its upcoming 55th edition.The festival will also offer a contemporary retrospective devoted to the new Nordic cinema with a selection of films made in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark ...
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Kinowelt International to handle sales of Bioskop Film library
On the eve of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Leipzig-based Kinowelt International has concluded an agreement with the Munich production house Bioskop Film to handle the marketing of its film library, including such German cinema classics as Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum, Reinhard ...
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NTL, MSDW buy France Telecom's Noos stake
UK cable operator NTL is partnering with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity (MSDW) to acquire France Telecom's 49.9% stake in Suez Lyonnaise-controlled French cable operation Noos, for a reported Euros1.35bn.The deal - which will see NTL and MSDW owning 27% and 22.9% of the cable operator respectively - values ...
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Britdoc plans second festival for July; selections include We Are Together
Britdoc's second-annual festival will have a theme of 'Documentary Meets Art,' and will run July 25-27, again at Oxford's Keble College.The three-day event will include screenings, a Pitching Forum, masterclasses with the likes of film-maker Larry Charles, and speed meetings. Explaining the theme, organizers said: 'At a time when the ...
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Araki and Mechanic line up for Venice jury duty
The Venice Film Festival has announced that American director Greg Araki will preside over the Venice Horizons section jury while the Lion of the Future prize jury (dedicated to first films) will be presided over by American producer Bill Mechanic.The Lion of the Future prize is a USD $100,000 cash ...
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Silverdocs unveils 10 Sterling award entries
Organisers at the Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival have announced the 10 entries in the Sterling Award Feature Film Competition at the upcoming festival, which runs in the Washington DC area from Jun 12-17.The films are: Doug Pray's long-haul trucking tale Big Rig (USA); Eva Mulvad's profile of Afghanistan's first ...
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Banderas Berlin award-winner makes first sales
The first round of sales have closed on Antonio Banderas' latest directorialeffort, Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses), which recently won theEuropa Cinemas Label prize for Best European film in Berlin.Banderas' second film as a director after Crazy In Alabama (1999) hasalready sold in 12 countries, including the UK ...
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Cork signs new three-year sponsorship deal with drinks importer
The Cork Film Festival has announced a new headline sponsor in Barry Fitzwilliam Maxxium, Irish importers of Corona Extra, Absolut Vodka and other products.Recently appointed Festival chairman Michael O'Connell, welcomed the three-year sponsorship deal of both financial and marketing support for the festival. 'This new sponsorship enables us to bring ...
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Ingenious starts $200m fund for distribution slates
UK-based media investment company Ingenious, which has been hit by recent UK government clampdowns on various investment schemes, has now launched a $203m (Euros 150m) film distribution fund. Instead of backing the release of single films, the fund will take a slate approach with European independent distributors' entire portfolios, including ...
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Clarke and Perkins promoted at UK distributor Optimum
Managing director Will Clarke has been promoted to CEO of UK-based Optimum Releasing, with former head of distribution Danny Perkins now promoted to managing director and COO. Clarke will now work more closely with Frederic Sichler, co-chairman of parent Studio Canal, in international production, acquisitions and development of the international ...
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CJ signs French deal with Diaphana for competitor Secret Sunshine
After heated pre-market bidding on Official Competition title Secret Sunshine, Korean sales agent CJ Entertainment has sealed a local distribution deal to Diaphana for France. Ama Film has also come on for Greece.From the director of Venice-awarded Oasis and former Director's Fortnight title Peppermint Candy, Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine stars ...
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Polyband takes German rights to The Turtle's Song
Munich-based Polyband Medien, a subsidiary of Splendit Medien, has acquired German rights to Nick Stringer's The Turtle's Song, a documentary following the epic journey of a baby loggerhead turtle. The film is produced by UK-based Film & Music Entertainment and made in collaboration with Stringer's Big Wave Productions. Mike Downey, ...
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Emperor takes stake in Jay Chou project Kung Fu Dunk
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) has taken an equity position in the new Jay Chou martial arts action comedy Kung Fu Dunk, and will handle sales of the film to all territories in Europe and the Americas. EMP, which had previously acquired Hong Kong rights to the film, reached ...
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Wide takes on sales for Bonnaire's Her Name Is Sabine
France's Wide Management will handle sales on actress Sandrine Bonnaire's directorial debut Her Name Is Sabine.The film is running in Directors Fortnight alongside another recently acquired Wide title, Counterparts by Jan Bonny.The company is also handling Critics Week special selection Ezra from director Newton I. Aduaka, which also played at ...
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Yoon Jong-bin to shoot Beastie Boys for iHQ
Korean sales agent iHQ has announced Beastie Boys as the upcoming sophomore title from Yoon Jong-bin - whose The Unforgiven was in Un Certain Regard last year. Yoon is re-teaming with lead Ha Jung-woo, who is also in the Cannes Competition title Breath by Kim Ki-dukBeastie Boys is the first ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to Burger's The Return
Momentum Pictures has taken the UK rights to Neil Burger's The Return from sales company QED.Robert Walak, Momentum's director of acquisitions, negotiated the deal with Kim Fox, SVP worldwide sales at QED.Lionsgate has US rights and is considering a December release. The drama is about three soldiers returning from Iraq ...