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Iran's Meshkini wins Pusan's New Currents prize
Iranian title The Day I Became A Woman, directed by Marziyeh Meshkini of Iran's Makhmalbaf family, won the jury prize in the Pusan film festival's New Currents section, dedicated to Asian film-makers' first or second features.The award includes distribution of the winning film in Korea or $10,000 to the director ...
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Voltage does big business on 100 Feet, Love N Dancing
Voltage Pictures has closed numerous territory sales on the thriller 100 Feet starring Famke Janssen, which is now completed, and romance Love N' Dancing with Amy Smart and Tom Malloy.Rights to 100 Feet went to Universum for German-speaking Europe, Antena Tres (Spain), Quality (Mexico), Ukraine DVD (CIS), Culture Makers (South ...
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Inferno's The Women goes to Entertainment, Constantin, TF1
Bill Johnson and Jim Siebel's Inferno Entertainment has reported a strong market and virtually sold out two of its marquee titles, comedy The Women and drama Hachiko: A Dog's Story.Inferno is also in advanced negotiations with a pan-European buyer on its uncast thriller An Unfinished Country, about a medical student ...
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Warner Bros takes Spanish rights to How To Lose Friends
Warner Bros has acquired Spanish rights to Robert Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People from Intandem.The comedy, based on Toby Young's book of the same name, stars Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst and Jeff Bridges. MGM has struck a deal for North America and Paramount for the UK. Both ...
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Spall and Broadbent join Sheen in The Damned United
Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent have joined the cast of Tom Hooper's The Damned United, which starts principal photography on Sunday May 25. As reported Michael Sheen takes the lead role as legendary football manager Brian Clough, and Spall will play his right hand man Peter Taylor while Broadbent plays ...
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Gaga steps up to buy Reeker and sequel from CMG
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has closed a two-film deal with Gaga in Japan on Dave Payne's horror titles Reeker and No Man's Land: The Rise Of Reeker.Noeltner brokered the deal with Gaga's senior executive vice president Nick Morumo. LMK also acquired Portuguese rights to Reeker.CMG's upcoming animated title ...
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Babelgum gives $187,500 to six first online fest winners
The Babelgum Online Film Festival has announced the winners of its inaugural festival. Each winner gets ($31,250) Euros 20,000.The winning films are:Looking For Genius Award: Sotto Il Mio Giardino (Under My Garden) by Andrea Lodovichetti (Italy) Short Film Award: Officer Down by Richard Recco (US) ...
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IFC Films takes North American rights to PVC-1
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Spiros Stathoulopoulos' one-take thriller PVC-1, which premiered at Cannes last year.Merida Urquia, Daniel Paez and Alberto Zornoza star in the story, which is inspired by the real-life terrorist incident in which a rural Colombian woman was killed by a collar bomb ...
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Gilliam's Doctor Parnassus sells to UK, Australia and Japan
Mandate International says it is continuing brisk sales in Cannes for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, and Mandate president of international Helen Lee-Kim expects all territories to sell out by the end of the market.The biggest deals in Cannes thus far are to the UK (Lionsgate UK), Australia ...
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Metrodome rushes in for Korea's The Chaser
UK distributor Metrodome, which earlier this week struck a deal with backer Media Pro, has taken all UK rights to Korean crime thriller The Chaser. The deal was brokered between Metrodome's general manager - home entertainment Tom Stewart and CEO Peter Urie with and EJ Cho Cho of Fine Cut. ...
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Jinga shows some love for Hiller's gangster story
UK-based sales company Jinga Films has taken world rights to Danny Hiller's thriller Love Me Still.Andrew Howard, Geoff Bell, Alex Reid and Tom Bell star in the story of a violent confrontation between two brothers after one is released from prison to find the other holding his wife hostage.As announced ...
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Germany's NSF, MME unveil plans to float
Despite the stormy times currently besetting the capital markets, another two German production outfits - Me, Myself and Eye Entertainment (MME) and Neue Sentimental Film (NSF) - are planning to join the 30-odd media companies listed on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt exchange.Hamburg-based MME has employed Commerzbank to co-ordinate the flotation of ...
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Tropical Storm stirs for Iceland hit Astropia
Astropia, the biggest box-office hit in Iceland last year beating all the Hollywood blockbusters, is now being handled for world sales by Amsterdam-based sales outfit Tropical Storm Entertainment.Julius Kemp and Ingvar Thordarson of the The Icelandic Film Company produced the project. Its last Cannes market screening is today at 1730 ...
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Diffusion guns for Adam Yauch's basketball doc
UK distributor Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights to Adam Yauch's Gunnin' For That #1 Spot.The deal was struck with new sales company Oscilloscope Pictures who are handling the US and international rights. Oscilloscope is releasing the film in the US on June 27 and Diffusion will release in ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival announces 2008's Trailblazers
The Edinburgh International Film Festival, now in June, has here in Cannes announced its new set of Trailblazers.The initiative, created with Skillset, recognizing up-and-coming talents in the UK.This year's class is:Lol Crawley, cinematographer of Better Things David Bloom, co-writer of Donkey PunchLisa Trnovskii, producer of Mum And DadTony Slater-Ling, cinematographer ...
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Medavoy's Phoenix to make film of Grisham's Playing For Pizza
Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures will adapt John Grisham's sports romance Playing For Pizza about a washed-up American football star who joins a team of semi-pros in Italy.Medavoy, whose credits include Zodiac, Holes and the in-production Shanghai, will produce with colleagues Arnie Messer and David Thwaites.Grisham is represented by longtime editor-agent ...
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Madonna's Filth And Wisdom sells to Germany, Australia, Scandinavia
LA-based Katapult has sold Madonna's Filth And Wisdom to Ascot Elite in Germany, Kojo in Australia, Pan Vision in Scandinavia, Hollywood in Greece and MCF in the former Yugoslavia.Drama The Caller, which premiered in Tribeca last month, has sold to Hollywood in Greece, which also took Death In Love.Australia's Kojo ...
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Paul Bateman Davis-Miller named svp at Peace Arch
Paul Bateman Davis-Miller has been appointed to the newly created post of senior vice president of US distribution and development at Peace Arch Entertainment.Davis-Miller will be based at the company's Marina Del Rey offices in California and reports to Peace Arch Entertainment Group president and COO John Flock in Los ...
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Dutch investment group buys Spitfire and merges it with Hammer
Dutch investment group Cyrte Investments has acquired Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's LA-based Spitfire Pictures and merged it with legendary British studio Hammer to form the global entertainment company HS Media.Sinclair and East will run HS Media with Hammer co-chief Simon Oakes. HS Media is backed by $100m in equity ...
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Warner Bros, Overbrook to remake Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired remake rights from Pathe to the French blockbuster Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis (aka Welcome To The Shticks) for Will Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment to produce. Pathe International will handle the sales rights to the film.James Lassiter, Smith and Ken Stovitz will produce for Overbrook ...