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Baker Street to launch international sales division under Lansley
UK production and media financing outfit Baker Street Media Finance has launched its own sales arm. Baker Street International - as the new division is called - will be attending the EFM informally before beginning selling in earnest in Cannes in May.The new outfit is head by former Lakeshore executive ...
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Pinewood and Shepperton to receive BAFTA award
Pinewood and Shepperton Studios will receive the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award atthe Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. Shepperton Studios and Pinewood Studios are two of the world's most prestigious studios with a history going back almost 75 years.Despite growing global competition, they have kept ...
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Sweden's SF Bio installs 3D screens
Somewhat delayed, Sweden's leading cinema circuit, SF Bio - which programmes 242 screens all over the country - is ready to enter the digital era, having installed Real D equipment in eight auditoria in Stockholm (3), Gothenburg (2) and another three provincial cities. The premiere will be Disney's Oscar-nominated Bolt, ...
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Fichman to be key instructor at TAP in Berlin and Halifax
Canadian producer Niv Fichman (Blindness, Silk) will be on hand as the senior resource instructor at Trans Atlantic Partners International Coproduction: Focus Europe and Canada (TAP), scheduled for June and September in Berlin and Halifax.The two-part training program for Canadian and European producers is a joint initiative of Halifax's Strategic ...
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TF1, Pathe discuss merging film divisions
Leading French broadcaster TF1 and film group Pathe are in talks to merge part of their film activities, in a move that is seen as a response to rival Canal Plus' strength in the film rights arena, and its impending merger with Vivendi and Universal Studios. The companies said in ...
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Perfect Circle signs Kearsley to animated debut
Perfect Circle has signed a two picture deal with Seth Kearsley, that includes Heaven Sent based on the graphic novel series by Ben Dunn. The title is one of five animated features Perfect Circle is lining up. The company's stop-motion feature Edison And Leo, which premiered at Toronto, is being ...
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Kunath promoted to evp, general manager at Screen Gems
Screen Gems has promoted Pamela Kunath to executive vice president and general manager and charged her with overseeing all operations and administration across all areas of the studio's business.In her expanded role Kunath, who joined Screen Gems shortly after its inception in 2001, will continue to head the company's business ...
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Ewan McGregor, Carey Mulligan team for The Electric Slide
Myriad Pictures has come aboard to finance and handle international sales on Killer Films and Di Bonaventura Pictures' The Electric Slide with Ewan McGregor and Sundance discovery Carey Mulligan in talks to play the leads.Tristan Patterson will direct from his screenplay based on Timothy Ford's article The Yankee Bandit: The ...
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Berlin reviews roundup
In CompetitionAbout Elly (Asghar Farhadi)Cheri (Stephen Frears)Deutschland 09 (various)The Dust Of Time (Theo Angelopoulous)Eden Is West (Costa-Gavras)Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) (Maren Ade)Forever Enthralled (Mei Lanfang)Germany 09 (Deutschland 09) (Various directors)Happy Tears (Mitchell Lichtenstein)In The Electric Mist (Bertrand Tavernier)Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland)Little Soldier (Annette K Olesen)London River (Rachid Bouchareb)Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson)The ...
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Father's Acre (Apafold)
Dir: Viktor Oszkar Nagy. Hungary. 2009. 80mins. Despite its shortcomings, this debut about an ex-convict's attempts to reconcile with his rebellious son from Viktor Ozkar Nagy is a visual treat. Showing remarkable precision and sensitivity in every frame, the minimalist film will find a natural berth in first film festivals ...
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AV Pictures sells Lesbian Vampire Killers in Germany and Australia
UK sales agent AV Pictures has closed deals with Square One in Germany and Transmission in Australia on gore-fest 'Lesbian Vampire Killers'. The film stars UK comedy talents, James Corden and Mathew Horne from the BAFTA award-winning Gavin & Stacey BBC series. Lesbian Vampire Killers will receive its premiere screening ...
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NonStop Entertainment picks up Berlinale Forum selected Burrowing
Stockholm based NonStop Entertainment has signed on Nordic and Baltic distribution for Swedishdirectorial debut Burrowing (Man Tänker Sitt) from production outfit Fasad.
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Kinowelt's Ziannis sets up new sales shop Aktis
Former Kinowelt world sales chief Stelios Ziannis is in Berlin with his new sales company Aktis Film International. The Leipzig-based outfit's first acquisition is Rudolf Thome's black tragicomedy Pink which will have its world premiere in the festival's Berlinale Special sidebar. Starring Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Panzner (Valkyrie), Guntram Brattia (The ...
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Koenig's Helkon shares to stay in the family
Germany's Helkon Media has announced that shares in the company belonging to the late Werner Koenig will be inherited by his mother, who is the sole beneficiary. Koenig's mother, who requested not to be named, said in a statement that she does not plan to sell her son's estimated 16% ...
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Wide gives Hand to Strand for US
French sales outfit Wide Management has announced a raft of new sales on its new slate including Give Me Your Hand and Ah! The Libido. Pascal Alex-Vincent's Give Me Your Hand has been taken by Strand Releasing for the US and by Peccadillo Pictures for the UK. Meanwhile, Michel Rosier'comedy ...
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Autlook takes world on Panorama doc War + Love
Vienna-based sales outfit Autlook has swooped to take world rights on Berlinale Panorama entry War + Love in Kabul directed by Helga Reidemeister. 'This is an incredible Romeo and Juliet drama that feels like fiction, a very intimate love story in a country that only knows war...' Autlook's managing-director Peter ...
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Atrix boards Murnberger's Bone Man
Beatrix Wesle's Munich-based Atrix Films has taken all international rights, excluding German-speaking territories, to Wolfgang Murnberger's laconic mystery drama The Bone Man (Der Knochenmann) which will be having its world premiere in Panorama. Starring Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Josef Bierbichler and Birgit Minichmayr, the adaptation of Wolf Haas' cult novel ...
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Pinball Films pitches Fuckart
UK producer Pinball Films is pitching two films at Berlin which form part of its micro-budget digital feature film slate. The slate received 20% funding from the Northern Film and Media's Atomic Pictures scheme. Dogwoof Pictures is in discussions to distribute the features - Fuckart and Dog Knife Wife - ...
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High-Fliers acquires UK rights to New Town Killers
London based distributor, High Fliers Films, has acquired UK rights to New Town Killers from production and sales outfit Independent. The thriller is directed by Richard Jobson and produced by Luc Roeg. It stars Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie and James Anthony Pearson and tells the story of two bankers who ...
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