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Basterds swings German cash
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has been awarded $8.7m (Euros 6.8m) support by Germany's much praised DFFF incentive scheme. The Second World War drama, which is currently shooting at the Babelsberg studios, is the fifth project to break the fund's 'cap' threshold of $5.1m (Euros 4m) after the Joel Silver production ...
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Thai master Weerasethakul lines up Uncle Boonmee
Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who has won multiple prizes for previous films like Syndromes And A Century, Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady, is preparing Uncle Boonmee: A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which will be handled internationally by The Match Factory. It is being produced by London-based Illuminations ...
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BERLIN NEWS DAY 2 ONLINE STORIES
DAY 2: THE T0P STORIESKinowelt's Ziannis sets up new sales shop AktisAutlook takes world on Panorama doc War + Love Wide gives Hand to Strand for US Atrix boards Murnberger's Bone Man Pinball Films pitches Fuckart High-Fliers acquires UK rights to New Town Killers Pathe seals deals on Frears' Cheri ...
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Rotterdam and Berlin could overlap in 2010
The Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals are on a potential collision course with their dates for 2010 when the Berlinale will be celebrating its 60 th anniversary. At the end of this year's edition last weekend, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced that its 2010 dates will be Wednesday ...
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Murdoch, Packer tipped to back investment bank
Australia's two biggest media moguls, Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch, are to bankroll a new investment bank that also has backing from Swiss insurer Zurich Financial Services, according to Australia's Sydney Morning Herald.The Packer family company, Consolidated Press Holdings Investment Corporation, is to tip in $28m (A$55m) into the new ...
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Echo Bridge sells far and wide on Ruins, Inhale
Heading in to the EFM Los Angeles-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has closed key territories on My Life In Ruins, Virgin On Bourbon Street and Inhale. Rights to the romantic comedy My Life In Ruins have gone to Warner Bros in the UK, Splendid Films in Germany, Fox Searchlight in Australia ...
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Reliance seals deals with Julia Roberts and Brett Ratner
Reliance Big Entertainment has signed a further two development deals in Hollywood - with Julia Roberts' Red Om Films and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment - to add to the seven similar deals announced last year at Cannes. As with the other deals, RBE will create a development silo for each ...
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Loveridge launches Meridiana with first slate
Industry veteran Helen Loveridge, who co-founded Fortissimo Film Sales, has announced details of her new, London-based sales outfit, Meridiana Films. 'This is my first active market,' Loveridge commented. 'I will be starting slowly, looking to build up as we did with Fortissimo.' The company will be handling both dramatic features ...
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Memento closes on Larrieu brothers' This Is The End
Paris-based Memento Films International has taken on international sales to This Is The End, the new $13m (Euros 10m) end-of-the-world epic from Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu. Produced by veteran Bruno Pesery in association with Backup Films through their Coficup fund, the film stars Matthieu Amalric, Sergi Lopez, Catherine Frot and ...
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NewsBenjamin Button strides into major markets two weeks before Oscars
MGM/UA’s wartime thriller Valkyrie has been the leading Hollywood export through Fox International for the past two weekends and has raced past $40m, but without any new releases Fox Internationalwill look to strong holdover business to maintain momentum.
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Korea's Fine Cut wraps up pre-EFM sales
Seoul-based sales agent Fine Cut has wrapped up a slew of sales on the eve of the EFM, including the sale of Antique, which screens here in the Culinary Cinema section, to Thailand's Rose Media. Directed by Min Kyu-dong (Memento Mori) and starring French actor Andy Gillet, the film was ...
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Berlin briefs: Day two
Pathe closes Cheri dealsPathe International has closed two pre-market deals on Stephen Frears' Cheri which screens In Competition next Tuesday. Lumiere has signed it up for Benelux and Nordisk for Scandinavia. Other distributors already in place include Miramax Films in North America, Rai/01 in Italy and Icon in Australia/New Zealand. ...
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Wild Bunch arrives in Berlin with auteur-packed sales slate
Wild Bunch comes to Berlin this year boasting new projects from both seasoned and fresh talent - and has a few special events up its sleeve.In casting news, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty have joined the previously announced The Killer Inside Me, a $13m adaptation of ...
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Tom Tykwer teams up with the Wachowskis
Tom Tykwer is teaming up with the Wachowski brothers on one of two projects he currently has in development. Tykwer said he is working on an adaptation of UK author David Mitchell's 2004 Booker Prize shortlisted novel Cloud Atlas, whose action stretches from the remote South Pacific in the 19 ...
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Dancer to open Estonia's Black Nights fest
Lars von Trier's Palme d'Or-winning Dancer In The Dark will open the 4th Black Nights Film Festival, which takes place in the Estonian cities of Tallinn and Tartu from December 3 to 10.As the name indicates, the festival offers entertainment through Estonia's long and dark December nights, and this year ...
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Sundance winners team for Second Child
Lee Daniels, fresh from his Sundance triumph as director of multiple prize-winner Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire, is teaming up with Chilean film-maker Sebastian Silva, whose film The Maid won the world cinema dramatic grand jury prize at Sundance, to produce Silva's next film Second Child.Daniels is here ...
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T&C Pictures Internationalpacks Black Dynamite
David Jourdan's fledgling sales agency T&C Pictures International has picked up Scott Sanders' Sundance blaxpoitation pastiche Black Dynamite, while celebrating a North American deal with Summit Entertainment on its first film comedy musical Lock And Roll Forever. Jourdan closed the Black Dynamite deal with Endeavor Independent's Graham Taylor and Mark ...
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Cast lines up for Werner Herzog andDavid Lynch horror
Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny and Udo Kier have signed on to Werner Herzog and David Lynch's first collaboration, the psychological horror tale My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, finance and sales company Unified Pictures is handling international sales with ...
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Alien goes international with Little
The Little Film Company has boarded international rights to RW Goodwin's 1950s sci-fi homage Alien Trespass and is commencing talks with buyers in Berlin. Eric McCormack and Robert Patrick star in the story of a benevolent alien that inhabits the body of a Californian astronomer in the hopes of saving ...
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Content gets Ironclad
ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Mythic International Entertainment’s Ironclad which stars James Purefoy and Paul Giamatti. Directed by Jonathan English (Minotaur), Ironclad is an ultra violent medieval action thriller. It is set to go in production in the summer.It tells the true story of a group of ...
