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AFM hails all-time record attendance numbers
Overall attendance at theAFM reached an all-time high of 8,014, market organisers said this week. Attendance is up 13% againstlast year's comparable figure of 7,064. The final tally of buyers is 1,583 from62 countries, with France, Brazil, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong reportingsignificant rises in the number of buyers ...
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MonteCristo seals pre-sales on Apartment 1303
Michael Taverna'sMonteCristo Entertainment has completed a raft of pre-sales on horror title Apartment1303, which centres on theterrifying circumstances surrounding a rental apartment. Rights have gone to UniKoreain South Korea, DNC Entertainment in Italy, Flins y Pinniculas in Spain, NewWorld in Thailand, Ram Indo in Singapore/Malaysia, and Noble Entertainment inScandinavia. Amuse ...
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Shoreline acquires rights to Sudden Storm
Shoreline Entertainment hasacquired worldwide rights to Sudden Storm Productions' erotic thriller BarstoolWords. Jeff Glickman's directorialdebut centres on two high school friends who become ensnared in a web ofintrigue when they encounter a femme fatale from their past. Vincent Kartheiser, SarahCarter, Geoffrey Arend, Colm Feore and newcomer Krystin Pellerin star in ...
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Wolper acquires rights to story of Palestinian would-be suicide bomber
Wolper Organization hasacquired feature rights to Love And Terror, based on David France's true story about a teenage Palestinian girl'sarrest and conviction for conspiring to carry out a suicide bombing. Wolper is ramping up forproduction in association with Pterodactyl Productions and Plain Brown WrapperProductions. Mark Wolper and KevinNicklaus are producing ...
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Russian indie reveals ambitious plans after takeover
Russia's biggestindependent film company Central Partnership is promising an ambitious production programme and new studio facilities after itstakeover by Prof-Media, a subsidiary of industrial giant Interros."Most of the newfunds secured from the undisclosed deal will be invested in film production and newprojects," Central Partnership's generaldirector Ruben Dishdishian told Screen, He ...
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European quartet head for New York Industry Screenings
A re-edited version of Florian Hoffmeister's Silver Leopard winner Three Degrees Colder is one of four European films being presented at European Film Promotion's (EFP) first New York Industry Screenings programme at the Tribeca Cinemas from November 14 - 15.The other films selected for the private, invitation-only screenings are: Eleven ...
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Manslaughter gathers more garlands
Per Fly's Manslaughter has picked up the top prize at the Nordische Filmtagein Lubeck.The$15,000 NDR Film Prize is awarded for a "feature film of special artisticquality." The third film in Fly's class trilogy also won the Nordic Council Film Prize 2005 last month.Trust Film Sales has struck a number of ...
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Ambergate to give UK's 2 Days US outing
US boutique distributor Ambergate has acquired British film 2 Days, 9 Lives for theatrical distribution. The film, which details 48 hours in the life of a group of people in rehab, is the first feature by commercials director Simon Monjack, who also takes co-writing and music composing credits. Ambergate plans ...
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German Media Funds under imminent threat, say reports
German Federal Finance Minister Hans Eichel is reported to be submitting a motion forcabinet approval which would spell the end of the media funds by the end ofthis week.Accordingto German press reports, the Federal Cabinet will be asked to vote on changesto the Income Tax Code by Thursday (Nov 10). ...
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Nanny McPhee sweeps to top of UK charts
NannyMcPhee has worked her magic on the UK box office, takingstop spot in its third weekend. The WorkingTitle film, which stars Emma Thompson, took $2.9m (£1.7m) over the weekend tobring its total after 17 days to $22.3m (£12.8m).It wasenough to leapfrog the week older Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of ...
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Sorry, Haters
Dir/scr: Jeff Stanzler. US. 2005. 84mins.Jeff Stanzler's ambitious,unsettling second feature, Sorry, Hatersdeals in some disturbing imagery and visceral contemporary relevance,attempting to say something provocative about US culture and its frayed socialfabric in the wake of September 11.Unfortunately, its Hitchcockian treatment of sin, guilt and transferenceproduces a dramatic imbalance that undermines ...
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What the Snow Brings (Yuki Ni Negau Koto)
Dir: Kichitaro Negishi. Jap. 2005. 112mins.What The Snow Brings pulled offa Superfecta at the Tokyo International Film Festival,winning the top prize - the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix - on top of the best directorprize for Kichitaro Negishi,the best actor prize for star Koichi Sato and the audience award.As its haul ...
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EFM announces record sign-up levels
Asthe AFM draws to a close, Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) has announced arecord 240 companies signed up to take part in the event (Feb 9-19).Coincidingwith the 56th Berlin International Film Festival, the EFM hasalready attracted delegates from 45 countries in the year it moves to its newlocation in the ...
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Tornasol to understudy De la Iglesia's Oxford thriller
Spain'sTornasol Films is backing the second English-language foray of Spanish cultdirector Alex de la Iglesia, the UK-set Oxford Murders.A serial killer thriller set against the esoteric world of mathematics at Oxford University,Murders will shoot with an international cast there next year.AUK co-producer is in talks for the Euros 6m project, ...
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International Screenwriters Festival makes debut in 2006
The world's first major festival exclusively devotedto the art, craft and business of international scriptwriting is to be inaugurated next Summer.The Screenwriters Festival(June 27-30), backed by Screen International, will be based in the UK town ofCheltenham, which is already home to a leading literary festival.Major names from around theworld have ...
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Arclight's Ohio logs key territory sales
Arclight Films has closed araft of deals at AFM on Ambush Entertainment's comedy The Oh In Ohio, which stars Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito,and Liza Minelli.Rights have gone to Telepoolin Germany, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Dutch Film Works in Benelux, Castello Lopezin Portugal, Gulf Films in Middle East, and SPI ...
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Frappier's Max sells Saint-Martyr to four
Roger Frappier's Max Filmshas completed sales on four territories at the AFM for Robin Aubert's featuredebut St. Martyrs Of The Damned (Saint-Martyr-Des-Damnes). Produced by Frappier and LucVandal, the psychological thriller has sold to Japan through AK Company,Germany through Media Corp. One, Benelux through Film Freak Distributie andBrazil through California Films. ...
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Braddel promoted to senior vp distribution at SPRI
Mark Braddel has beenpromoted to senior vice president of distribution in Eastern Europe, the MiddleEast and Africa at Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Braddel will continue toreport to SPRI senior executive vice president Mark Zucker and assumesresponsibility for all theatrical distribution operations in his assignedterritories.'It's a true pleasureto recognise Mark's role ...
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Gateway founder commits $100m to Gold Circle Films
Gateway Computers co-founder Norm Waitt is making his first foray into filmmaking, committing up to $100m over the next two years towards the financing of independent features. Through his media company Gold Circle Entertainment - which owns 53 radio stations, five television stations and an advertising firm - Waitt has ...
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IDT's animated Yankee Irving sells well at AFM
IDT Entertainment Sales hasclosed multiple territory deals at AFM on the CG-animated family title YankeeIrving.Rights have gone to LNK inPortugal, Luxor Group in CIS, Baltic States and Bulgaria, Tuck International inthe former Yugoslavia, J-Bics in Thailand, and Sam Film in Iceland, amongothers."We weren't planning onselling Yankee Irving until earlynext year," ...