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CMG sells Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures in US
EdNoeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has sold domestic rights to MoriahFilms' anti-semitism documentary Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures.EverAgain is the eighth documentary featureproduced by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, andexplores the resurgence of violent anti-semitism across Europe.Thedistributor plans a Dec 8 limited release in Los ...
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Film Sales Company picks up Somebody Like You
AndrewHerwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights tothe romantic comedy Somebody Like Youstarring Vanessa Williams.RichardSchenkman makes his feature directorial debut on the story of a successfulcareer woman who unknowingly falls in love with the man who donated the spermto father her son. Eartha Kitt, newcomer Kevin ...
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Silverman's Reveille signs movie deal with Universal
Reveille,the TV production company behind US remake hits The Office and Ugly Betty, haslaunched Reveille Motion Pictures (RMP) and entered into a first-look deal withUniversal Pictures.RMPwill create, acquire and develop a broad slate of diverse films and has alreadypurchased and put together a slate of unannounced projects.ProducerGraham Larson, who serves ...
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Kramer's Rive Gauche picks up Cuban Oscar submission El Benny
Jon Kramer's Rive Gauche Films has acquired worldwide rightsto Cuban smash and foreign-language Oscar submission El Benny and will bring the picture to AFM.Jorge Luis Sanchez's picture recounts the life of Cubanmusic legend Benny More, whose Afro-Cuban jazz big band sound took the nationby storm in the pre-Castro 1950s and ...
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Rogue picks up the world on Cameron's 3-D caving thriller
RoguePictures has picked up worldwide rights to James Cameron's upcoming andas-yet-untitled 3-D cave diving thriller.Thestudio is producing with Cameron's Earthship Productions, which the filmmakerset up to advancing his underwater expeditions and documentary work.GaryJohnstone will direct from a script by John Garvin. Cameron and Rogue willdevelop the script and the project ...
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The Waiting Room starts London shoot
Roger Goldby's debut feature The Waiting Room has begun shooting in South London.The film, whose stars include Anne-Marie Duff and Rupert Graves, has been funded entirely by private investors including Sir Tim Rice with the cast and crew receiving a stake in the final film.The film will shoot for five ...
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Marmot appointed as Skillset director of film
Janine Marmot has been named as the new director of film of UK training organisation Skillset.Marmot will oversee the body's five-year strategy for film, A Bigger Future, a joint initiative with the UK Film Council.The plans includes a UK-wide network of Skillset Screen Academies and the mentoring scheme Guiding Lights. ...
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TF1 AFM slate includes Paquet-Brenner double
Heading into the AmericanFilm Market, French sales outfit TF1 International will be featuring an eclecticslate of new films including a one-two punch in very different styles fromdirector Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The first, a follow up to2003's successful action-comedy Gomez&Tavares, is Payoff 2, directed byPaquet-Brenner and Cyril Sebaswith a cast that includes ...
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Hildebrand named MD of Future's UK office
FutureFilms has tapped Qwerty Films veteran Andrew Hildebrand as managing director ofFuture's UK operations.Hildebrandhad been head of commercial and business affairs at Michael Kuhn's QwertyFilms, working on films including Kinsey and I Heart Huckabees. He previously served as director of business affairs at Film4,head of business affairs at Channel 4 ...
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Cinemanila festival gains government support
The 8th Cinemanila film festival(Nov 3-15), which is the Philippines' only international film festival, has forthe first time gained the support of two national government agencies. Both the Film DevelopmentCouncil and the National Commission for Culture and Arts, along with theIndependent Cinema Association, are major partners of this year's event. ...
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Groening's Into Great Silence takes EFA Prix Arte
The European Film Academy'sdocumentary Prix Arte will be awarded to Philip Groening's Into GreatSilence (Die Grosse Stille). The jury for the award wascomprised of director/producer Adela Peeva from Bulgaria, director ThomasRiedelsheimer from Germany and producer Dorota Roszkowska from Poland.The jury said: "PhilipGroening's thoughtful film touches on the mystic quality of ...
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High Point takes on sales for Tom Collins' Kings
High Point Films has takenon international sales for Tom Collins' Kings, the big-screen adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play TheKings Of The Kilburn High Road.The project stars ColmMeaney in the story of a group of Irish men who emigrated to London but returnto their hometown after 25 years for a friend's ...
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France's AlloCine to launch movie channel
French film-oriented internet portal AlloCine, in which Canal Plus holds a 25% stake, will launch a movie-themed channel, AlloCine Television, as of September 2000.The channel will not screen films, but in line with AlloCine's website - www.allocine.com - will carry film-centred news including real-time box office, interviews and talk-shows. It ...
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HanWay takes on sales for Winterbottom's Genova
HanWay Films has acquired worldwide rights outsidethe UK for Michael Winterbottom's forthcoming Genova,which now has Colin Firth attached to star.Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton's London-basedproduction company Revolution Films is producing with co-financing from Film4(which holds UK rights). Winterbottom will shoot the project in spring 2007 onlocation in Italy with post-production will ...
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Welsh student festival Ffresh gets backing from new Film Agency for Wales
The Ffresh Student MovingImage Festival, held annually in Aberystwyth, Wales, has received backing fromthe newly established Film Agency for Wales.The agency has set up an $85,840(£45,000) funding package for the festival, which will be held Feb 15-16 at AberystwythArts Centre. The event is now in its sixth year, and it ...
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MK2 starts shoot for Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park
French outfit MK2 hasannounced the beginning of principal photography on the latest film from GusVan Sant. Filming begins this weekin Portland, Oregon on Paranoid Park, a project adapted from the book of the same name by Blake Nelson,which was released in the US in September.MK2 will produce with NeilKopp and ...
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Northern Lights sets industry summit attendees
The Northern Lights Film FestivalIndustry Summit is firming up plans for its Nov 17-18 event in Newcastle uponTyne. The summit will includepanel discussions, case studies, lectures, pitching sessions, speed meetings andnetworking opportunities. The festival will alsoannounce a winner of the Orange North Star Short Film Award 2006, which comeswith a ...
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QED takes on sales for The Girl In The Park
Bill Block's BeverlyHills-based sales company QED International has added psychological thriller TheGirl In The Park to its AFM slate.Keri Russell, AlessandroNivola and Elias Koteas have joined Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth onthe project, which is set to begin principal photography in New York onNov 13.Sean Furst, Bryan Furst and Chip ...
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Weinsteins and BBC Films find meerkat love
The Weinstein Company (TWC)and BBC Films will co-finance African wildlife feature The Meerkats, which is scheduled for a November shoot inthe Kalahari Desert.TWC holds worldwide rightsand international chief Glen Basner and his team will introduce the projectto buyers here at AFM. For the first time BBC Films will collaborate withthe ...
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IFC strikes US deal for Brisseau's Exterminating Angels
In the run up to the AFM ithas become clear that the controversy surrounding veteran French filmmakerJean-Claude Brisseau hasn't hurt his appeal in the marketplace. Brisseau'slatest feature The Exterminating Angels, which deals in dramatized form with incidents that later landed thedirector in court, has now been sold to IFC Films ...