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Big Dreams for Intandem
Intandem Films is renewing the relationships with US studioswhich the team behind the UK sales company built on titles such as MGM's Heartbreakerswhen they ran Winchester Entertainment.In what Intandem aims to be first project in an ongoingrelationship, the sales house is set to take on sales duties on Neon Dreams,MGM's ...
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Brodlie lands at TriStar Pictures
Longtime Miramax acquisitions executive Matt Brodlie hasjoined the exodus from the company and landed at Sony as senior vice president,production and acquisitions for TriStar Pictures.Relocating from New York to Los Angeles, Brodlie will beresponsible for all TriStar acquisitions and productions, reporting directly toTriStar president Valerie Van Gelder.In addition, Brodlie will ...
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Kaye returns with Reaper for Media 8
Maverick filmmaker Tony Kaye (American History X) has been confirmed to direct the thriller Reaper, which Media 8 will co-produce with Circle OfConfusion and is financing and distributing.Production is set to begin in February 2005 on the project,which tells of a private eye hired to work for a beautiful woman ...
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Tartan, TLA team on Skin flick
Tartan Films USA and TLA Releasing have jointly acquiredNorth American rights to Gregg Araki's drama Mysterious Skin.The deal for the controversial film was brokered by TartanFilms USA chief executive officer M J Peckos and John Sloss of Cinetic Media.Tartan and TLA plan a May 2005 theatrical release with DVDset to ...
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Berlin battles with demand for February market
Will Berlin be able toaccommodate the pent-up demand among sales companies here for a full-fledgedmarket next February'That's the question thathas been on so many lips at the current AFM, whose new November slot has joltedthe film-buying calendar out of its historic rhythm. Already a divide isemerging among those who favour ...
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Renaissance gets Creeeepy! with Araki
London-based Renaissance Films has picked up internationalrights to Gregg Araki's next film - a scary movie with teen sexcomedy elements called Creeeeps! whichis currently casting and will start shooting early next year. Araki wrote thescript and Mary Jane Skalski, who produced his last film MysteriousSkin, will produce.UTA is handling the ...
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Fortissimo boards Hedwig follow-up Shortbus
Fortissimo Film Sales haspicked up international rights to Shortbus,the much-discussed sexually frank new ensemble piece from Hedwig AndThe Angry Inch director John CameronMitchell.The film, in which Fortissimoalso takes an equity stake, is an exploration of sexuality, art and music thattracks a group of people during a power cut in New ...
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Happinet invests $1m in A Thousand Plateaux
Japanese finance anddistribution company Happinet this week committed $1m for an equity stake andJapanese rights to A Thousand Plateaux.The $2.8m Mongolian-set familyadventure by Jang Sun Woo, Korea's controversial director of Lies and Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl, will shoot in June next year.'We are thrilled to beable to continue ...
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Vampire thriller Perfect Creature enjoys strong sales
New Zealand Film, which shares sales duties with Arclight,has enjoyed strong sales on vampire thriller Perfect CreatureThe film by writer-director Glenn Standring was sold toMagna Pacific for Austria and New Zealand, Jiants for Thailand, Festive Films forSingapore and Sunny Film for Malaysia.Perfect Creaturestars Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Stuart Wilson and ...
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Japan's Artport snaps up heist thriller Chaos
Mobius International has sold the heist thriller Chaos starring Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe and WesleySnipes to Artport in Japan.Written and directed by Tony Giglio, the story involves twodetectives who team up to solve a $1bn-plus bank robbery and uncover a powerfulconspiracy.The company's president of international distributionMimi Steinbauer and Artport's James ...
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Lorber Media acquires Luis Bunuel 1950s crime drama
Lorber Media has picked up North American rights to TheYoung And The Damned (Los Olvidados), LuisBunuel's 1950s Mexican crime drama from France's Films SansFrontieres.Lorber plans a theatrical release starting in New York inFebruary 2005 and will distribute on a multi-disc DVD set next autumn. Lorberalso picked up Liquid Sky, SlavaTsukerman's ...
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AFM deals in brief
Media Asia unveiled the first sales on Korea Raiders, Jingle Ma's big-budget comedy action sequelto Tokyo Raider. The film wassold to GSC for Malaysia and Shaw Renters for Singapore. Meanwhile, Media Asiaalso sold A World Without Thieves,a gangster film by popular Chinese director Feng Xiaogang, to ComstockOrganisation for Japan, GSC ...
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Mitchell Galin resigns from New Amsterdam Ent.
Mitchell Galin has resigned from his position as president and member of the board at New Amsterdam Entertainment. Richard P Rubinstein will now assume the position of president alongside his current roles as chairman and CEO.Galin, who has relocated to Nashville to set up his own production company On The ...
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Renaissance wraps Only Human sales
Disproving the notion that humorous films do not traveleasily, Only Human (Seres Queridos), theSpanish comedy about a beautiful TV presenter and her dysfunctional family,racked up a large number of sales ahead of its AFM premiere on Saturday (6 Nov)The picture, handled by the UK's Renaissance Films,has been sold to Odeon ...
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Buyers snap up Shochiku sci-fi fantasy Casshern
Shochiku has succeeded in finding buyers across the worldfor Japanese sci-fi fantasy Casshern.It was bought by Studio Canal in France, Momentum Picturesin the U.K. and Ireland, Noble Entertainment in Scandinavia, I-ON New Media inGermany, Mikado Films in Italy, Bright Angel Distribution in Benelux, Lusomundoin Portugal, Audio Visual in Greece, Rialto ...
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City Of God spawns feature follow-up
Fernando Meirelles' City Of God looks set to spawn not only a record breaking TVseries called City Of Men butanother feature film as well.Recently-launched UK-based sales outfit Lumina Films aims tolaunch sales for the full-length feature at Cannes, with shooting slated for alate 2005 start. No director is as yet ...
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Tae Guk Gi director readies new action film
A new action film by Kang Je Gyu, the director behind theKorean box office smash Tae Guk Gi, isin the works at the newly-formed Korean powerhouse MKB.The untitled film by Kang, whose $13m Tae Guk Gi was the record grossing film of all time in Koreawith a $65m take, is ...
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The Salon secures US deal with Avatar
The Salon, a beautyparlour movie directed by super-hot screenwriter Mark Brown, has curled itselfround a US sale through UK seller Visual Factory.The film, which has a convoluted history including acourtroom battle with MGM over the title of the picture, has been sold toAvatar.The $3.5m black comedy, which stars Vivica Fox, ...
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UK Film Focus sets 2005 dates
The UK's mini-market London UK Film Focus will returnnext year between June 27 and 30 June at the National Film Theatre after a 2004edition which attracted 180 buyers.The event is backed by Film London, UK Film Council, FilmExport UK (FEUK), the London Development Agency through Creative London, UKTrade and Investment, ...
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Christopher Lambert set for Day Of Wrath
Christopher Lambert is set to star as a 16th century Spanishdetective in the thriller Day Of Wrath,which Mark Lester's American World Pictures has acquired for worldwidesales.'I play this sheriff whoinvestigates a series of murders that are going on around the time of theSpanish Inquisition,' Lambert told Screen duringa brief stop ...