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NewsForward Motion pitches Midgets Vs Mascots
Toronto-based Forward Motion has acquired international sales on the Gary Coleman (pictured) comedy Midgets Vs Mascots, one of several new titles on its slate.
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NewsI Phone You engages Kohlhaase
Wolfgang Kohlhaase (Summer In Berlin), winner of this year’s honorary Golden Bear, is attached as screenwriter to the Chinese-German culture-clash comedy I Phone You (working title).
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NewsIrvine Welsh to direct The Magnificant Eleven
Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh will direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs run ...
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NewsWe Distribution closes deals on Bodyguards And Assassins
World sales outfit We Distribution has closed deals for the $23 million budget Peter Chan produced Bodyguards And Assassins. Metropolitan took France and TMC took Turkey.
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NewsContentFilm snares The Uncatchable Cowgirl Bandits
ContentFilm International has taken worldwide rights to The Uncatchable Cowgirl Bandits Of Nottingham, Texas from director Jess Manafort and writer Michael Tabb.
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NewsWide seals deals on End, Room
French production and sales outfit Wide Management has confirmed a wave of deals on Portuguese-language drama From Beginning To End (Do Comeco Ao), Enrique Buchichio’s Leo’s Room (El Cuarto De Leo) and Laurence Charpentier’s Gigola.
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NewsAllfilm boards Screen best pitch title Rat King
Estonia’s Allfilm will co-produce Petri Kotwica’s third feature Rat King, which received the Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market last December.
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Shoreline Entertainment hits The Last Beat
Morris Ruskin’s Los Angeles-based Shoreline Entertainment has taken international rights to Gustave Reininger’s documentary Corso: The Last Beat.
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NewsNFD commits to local film with new hires
Nordisk Film Distribution (NFD) has appointed Lone Korslund as head of co-productions, and Rasmus Krogh as its new local film buyer.
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NewsOctane pushes genre titles
IM Global’s fast-rising Octane division is talking up its genre titles to international buyers here at the EFM.
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NewsLocarno unmoved by Sarajevo date change
The Locarno International Film Festival is not flustered by the Sarajevo Film Festival’s decision to bring its 16th edition forward a week to July 23-31, according to Locarno’s industry office chief Nadia Dresti.
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NewsFox goes Lubby Dubby for Russian comedy
Sanford Panitch’s Fox International Productions (FIP) has come aboard to co-produce Love Carrot 3 (Lubby Dubby 3), the latest entry in Russia’s hit bodyswap comedy franchise.FIP will partner with Interfest’s Renat Davletiarov and Alexander Kotelevsky on the film, a hot prospect given that the first instalment, released in 2007, grossed ...
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NewsHBO snaps up Grenier's Paparazzo
HBO has acquired US television rights to Adrian Grenier’s crowd pleasing documentary Teenage Paparazzo, which has been drawing heavy interest from international buyers at the EFM.
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NewsCampanella’s Eyes still attractive
Spanish sales agency Latido has sold Juan Jose Campanella’s The Secret In Their Eyes to Filmware International for Taiwan and is in advanced negotiations for Japan, Germany and Switzerland.
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NewsEasternlight cuts deals on 14 Blades
Easternlight Films has closed key territories on the Chinese revenge tale 14 Blades, which has raced to more than $8.7m in its first four days at the Chinese box office.
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NewsRome on collision course with AFM
The fifth edition of the International Rome Film Festival is set to clash with the American Film Market.
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Imagina takes on Leon de Aranoa’s Amador
Imagina is handling international sales on Amador, the new film from critics’ darling Fernando Leon de Aranoa.
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NewsAV sells Shank for France, Germany
AV Pictures has closed two major territory deals on urban action title Shank, with Wild Side taking France and Ascot Elite handling Germany. Further sales have also been closed with Benelux (Moviebank) and the Middle East (Falcon).
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NewsIndependents step up to Hollywood funding crisis
The crisis in the Hollywood studio system could signal a major upturn for the independent production and finance business, key players are hinting in Berlin.