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Filmart reports record-breaking attendance
Buyer numbers rocketed at leading Hong Kong film event Filmart which closed today (June 30), a surge pundits say highlights the recovery of the local film and TV sector.At the end of the three-day market, Filmart had registered more than 1,120 buyers, a record for the four-year-old event. Original predictions ...
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IFC gets North American rights to Requiem
IFC Entertainment has picked up North American rights toHans-Christian Schmid's exorcism tale Requiem, the true story that inspiredlast year's release The Exorcism Of Emily Rose.IFC will open the picture through its multi-platformlabel First Take on Oct 20 following its North American premiere here in the ContemporaryWorld Cinema section.The film premiered ...
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Reflection strikes North American deal for The Yacoubian Building
Bac Films has sold North American rights for The Yacoubian Building (Omaret Yakobean) to Reflection Distribution. MarwanHamed's sweeping Egyptian saga about modern-day lifein Cairo premiered at Berlin and has crossed $360,000 after two weeks on releasein France. Bac's head of salesSilvere Moreau negotiated the deal with Mohad Youssef at Reflection,which ...
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Feature planned based on life of rocker Carole Pope
Jan Nathansonof straight edge films and Andrew Boutilier of SubmissionFilms have teamed to acquire the rights to produce a feature based on the lifeand times of Canadian rock icon Carole Pope. Based on Pope's 2001autobiography Anti-Diva, the filmexplores the outrageous life of the openly lesbian Canadian singer and hercareer in ...
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Sogepaq books multiple deals for DarkBlueAlmostBlack
Spain's Sogepaq has closed a string of sales onwell-received Venice Days entry DarkBlueAlmostBlack (AzulOscuroCasiNegro) which screens in Toronto's Visions programme. The sales, closed in Venice, were to Arsenal for Germany and Austria, Frenetic Films for Switzerland, Cineart for Benelux, Budapest Film in Hungary, Strada in Greece and Arthouse Traffic in ...
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Bavaria on board for restoration of Berlin Alexanderplatz
Bavaria Media has teamed upwith The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation torestore Fassbinder's classic 14-part TV opus Berlin Alexanderplatz,which first aired on ARD in 1980.The project's originaldirector of photography Xaver Schwarzenbergerand the production manager of the series Dieter Minx are supervising therestoration with Juliane Lorenz, Fassbinder'seditor and the president of the ...
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Jim Harvey joins Element Films as VP of sales
Element Films International,the sales arm of Sam Nazarian's Los Angeles-basedElement Films, has hired Jim Harvey as vice president of sales. Harvey arrives from Myriad Pictures and will reportdirectly to Element Films International chief John Fremes.Since 2002 he has served as executive director of sales and distribution atMyriad Pictures, where he ...
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Hammer & Tongs wraps Son of Rambow
Shooting has wrapped on Son Of Rambow, the latest film from the UK film-making team of Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, better known as Hammer & Tongs (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy).The film is being sold in Toronto by Celluloid Dreams and was executive produced by Hengameh Panahi and ...
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George Romero starts pre-production on Diary Of The Dead
George A Romero and producing partner Peter Grunwald have begun pre-production on the iconic filmmaker's latest zombie tale, Diary Of The Dead. Romero/Grunwald Productions is producing and financing the under-$10m project with Los Angeles-based Artfire Films and will commence production in Toronto on Oct 11.The story centres on a group ...
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Eli Roth joins cast of Tarantino's Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino has cast Hostel director Eli Roth, Michael Bacall and newcomer Omar Doom in Death Proof, his half of the Grindhouse horrordouble-bill he is preparing with Robert Rodriguez.Death Proofstars Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson and Zoe Bell and is currently shooting in Austin, Texas.Rodriguez' contribution Planet Terror recently completed filmingin ...
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William Hurt joins cast of $13m mystery Lighthouse
William Hurt has signed onfor a lead role in Lighthouse for Vancouver-basedIrreverent Media.The $13m mystery, fullyfinanced through private investors, is the feature debut of writer-directorFrederick Thorsen. Irreverent CEO Tom O'Brien is leadproducer while Michael Grais of Poltergeist fame is executive producer. Stockholm-based NonStop is handling world sales. Described as a ...
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OBITUARY: Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy's most indomitable theatre and cinema icons, died Thursday at age 78 from a heart attack. The actor, who defined an era of Italian cinema and was known as much for his dramatic roles as his comedic gems, appeared in such classic films as I Soliti ...
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Optimum buys UK rights to GreeneStreet's Tennis Coach
Optimum Releasing has picked up UK rights from GreeneStreet FilmsInternational (GSFI) to the upcoming comedy Gary The Tennis Coach.Seann William Scott stars as ahigh school janitor and former tennis pro who rediscovers his interest in thesport when he coaches a team of misfits to the Nebraska state championships.Danny Leiner will ...
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Peace Arch signs 24-title deal with Movie Central in Canada
Peace Arch Entertainment has signed a multi-picture content dealwith Corus Entertainment's Western Canadian pay television service MovieCentral.Over the next three years, Movie Central will pre-license 24 newtitles from Peace Arch, including movies-of-the-week and feature-lengthproductions.In addition to the 24-title roster, Movie Central has pre-licenseda series of six features under the title ...
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KOCH Lorber picks up domestic rights to Chabrol's Comedy Of Power
New York-based KOCH Lorber Films has picked up domestic rightsfrom Wild Bunch to Claude Chabrol's thriller A Comedy Of Power (L'Ivresse Du Pouvoir).The distributor plans an initial limited release in New York Cityin January 2007 followed by major market expansion and DVD release later in theyear.A Comedy Of Power stars ...
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Bavaria Film International picks up Brazilian Fish Dreams
Bavaria Film Internationalhas taken worldwide rights on Kirill Mikhanovsky's Fish Dreams (Sonhos De Peixe) about the struggles of daily life in a remoteBrazilian village.The Unison Films productionscreened in Critics Week at Cannes and features a mostly untrained cast ofactors with the exception of Phellipe Haagensen from City Of God.Bavaria will ...
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CMG picks up international rights to Greenwald's Iraq For Sale
Edward Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group has picked up international rights to Robert Greenwald'sdocumentary Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers.Greenwald's latest volleyexposes the culture of corporate greed that has permeated US reconstructionprogrammes in Iraq and looks at how political and economic forces have impactedthe lives of citizens in the country.Noeltner will commence ...
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Brit pics Grace, Queen bookend Heartland Film Festival
The US premiere of MichaelApted's slavery abolition drama Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd, and Stephen Frears' TheQueen starring Helen Mirren bookendthe 2006 Heartland Film Festival.The festival, which is setto run from Oct 19-27 in Indianapolis, will also present the world premiere ofthe CGI animated children's feature Air Buddies.Festival organisers havedoubled ...
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Seville lands The Bubble in Canada
Pierre Menahem's ScalpelFilms has sold Canadian rights to Eytan Fox's The Bubble to Seville Pictures.The Bubble, Fox's follow-upto Walk On Water, has itsinternational premiere in Toronto as a Special Presentation.The film first bowed athome in Israel, where it has notched almost 100,000 admissions in two months.Set in Tel Aviv's hippestneighbourhood, ...
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Newton & Leo comes Perfect Circle
Vancouver-based Perfect Circle Productions has completedfinancing on Jesse Rosensweet's $5m stop-action animated feature Newton AndLeo. Rosensweet's The Stone Follywon the Jury Prize for best animated shortat Cannes in 2002. Described as a 'fairytale-gone-wrong', the story follows Thomas Galileo Newton, an inventor struggling to invent a cure for his son, Leo, ...