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NewsHausner's Lourdes wins Viennale best film award
Jessica Hausner ‘s Lourdes was presented with the Vienna Film Prize for best film as the Viennale wrapped on Wednesday evening (November 4) with a screening of Coen brother’s A Serious Man.
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NewsHMR Film and Reach Up High board zombie flick Devil's Playground
HMR Film and Reach Up High Entertainment have boarded Black & Blue Film’s forthcoming zombie film, Devil’s Playground. It will begin shooting at Elstree Studios on November 30.
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NewsMichael Jackson dominates the international box office
Sony’s This Is It topped international box office charts this week as the Michael Jackson documentary grossed a total of $68.9m in 74 territories.
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NewsParanormal Activity lingers as Jackson reigns
Michael Jackson’s This Is It was the undisputed champion of the global box office this weekend (October 31 to November 1), grossing more than a $100m over a staggering 12,391 screens.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund supports 27 projects with $571, 357
The Hubert Bals Fund, part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), is handing out $571, 357 (€385,000) to 27 film projects this autumn.
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NewsTurin to honour Coppola's American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope will receive an inaugural Torino Grand Prix for its contribution to revitalising the US film industry. The director will attend the 27th Turin Film Festival, which runs November 13 – 21, to collect the award.
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NewsDouble Edge picks up Chu’s $15m Treasure Hunter
Taipei-based Double Edge Entertainment has picked up a slew of rights on Kevin Chu’s $15m Treasure Hunter, starring Taiwanese idol Jay Chou, and sealed a Chinese deal on sci-fi action film The King Of Fighters.
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NewsStars align for Abe Sylvia's Dirty Girl
Juno Temple, Sally Hawkins and Lisa Kudrow are joining William H Macy and newcomer Jeremy Dozier in Abe Sylvia’s debut feature Dirty Girl, which is being sold at AFM by Salt.
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NewsRoadside Attractions takes US rights to The Joneses
Roadside Attractions has acquired US theatrical rights to Derrick Borte’s satire The Joneses, the recent Toronto world premiere starring Demi Moore, David Duchovny and Amber Heard.
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NewsInaugural Sundance Film Festival USA mini-tour to launch in January
The Sundance Film Festival will take eight film-makers and their films from the 2010 line-up on the road to eight cities under the Sundance Film Festival USA initiative.
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NewsAFM sellers down by 10%, but buyer numbers up
The number of exhibitors selling films at the American Film Market has dropped by 10% on last year – but the number of buyers attending the event has risen slightly, the market’s organiser said today.
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NewsIntandem takes worldwide on Ways To Live Forever
London-based film finance and international sales company Intandem Films has taken worldwide rights to family drama Ways to Live Forever.
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NewsCJ sells Good Morning President to Japan
Korea’s CJ Entertainment has had a busy start to the AFM, scoring sales on new titles White Night and Killer Bride’s Perfect Crime and selling Good Morning President to SPO Entertainment for Japan.
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NewsSobini Films boards Hemingway project with Hopkins, Garcia, Bening
Sobini Films has boarded international sales rights to Andy Garcia’s Hemingway & Fuentes, an account of Ernest Hemingway’s years in Cuba.
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NewsJulien Temple to direct F&ME’s Fake!
British director Julien Temple has joined forces with Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME), the London-based production company run by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, to direct the company’s long-gestating $15 million art heist movie Fake!
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News6 Sales closes territories on UTV’s Ex Terminators
Spain’s 6 Sales has closed deals with Ascot Elite for Germany, Four Corners in Benelux and Horizon One in Australia for comedy Ex Terminators which stars Heather Graham, Jennifer Coolidge and Amber Heard as three women who meet in an anger management class.
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NewsIstvan Szabo’s The Door lands at Bankside
London-based Bankside Films has taken worldwide rights to The Door, the new feature from Academy Award-winning director Istvan Szabo. It will star Helen Mirren.
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NewsSC closes key Euro deals on Gunslinger
Simon Crowe’s ambitious new sales outfit SC Films closed a slew of deals on its Josh Hartnett vehicle Gunslinger ahead of AFM.