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NewsSolid AFM deal-flow despite lack of new high-end fare
AFM trade appeared to be solid at the half-way mark despite a dearth of new high-end packages that in light of an extraordinary Cannes market was perceived more as a foible of the production and financing cycle than any harbinger of doom.
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NewsDead Man Down scores multiple sales for IM Global
Stuart Ford’s sales, production and finance company has reported a roaring trade on its fully financed thriller to star Noomi Rapace and Colin Farrell.
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NewsMagnet Media attracts Joe Dante to direct O2
Joe Dante will direct the $50m sci-fi thriller O2, the first of three projects set up by Jeanette Buerling’s Magnet Media Group and effects house Prime Focus.
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NewsMichael Clarke Duncan, Rebecca Black join US voice cast for Legend of a Rabbit
Producers confirm voice cast and close pre-sales on Legend of a Rabbit 2.
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NewsGrindstone takes Golden Network double
Lionsgate’s genre label Grindstone takes US rights to The Sword Identity and SeeFood.
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ITN Distribution picks up AFM sales title Weight Of The Heart
ITN Distribution has acquired international sales on $3m Bosnian dramatic thriller The Weight Of The Heart for AFM.
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MPI Media Group picks up Bounty Hunters for US
Raven Banner Entertainment licensed rights during AFM to the action title which has been set for a spring 2012 release.
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FeaturesFilmNation building
FilmNation’s Glen Basner and Aaron Ryder reveal to Jeremy Kay their recipe for success: whip up commercial productions, add a sales roster from leading directors, and feed a network of international distribution partners
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Lightning strikes key sales on Cat Run, Brake
Lightning Entertainment has closed key deals across its slate, led by sales on action comedy Cat Run to Quality Filmes for all Latin American rights excluding Brazilian DVD and to Ster Kinekor for South Africa.
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NewsIndependent's Charles Swan flies for Germany, Switzerland
Independent has closed two deals on A Glimpse Inside The Mind of Charles Swan III, which it introduced to buyers here at the AFM.
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NewsSpotlight heads into AFM with four new titles led by The Ghostmaker
The supernatural thriller centres on three friends who discover a coffin that allows them to travel into the world of the undead. It screens on Sunday.
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NewsMission Pictures International adds pair of new titles
Principals Chevonne O’Shaughnessy and Cindy Bond have bolstered their family- and faith-based roster with The 5th Quarter and Seven Days In Utopia.
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NewsParlay's The Words, Arbitrage speak to buyers
Lisa Wilson has reported strong territory sales on two of her leading titles as the AFM heads into the weekend.
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NewsAFM Finance Conference: Eurozone crisis not disastrous for film deals
Executives on AFM panel note less top dollar projects at AFM but strike positive note on current market
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Phase 4 takes North American rights to Hick
Derick Martini’s road movie starring Chloë Moretz and Blake Lively and premiered recently in Toronto.
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Penthouse North goes to Dimension for US
Dimension Films has picked up US rights to the Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton thriller Penthouse North, which Lionsgate is selling internationally at the market.
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NewsBuyers attached to Celluloid Dreams' Detachment
Buyers hot for high-school drama Detachment starring Adrien Brody.
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NewsRonan Bennett writing bomb squad thriller for Unanimous/Stylopik
Ronan Bennett (Public Enemies) is writing a new London-set action thriller for Chris Coen’s UK-based Unanimous Entertainment and Los Angeles-based Stylopik, which is funding the development.
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NewsSC Global adds MoniKa, Annabelle
Shauna Shapiro Jackson and David Jackson’s SC Global Media is selling revenge action thriller MoniKa and Amy Weber’s drama Annabelle & Bear.