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Cathay sells classics library to i-Cable for Hong Kong pay-TV, internet
Cathay Organisation has sold its Cathay Classics Films library to i-Cable Hong Kong for Hong Kong and Macau pay-TV and internet. Separately, Cathay is issuing a DVD box set with musicals starring Grace Chan aka Ge Lan, one of the foremost actresses of her era - Wild Wild Rose, Mambo ...
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Beta Cinema clinches US deal with MPI for Il Divo
Beta Cinema has announced its first raft of sales at the AFM, including a US sale to MPI Media Group for Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes award-winner Il Divo. The drama about the controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti has also been sold to Germany (Delphi Film), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Denmark (Sunrise Film), ...
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Ivan Fila to direct Bella Luna for Eyeworks
Eyeworks Film and TV drama, the aggressive Dutch production outfit behind Oscar winner Antonia's Line, is to partner with Czech auteur Ivan Fila on new romantic comedy, Bella Luna. Fila has scripted and will direct the project, which follows twoelderly movie stars who had a torrid affair many years before ...
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Milla Jovovich comes back with William H Macy
Milla Jovovich has joined the cast of William H Macy's directorial debut Keep Coming Back. Macy and Steve Buscemi will also star in the coming-of-age story.ContentFilm has international rights and expects more cast to be announced soon.Jovovich plays a recovering alcoholic ex-stripper who meets a sheltered 18-year-old boy with a ...
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Oliver Hirschbiegel's back with Angel Face at Telepool
Telepool has secured world rights, excluding German speaking territories, to Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel's new project Angel Face (working title).The adaptation of the best-selling book by Spiegel magazine author Andreas Ulrich unites Hirschbiegel with Moritz Bleibtreu, the lead actor in his 2001 psychodrama The Experiment. Principal photography on the German-Italian ...
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Celluloid Dreams sells Let's Make Money to Ad Vitam in France
Early in the market, Paris-based Celluloid Dreams has closed a deal with Ad Vitam in France for Let's Make Money, its timely new feature-documentary about global finance and its woes. The film is directed by Erwin Wagenhofer and produced by Allegro's Helmut Grasser. Filmladen is handling its release in Austria ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 7
Trellis Huahn has been appointed to the newly created post of executive vice president of business affairs at Bold Films.Huahn will report directly to Bold Films' president or worldwide distribution Stephanie Denton and will play a key role in production, finance and development negotiations and will oversee all worldwide distribution ...
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Martinez's Cinepro takes on $20m thriller Tribes Of October
Philippe Martinez returns to AFM with production and sales start-upCinepro Pictures and is introducing buyers to the $20m supernaturalthriller Tribes Of October.Martinez will direct and co-produce with screenwriters Nick Valelongaand Paul Sloane. The story is styled as a police thriller with adevilish twist and filming is set to begin in ...
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Korea's Studio 2.0 sells film package to Rose Media in Thailand
Korea's Studio 2.0 has sealed a raft of deals led by Rose Media picking up melodrama Heartbreak Library for Thailand. The film stars Lee Dong-wook, whose TV series My Girl has raised his popularity in that country. Rose also snapped up the post-Korean War boys drama Once Upon A Time ...
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Voltage Pictures takes international on Seagal-starrer The Keeper
Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights to action title The Keeper starring Steven Seagal.Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment holds US video and VOD rights to the story about a Los Angeles police officer who flees South of the border after he is nearly killed by his greedy partner.He finds work ...
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HBO takes US TV rights to untitled Obama doc produced by Norton
HBO has acquired US television rights to an untitled documentary about President-Elect Barak Obama from Edward Norton's Class 5 Films.The deal was believed to be in the low seven figures and was negotiated with Endeavor Independent chief Graham Taylor and attorney Andrew Hurwitz, who are handling worldwide rights.Directors Amy Rice ...
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SPRI expecting Quantum leap as Bond launches in 56 territories
Quantum Of Solace will soar past $100m overseas this weekend as Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) unleashes James Bond in a further 56 territories following last weekend's record UK launch.The action saga has amassed more than $51.8m in less than a week and SPRI sources said it had already grossed ...
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SPWAG pacts with Senator US for US home entertainment, TV
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired domestic home entertainment and television distribution rights to Senator US's release slate.Among the initial titles in the multi-picture deal are the thriller Unthinkable that is currently in production and stars Samuel L Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Michael Sheen and the supernatural thriller ...
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Media 8 takes on international sales to A Film With Me In It
Media 8 Entertainment has taken international rights to Ian FitzGibbon's comedy A Film With Me In It, which recently received its North American premiere at Toronto.Dylan Moran and Mark Doherty star in the tale of a man whose girlfriend leaves him before he is beset by a tragedy of absurd ...
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Strand acquires US rights to Pablo Trapero's Lion's Den
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Pablo Trapero's Brazil-Argentina-South Korea co-production Lion's Den, which played in competition at Cannes and has been selected as Argentina's foreign language Oscar submission.The drama follows a college student who is imprisoned after being convicted for murder and discovers she is pregnant while ...
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French blockbuster Welcome To The Sticks triumphs in Germany, Italy
Defying conventional wisdom that local comedies don't travel, Dany Boon's French mega blockbuster Welcome To The Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis) is doing a roaring trade in both Germany and Italy. The comedy - released last weekend in Germany by Prokino under the title Wilkommen Bei Den Scht'is - has ...
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Samuel Goldwyn acquires US rights to American Violet
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Uncommon Productions' American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and newcomer Nicole Beharie following its world premiere at Telluride.Director and producer Tim Disney and his screenwriter and Uncommon Productions partner Bill Haney are meeting with international buyers at AFM.Samuel Goldwyn plans a March release ...
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Sarah Polley to direct feature documentary The Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley is setting up her feature documentary debut, The Stories We Tell, one of four projects backed under the inaugural Canadian Film Centre-National Film Board of Canada Feature Documentary Program. The program launches in January 2009. The other filmmakers are veteran Canadian documentary filmmaker John Walker, Shelley Saywell, and ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to food industry doc Food Inc
Magnolia Pictures has picked up US rights to Participant Media's and River Road Entertainment's feature documentary Food, Inc. The film world premiered at Toronto and is due to screen at the Berlinale, with a US release scheduled for the first half of 2009. Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment negotiated the ...
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Anna Faris to receive rising star tribute at Bahamas festival
Anna Faris will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Chopard Award rising star tribute on December 8.Faris recently starred in the hit Sony comedy The House Bunny and her credits include the Scary Movie series, Smiley Face and Lost In Translation.She will star next spring opposite Seth Rogen in ...