All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 85
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Buyers jump on Venus for The Works
UK-based sales company TheWorks International has announced a successful run of deals at AFM, with moreto be finalised in coming days.Roger Michell's Venus starring Peter O'Toole has been sold to Icon forAustralia and New Zealand, A-Film for Benelux, Alfa for Argentina, LPR forBrazil, Forum Film for Israel and Golem for ...
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Wide finds more buyers for Fissures and Gradiva
France-based Wide Managementhas booked several new deals at the AFM. Pierre-Yves Borgeaud's Youssou N'Dourdocumentary Return To Goree hasbeen sold to Alcine Terran for Japan, with US and UK deals being negotiated.Alain Robbe-Grillet'serotically charged drama Gradivaand David Tamagi's romantic story Paper Moon Affair were both bought by AT Entertainment for Japan. ...
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inDplay signs up Allied Artists library
Licensing services companyinDplay.com has signed a deal with Allied Artists Corporation for its20,000-title library.Allied Artists will providetheir content to film and TV buyers globally by having it available on theinDplay video rights sales, acquisition and management platform. Last week, thefirst 200 titles were listed on the platform for browsing by ...
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Film4 backs Duane Hopkins' feature debut Better Things
Film4 hascome on board for Duane Hopkins' Better Things, soon to start shooting in theUK, and Fabrice de Welz's Vinyan, in development.Hopkins,who previously wrote and directed award-winning shorts Field and Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, will make his feature debut withBetter Things,a story about troubled teenagers in the picturesque ...
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Mischa Barton to star in Malice In Sunderland
The team behindMichael Radford's Flawless has reteamed with Future Films for Malice InSunderland, set to starMischa Barton.Simon Fellowswill direct the contemporary take on the Lewis Carroll classic, scripted byJayson Rothwell. The UK shoot will start in early 2007.Fellowspreviously directed 7 Seconds with Wesley Snipes and Second In Command and Til ...
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Seville gets pre-sale interest for Global Metal
Seville International hasmade several pre-sale deals here at the AFM for Global Metal, the follow-up to music documentary Metal: AHeadbangers Journey. The project isnow shooting.Deals have been made withAmuse Soft in Japan, Pretty Pictures in France, Europa Filmes for Brazil,Future Films for Scandinavia and D Productions for Turkey. Mikado has ...
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Momentum buys sci-fi movie Tomo from Becker
Momentum Pictures has boughtUK rights to Paul Catling's science fiction movie Tomo from Becker International. The film, which has beendeveloped and will be produced by Matthew Justice, is based on the short filmof the same name which won the international short film prize at the 2004Sundance Film Festival.The deal was ...
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AFM Internet problems continue to frustrate sellers
As Internet outagescontinued to frustrate AFM attendees, market organizers said that no decisionhad been made about compensating exhibitors for their headaches.After Internet outagethroughout the Loews for most of Thursday, there was spotty access on Fridayand another outage on Saturday from 8:30 am until after 3 pm. The Loewscontinued to blame ...
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Revolver signs AFM deals for Zoo and Tell No One
UK distributor RevolverEntertainment has announced several key acquisitions for its 2007 releaseslate, with two new titles acquired here at AFM: Guillaume Canet's Tell NoOne (Ne Le Dis A Personne) fromEuropaCorp and Robinson Devor's Zoofrom ThinkFilm.Tell No One, based on Harlan Coben's novel, is a French-languagethriller starring Canet with Kristin Scott ...
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Samantha Horley promoted as Lumina expands
Samantha Horleyhas been promoted to managing director of London-based Lumina Films and willnow take a stake in the company, parent company International Film Collectiveannounced. Horley had been head of sales since September 2004 after previoussales positions at Myriad Pictures, Summit Entertainment and Polygram Films. Also, the companyhas expanded by adding ...
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Equinoxe takes Canadian rights to I'm Reed Fish
Following on a US deal withNetflix's Red Envelope, I'm Reed Fish has now gone to Equinoxe Films for Canada.The deal was negotiated byCAA's Roeg Sutherland and Brian Kavanaugh Jones, as well as SubmarineEntertainment's Josh Braun, on behalf of Squared Foot producer Bader Alwazzan.Marie-Claude Poulin negotiated the deal on behalf of ...
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Shochiku buys Closing The Ring from Content
Shochiku hastaken Japanese rights to Richard Attenborough's Closing The Ring, in a deal here at the AFM withContentFilm International.ContentFilm also has closed deals on the film with Hopscotch in Australia, TeleMunchen in Germany, Alliance Atlantis/Odeon in Canada, A-Film in The Netherlands, Lusumundo in Portugal, Monolith in Poland, Gussi in Mexico, ...
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Seville strikes flurry of deals for Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Seville International hasbooked the first eight foreign deals for Canadian hit Bon Cop, Bad Cop here at the AFM.The film has gone toAlphaville for Brazil, Future Films for Scandinavia, RTL Televizio for Hungary,J-Bics for Thailand, D Productions for Turkey, Tandem for Bulgaria, MG for theformer Yugoslavia and Lizard Trade for ...
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Actress/director Adrienne Shelly found dead in New York
Actress, writer and directorAdrienne Shelly was found dead in her New York City apartment on Wednesday inan apparent suicide. The Medical Examiner has not ruled on the official causeof death.Shelly, 40, was known forher roles in Hal Hartley's 1989 The Unbelievable Truth and 1990 Trust and she recently appeared in ...
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Netflix's Red Envelope strikes US deal for I'm Reed Fish
Netflix's Red EnvelopeEntertainment has acquired the U.S. rights for I'm Reed Fish, sold by ContentFilm International.The Squared Foot productionis the first feature from director Zackary Adler. The coming-of-agecomedy/drama set in a small town stars Jay Baruchel, Alexis Bledel, SchuylerFisk, Victor Rasuk and DJ Qualls. Screenwriter Akiva Goldsmanserved as executive producer ...
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The Works takes UK rights for Prairie Home Companion
The Works UKDistribution has acquired all UK rights to Robert Altman's A Prairie HomeCompanion from CapitolFilms.Capitol's head ofsales Eve Schoukroun negotiated the deal with Works UK Distribution managingdirector Mick Southworth and director of marketing Laurence Gornall. Altman's comedystars Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohanand John ...
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Fawcett starts hedge fund to cashflow UK credits
Simon Fawcett, the formerfinance director for Pathe, is launching a new hedge fund to support Britishfilms. Aramid Entertainment Fund is the latest company stepping forward to cashflow the new UK tax credit and seeks to raise up to £150m.Aramid Capital Partnerscomprises three financiers: London-based Future Capital Partners, LA-basedScreen Capital International ...
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Beyond on board for Redgrave, Staunton comedy
Beyond Films has taken onsales for How About You, starringHayley Atwell, Vanessa Redgrave, Imelda Staunton and Brenda Fricker.Anthony Byrne will directwith Noel Pearson and Sarah Radclyffe producing. Pearson's Ferndale Filmsretains German and Irish rights, with the latter territory's theatrical and DVDrights going to Buena Vista.The comedy is adapted fromthe Maeve ...
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Internet problems frustrate exhibitors at AFM
AFMattendees were left stranded without Internet access on day two of the marketas the Internet service in the Loews hotel guest rooms went down Thursdaymorning and wasn't planned to be operating fully until after the business dayended.LoewsSanta Monica Beach Hotel manager John Thacker said that on Tuesday andWednesday, there were ...
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London Film Festival honours Arnold's Red Road
The Times BFI London FilmFestival ended its 50th anniversary edition tonight with a screening ofAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel.While the festival islargely non-competitive, there were four main awards presented at the closingceremony. The Sutherland Trophy for most original and imaginative first featurewent to Andrea Arnold for Red Road,the Fipresci prize went ...