AGC International has closed a raft of sales on virtual AFM project Universe’s Most Wanted.
Deals have closed with Entertainment Film Distribution in the U.K. and Ireland; Constantin Film in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; Vertice Cine in Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal; Elevation Pictures in Canada; Volga Film in Cis and Baltics; The Searchers in Benelux; Spi International in Eastern Europe and Turkey; Joy N Cinema in South Korea; Long Shong International in Taiwan; Mvp Entertainment in India; Empire Entertainment in South Africa; Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand; Panorama Entertainment in Hong Kong; Pioneer Films in the Philippines; Selim Ramia & Co. in the Middle East; United King in Israel; and Echo Lake Entertainment for Airlines.
Director Brad Peyton (Rampage) and actor Dave Bautista (Guardians Of The Galaxy) are teaming up to produce the sci-fi action movie, which is slated to go into production next year.
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Deals have closed with Entertainment Film Distribution in the U.K. and Ireland; Constantin Film in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; Vertice Cine in Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal; Elevation Pictures in Canada; Volga Film in Cis and Baltics; The Searchers in Benelux; Spi International in Eastern Europe and Turkey; Joy N Cinema in South Korea; Long Shong International in Taiwan; Mvp Entertainment in India; Empire Entertainment in South Africa; Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand; Panorama Entertainment in Hong Kong; Pioneer Films in the Philippines; Selim Ramia & Co. in the Middle East; United King in Israel; and Echo Lake Entertainment for Airlines.
Director Brad Peyton (Rampage) and actor Dave Bautista (Guardians Of The Galaxy) are teaming up to produce the sci-fi action movie, which is slated to go into production next year.
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- 11/17/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Hajni Kis's Wild Roots has received the Trt Award, while Bassel Ghandour's The Alleys picked up the Post-production Development Award. The Works in Progress segment of Karlovy Vary's Eastern Promises Industry Days section, which took place online earlier this week, has announced its award winners. Two out of the eight projects (find the full list and the composition of the juries in this news story) received prizes, and we profile them below. Works in Progress Trt Award Wild Roots - Hajni Kis (Hungary/Slovakia)The first feature by writer-director Hajni Kis, whose 2016 short Beautiful Figure was nominated for the Student Oscars, is a semi-autobiographical story starring non-professionals. The lead character, Tibor, is an ex-con who works as a bouncer in a club, and is played by Gusztáv Dietz, a former Mma world champion and bodyguard. He has financial difficulties, and because of his vehement nature, he’s always in conflict with.
Barbora Sliepková's first feature-length documentary, a black-and-white essay on Bratislava-inspired city symphonies, received the €5,000 prize. The Docs in Progress segment of Karlovy Vary's Eastern Promises Industry Days took place online earlier this week, with eight projects from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus competing for the €5,000 award, which ended up going to Slovak filmmaker Barbora Sliepková's The Lines. For the first-time writer-director, Bratislava is a city of thick lines between past and present, and public and private. She focuses on the rhythm, atmosphere and ordinary stories of the city's inhabitants, one of whom is a narrator, of sorts, for the film, with his own poetry. "I have always loved those timeless, urban symphonies by great filmmakers of the past, and they are the apparent inspiration behind this film," says Sliepková. Producer Barbara Janišová Feglová, of Hitchhiker Cinema, adds: "As a post-socialist metropolis, Bratislava has been developing very fast but...
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