01/06/2006

Momentum has bought PS I Love You by Richard LaGravenese and Love In The Time of Cholera by Mike Newell from US-based Summit, and from QED International the thriller Spring Break In Bosnia, starring Richard Gere. The company, owned by Canada’s Alliance Atlantis, also acquired competition title Cronica de una fuga (Buenos Aires 1977) from Wild Bunch.

Icon Film Distribution acquired La vie en rose from TF1 International and Peter Hedges’ Dan in Real Life from Focus. Pathe bought David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind from Focus, US horror film Damned from Green Room and Tom Putnam’s The Hottie and the Nottie from Summit.

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As previously reported in Cineuropa, Artificial Eye bought Fipresci Turkish winner Climates [+see also:
trailer
interview: Zeynep Ozbatur
film profile], The Family Friend, The Page Turner [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Denis Dercourt
interview: Michel Saint-Jean
film profile] as well as Abderrahmane Sissako’s out of competition film Bamako, sold by Les Films du Losange.

Soda Pictures acquired Susanne Bier’s After the Wedding [+see also:
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interview: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
interview: Susanne Bier
film profile] from Trust; Brice Cauvin’s Hotel Harabati, sold by Films Distribution; Anders Banke’s Swedish vampire film Frostbite [+see also:
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film profile], sold by NonStop Sales; and 2006 Rotterdam Tiger Award winner Old Joy by Kelly Reichardt, sold by US based Forward Entertainment. Dogwoof Pictures bought the 2006 Berlinale Golden Bear winner Grbavica from The Match Factory.

Among the eight new titles opening on Friday, June 2, in the UK are the UK/South African/French co-production Wah Wah by Richard E. Grant, released by Lionsgate UK; 36 Quai des orfèvres by French filmmaker Olivier Marchall, released as 36 by Tartan Films; Paul Greengrass’ United 93, released by UIP; and the UK comedy by Simon Shore, Things To Do before You’re 30, released on 9 screens by Momentum.