27/09/2006

Scandinavian distribution company Non Stop Entertainment has announced an impressive line-up of fresh acquisitions from its trips to Venice and Toronto, including the European film My Best Friend [+see also:
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My Best Friend, starring Daniel Auteuil, was a huge hit in Toronto where it had its world premiere and picked up an Honourable Mention as part of the People’s Choice Award. The comedy about a man who realizes he has no friends and decides to take life lessons from a cab driver was produced by Fidelité and sold by Wild Bunch. Non Stop bought rights for the Nordic territories.

Fade to Black, produced by Fragile Films and Dakota Films in the UK in co-production with Massimo Pacilio’s Movieweb (Italy) and Piero Amati’s Film 87 (Serbia), was co-written by director Parker and John Sayles. Set in Italy’s 1948, the film is based on true events that happened to legendary filmmaker Orson Welles during the shooting of one of his films in Rome. Non Stop bought Scandinavian rights from Odyssey Entertainment.

The distribution company also picked up Nordic and Baltic rights to Johnnie To’s Election I-II, Fulltime Killer, sold by Celluloid Dreams, and Nordic rights to this year’s Venice Golden Lion winner Still Life by Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke.