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Bucking the cautious buyer trend, South Korea s CJ Entertainment has sealed a string of pre-sales on Park Chan-wook s Thirst and Bong Joon-ho s Mother, along with effects-laden action title Haeundae. Park s vampire thriller Thirst and Bong s Mother, about a woman attempting to prove her son s innocence after he is accused of murder, have both been sold to Romania s Independenta. Both titles should be ready in time for Cannes. Focus Features co-produced and will handle North American distribution of Thirst, while Diaphana acquired French rights to Mother at
stanley cup the AFM. In addition, CJ has sold Haeundae, a disaster movie about a super-tsunami heading straight for the Korean seaside resort of Pusan, to Turkey s Horizon International and Intersonic for the Czech Republic. Horizon also snapped up completed action thriller Marine Boy, about a swimming instructor-turned-drug trafficker who swims across the ocean with illegal drugs. CJ also sold The Good, The Bad, The Weird, which has already been sold to more
stanley cup than 20 territories, to Discovery for ex-Yugoslavia. Australia s SBS acquired library titles Black House and Secret Sunshine. CJ sales chief Mike Suh said he was happy with the company s new EFM location at
stanley cup the Marriott hotel: We ve been able to catch up with the major buyers and closed some deals every day. No comments Related articles Otln Veneziano to handle titles from Menemsha
In the latest executive appointment to the fledglingspecialty division Warner Independent Pictures WIP , Despina Beazoglou hasjoined as vice president of business and legal affairs.Effectiveimmediately, Beazoglou will report to executive vice president of businessaffairs and operations Andrew Kramer and will be involved in handling thebusiness and legal affairs for WIP and its development and productionactivities.The pairoriginally worked together at both Franchise Pictures and subsequently theCanton Company. It is such apleasure to have Despina with us here, Kramer said in a statement. That we veworked together in so many incarnations speaks volumes about her. She is agodsend and we have a lot of work to do together. Prior to joiningWIP, Beazoglou was vice president of business affairs at Senator International,where her development and production credits include Boogeyman and Harold Kumar Go To WhiteCastle. Before that sheserved at The Canton Company and Franchise, among others.Headed up byMark Gill, WIP launched in August and plansto finance, produce, acquire and theatricallydistribute up to 10 feature films per year largely budgeted under $20m. No comments No comments yet
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