30/10/2012 - Grégoire Melin's team is to sell Emmanuel Mouret's new film and a comedy, The Volcano, in Santa Monica

Three new titles have joined the line-up of Kinology, the Parisian international sales agency headed by Grégoire Melin, soon to land ready for sales at the American Film Market (from October 31 to November 7). One of these titles is The Volcano (original title: Eyjafjallojökull), a new comedy directed by Alexandre Coffre and produced by Quad Films (who produced The Intouchables [+see also:
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Also new to the line-up is Lovers, a seventh feature directed by Emmanuel Mouret (photo - change of address [+see also:
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interview: Adèle Haenel
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interview: Maïwenn
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Kinology, also to launch sales for Alexandre Castagnetti's Love Is In The Air at the AFM (read more), is to screen Pascal Chaumeil's Fly Me to the Moon (read more - another Quad Films production starring Dany Boon and Diane Kruger) for the first time worldwide. Other market screenings are to include Harmony Korine's Venice contender Spring Breakers and two Cannes titles, Michel Gondry's The We and the I and Alice Winocour's Augustine [+see also:
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The line-up's 15 titles also include Edouard Deluc's Welcome to Argentina (in post-production - read more), Antonio Negret's Overdrive [+see also:
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(Translated from French)