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CANNES 2007 Market / Scandinavia

Trust closes 60 deals

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Trust Film Sales has registered healthy sales during this Cannes Film Festival, closing as many as 60 deals in 10 days.

Lukas Moodysson’s first English-language film Mammoth and Lars von Trier’s upcoming horror film Antichrist, two projects with crossover potential, were the biggest calling cards for Trust, according to sales executives Natja Rosner and Sofie Nyholm. Set to start shooting next October, Mammoth pre-sold to the Middle East and Greece (7 Video).

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While von Trier is currently fighting depression in Denmark, his project Antichrist continues to sell worldwide. Six new deals were closed in Cannes including Greece (7 Video), Estonia (Estin Film), Lithuania and Latvia (Acme), Bulgaria (Profilms) and Brazil (California Filmes).

Lone Scherfig’s Just Like Home was closed with Greece (7 Video), Bulgaria (Profilms) and the former Yugoslavia (MCF), and Nina Frisk by Maria Blom (Dalecarlians [+see also:
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) to Japan (Amg Entertainment) and Turkey (Horizon). Island of Lost Souls was a popular family title, with rights going to Greece (Videorama), Turkey (Horizon) and the Middle East (Phars Film).

“We have very loyal distributors who want to match some filmmakers’ previous theatrical success”, said Rosner. “Lone Scherfig and her latest Just Like Home is a good example of that as all screenings were packed”.

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