WHAT'S COMING TO A SCREEN NEAR YOUThe feeding frenzy that is the Cannes marketplace is over, but the film sales continue. Here's a guide to who bought what - unfortunately we'll never be able to explain why some of these titles were bought.
ELECTION 2 was picked up by Tartan USA for the US, Optimum for the UK, Hopscotch for Australia, EMS for Germany, Remstar for Canada, and it was also sold to Spain, Brazil, Poland, Greece, Romania, Israel, the former Yugoslavia and Portugal.
Toei had its biggest year yet at Cannes (US$650,000) with YO YO GIRL COP (the SUKEBAN DEKA movie) sold to Celestial in Hong Kong and Rapid Eye in Germany. MEMORIES OF TOMORROW was sold to Hong Kong and China, and YAMATO was sold to Korea and Scandinavia.
CITY OF VIOLENCE, as we all already know, was picked up by the Weinstein Company in the US while it sold to about 20 territories worldwide.
http://www.kaijushakedown.com/2006/06/whats_coming_to.htmlSome info jacked from fuckedgaijin.com:
Toei wil release a new Sukeban Deka film later this year with Aya Matsuura playing the lead. There has been much speculation about what she'll be wearing and now the first pictures of her "combat suit" have been made public. The big news is that she won't be fighting in a sailor suit although the leather get-up has some nods to the character's usual oufit which has been appearing on the posters and the official film site. She still has the yo-yo/police badge from the earlier films which was a big influence on Quentin Tarantino's choice of weaponry for Go-Go Yubari in Kill Bill. Well, the whole character was a big influence. The English language title for the film will be Yo-Yo Girl Cop.
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