All Screen articles in 21 Apr 2011 – Page 14
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Sucker Punch confirmed as Hollywood overseas champ
Warner Bros Pictures International’s action fantasy leapfrogged Battle: LA thanks to a confirmed $11.5m haul as Sony executives revised their weekend take from $14.7m to $10.3m.
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Relativity marketing and distribution head Peter Adee to leave
In a statement issued on Friday Adee said he will leave on Jun 1 and said he had “always planned to depart when the time was right.”
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LA Asian Pacific Film Festival to screen 180 films
Running Apr 28-May 7, the festival programme includes a retrospective of cinematographer James Wong Howe and the C3 Digital Conference and will open with Fast Five.
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New Video, China Lion seal US distribution union
The partnership between the New York-based distributor and digital content aggregator and China Lion Film Distribution makes New Video the latter’s exclusive North American distributor across cable VoD, television, digital and DVD.
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Submarine sells flotilla of titles to Canada’s filmswelike
The deals include all rights in Canada to Bill Cunningham New York by Richard Press, Blank City by Celine Dahnier, The Last Mountain by Bill Haney and Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles by Jon Foy.
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O-Scope, Showtime acquire Sundance doc Rebirth
Jim Whitaker’s film follows the transformation of five people over 10 years after the 9/11 attacks and through time-lapse photography charts the evolution of the space where the Twin Towers once stood.
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2B Pictures to adapt Alan K Baker's Dyatlov Pass
The feature adaptation about a real life skiing incident in Russia will be directed by Simon Fellows and financed by Future Films.
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Comment
Nobody does it better than Disney!
Even this cynical journalist couldn’t help being taken in by the Disney magic at a special launch event in London.
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CinemaCon: DirecTV ignites premium VoD controversy
The satellite TV operator has pitched itself into the heart of a mighty clash brewing between studios and exhibitors over shrinking windows – a hitherto verboten subject at CinemaCon that reared its head on the convention’s final day.
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Hop, Sucker Punch set for overseas weekend tussle
Universal’s family confection and Warner Bros’ action fantasy are shaping up to be the ones to beat this weekend as Hop lands in around 30 territories and Sucker Punch debuts in four major markets.
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Sundance Selects takes Pina, Phase4 gets Lucky
Sundance Selects has acquired US rights to Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary Pina, while Phase4 announced today [Mar 31] it had picked up all North American rights to Gil Cates Jr’s dark comedy Lucky.
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Gus Van Sant’s Restless goes to SPC for likely autumn release
The Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment production was originally set to premiere at Sundance before the studio pulled it from the line-up.
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ICM names trio to lead streamlined talent representation
Lorrie Bartlett, Dar Rollins and Adam Schweitzer are named co-heads of talent and will oversee clients’ careers across film, television, theatre, branding and new media.
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Sony Pictures Animation acquires rights to Muncle Trogg
The preemptive deal is the first since Michelle Raimo-Kouyate arrived from DreamWorks Animation last November to become president of production.
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Downton Abbey sells in more than 100 territories for NBC Universal
More than 100 territories license series following successful UK run in 2010
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The Handover
This week, the first 16 UK Film Council staff move over to the BFI as part of the absorption of UKFC functions into a new BFI super-structure. There’s a good deal of common sense at work in the new entity.
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Features
Michael Lewis
RealD CEO Michael Lewis talks to Screen about the early days of RealD and the company’s strategy going forward.