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KinoSmith buys slate for Canada
KinoSmith Inc has acquired rights in Canada for a slate of 12 features and documentaries including Hot Docs award-winner Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol.
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NewsStar power conquers Cannes
Buyers flocked to projects with big stars attached and clear theatrical potential in a Cannes market that proved tough for smaller projects and quiet on the US domestic front. Jeremy Kay reports.
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Cordoba's Maid scoops top prize at Marfici
The Argentine festival closed on May 16 after screening 147 films over eight days.
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NewsGeddes to be festival director for ActionFest
Colin Geddes (pictured) takes new role at ActionFest but will retain TIFF duties.
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NewsSalt strikes first-look deal with $30m Brazilian Fund
Newly launched Brazilian film fund Virtù-Schurmann Cinema has signed a first-look deal with UK-based sales and financing company Salt. Salt, which has previously worked on Brazilian titles including City Of Men (Cidade de Homens) (pictured) and Cidade Baixa (Lower City), will help Virtù-Schurmann in identifying and developing Brazilian films with ...
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NewsFox International Productions ramps up in Russia and Brazil
Projects include Russian Working Girl remake and Brazil’s first stop-motion animated film.
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UKFC's Lenny Crooks to set up New York-based consultancy
Lenny Crooks, former head of the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund, is moving to New York to start a new consultancy service for filmmakers on both sides of the pond.
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NewsHot Docs top winners are A Film Unfinished, The Name of the Family
In all, the Toronto-based documentary festival gave 10 awards with more than $72,000 in cash prizes.
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Canada's Greenberg Fund backs new projects by Natali, Skogland
Astral Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund has announced the latest round of funding for 24 projects in its Script Development Program for Canadian feature scripts.
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NewsDominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell to star in The Laureate
Media 8 Entertainment is handling worldwide sales on the 1920s-set drama.
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ContentFilm barks for Dog Squad 3D
Principal photography is due to start in late summer 2010 in Canada.
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NewsNew Aruba festival to honour Bernardo Bertolucci
The festival runs June 4-11 and Bertolucci will attend for a special tribute and an on-stage conversation.
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NewsPathe takes international on Gnomeo & Juliet
Kelly Asbury is directing the 3D animated fantasy comedy, produced by Elton John’s Rocket Pictures.
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NewsUniversal takes multiple territories on Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method
UPI has acquired the film, starring Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel, to distribute in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and South Africa. HanWay handles sales.
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NewsStrand takes US rights to A Somewhat Gentle Man
Berlinale competition title from Norway stars Skellan Skarsgaard as an ex con.
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NewsIndustry pays respects to Latin American producing titan Oscar Kramer
Oscar Kramer, the widely respected Argentinian producer of such films as Carandiru, Chronicle Of An Escape and El Pasado, has died in Buenos Aires following an illness. He was 72.
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NewsSoumya Sriraman appointed CEO of Palisades Tartan
The former Vivendi executive will relocate from Los Angeles to New York to oversee the company’s activities in both the US and UK.