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NewsFuture Cinema launches kids events
Future Cinema Kids to include family matinees of Bugsy Malone plus Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz.
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Screen Media takes North American rights to Shuffle
Kurt Kuenne’s thriller will receive its international premiere in Belgium next week. Screen Media plans a third quarter release.
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NewsKaleidoscope strikes deal with Signature Entertainment
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment has struck a deal to handle physical and digital distribution in the UK and Ireland for Signature Entertainment’s catalogue and new titles.
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NewsWide House picks up doc Before the New Wave
Doc charts birth of Objectif 49 and the Festival du Film Maudit.
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NewsA Thousand Words pulled from UK theatrical release
Eddie Murphy’s poorly received comedy no longer coming out in June.
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NewsMiramax expands international sales team, inks UKTV deal
Mathilde Rottier gets promotion; Stuart Shaw, Astrid De Berardinis and Alexandra Tullberg join London office as sales directors; outfit inks first multi-title, linear deal in UK.
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NewsStrand Releasing takes US rights to California Solo
Robert Carlyle plays a former pop star who faces deportation from the US following a drunk driving arrest. Marshall Lewy’s film premiered at Sundance in January.
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NewsDisney signs deal with Google for UK YouTube, Google Play TVOD service
Disney extends YouTube deal to UK, range of portfolio titles available
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NewsEU committee calls for better recoupment and windows flexibility for online distribution
Flexibility of release windows, fair remuneration for rights holders for online distribution and net neutrality called for in European Parliament committee report.
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Paramount launches film channel in Spain
Available on free to air TV, the new channel will feature more than 600 films.
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NewseOne takes UK rights to The 4th Reich from Mann Made and AV Pictures
Shaun Robert Smith to direct the WW2 action horror; producers include Scott Mann [pictured].
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Freestyle Digital Media takes North American rights to A Bird Of The Air
The deal with Tashtego Films excludes US theatrical after Paladin released the rom-com in autumn 2011.
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NewsKen Munekata named president of BBC Worldwide Japan
He had been president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan.
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NewsM-Net launches VOD African Film Library
The service promises to offer the world’s largest online collection of African film content.
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NewsUK distributor ad spend surges in 2011
FDA figures confirm record box office in 2011 and 171m admissions; older demographic boost admissions.
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NewsCinedigm/New Video take US rights to SXSW hit Citadel
Cinedigm and New Video have jointly taken US rights to Citadel, the winner of the audience award at SXSW’s Midnighter section.
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NewsLionsgate awaits destiny as The Hunger Games begin
International preview: The independent community will be willing the studio on as it launches the first of what it hopes will become a teen franchise across most of the world this weekend.
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NewsBSAC conference tackles topics including VOD, decline in UK co-productions
Speakers include Stephen Garrett [pictured], Ben Roberts, Mark Herbert and Josh Berger.
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NewsHunger Games advance ticket sales close to Twilight, Clash in UK
EXCLUSIVE: Cineworld reports around 22,000 advance ticket sales for Lionsgate blockbuster; exhibitors upbeat but not bowled over ahead of film’s first previews tonight [22].