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    IFC takes Myth for North America-plus

    2010-10-11T18:55:00Z

    IFC Films has acquired North American and select international rights - including East-Central Europe and the Middle East - to David Robert Mitchell’s drama The Myth of the American Sleepover.

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    Eat Pray, Despicable lead international pack

    2010-10-10T21:33:00Z

    Eat Pray Love and Despicable Me were the big earners at the international box office this weekend, while TheSocial Network started its international run with a second-place opening in Germany.

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    Social Network shows legs at US box office

    2010-10-10T19:06:00Z

    The Social Network dropped only 30.9% at the North American box office this weekend, taking a chart-topping $15.5m and holding off competition from three new releases.

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    No 3D for Deathly Hallows Part 1

    2010-10-08T19:55:00Z

    Warner Bros Pictures has dropped its plan to do a 3D conversion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 in time for the film’s scheduled November 19 release.

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    Social Network debuts on close-fought international weekend

    2010-10-08T01:36:00Z

    Buzz-producing awards contender The Social Network has its first international opening this weekend, though it is not likely to be among the handful of US studio films dividing up most of the spoils at the international box office.

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    Kino nabs The Robber for US

    2010-10-07T22:48:00Z

    Kino International has acquired all US rights to Benjamin Heisenberg’s Austrian thriller The Robber (der Rauber), which screened last week at the New York Film Festival.

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    Tekken goes to eOne for France, Scandinavia

    2010-10-06T21:02:00Z

    Toronto-based Entertainment One has signed a distribution deal with Steven Paul’s Crystal Sky Pictures for all rights to Tekken in France, Scandinavia and South Africa.

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    Paladin to launch Shadyac's I Am

    2010-10-06T20:03:00Z

    I Am, director Tom Shadyac’s documentary about his post-accident journey of self-discovery, is to be released theatrically in the US by Paladin.

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    Indomina gets Wasted on the Young

    2010-10-06T19:56:00Z

    Indomina Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Australian teen thriller Wasted on the Young (pictured), which had its international premiere in the Discovery section of last month’s Toronto festival.

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    Paramount’s German outpost picks up second German production

    2010-10-06T14:52:00Z

    Shooting has begun today on Elmar Fischer’s sensitive comedy Offroad, which marks the second local pickup by the German outpost of Paramount Pictures.

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    Arclight to offer Wolf Creek 2 at AFM

    2010-10-06T01:44:00Z

    Arclight Films is to offer a sequel to successful 2005 Australian horror thriller Wolf Creek at next month’s American Film Market in Santa Monica.

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    Moving Pictures adopts First Dog

    2010-10-06T00:12:00Z

    Moving Pictures Film & TV (MPF&TV) has acquired all international rights to family film First Dog.

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    Red Flag sets US launch for Meskada

    2010-10-05T20:28:00Z

    Red Flag Releasing is to give independent crime thriller Meskada a simultaneous US theatrical/VOD/digital download release on December 3.

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    Disney, Warner sign international TV deals

    2010-10-05T18:56:00Z

    At what is turning out to be a busy Mipcom for the US studios, Walt Disney and Warner Bros have announced new international TV volume deals for Italy, the Middle East and Scandinavia.

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    Niels Swinkels promoted to MD of UPI UK

    2010-10-05T16:35:00Z

    Duncan Clark, EVP Distribution, Universal Pictures International (UPI) today announced that Niels Swinkels has been promoted to managing director of UPI UK and Ireland.

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    Momentum takes UK rights to Wasted On The Young

    2010-10-05T14:53:00Z

    Momentum has acquired UK rights to Toronto buzz title Wasted On The Young from Fortissimo.

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    Some UK producers question Freeway fee

    2010-10-05T12:39:00Z

    Freeway maintains that it has received mostly positive feedback from clients.

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    Myriad handles Textuality

    2010-10-05T06:44:00Z

    Myriad Pictures has acquired all international rights to romantic comedy Textuality and is selling the film at this week’s Mipcom TV market in Cannes.

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    IFC takes Winterbottom's Trip for US

    2010-10-05T00:22:00Z

    IFC Films is acquiring US rights to Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip.

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    GongMedia launches VOD platform

    2010-10-04T18:26:00Z

    IPTV network and anime specialist Gong Media has launched an international VOD platform, GongVision.