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NewsWell Go USA takes North American rights to Ip Man martial arts franchise
Well Go USA has acquired North American rights to Ip Man and Ip Man 2 directed by Wilson Yip and starring Hong Kong action idol Donnie Ye.
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NewsDragon scales box office heights in muted weekend on $15m
DreamWorks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon continued its classic word of mouth run to end its fifth weekend at the top in a lacklustre session.
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NewsTitans vanquishes Alice to stay top overseas on $33.5m
Clash Of The Titans ruled the roost yet again and edged out Alice In Wonderland thanks to a $33.5m confirmed weekend haul that boosted the running total to $242.6m.
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Little Film Company launches Accelerator genre label
LA-based The Little Film Company has launched the genre label Accelerator and will be talking up a number of titles in Cannes.
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US theatre chain AMC dips toes in specialty waters
AMC Theatres has launched an initiative to foster greater interest among patrons in independent cinema.
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IFC takes multiple territories on SXSW winner Tiny Furniture
IFC Films has acquired worldwide rights to Tiny Furniture excluding the UK, South Africa, Germany, France, Benelux, New Zealand and Australia.
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Festival hit Enemies of the People close to distribution deals
Documentary about Cambodia picks up several new awards, including top prize at Full Frame.
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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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NewsClash surges past $200m as weekend approaches
Warner Bros Pictures International’s giant heads into the fourth weekend as favourite to stay on top.
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Film Sales Company boards four titles for Tribeca
Andrew Herwitz’s Film Sales Company has rounded up four titles for sale at Tribeca Film festival, which kicked off last night [21] with the world premiere of Shrek Forever After.
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Paladin on board to release Reliance BIG's Kites: The Remix
In a coup for Mark Urman’s Paladin, the fledgling distributor will release an English language version of Reliance BIG’s Bollywood film Kites: The Remix in the US on May 21.
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NewsOscilloscope picks up US rights to Howl
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired US rights to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl starring James Franco.
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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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Tribeca takes on distribution
The ambitious Tribeca Film Festival (April 21-May 2) is exploring ways of reaching out to audiences far beyond its New York base. Jeremy Kay reports
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NewsParamount takes UK rights to Killing Bono from Salt
Ben Barnes and Robert Sheehan star in Nick Hamm’s Irish comedy; Paramount will release in UK and Ireland.
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Zeitgeist acquires US rights to von Trotta's Vision
Zeitgeist Films has acquired US rights to Margarethe von Trotta’s Vision starring Barbara Sukowa that screened on April 21 as the opening night film of the Kino! 2010: New Cinema From Germany series.
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UK box office up 16% in first quarter of 2010
Between January and March this year, the UK box office took $448.3m (£291.1m), compared with $386m (£250.80m) in 2009, according to new FDA figures.
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NewsFord's IM Global looks to future with trio of key hires
Stuart Ford is expanding his ambitious LA and London-based sales company IM Global with three highly regarded additions to the executive suite and a new world cinema division set to be unveiled in Cannes.
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Civil Rights doc Freedom Riders finds US home
Wendy Lidell’s International Film Circuit will distribute the Civil Rights documentary Freedom Riders.
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NewsVisual Factory adds three European titles ahead of Cannes
London-based sales company Visual Factory has taken on three new European features ahead of Cannes.They are Grandfather Mountain (Narciso); The Silk Merchant’s Woman (Il mercante di stoffe); and Warriors of Chaos (Chaos Tage).Italian title Grandfather Mountain directed by Marcello and Dario Baldi stars Roberto Herlitzka as a lonely old man ...