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NewsTribeca unveils narrative, documentary competitions and Viewpoints
Tribeca Enterprises chief creative officer Geoff Gilmore and incoming artistic director Frederic Boyer, previously artistic director of Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, have unveiled the first tranche of selections for the upcoming 11th festival, set to run in New York from Apr 18-29.
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Mass Hysteria prepares shoot on action thriller The Boiling Point
The project is set to go before camers in Manitoba in late spring and tells of a gangster sent to kill an informer who used to be his girlfriend.
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NewsCinedigm, New Video to jointly release The Invisible War
The partners have acquired North American rights to Kirby Dick’s winner of the Sundance US Documentary Audience Award earlier in the year.
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NewsSPC gets Smashed, IFC Midnight falls for Grabbers
Two late Sundance deals have closed, with SPC taking worldwide rights to Smashed and IFC Midnight acquiring North and Latin America on Grabbers.
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Universal, Hasbro sign deal for Ouija thriller
Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir will produce for Hasbro alongside Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form of Platinum Dunes and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions.
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PGA names Susan Sprung associate national executive director
Sprung previously served as special counsel at the law firm of O’Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles and before that she was an associate at Barrett Smith Shapiro Simon and Armstrong in New York.
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NewsWBPI continues fantastic Journey on $14.7m, beats War
Journey 2 swept to an international $184.5m tally following a weekend haul from more than 6,600 screens in 52 territories – just enough to nose ahead of chief rival This Means War from Fox on $14.1m.
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NewsLorax scores biggest US launch of year-to-date on $71m
Universal’s estimated opening weekend delivered by far the most resounding debut of the year-to-date as Dr Seuss’ The Lorax demolished the competition to maintain the first quarter’s hot pace at the box office.
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NewsHarvey Weinstein to receive 2012 Legion Of Honour
After working hand-in-glove with French filmmakers on the Oscar winning The Artist, the mogul is set collect France’s highest distinction at a ceremony to take place in Paris.
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NewsKim to lead post-merger Lionsgate sales force at Cannes
As uncertainty continued to swirl over the fate of international sales staff following Lionsgate’s acquisition of Summit, Screendaily has learned that Helen Lee Kim will stay on through the market and head a team handling titles from both the Lionsgate and Summit slates.
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NewsWBPI continues international Journey while Fox makes War
Warner Bros Pictures International’s family adventure sequel has grossed more than $160m and top brass will rely on a strong German launch plus solid holdover business to climb towards $175m.
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NewsUK actor Daniel Kaluuya signs with ICM
Kaluuya, a former Screen International UK Star Of Tomorrow, starred in the E4 UK teen drama Skins and went on to become a head writer on the series.
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NewsBruce Willis to star in Five Against A Bullet for Columbia
Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Jordan Schur and David Mimran are developing the action thriller about a Mexican politician who hires a quintet of ace bodyguards to protect him during an election after his father is killed by drug lords.
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The Oregonian among ten Sundance films headed to Netflix
The streaming package has been assembled under the auspices of the Sundance Institute’s Artist Services self-distribution initiative and comprises films that have screened in Park City stretching back to 1995.
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FeaturesSXSW 2012 preview: Buzz titles to watch for
Festival director Janet Pierson talks about this year’s discoveries, including hot opener The Cabin In The Woods.
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Radius-TWC takes US rights to Only God Forgives
Nicolas Winding Refn is currently in production in Thailand on the crime thriller with his Drive star Ryan Gosling. Wild Bunch and Gaumont are producing together for the first time.
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NewsSony Pictures Classics acquires world on West Of Memphis
The miscarriage of justice documentary premiered in Sundance in January and is produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh.
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NewsSacha Baron Cohen, Paramount agree first-look deal
In advance of the May 11 release of The Dictator, the star’s Four By Two label has signed a three-year deal with Paramount.
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NewsAdopt Films takes US rights to Berlin hit Tabu
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’s romantic tale impressed critics in Berlin where it won the FIPRESCI award and the Alfred Bauer Prize for its innovative approach to storytelling.
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NewsEmma Watson to star in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
The ensemble project, allegedly based on real events, follows a group of teens as they carry out a series of celebrity break-ins.