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Incognito Pictures launches, signs output deal with TWC
The production entity headed by ex-PayPal executive and financier Jack Selby is backed by $50m in financing and initial plans are to produce five or six films a year budgeted at $10m and below.
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GE, Cinelan announce Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge
The initiative was unveiled at Sundance on Monday morning (23) and will award $200,000 in cash to the top five entries with $100,000 reserved for the grand prize winner.
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NewsSundance: The Words speaks to CBS Films, LD finds Black Rock
After a frenzied 24 hours of negotiations with several heavyweight buyers, the Bradley Cooper drama closed on Sunday (22) in Sundance 2012’s biggest deal yet as US rights went for approximately $3.5m including a $1.5m p&a pledge.
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NewsHolmes rules international for WBPI on $18m
Sherlock Holmes stayed top of the international charts for the third weekend in a row through Warner Bros Pictures International as it soared past $260m.
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NewsPGA awards honour The Artist, Tintin
The Artist produced by Thomas Langmann won the 23rd annual Producers Guild Of America’s Darryl F Zanuck producer of the year award in theatrical motion pictures in Los Angeles on Saturday night (21).
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NewsProtagonist sells UK, Australia on Sundance doc Sugar Man
Ben Roberts has wasted little time capitalising on SPC’s deal for North American rights to Malik Bendjelloul’s opening night film.
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NewsUnderworld: Awakening rules US charts on $25m debut
Screen Gems’ latest foray Underworld delivered a respectable opening gross that returned the franchise to winning ways after the third episode opened in second place three years ago.
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Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds to star in Big Eyes
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will write and direct the biopic of Margaret and Walter Keane, whose ‘Big Eye’ paintings shot to fame in the 1960s.
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Cinedigm, New Video strike strategic partnership
Ambitious digital exhibition leader Cinedigm Entertainment Group and New Video have signed a deal to jointly acquire and distribute independent film.
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Ro*Co Productions, 1492 sign production deal
The production arm of ro*co films international is partnering with 1492 Pictures to adapt documentaries into narrative features.
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NewsBingham Ray taken to hospital after sudden illness
The independent film veteran is being cared for after falling sick at Sundance.
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NewsElle Driver bulks up slate, The Words sparks interest
The French sales agency has acquired international rights to Twenty-Eight Hotel Rooms which screens on Saturday (21), while Bradley Cooper drama The Words energised the domestic scene in the morning following a packed buyers screening.
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Oak Street, Zero Gravity, Epic unite for The Outsider
Craig Fairbrass is set to star in the action film about a British military contractor who rescues his kidnapped daughter and goes after the internet fraudster who abducted her.
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NewsFIP Berlin slate includes Mortensen thriller Plan
Shebnem Askin-Schreger and her Fox International Productions sales team will be at the EFM with a slate led by the Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan.
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NewsSundance: SPC, Magnolia first out of the gate
Submarine has completed a rare two-for-two, selling its first pair of Sundance screenings as it emerged on Friday (20) that Magnolia had paid low-to-mid six figures for North American rights excluding TV to The Queen Of Versailles.
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NewsCinedigm to release Slamdance entry No Room For Rockstars
The digital distributon specialist has set limited US engagements on Mar 1 for Parris Patton’s documentary about the Vans Warped Tour.
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NewsLionsgate, Wrekin Hill, Row 1 swim with Dark Tide
Lionsgate and Wrekin Hill in association with Row 1 Productions have acquired US rights to the Halle Berry shark thriller from IM Global.
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NewsFriedman, Wachsberger to lead Lionsgate motion picture group
The contracts have been signed and Summit chiefs Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger have been named co-chairs of Lionsgate Motion Pictures Group in the wake of last week’s merger.
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NewsContent Film, Preferred Content strike genre deal
The partners will produce a slate of six “elevated” genre, formalising an existing sales relationship on current Sundance entry The Pact and Content’s long-running collaboration with producer and Preferred Content partner Ross Dinerstein.
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NewsJan De Bont to remake crime drama Five Minutes To Live
The director has teamed up with Joseph and Jack Nasser, executive producers on the Sundance Premieres entry For A Good Time, Call…, to remake the 1961 Johnny Cash film Five Minutes To Live.