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Robert L Johnson buys Image, Acorn Media
The chairman of the RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television announced the acquisition on Wednesday (3) and said shareholders from Image and Acorn had approved the transaction. The new company is called RLJ Entertainment.
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NewsShoreline Entertainment acquires worldwide rights to Sir Billi
Scotland’s first CGI animated feature boasts the vocal talents of Sean Connery in his first voice-over role.
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Bleiberg Entertainment takes worldwide sales on Under The Bed
Steven C Miller’s new film hails from the producing team behind festival horror hit V/H/S. Bleiberg will commence sales in MIPCOM through its Compound B label.
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CommentThe BFI means business
The BFI demonstrates some real business savvy in its new Forward Plan.
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NewsHere And There director Lungulov starts work on Monument
Originally titled Monument To Michael Jackson, the black comedy will shoot for six weeks on location in Serbia and Macedonia.
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NewsFox, Momentum win big at Screen Marketing & Distribution Awards
Third annual awards ceremony honouring marketing and distribution campaigns was held last night in London at a gala event.
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CommentBRITDOC Films launch Ping Pong Care Campaign
Campaign, in association with documentary Ping Pong, aims to encourage more active lifestyles in our senior years.
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NewsDemian Bichir, Emilia Clarke join RPC’s Dom Hemingway
Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke, Jumayn Hunter and Madalina Ghenea join Jude Law and Richard E. Grant in Richard Shepard’s black comedy.
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CommentThe man behind the titles
Rotterdam unveils the world premiere of a documentary about Pablo Ferro.
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NewsRotterdam roundup: new plans from Odoul, Kaurismaki; Raul Ruiz's widow takes over project
With the start of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s coproduction market (the CineMart), the pace of the festival picked up dramatically over weekend — and news has emerged of deals and new projects.
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NewsOpen Road scores number one US launch for The Grey on $20m
Tom Ortenberg’s second release under his new company after Killer Elite delivered as expected a number one result for the critically acclaimed survival story starring Liam Neeson. Joe Carnahan directed.
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NewsGhost Protocol reclaims int'l pole position on $25m
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol — now the biggest in the franchise on a $571m worldwide tally — got back into the driving seat internationally through PPI thanks to a big debut in China and $25m overall from 7,837 sites in 63 markets to boost the score to $369m.
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NewsDujardin, Davis, The Help among big SAG winners
The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night (29) threw up a surprise as Viola Davis (pictured) trumped Meryl Streep in the lead actress race for her performance in The Help, while Jean Dujardin claimed the lead actor prize for The Artist.
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NewsSundance: Weinsteins take Favorite, Indomina gets Rap, FilmDistrict takes on Safety
In two late-breaking deals on Sunday (29), The Weinstein Company took US rights to Stephen Frears’ caper Lay The Favorite while Indomina Releasing acquired the world on Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap. Also, FilmDistrict took Safety Not Guaranteed.
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NewsSingaporean, Malaysian film industries increase ties
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) is taking a delegation of 33 media and entertainment companies to the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, as part of a drive to increase ties between the two South-East Asian neighbours.
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NewsShooting begins on The Seasoning House
The Sterling Pictures film is the directorial debut of special effects designer Paul Hyett and stars Sean Pertwee.
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NewsJapanese box office falls 18% after lack of mega-hits and March 11 disaster
Overall box office revenue for 2011 totalled $2.36bn (Y181.2bn), a steep drop of 18% from 2010; local films declined by 16%.
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NewsOdin’s Eye to take Forbidden Ground, One Mile Above to Berlin
Sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment will be at the European Film Market with Australian war film Forbidden Ground and Chinese adventure drama One Mile Above.