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NewsMaleficent storms to $106.1m int'l
UPDATED JUNE 2: Disney’s Maleficent scored a better-than-estimated $106.1m international debut in 47 territories to beat Fox’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past as the studio crossed $2bn worldwide.
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NewsAngelina Jolie rules US on $70m
Four years since the world last saw Jolie in a lead live-action role, the star returned to winning ways in Maleficent with a career-best launch courtesy of Disney’s fantasy romp.
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NewsKoch takes Son Of A Gun for UK
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor’s Cannes haul includes crime-drama Son of a Gun.
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NewseOne acquires Phase 4 Films
Phase 4’s Berry Meyerowitz to preside over eOne’s US film and distribution business
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NewsMaleficent enchants UK box office
Disney’s reimagining posts excellent $11m (£6.6m) debut, including previews, to top the chart; Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past nears £20m after just 11 days in play.
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NewsTake Down first to $50m Welsh fund
Take Down, a thriller starring Jeremy Sumpter [pictured] from the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer, is to be the first feature to receive investment through the Welsh Government’s new £30m ($50m) Media Investment Budget.
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NewsRussian cash for Solondz, Fiennes projects
Films by Todd Solondz, Ralph Fiennes and Andrei Konchalovsky as well as an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights, starring Daniel Brühl, are among 12 projects to be supported by Russia’s Ministry of Culture this year.
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NewsLupita Nyong'o joins Star Wars 7
12 Years a Slave Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o has been cast in Star Wars: Episode VII.
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NewsXYZ spins Master Cleanse sales
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has reported a strong response from Cannes buyers to The Master Cleanse, the fantasy horror that launched on the Croisette and will star Johnny Galecki, Chloë Sevigny and Anjelica Huston.
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NewsIFT sells out on Velocity
International Film Trust (IFT) has sold all overseas territories to Peter Sollett’s upcoming comedy You Shall Know Our Velocity starring Daniel Radcliffe.
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NewsOliver Stone to direct Snowden Files
The controversial filmmaker renowned for his fiercely intelligent accounts of US history has come on board to direct the tale of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in what will be a race to the screen with rival project No Place To Hide.
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NewsMagnolia Int'l seals deals on Life Itself
EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures International has secured a handful of key sales on the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself, which screened in Cannes Classics.
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NewsQED sells out Rock The Kasbah
EXCLUSIVE: Production on the comedy has kicked off in Marrakech, Morocco. Open Road will distribute in the US in spring 2015 and QED International handled sales.
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NewsWorldview CEO in shock exit
The CEO has departed the ambitious New York-based financier-producer with immediate effect.
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NewsDigital event hears what Millennials want
Millennials, the demographic that content creators and advertisers cannot hear enough about, give new TV shows a 10-minute probation period and will not commit to a series unless Season 2 has the greenlight.
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NewsFumi Nikaido in Screen NYAFF honour
Fumi Nikaido will receive the inaugural Screen International Rising Star Award at the 13th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), set to run from June 27-July 14.
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NewsBark Ranger begins production
Principal photography on Breakthrough Entertainment’s family comedy has started in Toronto.
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NewsSecret Cinema going Back to the Future
Event cinema organiser to recreate the town of Hill Valley for Secret Cinema’s biggest production to date.
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NewsWinter Sleep heads to 30 territories
EXCLUSIVE: MFI reports strong business on Palme d’Or winner.
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NewsFack Ju producer moves to Constantin
Lena Schömann, producer of box office hit Fack Ju Göhte (Suck Me Shakespeer), is switching to Constantin Film after 12 years at the distributor-producer’s subsidiary Rat Pack Filmproduktion.
