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NewsInternational Union of Cinemas launches digital innovation award
Finalists to be showcased at CineEurope in Barcelona.
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NewsAMPAS event celebrates the history of digital animation
Panel to be presented May 21 in Los Angeles.
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CommentThe Idea Trade
The TV industry does it and film is finally starting to do the same: selling the stories and concepts of existing movies for repackaging in multiple international territories.
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NewsYouTube unveils UK strategy
YouTube has revealed details of its UK content strategy for the first time, urging producers to pitch niche ideas and putting well in excess of £10m up for grabs.
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NewsCauseway Pictures unveils two new horror pictures
Red Mist screenwriter Spence Wright has written the script for the two Northern Irish based projects - Deadlocked and Vampires Verses Leprechauns - which will shoot consecutively in the autumn.
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NewsCelsius on board for Kasdan's The First Time
EXCLUSIVE: Celsius takes on world sales (excluding North America) for the teen romance which premiered at Sundance.
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Little Studio Films signs Mick Garris to direct Invasion
The Los Angeles-based company will represent all rights to the sci-fi thriller at the Cannes market.
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NewsStudioCanal, Film4, BFI pact on salsa comedy Cuban Fury
StudioCanal will handle worldwide sales on the title heading into Cannes and has scheduled a UK release for spring 2013. Nick Frost conceived the story and stars alongside Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd and Olivia Colman.
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BAMcinemaFest organisers unveil line-up
Mike Birbiglia’s adaptation of his off-Broadway one-man show Sleepwalk With Me will open the BAMcinemaFest on Jun 20 in New York.
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NewsTimur Bekmambetov to direct drama The Current War
The filmmaker’s company Bazelevs has acquired Michael Mitnick’s Black List script about the public battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse for control of the early power industry.
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O-Scope promotes Dan Berger, David Laub
The executive will jointly oversee marketing, distribution and acquisitions as it emerged that Oscilloscope Laboratories co-founder and president David Fenkel is seguing into a consultancy role after four years at the company.
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Lance Volland, Désirée Finnegan rise at Warner Bros int’l publicity
Volland has led the studio’s international publicity efforts for the past five years and is promoted to evp while Finnegan becomes svp.
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NewsThe Avengers crosses $280m at international box office
Thursday’s daily report from Disney revealed that the Marvel Studios action epic added $20.6m on Wednesday.
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NewsUPIE takes all int’l rights from Radiant Films to I Am
Radiant Films International president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer (pictured) has struck a deal for all rights outside the US and Canada on Tom Shadyac’s life affirming documentary.
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NewsThe Exchange heads to Cannes with Thin Ice
Brian O’Shea’s sales and finance company is Croisette-bound with international rights to the thriller starring Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Lea Thompson and Billy Crudup.
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Poverty Row Entertainment heads to Croisette with Pickford biopic
Producers Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia are headed to Cannes to stage talks on financing and casting for their newly acquired Mary Pickford project.
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Artsploitation unveils inaugural distribution slate
TLA Entertainment Inc. president Raymond Murray’s newly formed Artsploitation Films has announced three North American acquisitions.
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Blancbiehn Productions plans June shoot on family drama Treachery
Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc Biehn have announced casting on their latest project and will star alongside Sarah Butler, Caitlin Keats, Chris Meyer and Matthew Ziff.
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NewsJonah Hill joins cast of The Wolf Of Wall Street
Red Granite is fully financing the $85m true-life account of trader Jordan Belfort’s debauched rise and tumultuous fall and has set Martin Scorsese to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio (pictured) to play the lead.
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Cinema Without Borders to honour Darryl Macdonald
The director of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival & Film Market and executive director of the Palm Springs Film Society will be the winner of the first annual Friend Of International Cinema Award.