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NewsTom Of Finland gets biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Dome Karukoski, here in Toronto with Heart of a Lion, is now set to direct his first English-language film, a biopic of groundbreaking artist Tom of Finland.
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NewsSPWA swoops on Therese
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has licensed the UK and a raft of territories from Exclusive Media to the Toronto entry Therese.
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NewsTIFF momentum set to stay high
With two major $7m deals in the can and interest in Fading Gigolo, Horns and All Is By My Side, the Toronto momentum showed no sign of letting up heading into a busy Sunday night.
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NewsFilmSharks continues 2+2 sales
FilmSharks has closed further deals on Diego Kaplan’s swingers drama 2+2 (A Couple With A Couple).
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NewsSalon Pictures boosts women directors
EXCLUSIVE: Eva Sorhaug, Sharon Horgan and Pratibha Parmar to direct for new UK production outfit.
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NewsEdgerton to shoot debut in California
EXCLUSIVE: Weirdo to be produced by Australia-born, US-based Rebecca Yeldham.
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FeaturesBFI fundraising gala Luminous
The BFI raised £250,000 for the BFI National Archive at its first fundraising gala, Luminous, in London.
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NewsStudioCanal's van Lier to join eOne
Harold van Lier to join Entertainment One’s international film division in the role of president, effective January 2014.
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NewsPGA to honour Bob Iger
The Walt Disney Company chairman and CEO will receive the 2014 Milestone Award at the 25th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on January 19, 2014.
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NewsIFC finds Lucky Them
IFC Films has picked up US rights from Cinetic Media to the recent Toronto world premiere Lucky Them starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Oliver Platt. Separately, Distrib Films has acquired Just A Sigh while D Fims will release My Old Lady in Canada.
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NewsLakeshore launches into TV
Lakeshore Entertainment has announbced during MIPCOM it is moving into television and has appointed Chad Hoffman to run the new division.
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NewsSpygirl, Causeway feast on Flesh
Fledgling New York-based Spygirl Pictures has signed a co-production deal with Northern Ireland’s Causeway Pictures to make Flesh Feast Of The Devil Doll.
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NewsTed Hope to leave SFFS
Ted Hope is stepping down after 14 months as executive director of the San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) in the latest personnel blow to befall the organisation after announcing that his passion is “more entrepreneurial.”
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NewsOrtenberg extends Open Road deal
Tom Ortenberg has extended his CEO contract at Open Road through 2018 ahead of this week’s release of Machete Kills.
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NewsRovio hires Angry Birds directors
Animation veterans Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis will direct Angry Birds, the upcoming 3D CG animated film based on Rovio’s bestselling app.
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NewsVoice Of China film starts shoot
South-East Asia’s mm2 entertainment and mainland Chinese partners have started shooting a feature starring the contestants of TV reality talent show The Voice Of China.
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NewsTre Vanner to adapt Into A Raging Blaze
Scandinavian production powerhouse Tre Vänner has acquired the film rights to Andreas Norman’s debut novel Into A Raging Blaze.
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NewsInternational Asian doc fund launches
Busan’s Asian Network of Documentary partners with Taskovski Film on new fund.
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CommentMeet the nymphos
Some striking images released from Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. Click here only if you can handle Udo Kier’s ‘O face’.
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NewsRelativity talks scripted TV plans
US film producer Relativity is to use data gathered from its hit films, such as Mirror Mirror and Shark Night 3D, to move into scripted TV, in what chief executive Ryan Kavanaugh described as a “Moneyball approach to creating television”.