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Spanish cinema market share approaches to 15%; Torrente 4 and Breaking Dawn lead box office for year
Torrente 4 [pictured] and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 were the most successful movies last year in Spain.
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Alan Yentob joins BBC Studios and Post Production board
BBC Creative Director will be a non-executive director.
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Wild Bunch readies busy Rendez-vous slate, including new Donzelli film
Wild Bunch to launch new films from Valerie Donzelli [pictured], Gilles Bourdos and Xavier Giannoli as well as debut pictures, Regis Roinsard’s Romain Duris-starring Populaire and Helene Fillières’ Tied.
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eOne to distribute Remstar Films features in Canada
eOne increases local market-share with multi-year Remstar distribution deal.
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The Liability
Producer Richard Johns and director Craig Viveiros talk about shooting North East based road trip thriller The Liability starring Tim Roth and Peter Mullan.
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Penny Wolf leaves Goldcrest Film Sales
EXCLUSIVE: Wolf leaves Goldcrest to pursue consultancy work for her London boutique The Film Consultancy Partners.
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New Europe Film Sales boards Rotterdam selection Now Forager
EXCLUSIVE: The co-directors are frequent collaborators Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin.
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Filming to start on The Good Man starring Aidan Gillen
Phil Harrison’s drama to shoot in Belfast and South Africa.
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Summit Int’l leads pack as indies enjoy robust 2011
The runaway success of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 ensured the company’s slate grossed more than $754m through international licensees in 2011 – easily the highest figure for any US sales agent.
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Dylan Sellers to run merged production and acquisitions for TWC
The former independent producer and senior production executive at Unique Features arrives as president of production and acquisitions in the wake of the departure of key executives Peter Lawson and Donna Gigliotti.
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MPI Media Group acquires US rights to Little White Lies
The smash French comedy-drama from Guillaume Canet stars Marion Cotillard and Oscar contender Jean Dujardin and drew 5.3m admissions in its native country.
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Ten films in contention for visual effects Oscar
Harry Potter, Hugo, The Tree Of Life are among the contenders. Members of the visual effects branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each film on Jan 19. They will nominate five immediately after the screenings.
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Exclusive Media Group appoints Paul Davidge COO
The former Relativity Media vp of business development will assume oversight of daily operational management of international sales, marketing and distribution.
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Matthew Fox to star in Emperor for director Peter Webber
The screenplay by David Klass and Vera Blasi is based on a true story and follows events surrounding the surrender of Japanese Emperor Hirohito at the end of the second world war.
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Film Agency For Wales awards £250,000 development funding
23 projects have received development funding over the last year.
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Cineworld reports 1.5% revenue increase in 2011
UK’s second-largest cinema chain maintains 24.6% box-office market-share.
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Greenberg Fund backs new projects including Sarah Polley's Alias Grace
Canada-based Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund English-Language Program has announced its latest Script Development Program grants for 29 projects.
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The Pope’s European tour
One film, 15 different campaigns across Europe. At the Les Arcs Co-production Village in December, several distributors revealed their release strategies for Habemus Papam. Wendy Mitchell reports
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Gary Oldman
To play the disenchanted spy hunter at the centre of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Gary Oldman went back to the classic novel and used its author, John le Carré, as a template.