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NewsPray For Japan seals deal with OEE, Tugg, Bayview
Australian sales agency Odin’s Eye Entertainment (OEE) has picked up worldwide rights to documentary Pray For Japan, directed by filmmaker and manga publisher Stu Levy.
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CommentSeason well
Screen chats to make up and special effects designer Paul Hyett about his directorial debut The Seasoning House, which opens FrightFest on Thursday (23).
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Peccadillo hands home-ent to Fusion Media Sales
The company’s back catalogue titles remain with Lace Digital Media Sales until 30 September.
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NewsMystery thriller Flight to close 50th New York Film Festival
The world premiere of Robert Zemeckis’s return to live-action filmmaking will be the first chance awards watchers get to see Paramount’s contender before it opens on Nov 2.
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NewsGrey Rembert named production president at Kennedy/Marshall Company
Rembert started her carer with Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall at Amblin Entertainment. Marshall now becomes sole head of the reorganised Kennedy/Marshall Company.
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Don't Get Excited to begin shooting in September
Production is set to start for Ira Zankel and Aaron Godfred’s Don’t Get Excited, which follows an accountant who takes a chance on life and love after being told by his doctor he has a potentially fatal heart condition.
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IFC Films acquires US rights to Knife Fight
Bill Guttentag’s timely political drama in this US election year premiered at Tribeca and stars Rob Lowe, Jaime Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison, David Harbour, Eric McCormack and Carrie-Anne Moss.
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NewsGrant Anderson to run Sony 3D Technology Center
The new executive director of the industry tech consultancy in Culver City in Los Angeles is an expert in the field who has worked as producer, effects supervisor and digital artist.
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An Unkindness Of Ravens starts shooting in Idaho
The dark comedy stars Amy Smart and Joshua Leonard, Will McCormack. Randy Redroad and Russell Friedenberg co-direct from Friedenberg’s screenplay.
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HFPA announces more than $1.2m in grants
The money was pledged at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) annual luncheon on Thursday (9) in Beverly Hills.
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Mark Margolis joins cast of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah
The recent Emmy nominee and star of Braking Bad will play Samyaza in the film to star Russell Crowe, Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Hopkins. Paramount has scheduled a March 2014 release.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers on board Mortal Instruments
Constantin confirmed the casting on Thursday (9) and said the actor would play Valentine Morgenstern. David Garrett’s Mister Smith handles international sales and Screen Gems is scheduled to release in the US on Aug 23 2013.
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NewsDKR crosses $400m for Warner Bros Pictures International
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises stands at $407.2m heading into the weekend as Sony’s Total Recall gets a big push outside North America.
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NewsExamining a new model: BT and The Sun sponsor Fox’s distribution of Chariots of Fire
Last month the The Sun and BT sponsored Fox UK’s re-release of British classic Chariots of Fire. Screen talked to Fox UK MD Cameron Saunders about the unusual model.
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NewsCelestial seals iTunes deal; Pollack departs
Hong Kong’s Celestial Pictures has become one of the first local studios to make films available on Apple’s iTunes Store.
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NewsMichael Cimino to receive filmmaker award in Venice
Restored version of Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate will screen after the ceremony.
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NewsCaroline Link to bring Heidi to big screen
German director Caroline Link, who won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003 for Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika), is now attached as director for a new film version of the children’s classic Heidi.