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Jerry Pierce to serve as NATO tech advisor
The former svp of Universal Pictures and founder and chairman of Inter-Society’s Digital Cinema Forum (ISDCF)will begin his consulting post on Jul 1.
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Rob Reiner in talks to join The Wolf Of Wall Street
Red Granite owns the rights to Jordan Belfort’s best-selling memoir about his tumultuous life as a trader and is financing the project. Martin Scorsese will direct Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role.
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Screen Media takes doc Wild Horse, Wild Ride
President Suzanne Blech and David Fannon negotiated the deal for North American rights with Anne Atkinson of Pryor Cashman on behalf of the filmmakers.
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Jung appointed as head of CJ E&M’s film division
Korean giant CJ E&M Corporation has appointed former Showbox/Mediaplex executive Tae-sung Jung as head of the film division.
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Star Chinese Movies boards Wedding Diary sequel
Star Chinese Movies (SCM) will co-finance the highly-anticipated sequel to Singapore-Malaysian box office hit The Wedding Diary, directed by Malaysia’s Adrian Teh.
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Good Pitch 2012 projects include Call me Kuchu, Big Boys Gone Bananas
The 2012 Good Pitch Europe, organised by BRITDOC and The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, has announced the 8 projects which have been selected to be part of its one day pitching event on June 25.
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Opening night of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
The 66th edition of the EIFF opened last night with the UK premiere of Killer Joe, attended by director William Friedkin and actress Gina Gershon.
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Vector Capital takes stake in Technicolor
San Francisco-based fund to inject much-needed funds into Paris-based media and entertainment technology company.
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UPDATE: UK industry responds to The Times article alleging tax avoidance in film business
Future Capital Partners says it will “stand absolutely behind the investments”; Ingenious battles allegations by saying that a “rogue inspector” made a “misinformed statement.”
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Jinga's Day of Violence spreads to North America, Germany
Film won award at Weekend of Terror festival.
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European Commission wants Catalonia to open up distribution of non-Spanish films
The European Commission (EC) has requested Spain to put an end to the discriminatory rules in the Catalan Law on Cinema, which hurts the distribution of non-Spanish films.
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Intramovies sells The Immature to Spain and The Jewel and Chocolate Kisses to Japan
Deals with Sherlock, Only Hearts, Aya Pro.
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Psychic Octopus doc team plans zombie project
Exhibit A Pictures, the outfit behind new doc The Life And Times Of Paul The Psychic Octopus (a world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival today), is now stretching its tentacles into zombie land.
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Gravitas acquires US rights to 3,2,1 … Frankie Go Boom
The rom-com will launch on VoD in September and open theatrically through Variance Films in October, marking the distribution partnership’s first theatrical release.
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TWC announces $225m in revolving credit facilities
The company’s strategic initiatives, investments and banking (SIIB) division has closed two separate deals “to act on opportunities worldwide as they become available.”
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Madagascar 3 to cross $200m internationally
DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted stands at $176.7m through PPI and executives will look for a number one hold in the third weekend.