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Alicia Silverstone, Sharon Stone on board Gods for Big Beach
Production on the comedy Gods Behaving Badly is scheduled to begin in mid-July in New York.
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Graham Leggat steps down from San Francisco Film Society
Leggat had served as executive director since October 2005 and told colleagues he was leaving due to his ongoing battle with cancer after years of “unalloyed pleasure”.
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Liddell, Roadside eye awards run for Albert Nobbs
Mickey Liddell has jumped on board his latest US acquisition, teaming up with Roadside Attractions on rights to the Glenn Close-starrer.
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Netflix stock soars as company announces LatAm plan
Netflix stock surged by more than 5% to reach an historic $293 today [5] as the company announced plans to expand into 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year.
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Sony, Adam Sandler reunite for Hotel Transylvania
The comedian continues his long association with the studio and is set to voice the lead role in the film, set for release on Sept 21 2012.
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Twilight's Stephenie Meyer to produce rom-com Austenland
Meyer’s Fickle Fish, the production company the Twilight author runs with Meghan Hibbett, is financing the feature directorial debut of Jerusha Hess, who co-wrote Napoleon Dynamite with her husband Jared Hess.
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Nancy Fishman Film Releasing boards Romeo And Juliet In Yiddish
The San Francisco Bay Area-based distributor negotiated the deal with director and producer Eve Annenberg and holds US rights and non-exclusive broadcast and festival international rights.
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Well Go USA takes all rights to Let The Bullets Fly
The Asian cinema specialist picked up North American rights to four films from Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures.
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Aktis acquires KVIFF competitor Lollipop Monster
Aktis Film International has acquired the international distribution rights for Ziska Riemann’s feature debut Lollipop Monster which has its international premiere in Karlovy Vary’s main competition today (July 6).
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Switzerland, Germany and Austria sign trilateral co-production agreement
Trilateral co-production agreement between Switzerland, Germany and Austria comes into effect, but international visibility of Swiss cinema dealt a blow by ministry’s cost-cutting.
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Europa Distribution elects new board, co-presidents
Lumiere, Gutek heads assume co-presidency of European indies organisation; Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu takes on Presidency of Honor role.
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DIFF showcases Arab cinema at London Shubbak festival
Films from UAE, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Egypt to screen during capital’s first festival of contemporary Arab culture
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Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, Number 9 Films
Number 9 producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen talk to Screen about Mike Newell’s adaptaiton of Great Expectations and the challenges of running an independent production company in the UK.
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Weekly International Box Office July 1 - 3
Transformers shuts out international opposition as China and India fly the flag for local fare
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Christian Grass steps down from role at Universal
Industry stalwart Christian Grass has stepped down from his role as President, Universal Pictures International Productions & Acquisitions.
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Nuno Bernardo
Cross-platform producer Nuno Bernardo talks to Screen about the opportunites afforded by transmedia and his work on Noel Clarke comedy The Knot.
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Imagi strikes deals with Disney on Pleasant Goat
Hong Kong’s animation studio Imagi International and its strategic partner Guangdong Creative Power Entertaining (CPE) have reached a distribution deal with The Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture to distribute the fourth movie of popular Chinese animation series Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf.
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China's box office up 13.6% in the first half of 2011
The box office revenue in China reached $850m (RMB5.5bn) in the first six months of 2011, a 13.6% increase from the figure of the same period in 2010.