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Melbourne’s 37º South selects best pitches
A new project from the producer of Whale Rider, an adaptation of a US book and a Chinese-Australian co-production are to be pitched in the UK after being selected by Melbourne’s 37º South Market.
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Wolverine debuts top in UK
Fox’s 3D sequel scores chart-topping $7.2m (£4.7m) debut, while Disney’s Monsters University crosses £15m mark.
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BFI Film Fund backs three debuts
New films from Philippa Lowthorpe, Andrew Steggall, Jane Linfoot receive backing.
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Locarno to honour Victoria Abril
Spanish actress Victoria Abril is to be honoured with the Excellence Award at the 66th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 7-17).
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Kosslick to “godfather” SOFA training
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick is to serve as a “godfather” to the new training venture School of Film Agents (SOFA) and has revealed he wants attract more TV product to Berlin’s EFM.
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Celestial Wives wins at Wroclaw
Rural Russian film takes top prize at Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
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See-Saw, CMG team for D-Day spy series
EXCLUSIVE: The King’s Speech, Top of the Lake producer joins Cohen Media Group on adaptation of Second World War spy story Double Cross.
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Wolverine slices $55m in US
Fox’s X-Men tale put a lot of space between itself and the competition as the action release debuted top in North America on an estimated $55m, even though the result will have disappointed studio executives. TWC’s awards hopeful Fruitvale Station vaulted seven places to number 10.
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Wolverine grosses $86m int’l
UPDATED JUL 29: Fox International unleashed the beast to deliver a confirmed $87.2m debut on 15,435 screens in 101 countries, a powerful launch in which Argentina was the only market not to return a number one result.
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A Stranger, Circles triumph in Pula
Cowboys wins audience award, Hush also wins multiple prizes.
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John Williams to score Star Wars: Episode VII
World renowned composer announced by Kathleen Kennedy at Star Wars Celebration. Williams discusses new film and JJ Abrams in video message.
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Zagreb Cappuccino wins Pula’s works in progress
Vanja Svilicic’s Zagreb Cappuccino has won the works in progress award at the Pula Film Festival.
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Film Movement acquires Salvo
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s Salvo, winner of the Critics Week Grand Prix and the France 4 Visionary Award in Cannes.
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Doppelgänger lands Smash
Music Box Films’ genre arm has acquired US rights to Smash & Grab: The Story Of The Pink Panthers, Havana Marking’s documentary about the world’s most successful diamond thieves.
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Alcon lines up Dolphin Tale 2
Harry Connick Jr, Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman will return for Alcon’s Dolphin Tale 2 following the $72m North American success of the original family drama in 2011 through Warner Bros.
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Parkland to open on Sept 20
Exclusive Releasing will roll out the JFK assassination drama in theatres following the autumn festival debuts in Venice and Toronto.
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CNN boards Sole Survivor
CNN Films top brass made the announcement on Friday [26] ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan on Saturday.
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Sightseers wins two at PiFan
The 17th Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan) wrapped with Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers bagging the top Best of Puchon Award as well as the Best Actress Award for Alice Lowe.
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FrightFest screams guest line-up
A Field in England’s Ben Wheatley and The Raid’s Gareth Evans set to attend.