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    Kino Lorber snaps up Computer Chess

    2013-02-08T18:14:00Z

    The distributor has acquired all US rights to Andrew Bujalski’s comedy following its world premiere at Sundance last month. 

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    Hot projects on Screenbase

    2013-02-08T15:34:00Z

    Among the many updates and new projects already announced in Berlin are Belly Dancing For Beginners starring Sheridan Smith and Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie.

  • Jessica Alba
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    Myriad circles Jessica Alba for Weightless

    2013-02-08T14:44:00Z

    Kirk D’Amico has begun pre-sales at EFM and announced on Friday [8] that Jessica Alba is in final negotiations to star.

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    Finecut sells Hong's Daughter to France, Brazil

    2013-02-08T14:27:00Z

    Korea’s Finecut has sold Hong Sangsoo’s Berlin competition title Nobody’s Daughter Haewon to France’s Les Acacias and California Filmes for Brazil.

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    Fortissimo picks up Linsanity

    2013-02-08T14:22:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside of North America and China to feature documentary, Linsanity, which recently screened at Sundance.

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    Ellen Page to direct Anna Faris

    2013-02-08T14:19:00Z

    Ellen Page will make her feature directorial debut on Miss Stevens with Anna Faris attached to star in the title role.

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    Young Ones sells for 6 Sales, The Exchange

    2013-02-08T13:58:00Z

    Tristan Orpen Lynch of Ireland’s Subotica and Michael Auret of Spier Films have commenced production in South Africa on Jake Paltrow’s Young Ones.

  • Jared Harris
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    Exclusive sells key territories on Quiet Ones

    2013-02-08T11:50:00Z

    Sales chief Alex Walton has licensed multiple territory rights to the Hammer supernatural thriller to star Jared Harris [pictured] and Sam Claflin.

  • Ben Kingsley
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    Beta reports Physician, Devil’s Violinist sales

    2013-02-08T11:33:00Z

    Beta has closed pre-sales on Philip Stoelzl’s adventure epic The Physician with Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard and Tom Payne, as well as Bernard Rose’s mystical biopic The Devil’s Violinist.

  • Timothy Spall
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    Focus reunites with Mike Leigh on Turner biopic

    2013-02-08T10:57:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features International (FFI) will handle worldwide sales on the film about the celebrated English landscape painter J M W Turner to star Timothy Spall and will co-finance with BFI and Film4.

  • Justin Long
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    Arclight eyes Lookalike

    2013-02-08T10:39:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films has acquired crime romance The Lookalike with a cast including John Corbett, Justin Long, Scottie Thompson, Jerry O’Connell and Gina Gershon.

  • Barbra Streisand
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    Streisand mulls directing gig

    2013-02-08T10:22:00Z

    Aldamisa International has signed the iconic entertainer to direct a film in what will be her first outing in the role since 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces.

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    Arsenal Pictures, The G-Machine partner on new slate

    2013-02-08T08:49:00Z

    The Los Angeles-based companies have teamed up with production company Content Aggregator to jointly produce, finance and sell a slate of films kicking off at the EFM.

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    Visit Films boards sales on Upstream Color

    2013-02-08T08:47:00Z

    Shane Carruth’s follow-up to his acclaimed thriller Primer will receive its international premiere in Panorama on Sunday [10] following last month’s Sundance debut.

  • Geography Club
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    Shoreline Entertainment checks into Geography Club

    2013-02-08T08:39:00Z

    Morris Ruskin’s Los Angeles-based production and sales company has picked up world sales rights to Huffington Pictures’ coming-of-age drama.

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    2+2 a hot seller for Rud's FilmSharks

    2013-02-08T08:17:00Z

    FilmSharks has closed multiple territories on Diego Kaplan’s swingers drama 2+2 (A Couple With A Couple).

  • Stephen King
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    Tod Williams to direct Cell for Cargo Entertainment

    2013-02-08T08:13:00Z

    Cargo Entertainment has attached Tod “Kip” Williams to direct John Cusack in the Stephen King adaptation Cell. Mark Lindsay is presenting the project to buyers  company handles international pre-sales while Paradigm represents US rights.

  • Emile Sherman and Iain Canning
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    King's Speech producers grab autobiography

    2013-02-08T07:30:00Z

    The true story of how a poor five-year-old Indian boy was separated from his mother, adopted by an Australian family, then found her 25 years later, is to be made into a film by See-Saw Films producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.

  • Dana Archer
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    DDA PR promotes Dana Archer to president and partner

    2013-02-08T06:33:00Z

    CEO Lawrence Atkinson and COO John Stannard made the announcement on Friday [8].

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    Wild Bunch adds Miss Julie

    2013-02-08T06:00:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch has picked up international sales on Liv Ullmann’s upcoming $5m battle-of-the-sexes drama Miss Julie starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton.