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Inferno lines up Pinocchio, Grace, Maggie for Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel’s LA-based outfit is Cannes-bound with a prestige slate that includes new work from Guillermo del Toro and Olivier Dahan.
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The Avengers target super-sized $1bn worldwide
As it heads into second and third international weekends Marvel Studios-Disney’s behemoth should have little trouble zipping past $600m from its $517.8m perch. The question is – will it cross $1bn at the global box office by the end of Sunday?
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Yann Demange attached to direct Northern Ireland thriller 71
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand director of Channel 4 series Top Boy attached to Crab Apple Films/Warp Films project from Black Watch writer Gregory Burke.
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Ed Pressman to adapt graphic novel Feeding Ground
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is set to direct and screenwriter Carlos Coto will adapt Archaia Entertainment’s celebrated werewolf story, which was originally published in hardcover simultaneously in English and Spanish.
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Radiant boards Madame Bovary with Mia Wasikowska
EXCLUSIVE: Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International will introduce Occupant Entertainment’s classic tragedy to buyers in Cannes. Paul Giamatti and Ezra Miller also star.
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Robert De Niro joins Michael Douglas on Last Vegas
Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane’s Good Universe handles international sales on the comedy and CBS Films will distribute in the US.
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Constantin Film enlists more cast members on Tarzan
Following the news that Kellan Lutz and Spencer Locke will play Tarzan and Jane in the Germany company’s 3D animated feature, it emerged on Thursday that Jaime Ray Newman and Trevor St John have come on board.
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Hyde Park International to sell Elmore Leonard crime tale
EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj continues to bulk up his Cannes sales roster and will introduce Untitled Elmore Leonard Project to star Jennifer Aniston, Dennis Quaid, John Hawkes and Ty Burrell.
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Provincetown to open on Jun 13 with Bachelorette
Roger Corman will receive the 2012 Filmmaker on the Edge Award and will take part in an on-stage conversation with John Waters at the Provincetown International Film festival in Massachusetts.
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Producers eye summer start on Paganini – The Devil’s Violinist
Joely Richardson in talks to join violin maestro David Garrett on cast with Bernard Rose set to direct.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung-Hun Lee join cast of Red 2
UPDATE: Lionsgate will commence pre-sales in Cannes on Summit Entertainment’s action-comedy sequel to the $200m worldwide box office hit as it emerged the sales force will also commence talks with buyers on its Dirty Dancing reboot.
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Content acquires international sales rights to All Is By My Side
André Benjamin will star in the Jimi Hendrix biopic from Darko Entertainment, Subotica Entertainment and Matador Pictures.
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Arclight acquires international sales to While We Were Here
Kat Coiro’s Ischia-set romance premiered at Tribeca and stars Kate Bosworth, Jamie Blackley and Iddo Goldberg. Gary Hamilton will commence talks with buyers in Cannes. WME Global represents North American rights.
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Adam Smith boards Polly Stenham’s Tusk
EXCLUSIVE: Rising UK director is attached to Polly Stenham’s Origin/Film4 Brit List script which is gearing up to shoot this year.
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Europe's Ministers of Culture agree to a 'balanced compromise text' for the Creative Europe programme
The European Union’s Council of Culture Ministers agreed at a session in Brussels on Wednesday morning to a so-called partial general approach to the European Commission’s proposed Creative Europe programme after the Danish EU Presidency made a number of adjustments the proposal’s text.
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Visual effects company Cinesite sold to Endless LLP
The London based visual effects house has been acquired by UK based private equity house Endless LLP.
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Exclusive boards Agent: Century 21 action-comedy for Cannes
Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro will star in the caper, which Exclusive will produce and finance. Alex Walton will introduce to buyers in Cannes and CAA represents North American rights.
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The Glass Man among Spotlight Pictures market slate
Announcing the company’s biggest Cannes line-up yet, president of international Scott Bedno said the Neve Campbell thriller centres on a man whose seemingly normal life slowly descends into madness.
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Film Sales Company closes deals on Bones Brigade
Hopscotch/eOne has acquired rights in Australia and New Zealand and King Records will handle Japanese distribution on Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary.
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Over half of UK consumers admit to illegal film downloading
Survey also reveals that only one in four Brits believe it is “morally wrong”.