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Expanded Beijing Film Market wraps
The second Beijing Film Market (April 24-26) wrapped on Thursday after three days of increased participation and business, although delegates agreed that it remains a mostly domestic Chinese event.
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War Witch, Una Noche triumph at 11th Tribeca Film Festival
The $25,000 Founders Award for Best narrative feature went to War Witch by Kim Nguyen.
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Chinese online video sites form buying alliance
China’s three major online video companies – Tencent Holdings, Sohu Video and Baidu-owned iQiyi.com – are to establish an alliance of “Video Content Cooperation” (VCC) to jointly purchase or negotiate content for their platforms.
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Andy Garcia, Vera Farmiga to star in Admissions
Garcia will also produce the rom-com through his CineSon Productions. Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group arranged financing and represents domestic rights while Film Bridge International handles sales on the rest of the world.
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Struck By Lightning among five new titles on Lightning Entertainment slate
The Santa Monica-based company will introduce the Tribeca coming-of-age comedy written by and starring Glee’s Chris Colfer to buyers on the Croisette. Lightning negotiated the deal with ICM and Traction Media.
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Creative Europe comes in for criticism at public hearing in Brussels
Experts express concern at European Commission’s proposed programme
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Dimension Films acquires US rights to Dark Skies
Scott Stewart wrote and will direct the supernatural thriller, his follow-up to Priest that is being produced by Jason Blum and Alliance Films, which is fully financing. IM Global will commence pre-sales in Cannes through its Octane division.
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UK box office 4% ahead year-on-year
FDA reports UK box-office currently running 4% ahead of 2011; passes £300m in year to date in record time.
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The Paris Cinema Festival to fete Olivier Assayas and Raoul Ruiz
Event celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012
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Annapurna enters sales game with Panorama venture
Megan Ellison has invested in the new LA-based production, financing and international sales entity which will arrive in Cannes with a slate that includes Kathryn Bigelow’s (pictured) Bin Laden project Zero Dark Thirty currently shooting, a new film from Spike Jones and Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher.
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Arts Alliance Media pacts with Sony in Latin America, ACES Cines in Spain
Digital cinema provider Arts Alliance Media signs new agreements with Sony and ACES.
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Phil Rymer joins London law firm Lewis Silkin
The film and TV lawyer was previously principal of his own firm Rymer Media Law.
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Willem Dafoe joins Out Of The Furnace
The two-time Oscar nominee will play the role of John Petty in the crime drama, which started shooting in Braddock, Pennsylvania, on Apr 13.
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Seattle to celebrate careers of Spacek, Friedkin
Sissy Spacek will receive the Outstanding Achievement In Acting award on Jun 7 at SIFF. Spacek is best known for her roles in Carrie and most recently The Help.
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Rooney Mara to star in Wildgaze Films' Brooklyn
Nick Hornby has adapted the film from the Colm Toibin bestseller set in 1950s Ireland and New York
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Christopher Nolan, Peter Berg in Produced By line-up
The PGA conference in Los Angeles is set to run from Jun 8-10 and will feature on-stage conversations with the filmmakers behind The Dark Knight and Battleship.
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Christopher Nolan, Peter Berg in Produced By line-up
The PGA’s annual conference in Los Angeles is set to run from Jun 8-10 and will feature on-stage conversations with the filmmakers behind The Dark Knight and Battleship.
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Lone Scherfig attached to direct Orange for Ruby, Focus
EXCLUSIVE: The adaptation of Tim Guest’s memoir My Life In Orange, about his childhood in an Indian commune, is curently in development.
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Robert Redford launches Sundance London
Sundance founder says London event a chance to grow audiences for independent films at press conference on opening day
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12 projects selected for Locarno’s Open Doors
Co-production lab focuses on Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa in 2012.