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IFC Midnight adds thriller Area 407 to pipeline
The distributor has acquired rights to North America, Latin America, France, Benelux, Turkey, Greece, East central Europe and Asia for Dale Fabrigar and Everette Wallin’s found footage sci-fi.
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Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueroux to close Cannes
Audrey Tautou stars in the title role of the French master’s final film, which will screen on May 27 and is based on François Mauriac’s 1920s novel of the same name.
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Open Road takes US rights to Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
The distributor will release wide on Oct 26 the latest entry in the horror franchise from Samuel Hadida of Davis Films and Don Carmody. Lionsgate handles international sales.
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SmartJog and CineLab Group sign digital cinema distribution deal in Russia and CIS
CineLab become the first digital cinema network operator to license SmartJog’s solutions after a recent pilot phase.
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Submarine closes US, Canada deals on Lawrence Ferlinghetti doc
First Run Features will distribute in the US while Films We Like has acquired Canadian rights to Christopher Felver’s portrait of the celebrated poet and publisher.
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Lincoln Center Convergence initiative to stage 24-hour ‘hackathon’
The day-long transmedia exercise on Apr 28 is one example of what is to come from the New York-based Film Society of Lincoln Center’s (FSLC) transmedia and immersive media partnership with StoryCode and Kill Screen Magazine.
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BFI announces “pillars” of its Five Year Plan For Film
Amanda Nevill today promised a “fresh approach” from the BFI in its Five Year Forward Plan For Film; government and BFI to officially respond to Chris Smith’s Film Policy Review on May 14.
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Premier PR sells First Movies to Penn Schoen Berland
London-based public relations company Premier PR has sold its entertainment market research agency, First Movies, to LA based research and consulting firm Penn Schoen Berland, part of the WPP group.
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My Brother The Devil to open Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival
Sally El Hosaini’s coming-of-age film — winner of the cinematography award at Sundance — will receive its Canadian premiere at the festival. The film will kick off festival on May 17.
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Dan Simmons appointed Creative Skillset's head of film
He has been acting head of film at the UK training organisation - which rebranded at the beginning of this month from Skillset to Creative Skillset - since last April.
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Cannes confirms Berenice Bejo as mistress of ceremonies
Bejo to host opening and closing ceremonies of festival running 16-27 May.
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Movie Mogul’s Monster Project goes into development
The cross genre feature will be the British independent production company’s second film following Panic Button.
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David Pritchard to produce Keith Floyd biopic
David Pritchard is adapting his book Shooting the Cook, about British TV chef Keith Floyd, into a feature.
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Tele München Group acquires Iron Man 3 for Germany, Austria
TMG distributed the first two films in the series.
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Sundance ties with Shine Group
Shine Group’s youth production arm is to produce a series of highlights packages of the inaugural Sundance London film and music festival.
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Edinburgh Film Festival to open with Killer Joe
It will be the UK premiere of the comic noir thriller which world premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year.
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Moviehouse takes on ActionFest award winner I Declare War
Sales company also working with Samaritan Entertainment on Repatriate.
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Formosa plans thrillers, film noir via its first Seed EIS development slate
EIS specialist Formosa Films has announced details of its inaugural Seed EIS (SEIS) Development slate.
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Christie hosts high frame rate summit with industry experts
Christie hosted a high frame rate summit on April 12 in Kitchener, Ontario.
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Bleiberg Entertainment takes international sales on Charm
The Beverly Hills-based production, financing and sales company’s Compound B label will begin sales in Cannes following a deal with producers Jonathan Craven and Cody Zwieg.