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NewsScreen Australia’s letters of interest to be more useful as a financing tool
If proposed changes to Screen Australia’s guidelines go ahead, there will be fewer hoops to jump through in order to be eligible for a letter of interest.
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NewsCroatian Audiovisual Centre supports Grlic, Juric, Ogresta
The Croatian Audiovisual Centre has announced it latest fundings, with a total of 62 projects receiving $6.8m, out of which eight feature films will share $5.2m.
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NewsEarliest Charles Dickens film discovered
The oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character – The Death Of Poor Joe - has been discovered by BFI curator Bryony Dixon.
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NewsK5 snaps up international rights to SXSW screener King Kelly
Andrew Neel’s sparky drama is made up entirely of camera phone diaries and follows an aspiring internet star as she embarks on a hedonistic quest to reclaim a stash of narcotics.
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NewsChadwick, Harris circle Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom
EXCLUSIVE: Anant Singh’s long-gestating Nelson Mandela biopic heats up with Justin Chadwick in advanced talks to direct and Skyfall actress Naomie Harris in talks to star as Winnie Mandela opposite Idris Elba.
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NewsBenelux distributor Lumiere moves into international sales
To handle animated feature Phantom Boy from team behind Oscar nominated A Cat In Paris.
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NewsFilm 4.0 to discuss Dreams Of A Life cross-platform success during SXSW panel
Film4.0 head Anna Higgs will moderate the Monday panel; street-based game to launch during SXSW.
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NewsWes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom to open Cannes
The American indie darling’s ensemble piece will kick off proceedings on the Croisette on May 16, the same day as the film’s release in France through StudioCanal.
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NewsMGM cements int’l network with Lusomundo, Selim Ramia deals
Hot on the heels of clearing debt and securing a $500m revolving credit facility, the revitalised studio’s co-chairmen and CEOs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum say they have effectively sealed their global distribution network with two fresh multi-year agreements.
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NewsThe Blind Side producer Molly Smith launches Belle Pictures
Smith, who will remain Hilary Swank’s partner at 2S Films, will make features and TV in association with Alcon Entertainment in a four-year discretionary first-look deal.
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NewsInt'l preview: Disney plots global domination for John Carter
The fantasy adventure opens day-and-date around the world this weekend in virtually every major market through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International except China and Japan.
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MarVista Entertainment expands management team
Following new investment in August, the film and television company has brought in finance expert Susan Young as CFO and promoted Vanessa Goglio Shapiro from svp of worldwide sales to evp of sales.
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San Francisco Film Society announces SFFS/KRF grants
The Society in association with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have selected 11 narrative feature projects for the seventh round of grants up to $300,000.
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Autonomy Pictures kicks off with US rights deal on The Bunny Game
Distribution veterans Derek Curl, David Gregory and Lewis Tice’s new distributor aims to release “uncompromising cinema on a worldwide scale” and will handle four films this year, starting with Adam Rehmeier’s torture porn.
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Searchlight, Red Flag buy SXSW comedy Do-Deca-Pentathlon
Jay and Mark Duplass wrote and directed the film, set to receive its world premiere in Austin on Mar 11.
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Gravitas, Variance Films launch distribution alliance at SXSW
The partners aim to acquire and jointly release seven or eight films a year simultaneously in theatres and on VoD.
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Riviera Maya festival and Rivieralab market launch in March
Seventy films will screen during the Riviera Maya Film Festival, set to run in Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Cozumel and Holbox from Mar 20-25.
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NewsTribeca unveils Spotlight and Cinemania selections
Among the narrative Spotlight entries are Stefan Ruzowitzky’s thriller Deadfall starring Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde and Fox Searchlight’s Lola Versus with Greta Gerwig, Bill Pullman and Debra Winger, while documentaries include male grooming in Morgan Spurlock’s Mansome and sports in Knuckleball! from Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg.
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NewsMPI Media Group snatches North American rights to Heineken Kidnapping
The Dutch thriller is based on the actual 1983 abduction of the brewery magnate Alfred Heineken who was eventually released for a €16m ransom.