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NewsHollywood lines up Catan adaptation
Producer Gail Katz, whose credits include Pawn Sacrifice and The Perfect Storm, has acquired film and TV rights to the modern classic board game The Settlers Of Catan.
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NewsFox Searchlight buys A Bigger Splash
The distributor has closed a deal with StudioCanal for US rights to Luca Guadagnino’s thriller and follow-up to I Am Love.
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NewsWarner Bros boosts Machinima stake
Warner Bros has led a $24m round of financing in the online gaming and content titan.
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NewsStockfish to open with Blowfly Park
First edition of the new Icelandic film festival to open with award-winning actor Sverrir Gudnason in attendance.
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NewsMetrodome plunges Into The Deep
Odin’s Eye makes EFM sales on shark attack thriller to the UK, Japan, Middle East and India.
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NewsEdge takes The Wolfpack for Scandinavia
Sundance winner snapped up at Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM).
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NewsFifty Shades hits $300m at global box office
Fifty Shades Of Grey has raced to $311.7m worldwide via Universal heading into a second weekend it looks certain to dominate.
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NewsAlbert Martínez Martín joins Lantica
Lantica Media has hired the producer as vice-president of its production and financing arm Lantica Pictures.
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NewsEwan McGregor to direct American Pastoral
Lakeshore Entertainment has found its director for the Philip Roth adaptation after Phillip Noyce dropped out due to what were understood to be scheduling issues.
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NewsAFI FEST unveils 2015 dates
Top brass at the increasingly heavyweight awards season staging post have announced this year’s festival dates.
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NewsBFI Flare reveals 2015 line-up
LGBT festival to close with documentary Out To Win; Rocky Horror to screen at BFI Imax.
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NewsThe Orchard acquires Kung Fu Elliot
The distributor plans to release the Slamdance 2014 documentary later this month.
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NewsWillie Nelson, Charlotte Rampling line up Miracle
Production is set to begin next month in Texas on Lian Lunson’s Waiting For The Miracle To Come starring Willie Nelson, Charlotte Rampling and newcomer Sophie Lowe.
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NewsGerman distributors score EFM spree
German distributors Neue Visionen and Salzgeber & Co. Medien each acquired a raft of new titles at this year’s European Film Market (EFM).
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NewsSelma, Belle scoop Screen Nation awards
David Oyelowo wins for his portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr; Amma Asante collects award for Belle.
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NewsBad Robot extends Paramount deal
JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions has extended its first-look deal at paramount through July 2018.
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NewsPirates of the Caribbean 5 begins shoot
Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack Sparrow as shooting begins in Australia.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Hot projects new to Screenbase include Nicolas Winding Refn feature The Neon Demon, Pope Francis biopic Francisco, Brady Corbet’s directorial debut The Childhood Of A Leader and a new adaptation by Wim Wenders.
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NewsVMI’s Kurt Cobain drama sells to Germany, Japan
EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based VMI Worldwide closed a pair of major theatrical deals at the EFM on its Kurt Cobain true-crime drama.