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NewsLincoln Center swells programmer ranks
Florence Almozini has been appointed senior programmer and Jake Perlin and Rachael Rakes have been named programmers-at-large.
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NewsSoundcheque launches in Hollywood
The London-based company, which claims to pay musicians without retaining any rights, has opened a Los Angeles office.
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NewsPeyton Reed to direct Ant-Man
Marvel took to Twitter at the weekend (June 7) to announce its replacement for Edgar Wright, who departed the project last month over what is understood to be creative differences.
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NewsCasey Affleck, John Middleton launch production venture
John Powers Middleton, who has worked as executive producer on A&E’s Bates Motel and the Oldboy remake, has teamed up with Casey Affleck to launch a production company.
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NewsMaleficent tops 22 Jump Street buzz
Angelina Jolie’s fresh approach to Sleeping Beauty holds its lead on its second week of release.
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NewsTransilvania reveals first grants
An observational documentary and two fiction films are the first projects to be supported by the Transilvania Film Festival Fund (TFFF).
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NewsBroadway cinema launches film fund
Broadway Cinema in Nottingham has launched a £100,000 film investment fund.
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NewsSecret Cinema breaks sales record
Ticket sales record set by Secret Cinema for its biggest live cinema event presenting Back to The Future.
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NewsMK2 buys Spanish cinema chain
French mini major MK2 has acquired Spain’s Cinesur cinema chain, the country’s third biggest chain.
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NewsPeter Bogdanovich to direct Tycoon
Cohen Media Group has tapped Oscar-nominated director Peter Bogdanovich to direct its television miniseries adaptation of Edward Ball’s The Inventor And The Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder And The Birth Of Moving Pictures.
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NewsOutfest 2014 unveils line-up
The 2014 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival has announced its complete programming line-up for the event, set to run from July 10-20.
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NewsProduction: Nyong’o plots Americanah; Dench has Fever
Lupita Nyong’o is reuniting with Plan B and has secured with D2 Productions and Potboiler Productions rights to develop Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah. Separately, Judi Dench has boarded Tulip Fever.
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NewsGravitas picks up Among Ravens
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Russell Friedenberg and Randy Redroad’s dramedy starring Johnny Sequoyah, Amy Smart and Victoria Smurfit.
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NewsMatt Brodlie joins Relativity Media
The respected and experienced buyer has been named executive vice-president of acquisitions as the company seeks to ramp up the slate.
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NewsGhostbusters set for re-release
To mark the 30th anniversary of Ivan Reitman’s film Sony will release a restored and remastered 4K version in North America on Labor Day Weekend (August 29).
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NewsChina Movie Media Group opens US office
China Movie Media Group (CMMG) announced it will open a US office and has teamed up with Paramount to market the imminent summer release Transformers: Age Of Extinction in China.
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NewsDembia promoted at Rogers & Cowan
The highly regarded publicist has been promoted to senior vice-president at the global entertainment public relations and marketing agency.
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NewsDennis Davidson in Medient advisor role
The founder of DDA Public Relations and head of DDA Consulting is to serve as external special advisor Medient Studios.
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NewsUni, Legendary extend Imax deal
The production partners have agreed with Imax for the latter to release up to 15 of their films through 2017.
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NewsAV Pictures' Vic Bateman dies
Vic Bateman, one of the UK’s longest serving international sales agents who handled films including The Deer Hunter and The Elephant Man, has died.