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NewsFocus sets Hawking drama for Nov
Working Title Films’ Stephen Hawking drama Theory Of Everything will go on limited release through Focus Features on November 7 in the awards season corridor.
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NewsPanama fest grows with first market
With its third edition, which concluded on Wednesday, the Panama International Film Festival continued the year-on-year growth that is turning it into one of the region’s most important showcases for Ibero-American cinema.
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NewsParty Girl to open Un Certain Regard
Debut feature is from co-directors Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis.
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NewsGoldcrest sues Summit over Twilight
Goldcrest Film Distribution has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Summit Distribution in a bid to recover millions of dollars it claims it is owed from profits made by the Twilight franchise.
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NewsMurdoch, Dneg back UK animation studio
Former Aardman Features exec Sarah Smith, has launched a UK animation studio with backing from Elisabeth Murdoch and Double Negative.
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NewsParticipant to co-finance Image Nation's Malala doc
Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth making the film about the Pakistani teenager who survived a brutal assassination attempt by the Taliban.
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NewsScreen Int'l winner wins fresh funding
EXCLUSIVE: Screen award-winner among seven features funded by Lithuanian Film Centre (LFC).
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NewsMipTV: The hunt for global partners
MipTV was awash with producers, networks and broadcasters looking for international partners to co-finance high-end drama projects that appeal beyond national borders.
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NewsDailyMotion in scripted first
Video-sharing site DailyMotion has commissioned a ‘sci-fi hipster’ drama as its first piece of original scripted content, which will also receive a theatrical release.
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NewsUK firms may gain from quiet MipTV
A relatively quiet MipTV was good news for British producers and distributors, who took advantage of a noticeable lack of Americans to strike deals.
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NewsWinter Soldier hits $250m int’l BO
Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier has amassed an even $250m through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International and must be the favourite to dominate the arena for a third consecutive session.
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NewsGoldwyn acquires Last Of Robin Hood
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US rights to Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s The Last Of Robin Hood. Separately, Vertical Entertainment has picked up Behaving Badly.
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NewsNYIFF unveils full programme
Organisers at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) have announced the full line-up for the 14th annual event.
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NewsTFI unveils Sloan fund winners
Top brass at Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) have announced (9) the 2014 grantees of the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund. Separately,the 2014 SFFS Documentary Film Fund recipients have been unveiled.
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NewsJustin Lin to direct Radiant Doors
Another high-profile film director is jumping into TV as LA-based Gaumont International Television announced it has set up the hour-long drama Radiant Doors at WGN with Perfect Storm Entertainment.
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NewsTerra Mater launches theatrical label
First projects under CineMater label include thriller DXM from Gallowwalkers director Andrew Goth and previously announced The Way of the Eagle, starring Jean Reno.
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NewsSummit exec joins Pulse Films
Ashley Schlaifer, who worked on Red and Now You See Me while at Summit, to head Pulse’s US development and production.
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NewsFocus sets Bayona release
A Monster Calls, Juan Antonio Bayona’s adventure fantasy follow-up to The Impossible, will arrive in theatres in wide release in late 2016.
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NewsTranter talks BBCWW US strategy
The head of BBC Worldwide Productions also discussed the creation of sister company Adjacent Productions.