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NewsIcon relaunches in UK
Jerome Booth of New Sparta buys Icon UK Distribution; Ian Dawson CEO; Norman Humphrey and Zak Brilliant among execs.
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NewsNetflix's Sarandos to address RioMarket
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos will address the Rio Film Festival’s RioMarket event, set to run from September 27-October 9.
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NewsRizzle Kicks singer makes feature debut
EXCLUSIVE: Shoot underway in London on thriller from Metrodome production slate; Salt handles sales.
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NewsCandelabra wins top Emmy awards
Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic picked up three top awards including best actor for Michael Douglas.
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NewsWanda launches $8.2bn studio complex
China’s Wanda Group has announced plans for a $8.2bn (RMB50bn) film and television studio complex in the Chinese city of Qingdao at a ceremony attended by Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman and a host of other US and Chinese stars.
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NewsTelevision, Good Road enter Oscar race
India has selected Gyan Correa’s The Good Road as its entry for the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards, while Bangladesh has submitted Mostofa S. Farooki’s Television.
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NewsFace Reader rules int'l on $22.3m
UPDATED SEPT 23: Showbox International’s The Face Reader added an estimated $22.3m as the South Korean historical drama’s international running total reached an early $39.4m.
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NewsPrisoners ties up US on $21.4m
Alcon Entertainment’s crime thriller Prisoners rounded out a superb month following rave reviews at Telluride and Toronto with a number one debut in North America on an estimated $21.4m through Warner Bros.
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NewsMehta assumes Fox content role
Salil Mehta joins Twentieth Century Fox as president of content management, effective September 23.
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NewsLionsgate CFO James Keegan to retire
Lionsgate CFO James Keegan, a 25-year veteran of the company and its corporate predecessors, is to retire on October 1. He will be replaced by James W Barge.
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NewsBuyers swoop in post-TIFF action
In a couple of further deals to emerge in the wake of Toronto, Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights to Night Moves while RADiUS-TWC has picked up North America on Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon.
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NewsReykjavík unveils line-up
Lukas Moodysson, Laurent Cantet and James Gray to receive honorary awards; focus on Greece and environmental docs
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NewsHawking opens Cambridge fest
Professor Stephen Hawking helped launch the Cambridge Film Festival with a Q&A broadcast to 70 cinemas nationwide and messages from Sir Richard Branson, Morgan Freeman and the cast of The Big Bang Theory.
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NewsMoMA sets Berliner Schule show
The Museum Of Modern Art has announced that it will present The Berlin School: Films From The Berliner Schule. The exhibition will run from November 20-December 6.
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NewsAntalya names Competition titles
International Competition films announced by Turkey’s Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival; includes Ari Folman’s The Congress and Tomasz Wasilewski’s Floating Skyscrapers.
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NewsEszterhas to top Screenwriters festival
Basic Instinct writer named headline guest speaker at the London Screenwriters’ Festival, which will also feature sessions with the writers of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa among others.
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NewsICA luncheon sets honourees
The Canon Award for the advancement of digital technology in film and television will be presented to Mark Weingartner.
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NewsTWC finalising new credit facility
The Weinstein Company is finalising a credit facility worth around $370m, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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NewsCamerimage pacts with AFI, ASC
Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival aligns with American Film Institute and the American Society Of Cinematographers for Camerimage winners show in Los Angeles.