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NewsBorgen star takes lead for Strickland's Duke
Rook Films confirms Protagonist Pictures for international sales.
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NewsSpacey in Edinburgh: Netflix model can ease piracy
Excerpts from Kevin Spacey’s MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
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NewsPicture Tree takes two Toronto titles
Berlin-based sales agent Picture Tree International (PTI) has picked up two Toronto titles – Mary Queen Of Scots and Metalhead – for international distribution.
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NewsUnitel Classica boards Noye's Fludde
EXCLUSIVE: Unitel Group’s Unitel Classica label has boarded world sales for Unogumbe-Noye’s Fludde.
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NewsElysium eyes UK launch
Sony Pictures Releasing International’s champion of last weekend, Elysium, opens in the UK in what is expected to be a low-key international session that also sees Disney-Pixar’s Monsters University arrive in China and Italy.
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NewsBen Affleck to play Batman
Warner Bros has announced that one of the studio’s most prized collaborators, Ben Affleck, will play Batman in the studio’s forthcoming Man Of Steel sequel.
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NewsDrafthouse to play in Hell
EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films has picked up North American rights to Japanese director Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play In Hell? ahead of its Venice world premiere.
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NewsTye Sheridan joins The Forger
The star of imminent Venice world premiere Joe has joined John Travolta in the heist thriller. Code Entertainment and The Solution Entertainment Group are jointly producing and financing and The Solution will handle international sales in Toronto.
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NewsSundance Selects gets Bastards
The distributor has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Claire Denis’ Un Certain Regard premiere and has set an Oct 25 release. Separately, FilmBuff and Abramorama are teaming up on Broadway Idiot while The Cinema Guild has picked up Agnes Varda’s five-part autobiographical documentary series.
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NewsDanny Boyle to direct TV drama
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a Danny Boyle-directed police drama.
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NewsNYFF to honour Blanchett, Fiennes
The Film Society Of Lincoln Center hierarchy announced that Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes will be the subjects of this year’s NYFF Gala Tributes.
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NewsBalkans need regional fund, legislation
On the first day of Sarajevo Film Festival’s Regional Forum, organized in collaboration with Screen International for the fourth consecutive year, the subject was streamlining public funding for co-productions in the countries of former Yugoslavia.
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NewsRon Howard's Rush to open Zurich
The 2013 Zurich Film Festival is to open with Ron Howard’s Formula 1 drama Rush – the film’s premiere in the German-speaking world.
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NewsEric Cantona to head Dinard jury
Professional footballer-turned-actor named jury president of this year’s Dinard British Film Festival.
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Turbo Kid to get Canada-NZ support
The representatives of EMAfilms, T&A Films, the RKSS Collective and Jason Eisener announced that the Canada-New Zealand co-production will receive finding from Telefilm Canada and the New Zealand Film Commission.
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NewsLlewyn Davis to close Chicago
ThThe Coen Brothers’ Palme d’Or winner Blue Is The Warmest Color and Big Bad Wolves are among the first wave of 12 films at the Chicago International Film Festival, set to run from Oct 10-24.
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NewsEpic sets Vikingdom debut
UPDATED AUG 29: Epic Pictures Releasing has set Oct 4 for the release of Yusry A Halim’s action adventure, which will screen in 3D in select theatres.
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Clear Blue Sky to get nationwide roll-out
Screenvision has announced that, along with distributor Area 23a and Asphalt Films, it will release Out Of The Clear Blue Sky as a national one-night theatrical event on Sept 11.
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NewsRussia readies first online premiere
Russia’s new anti-piracy legislation will be put to the test with the country’s first online premiere ahead of a theatrical release.