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NewsWatch Dogs heads to big screen
Ubisoft Motion Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment and New Regency are developing a feature based on Ubisoft’s forthcoming open world action-adventure video game.
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NewsIrish comedy The Stag sells to UK
EXCLUSIVE: Metro International Entertainment is to handle world sales for Treasure Entertainment’s comedy The Stag, which makes its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
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NewsToronto rounds out programme
Festival organisers announced the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters sections, details of the David Cronenberg: Transformation exhibition, a tenth Midnight Madness entry and introduced the Glenn Gould Studio to the festival’s stable of venues.
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NewsUK-China producers launch Wonder Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese film producers Chun-Yi Yueh and Changyu Li and UK writer-producers Robert and Ashley Sidaway together with the UK’s Iain Brown and Brown Films have launched the $5m funded SZ Wonder Pictures.
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NewsSpiegel to exec produce Purgatory
Hostel 3 director to executive produce afterlife fantasy film.
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NewsSan Sebastian unveils Films in Progress
Six films from Argentina, Chile and Colombia to be presented during the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
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NewsShort wins director feature funding at Sarajevo
Cristina Grosan’s short Holiday at the Seaside (Godišnji na moru) has won the Atlantic Grupa Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
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NewsHide and Seek tops Korean box office
Next Entertainment World (NEW) has topped South Korea’s weekend box office with debut director Huh Jung’s horror thriller Hide And Seek.
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NewsCineworld may have to sell cinemas
Cineworld Group may have to sell cinemas after the Competition Commission said that its acquisition of Picturehouse would lead to higher prices for customers in three areas.
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NewsBuyers eye Toronto avalanche
EXCLUSIVE / UPDATED AUG 20: The annual stampede for Toronto acquisition titles is expected to return next month as programmers line up at least a dozen must-see premieres in the first weekend.
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NewsStrand enters Leather Bar
Strand Releasing has acquired North American, Latin American and Scandinavian rights to James Franco and Travis Matthews’ erotic drama Interior. Leather Bar.
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NewsExpendables 3 starts shoot
Production has commenced on location Bulgaria and at Nu Boyana Studios in Sofia on Lionsgate and Millennium Films’ The Expendables 3.
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NewsNebraska, Blue to play NYFF
Organisers at the 51st New York Film Festival have announced the official sections, including the Cannes trio of Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winner Blue Is The Warmest Color, the Coen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis and Alexander Payne’s Nebraska.
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NewsSchwartz, Precious join Relativity
Veteran marketing executive Russell Schwartz has joined Relativity Media as president of theatrical marketing.
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NewsCMG lines up Hunted
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has teamed up with The Collector and The Collection producers Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti of Fortress Features and actor Josh Stewart on the Toronto-bound sales title.
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NewsThe Grandmaster presented in Dolby Atmos
Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster is being mixed in Dolby Atmos for its US release.
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NewsEdko, Irresistible to revive kung fu 'Legend'
Crouching Tiger producer Bill Kong to make first film about legendary kung fu master Wong Fei-hung in almost 20 years.
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NewsFortissimo strikes Taiwan Rigor Mortis deal
Fortissimo Films has closed an all rights deal for Taiwan with distributor CatchPlay for Rigor Mortis, the upcoming debut feature from Hong Kong’s Juno Mak.
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NewsVenice to honour Ettore Scola
Italian director to receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2013 prize at the 70th Venice Film Festival (Aug 28 - Sept 7).
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NewsBusan unveils APM line-up
The Busan International Film Festival has announced its Asian Project Market (APM) line-up for this year with 30 projects including name directors like Kim Jee-woon, Wayne Wang and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.