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UK's Kinoteka festival to open with classic The Promised Land
Other selections include Imagine, Baby Blues and To Kill A Beaver [pictured].
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Media Luna adds three more titles
Films are A Fold In My Blanket [pictured], Three Kids and Jackie.
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Dogwoof Reincarnated with Snoop Dogg
Dogwoof has picked up UK rights to Snoop Dogg documentary Reincarnated.
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Pinewood submits new £200m expansion plan
Pinewood Shepperton today submitted another planning application for the extension of its Buckinghamshire site.
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Django heads towards $150m at international box office
Quentin Tarantino’s hit had reached $112m through Sony Pictures Releasing International by Monday and arrives this weekend in Italy and Argentina.
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Production gets underway in Indonesia on The Raid 2
PT Merantau Films and XYZ Films announced on Thursday [31] that shooting had begun on the sequel to the cult smash.
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David Fierson earns senior stripes at Alcon Entertainment
Co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson have promoted the executive to general counsel and evp of business affairs.
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Jeremy Renner attached to play journalist in Kill The Messenger
CAA and WME will introduce what is likely to become a hot property at next week’s EFM in Berlin at a time when US sales agents continue to scramble for new projects.
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Cohen Film Collection to partner with Park Circus
The UK-based distributor will handle theatrical and festival distribution outside North America of films in the Cohen Media Group’s catalogue, formerly known as the Rohauer Library.
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SXSW unveils 20th anniversary line-up
Festival organisers announced 109 features on Thursday [31], 68 of which come from first-time film-makers and 69 are world premieres. The multimedia festival is scheduled to run from Mar 8-16 in Austin, Texas.
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Wesley Snipes to star in Gallowwalkers for VMI Worldwide
André Relis, Brittany Bowen and Howard Brodsky of the LA-based financing and sales company will introduce the action horror to buyers at the EFM.
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Relativity Media acquires world rights to Loomis Fargo
Jared Hess will direct the heist action comedy starring Jim Carrey.
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Julia Stiles joins Poverty Row’s Mary Pickford biopic
Stiles, currently starring in awards contender Silver Linings Playbok, will play Frances Marion, the winner of the best adapted screenplay Academy Award in 1930 who collaborated with Pickford on Rebecca From Sunnybrook Farm and Poor Little Rich Girl, among others.
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Walak to leave Alliance in eOne UK reshuffle
eOne announces part of UK film team; Alliance’s Robert Walak, eOne’s Jon Bourdillon leave the company to pursue other ventures.
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CMG closes key sales on Sarila heading into EFM
Edward Noeltner announced a raft of deals on the $15m animation on the eve of a screening in Berlin.
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eOne, 1984 Private Defense Contractors sign first-look deal
Under the terms of the multi-year arrangement eOne gets first look to finance and distribute all 1984 films. LA-based Spencer Silna and Adi Shankar’s slate includes Corsica ’72 from Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and the untitled Female Expendables project.
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Universal sets Richard Curtis’ About Time for Nov 1
The Working Title comedy will open in limited release in North America and expand nationwide a week later. It originally had been dated for May 10.
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Ginger & Rosa to open Cinequest Film Festival 23
Sally Potter’s snapshot of 1960s London [pictured] will kick off the Silicon Valley event on Feb 26 and Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children will close the festival on Mar 10.
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BFI reports fall in UK production spend; indie investment up
The British Film Institute (BFI) has reported a 29% drop in UK production spend following a record-breaking 2011 but an upsurge of investment in British independent films.
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New Europe takes on sales for Porterfield's Darker
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has taken on worldwide rights to Matt Porterfield’s I Used To Be Darker, which premiered in Sundance’s NEXT programme and will screen in the Berlinale’s Forum section.