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NewsEdell Productions wraps Life Saver shoot
EXCLUSIVE: Teri Polo, Chazz Palminteri, Tia Carrere and Luke Eberl star in the thriller, producers Elaine Hastings Edell and Jeffrey Edell announced on Tuesday night [29].
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NewsDistribution: Codeblack takes Angela, Drafthouse declares War
Lionsgate’s Codeblack Films has acquired rights to Free Angela And All Political Prisoners. The documentary about the political activist Angela Davis premiered in Toronto last year.
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NewsIndependent boards For No Good Reason; Sony picks up US rights
Charlie Paul’s documentary about English cartoonist Ralph Steadman features Johnny Depp and will be introduced to buyers at the upcoming EFM.
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NewsJoss Whedon to attend Glasgow Film Festival
Avengers director Joss Whedon is to introduce the UK premiere of his latest film Much Ado About Nothing at the Glasgow Film Festival, which will also host talent including Neil Jordan, Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Eli Roth and Régis Roinsard
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NewsEU’s MPFG generates €47m in first two years
Productions supported by the European Media Production Guarantee Fund (MPFG) include upcoming A Most Wanted Man, The Congress and Berlinale Golden Bear contender Layla Fourie.
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NewsEmbankment boards Wyatt's Birdsong, Serkis' Animal Farm; Gillian Anderson on sci-fi
X Files star attached to Our Robot Overlords as UK sales outfit Embankment Films builds on prestige slate ahead of the EFM.
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NewsCopenhagen to offer $6.3m film fund
The Danish capital of Copenhagen is to establish a regional film fund in a bid to attract foreign productions and place the city on the international movie map.
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NewsIndomina Releasing closes doors
The Indomina Group division ceased trading as a US distributor this week as approximately 15 members of staff from the Los Angeles-based company were let go.
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NewsSotomayor, Klimiewicz pact for short film
Dominga Sotomayor [pictured], one of last year’s Rotterdam Tiger winners for Thursday Till Sunday, is co-writing and co-directing a new short film, The Time Before, with European Film Award winner Katarzyna Klimiewicz.
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NewsJapanese box office up 7.7%
The Japanese box office totalled $2.15bn (195bn yen) in 2012, topping the previous year’s figures by 7.7% but remaining below 2010’s 220.7bn yen.
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NewsAltitude boards Shane Meadows Stone Roses doc
Revolver to release Stone Roses doc in spring; StudioCanal take UK on Kill Your Friends; eOne buys multi-territories on Outpost 37.
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NewsLittle Film Company to commence EFM sales on Scar Tissue
EXCLUSIVE: Robbie Little has acquired worldwide sales rights to Scott Michell’s neo-noir thriller starring Charity Wakefield.
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NewsK5 secures Beware of Mr Baker for EFM
K5 International has picked up the international rights to rock drummer documentary Beware of Mr Baker and will take the award-winning film to Berlin’s European Film Market next week.
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NewsProduction: Black Nativity kicks off, Eva Green joins Sin City 2
Fox Searchlight top brass announced on Tuesday [29] that shooting has begun on Black Nativity. Separately, Dimension Films has cast Eva Green in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which Aldamisa International is selling outside North America.
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NewsProduction: New Regency goes to Pyongyang, MGM acquires Me
New Regency and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink are joining forces on Pyongyang. Separately MGM has secured feature rights to Jojo Moyes’ bestseller Me Before You.
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NewsTwenty Feet From Stardom, Venus And Serena bookend Miami
Miami International Film Festival executive director Jaie Laplante said for the first time documentaries will open and close the event, which runs from Mar 1-10.
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NewsSony promotes three in domestic distribution ranks
Adrian Smith is promoted to president of Sony Pictures Releasing Domestic Distribution and Adam Bergerman and John Spinello are named assistant general sales managers for domestic distribution.
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NewsMusic Box takes Le Weekend, Dada goes gaga for Mental
Music Box will distribute Roger Michell’s Le Weekend, while MJ Peckos and Steven Raphael’s Dada Films has picked up Toni Collette’s reunion with her Muriel’s Wedding director PJ Hogan.
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NewsCinema do Brasil launches Sales Agent Support at EFM
Any sales agent who has a film produced by an associate of Cinema Do Brasil will be entitled to apply for support the film promotion.
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NewsSkyfall writers to pen Refn's Barbarella series
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, writers of the last five James Bond movies, are to pen a new TV series based on ‘60s sci-fi character Barbarella.