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NewsZappelphillip (The Fidgeter) wins Grand Prize at FIPA
German drama Zappelphillip (The Fidgeter) has won the Golden FIPA Grand Prize at the 26th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz.
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NewsLes Misérables records hat-trick at the UK box office
Universal’s musical grosses $6.3m (£4m) on its third weekend to retain top spot; Fox’s Lincoln records best debut of newcomers at $2.8m (£1.7m).
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NewsSwedish box office best since 1989
Swedish cinemas registered the best annual result since the late 1980s with 18.4 million admissions in 2012, up 12% on 2011 (16.4 million), according to the Swedish Film Institute.
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NewsBabak Najafi wins lucrative Göteborg award
Sweden’s Göteborg International Film Festival has awarded director Babak Najafi the Startsladden Award - one of the industry’s biggest prizes for a short film.
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NewsBerlin unveils competition jury
Filmmakers Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen and Shirin Neshat have been named as members of the Berlinale’s seven-person International Jury headed by Chinese director Wong Kar Wai.
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NewsVoltage Pictures to start sales on Words And Pictures
Nicolas Chartier will look to stir up pre-sales in Berlin on the Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche romance in the run-up to a March 18 production start in Vancouver.
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NewsTaylor & Dodge to handle international sales on Hello Herman
Santa Monica-based All In Films Partners produced the drama about a bullied high school student who snaps and goes on a murderous rampage.
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NewseOne bites for Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are
Entertainment One has acquired the US rights to Mickle’s reimagining of Jorge Michel Grau’s cannibal horror of the same name.
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NewsAustralian box office up on 2011; down on 2010
The people of Australia spent $1,173.2m (A$1,125.5m) on cinema tickets in 2012, a 2.8% increase on the previous year but about $7.6m (A$7.3m) less than they spent in a record-breaking 2010.
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NewsJennifer Lawrence, Daniel Day-Lewis triumph at SAG
The 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday [27] sent Lawrence of Silver Linings Playbook and Day-Lewis of Lincoln home with lead acting honours.
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NewsHigh Point secures Anna Friel, Romola Garai comedy Having You
EXCLUSIVE: Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point Media Group has taken world rights to bittersweet comedy.
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NewsHungarian Film Week cancelled after 47 years
The war of words between the Hungarian Film Fund and Bela Tarr, president of the Hungarian Filmmakers’ Association, is continuing following the cancellation of Hungarian Film Week for the first time since 1965.
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NewsMusic Box in tune with Roger Michell’s Le Weekend
Embankment Films closes US deal for drama starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum.
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NewsCascade backs Seidler, Unwin’s The Lady Who Went Too Far
Fledgling UK-based film and TV finance company gives development backing to drama about ‘the female Lawrence of Arabia’, which reunites two of the team behind The King’s Speech.
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NewsMemento picks up S-VHS following Sundance premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Gruesome horror feature complements French sales and production company’s growing genre slate.
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NewsApichatpong, Kawase among filmmakers selected for HAF
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) has unveiled the list of 25 projects selected for its 11th edition (March 18-20), including new projects from Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Japan’s Naomi Kawase.
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NewsDjango stays top on $43m international weekend
UPDATE JAN 28: Sony Pictures Releasing International reported that Quentin Tarantino’s global hit has reached $111.6m outside North America and $257.8m worldwide. Meanwhile Skyfall has produced a mighty $34.4m opening week in China.
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NewsHansel & Gretel slay competition with $19m US debut
Paramount’s action vehicle for Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton led a slow session at the box office in which the top 12 fell around 25% against the previous weekend and 10% against the same session in 2012.
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NewsArgo triumphs at 2013 Producers Guild Awards
Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s true-life thriller earned a timely boost one month before the Academy Awards by winning the Zanuck Award For Outstanding Producer Of Theatrical Motion Pictures on Saturday night [26] in Beverly Hills.
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NewsSundance: Fruitvale, Blood Brother score double honours
Ryan Coogler’s US Dramatic Competition entry Fruitvale nand Steve Hoover’s US Documentary Competition film Blood Brother both scooped their respective grand jury and audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony on Saturday [26].