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Competition Commission reverses ruling over Sky Movies dominance
The Competition Commission has reversed its stance that Sky Movies holds an unfair advantage in the pay TV movie space, as a result of the emergence of online players Lovefilm and Netflix
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Pinewood Shepperton announces 15 month results
The studio group reported revenues of £63m over the last 15 months.
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Little Film Company scores sales rights to The Third Half
Robbie Little has taken international sales rights to Darko Mitrevski’s second world war sports drama about a Jewish coach who inspires a football team to win the National Football League in Nazi-occupied Macedonia in 1942.
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SnagFilms picks up trio from Submarine for VoD, digital
Submarine has licensed a package of three films to SnagFilms for exclusive US VoD and digital distribution.
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The Documentary Company on board for Green Prince
The Documentary Company, launched by Sheryl Crown and Maggie Monteith last year to back feature docs with EIS funding, is expanding its slate.
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Phanta launches new Dutch finance scheme
In Cannes, Dutch producer Petra Goedings from Phanta Vision has revealed further details of a groundbreaking film financing scheme in the Netherlands.
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Cannes deals roundup: DC Medias, Jinga, Hawthorn, Delacheroy
Deals include Jinga Films selling romantic comedy Timer and Hawthorn selling UK sci fi feature UFO.
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eOne, RKO Pictures plan joint US release on A Late Quartet
The partners have earmarked an autumn release for Yaron Zilberman’s debut starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Christopher Walken.
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Match Factory strikes groundbreaking distribution initiative
€400,000 initiative is backed by the EU’s Media Mundus.
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CNC reveals details of new World Cinema Fund
The new €6m subsidy is run jointly by the CNC, cultural body the Institut Français, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.
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Cannes Market reports 8% hike in attendance
Asia and Latin American lead the rise in partipicants.
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Media Luna picks up Student, Kid
Midway through the market, Media Luna has taken international rights to three new films.
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IFC wins bidding war for Wheatley’s Sightseers
In a deal concluded late last night Cannes time IFC took US rights to Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy Sightseers from Protagonist Pictures.
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Cannes titles Rust & Bone top opener at French box office
Jacques Audiard’s competition title Rust & Bone was the topo pening film at the French box office in it first five days on release starting May 16.
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Protagonist books The Sweeney into eOne for US
EXCLUSIVE: eOne continues to ramp its US distribution slate with the acquisition of Protagonist’s The Sweeney, which the distributor had previously picked up for UK and Canada; deals flow for Nick Love’s crime-drama and Vertigo’s Viking epic Hammer of the Gods.
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Wild Bunch Benelux goes on buying spree
Mid way through the market, company boss Pim Hermeling has confirmed a raft of market and festival acquisitions.
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Film4 goes monster mad with Ben Wheatley
EXCLUSIVE: Film4 is in discussions with potential co-financiers here on Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley’s planned cops-and-monsters film Freakshift.
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The Master, Devil's Knot ignite sales for Weinstein Company
EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company has reported a huge response to it Cannes slate, selling out most of the world on the likes of Scary Movie 5, The Master and Devil’s Knot.
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Visit Films closes deals on Dinotasia, End Of Love
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has struck a slew of sales on key titles here, led by a deal with Ascot Elite for German-speaking Europe on dinosaur documentary Dinotasia.
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Raven Banner acquires sales on Rosalind Leigh
Raven Banner has acquired sales rights to Rodrigo Gudiño’s feature debut The Last Will And Testament Of Rosalind Leigh.