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Dolphin surfs low domestic box office tide on $14m
A dismal domestic weekend saw Warner Bros’ family tale climb two places to the top as a cadre of lacklustre new releases failed to ignite the box office.
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Smurfs stays top internationally as Abduction performs well
Sony Pictures Releasing International’s (SPRI) blue wave ruled yet again at the box as an estimated $10.7m weekend gross from 5,400 screens in seven markets boosted the tally to a confirmed $380.6m.
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Missing, Parade’s End among hot MIP projects
Werner Herzog [pictured], Paul Verhoeven, Tom Stoppard will be among guests promoting new projects.
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WME signs writer-director Oskar Thor Axelsson
Oskar Thor Axelsson, whose first feature, Icelandic crime thriller Black’s Game, is still in post, has been signed by WME.
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Creative England's new CEO among panelists for financing panel in Newcastle
Caroline Norbury, the new CEO of Creative England, will be on hand to discuss the new agency’s role at an upcoming financing panel at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle.
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Framestore's Iceland office doubles in size, completes first whole studio project
The Icelandic outpost of post-production/visual effects company Framestore has now doubled in size since its inception three years ago.
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Russia's Twilight Portrait wins Golden Puffin in Reykjavik
Runar Runarsson’s Volcano wins two prizes.
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Take Shelter named best feature at Zurich Film Festival
Laurence Fishburne, Paul Haggis, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Marc Forster were all in attendance at the awards ceremony, which marks the highest profile Zurich Film Festival to date.
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Principal photography underway in Canada on Cottage County
Malin Akerman, Tyler Labine, Lucy Punch and Daniel Petronijevic star in the dark rom-com which Alliance will release in 2012.
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SPC expected to announce Hysteria deal shortly
The distributor is understood to have acquired domestic and possibly select territory rights to Tanya Wexler’s period rom-com in a deal that Screendaily first learned about on Wednesday (28) but is yet to be confirmed.
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Anchor Bay, Raven Banner close Canadian home entertainment pact
Raven Banner will release three titles: Bounty Hunters, The Collapsed and Neverlost.
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Tooley, Brenner promoted at Relativity
Tucker Tooley rises from president of worldwide production to co-president of the company, while Robbie Brenner assumes Tooley’s former role.
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Davies, Hare, Nyman, Kureishi to attend Rome's UK focus Punks and Patriots
Terence Davies, David Hare, Michael Nyman and Hanif Kureishi to attend Rome Film Festival event produced in collaboration with the BFI London Film Festival.
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Alizart becomes interim chief executive of Film Agency for Wales
She will cover Pauline Burt’s maternity leave.
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TrustNordisk close slew of deals on All You Need Is Love
Buyers include Prokino for Germany/Austria, Art Films for Brazil, Aero Films for Czech Republic and Cinemania Group for Former Yugoslavia.
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Bedlam Productions pick up rights to rugby story The Grudge
The King’s Speech producers option rights to acclaimed account of the England-Scotland rugby rivalry.
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FrightFest Halloween event to host world premiere of Bad Meat
Acclaimed UK genre festival Film4 FrightFest is launching a new Halloween event (on Oct 29) at London’s Vue West End, with screenings from 6 pm until dawn.The films will include the world premiere of Lulu Jarmen’s splatter film Bad Meat, about a camp for troubled teens where fascists used spoiled ...
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Hot projects on Screenbase this week
Noémie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Yolande Moreau, Soko and Vincent Lindon star in new French dramas added this week to Screen’s European online film index, Screenbase.
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Spain's Freak to sell features, picks up Between Night And Day
Spanish shorts distributor and sales outfit Freak is expanding into international feature sales.
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London's Creativity Media to offer completion guarantees
London based post-production and finance company Creativity Media is to start providing completion guarantees for films under £1.5m, which it is already doing the post production work on.