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Renny Harlin drops out of $20m Mannerheim
Producer Markus Selin expected to announce another director soon.
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Magic City Memoirs takes top honours at Ibiza Film Festival
Aaron Salgado’s drama Magic City Memoirs walked away with the best film, best screenplay and best actor awards at the fifth Ibiza International Film Festival on Sunday, while Ed Gass-Donnelly won best director for Small Town Murder Songs.
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Locarno’s Pere reveals “stronger American presence”; Rohrer moves to Solothurn
Locarno’s Olivier Père is expecting to have a “stronger American presence” for his second outing as artistic director at this year’s festival (Aug 3-13).Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily during a visit to Berlin, Père said: “This year will see a difference from 2010 in that we have turned more of our ...
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PJ Hogan, Toni Collette reunite on comedy Mental
Universal has signed on for Australian and UK rights to director PJ Hogan’s comedy Mental which, like his 1994 debut film Muriel’s Wedding, has Toni Collette in the lead role.
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Hangover 2 breaks records with $86.5m domestic opening
The Hangover Part II has notched the biggest domestic opening ever for a live action comedy, grossing an estimated $86.5m at the North American box office over three days and $118.1m since its Thursday (May 26) release.
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Hangover, Panda sequels score big at international box office
The Hangover Part II and Kung Fu Panda 2 romped into the international marketplace this weekend, taking $60.2m and $57m respectively.
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Maricel Alvarez joins cast of Woody Allen’s Bop Decameron
Biutiful actress Maricel Alvarez will join the ensemble cast of Woody Allen’s next project
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EuropaCorp’s international sales fell by 56 percent in 2010/11
Increased box office receipts and domestic television sales reverse losses.
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Bachmann launches Vox Humana archive collection
The Criterion Collection has acquired US rights to the entire archive; international film festivals including Karlovy Vary to host onstage interviews to be added to the collection.
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EuropaCorp strikes deal with theme park giant Europa Park
Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp enters theme park business
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Kino Lorber strikes US deal for The Fairy with MK2
Directors Fortnight opener has sold to 15 territories.
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Network connects with five, including Ave and Return
Network Releasing takes UK rights to five features including Lisa Johnson’s Return
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Aruba to open with international premiere of Meet Monica Velour
Other international premieres include Things Fall Apart, Tequila and Nobody Can Judge Me.
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Beta Cinema secures US deal on My Best Enemy
The deal was one of almost two dozen sales agreements concluded by Beta Cinema at this year’s Cannes market.
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First French live action 3D feature Behind the Walls to hit screens in July
Young French filmmakers embrace 3D; other hot projects at Dimension 3 include Shooting D’Artagnan.
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Orange and Canal Plus abandon plans to merge cinema channels
Canal Plus to take minority stake in Orange cinema channels instead
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UK actors Max Irons and Claire Foy set to star in Boris Damast’s Vivaldi
Celsuis is handling international sales on the historical drama to shoot this autumn; Patricia Riggen also planning different Vivaldi project.
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Hot projects on Screenbase
German feature Schilf, and UK productions Truth About Lies and Disoriented are among the new films that have made its way on our European production database, Screenbase.
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Stephenson named Canadian Academy CEO
Former Toronto International Film Festival executive director Helga Stephenson has been appointed interim CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, replacing Sara Morton.
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Summit signs pay TV deal with HBO
Summit Entertainment has signed an exclusive output deal with HBO that will see the US pay TV network screening Summit titles released theatrically between January 2013 and the end of 2017.