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Facebook's Shields at MIPCOM: Social networking adds value to content
Declaring that, “the last decade of the Internet was all about information and the way in which it was organised,” Joanna Shields, VP EMA, Facebook, used Tuesday’s MIPCOM Keynote to look at what the next decade of content on the Net had in store, and, unsurprisingly, she believes, “it will ...
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Feltheimer at MIPCOM: Choose reliable partners
In his MIPCOM keynote Tuesday, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer addressed the issues raised by the dramatic changes currently shaking the world of content to it foundations.
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Spain’s 6 Sales take international rights to Captain Thunder
Leading Spanish outfit 6 Sales has taken international sales rights to award-winning Spanish director Antonio Hernandez’s hotly anticipated $12m project Captain Thunder.
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Melo's VIP's wins big in Rio
Toniko Melo’s VIP’s was the big winner at the 12th Festival do Rio, taking five of the main awards at the Brazilian event.
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Stone gets female lead in new Spider-Man
Emma Stone, star of current Screen Gems hit Easy A, has been cast as the female lead in Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man film.
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Arclight to offer Wolf Creek 2 at AFM
Arclight Films is to offer a sequel to successful 2005 Australian horror thriller Wolf Creek at next month’s American Film Market in Santa Monica.
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StreetDance, Fox, Optimum among winners at first Screen Awards
Fox wins UK Distributor Of The Year; StreetDance 3D picks up British Independent Film Campaign and UK Theatrical Campaign.
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Moving Pictures adopts First Dog
Moving Pictures Film & TV (MPF&TV) has acquired all international rights to family film First Dog.
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Red Flag sets US launch for Meskada
Red Flag Releasing is to give independent crime thriller Meskada a simultaneous US theatrical/VOD/digital download release on December 3.
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Someday wraps in New York
Principal photography has wrapped on director Roberto Faenza’s New York comedy Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You.
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Disney, Warner sign international TV deals
At what is turning out to be a busy Mipcom for the US studios, Walt Disney and Warner Bros have announced new international TV volume deals for Italy, the Middle East and Scandinavia.
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Niels Swinkels promoted to MD of UPI UK
Duncan Clark, EVP Distribution, Universal Pictures International (UPI) today announced that Niels Swinkels has been promoted to managing director of UPI UK and Ireland.
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Rotterdam plans strands on Soviet Westerns, fashion films
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced two of the themed programmes for the Signals section.
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Hammer Films starts new books imprint with Random House
Random House Group’s Arrow Books has struck a publishing partnership with Hammer Films.
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Festival Scope launches online platform with festival hits
Festival Scope, the new online platform which allows screenings of select films from the world’s major film festivals for industry subscribers, has gone live with a lineup including the winning films from this summer’s Sarajevo, ERA New Horizons, Paris Cinema, Taormina and Locarno Open Doors.
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Momentum takes UK rights to Wasted On The Young
Momentum has acquired UK rights to Toronto buzz title Wasted On The Young from Fortissimo.
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Tanuj Garg to become CEO of Balaji Telefilms
After his departure from Studio 18 as head of international operations, Tanuj Garg will soon take over the motion picture business of Balaji Telefilms Ltd as CEO.
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Venice's Marco Mueller to get Chinese Award
Venice Film Festival artistic director Marco Mueller is set to receive China’s prestigious Friendship Award from the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China, Wen Jiabao, in a closed door meeting in Rome.
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The Other Guys scores hat-trick at UK box office
The Other Guys became the fifth film this year to go three consecutive weeks at number one at the UK box office.