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Luh promoted at Participant Media
Laurie Luh has been named senior director of human resources and office operations for Participant Media.
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Variance acquires US rights to Nunez's Spoken Word
Variance Films has picked up US rights to Victor Nunez’s Spoken Word starring Kuno Becker and recording artist Ruben Blades.
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Locarno to show Cyrus, present tribute to John C. Reilly
Locarno will host the European premiere of Jay and Mark Duplass’ Cyrus at a Piazza Grande screening on August 7.
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Dogwoof takes UK rights to Lucy Walker's Countdown to Zero
UK distributor Dogwoof has acquired UK rights to Countdown to Zero from The Works International.
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Spain's Cell 211 producers to make detective thriller Nowhere
Leading Spanish production outfit Vaca Films will follow the huge success of their prison drama Cell 211 with the $5m thriller Nowhere, to be written and directed by Manuel Sanabria.
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PiFan to open with The Experiment, close with Death Bell 2
Asia’s largest genre film fest, the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) will open with the world premiere of the The Experiment, directed by Paul Scheuring (TV’s Prison Break) and starring Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker.
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Sundance Institute readies first East Africa theatre lab
Sundance Institute is preparing for its inaugural Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in East Africa, set to take place from July 9-29 on the island of Manda off Kenya.
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Point Blank prepares rites-of-passage tale Tom's Dad
The Way Back producer Joni Levin and co-writer Keith Clarke have boarded the coming-of-age story Tom’s Dad through their Point Blank Productions.
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Redbox, Paramount strike day-and-date deal
Redbox has scored a coup following a deal with Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) that grants the ultra-cheap video rental service the right to rent titles on the same day as the studio’s sell-through launch.
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Rowe, Golihew earn TV publicity stripes at Warner Bros
Scott Rowe has been appointed to the newly created position of senior vice-president of worldwide communications at Warner Bros Television Group.
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FilmBuff picks 11/4/08 doc and elects for October release
VOD distributor FilmBuff as picked up Jeff Deutchman’s documentary project 11/4/08 for an October release.
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Film Movement, Soda Pictures pounce on A Screaming Man
Film Movement has picked up North American rights from Pyramide International to the Chadian Cannes competition entry A Screaming Man.
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Strand takes US rights to Camera D'Or winner Leap Year
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights from Pyramide International to Michael Rowe’s Camera D’Or winner Leap Year (Ano Bisiesto).
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Martin Sheen rounds out casting on The Double
Martin Sheen has joined Hyde Park Entertainment and Imagenation Abu Dhabi’s upcoming spy thriller The Double.
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Bedrock Studios, Strange Weather Films form pact
Cary Granat and Ed Jones’ family content provider Bedrock Studios has signed a deal with new producer Strange Weather Films.
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FIP acquires Latin American rights to La Otra Familia
Sanford Panitch’s Fox International Productions (FIP) has acquired Latin American rights to Gustavo Loza’s Mexican film La Otra Familia (The Other Family).
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Stellar Megamedia to make 3D animation with Pathe
The company has also acquired Australian visual effects outfit Photon.
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Chinese video-sharing websites ramp up film investments
Video-on-demand or movie streaming websites have become an emerging channel for film financing in China as several Chinese video websites revealed new investments on film production at a seminar today at Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), including LeTV Entertainment, Sohu.com, and Voole.com.
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Skillset sets out training priorities for UK film industry
Skillset pinpoints new technologies and talent development as key areas for development.
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Pulse, Chelsea strike strategic partnership
UK-based Pulse has created a strategic partnership with US-based Chelsea for Pulse to represent Chelsea’s directors in the UK and Chelsea to represent Pulse’s directors in the US.