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Fifth annual IFFLA honourees to include Kishore Lulla, Michelle Satter
The Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles has announced its annual Industry Leadership Awards honourees.
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Jim Henson Company cuts first deal with China on Sid The Science Kid
The Henson’s first 3D animated film project is headed for MIPTV and involves a partnership with China’s Nine Eyes Stone & Shanghai Animation Film Studios to create a feature version of the TV series.
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NewsAlex Holdridge wraps shoot for Meet Me In Montenegro
EXCLUSIVE: In Search of A Midnight Kiss director’s new feature stars Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulrich.
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Parts & Labor, Ocean Size to make Dirty White Boy
Michael K Williams from The Wire is set to star as the late hip-hop artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard (aka Russell Jones). K5 International is financing the project and will handle all worldwide sales.
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NewsHunger Games advance ticket sales close to Twilight, Clash in UK
EXCLUSIVE: Cineworld reports around 22,000 advance ticket sales for Lionsgate blockbuster; exhibitors upbeat but not bowled over ahead of film’s first previews tonight [22].
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NewsTwilight director Catherine Hardwicke in talks to direct British gangster movie Diamond
EXCLUSIVE: Former City investment manager Nicola Horlick to produce via Derby Street Films.
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NewsSierra/Affinity adds Emperor epic to sales slate
Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones and rising Japanese actress Eriko Hatsune star in the political thriller with romantic undertones set around the time of the Japanese surrender during the second world war. Sierra/Affinity will handle international sales while CAA represents North American rights.
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NewsMarcia Gay Harden signs on Get A Job for CBS Films
Dylan Kidd directs the tentatively titled multi-generational comedy about four college graduates who try to face up to the realities of adulthood.
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NewsSPWA takes US and Canadian ancillary to The First Time
Jonathan Kasdan’s teen romance premiered at Sundance and was produced by Friends With Benefits’ Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer.
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NewsCMG snares sales rights to heist thriller Get Lucky
Gateway Films and Atlas Independent are producing the film, currently in post. Atlas retains North American rights.
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Inception Media Group adds five to library
The Santa Monica-based company has acquired North America distribution rights to a quintet of old and new titles that will be made available across multiple platforms including VoD and digital.
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NewsContent Media secures Target agreement
Content Media has been appointed by the administrators of Target Entertainment as the “preferred distribution partner”.
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Chloe Moretz named CinemaCon Female Star Of Tomorrow
The actress will receive her honour at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards on Apr 26.
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NewsJim Underwood lands top digital job at SPHE
The incoming evp of worldwide digital and commercial strategy will report to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president David Bishop and assumes oversight of all transactional digital business worldwide.
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NewsDeals round-up: Freestyle travels down The Road
Meanwhile XLrator Media will release We The Party, Film Movement has acquired Teddy Bear, The Cinema Guild samples Step Up To The Plate and Wrekin Hill has acquired Sundance premiere The End Of Love.
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Table Ten Films announces cast on Clutter
Joshua Leonard, Carol Kane, Natasha Lyonne and Halley Feiffer will star in Diane Crespo’s dark comedy.
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NewsPathe boards Long Walk to Freedom
Pathe International has come on board for the Nelson Mandela biopic, described as “the largest South African production ever mounted.”
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Deals round-up: Well Go, Tribeca Film bulk up slates
Well Go USA has acquired all North American rights from Huayi Brothers Media to Tai Chi O, the first in a planned trilogy of films from Detective Dee And The Mystery Of Phantom Flame producer Chen Kuofu.
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NewsBruno Wu, Justin Lin form Perfect Storm Entertainment
Ambitious Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios has created a joint venture with Lin to create a feature slate in the first of three multi-million dollar collaborations with leading filmmakers that Seven Stars expects to unveil in the coming weeks.
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NewsOscilloscope acquires North America on Bunohan
Easternlight Films represents international sales on Dain Said’s Malaysian action title Bunohan: Return To Murder.