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NewsNetflix kicks off LatAm expansion with Brazilian launch
The internet film and television distributor begun its Portuguese-language service in Brazil on Monday (5) and will roll out in a total of 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean by Sept 12.
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NewsThe Help rules Labor Day on $19m as record summer ends
The Civil Rights Era drama has reached $123.4m after the four-day holiday weekend as the summer season reached an estimated $4.4bn-$4.5bn.
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NewsAutlook takes international rights to Beats, Rhymes & Life
Vienna-based sales outfit Autlook has taken worldwide rights to Michael Rapaport’s Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe CalledQuest.
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NewsSoderbergh details next three films, starting with male stripper movie
Speaking in Venice this weekend, Steven Soderbergh has revealed when he will be shooting his next three projects.
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Cynthia Swartz launches Strategy PR/Consulting
After resigning from 42West last month the awards and marketing specialist has wasted little time in unveiling her new venture with less than a week to go before the start of Toronto.
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NewsFrederick Wiseman plans documentary about UC Berkeley
As he unveils Crazy Horse in Venice, Wiseman talks about new project about a large university.
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NewsSix Degrees documentary moves on to shoot in Miami
After shooting in Warsaw and London, director Bartosz Dombrowski [pictured] has now moved on to Miami, continuing the shoot for his documentary road movie Six Degrees.
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NewsThe Smurfs seek to dominate light international session
Sony Pictures Releasing International’s (SPRI) family smash stood at more than $257m heading into the weekend and opens in around 20 markets including Norway, Sweden and Finland.
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Myriad to start sales in Toronto on Jennifer Lynch’s Chained
Vincent D’Onofrio and Julia Ormond star in the psychological thriller. Anchor Bay holds US rights and has tentatively set a spring 2012 release.
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NewsTelluride line-up includes The Descendants, Shame, Into The Abyss
The 38th Telluride Film Festival, which kicks off Friday and runs through Monday, has now announced most of its programme.
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Screen Media Films promotes Suzanne Blech to president
Blech succeeds Robert Baruc, who is leaving to pursue other opportunities, and will don her buyer’s hat when she attends Toronto next week.
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Screenvision acquires Cinedigm’s cinema advertising unit UniqueScreen Media
The deal will help Screenvision expand across the country to places including Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, Washington DC, Detroit, Minneapolis, Cleveland, St Louis, Charlotte and Raleigh.
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Shooting begins on Stoker for Scott Free, Searchlight, Indian Paintbrush
Park Chan-wook’s first English-language feature stars Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney and Jacki Weaver.
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Filming underway in Montana on Winter In The Blood
The project marks Alex and Andrew Smith’s follow-up to The Slaughter Rule and stars Chaske Spencer.
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NewsSundance Selects reunites with Herzog on Into The Abyss
The acquisition of North American rights follows the collaboration on Werner Herzog’s Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, which remains the highest grossing documentary release of the year-to-date.
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Academy grants $50,000 to Telluride Film Festival
For the fourth consecutive year the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has awarded a $50,000 grant to underwrite the Colorado event’s guest director programme.
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Phase 4, Submarine to partner on Rid Of Me in North America
President and CEO Berry Meyerowitz said the company will partner with Submarine on an “aggressive” theatrical run in the autumn on James Westby’s black comedy.
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Oscilloscope takes North America on We Can’t Go Home Again
Nicholas Ray’s last film will be restored and reconstructed for its world premiere in Venice, which kicked off today (Aug 31).
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NewsIcahn, Lionsgate cease hostilities as corporate raider sells stake
The activist shareholder and his son Brett are to sell up to 44,161,971 of their shares of Lionsgate common stock in a move that ends their long-running battle for control of the company.