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NewsHoward Feinstein steps down as Sarajevo's Panorama programmer
Veteran critic and festival programmer Howard Feinstein is stepping down from his role as head of the Panorama section at the Sarejevo Film Festival.
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MPI Media Group acquires domestic rights to MMA doc
The distributor has picked up North American theatrical, DVD and VOD rights to the pepper&bones production Fightville.
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Shoreline boards sales rights to thriller Black River
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Joe Eckardt’s Black River, currently in pre-production and set for release in 2012.
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NewsVue in discussion with studios to relax windows, plans VOD platform
UK cinema chain in talks with the studios to relax windows at certain times of the year.
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NewsShooting begins on A.D Calvo's House Of Dust
The cast of the Connecticut-set psychological thriller includes young US actors Steven Grahym [pictured], Inbar Levi and Holland Roden.
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ARC, XLrator Media take North America on Killing Bono
The rock ‘n roll comedy will go out on VoD in October and arrive in theatres the following month.
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NewsLia Buman to head acquisitions at FilmDistrict
Buman most recently served as SPWA vp and played a key role in buying Insidious, Moon, Hannah and Machete, among others.
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NewsUniversal hires Josh Goldstine as president of marketing
The former sevp of creative advertising at Sony will work closely with co-president of marketing Michael Moses and replaces Eddie Egan, who transitioned to Universal evp and head of marketing at Illumination.
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NewsTransformers crosses $1bn worldwide
Paramount’s Transformers becomes tenth film ever to cross $1bn worldwide
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NewsRed Flag takes US rights to The Green Wave
Ali Samadi Ahadi’s hard-hitting documentary premiered at Sundance and Red Flag plans a theatrical release in June 2012 to mark the third anniversary of the Iranian elections.
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NewsRussian producer puts $12m into new Billy Bob Thornton drama
Alexander Rodnyansky, a well-known Russian film producer, plans to invest up to $12m in the production of Billy Bob Thornton’s drama Jayne Mansfield’s Car, which will be Rodnyansky’s first project in the US.
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NewsBen Foster to play John Gotti Jr for Barry Levinson
Ben Foster has signed on to play John Gotti, Jr. in Gotti: In The Shadow of My Father.
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NewsAcademy re-elects Sherak as president, honours Oprah
Sherak will serve his third consecutive one-year term of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
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NewsHemisphere launches studio co-fi fund, names first projects
Hemisphere Capital Management partners Jean-Luc De Fanti (pictured), Jeff Sagansky and Eli Baker have launched the Hemisphere Tentpole Co-Financing Fund and are on board The Smurfs, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn, Men In Black 3 and World War Z.
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Zachary Quinto to produce horror The Banshee Chapter
The actor’s production company Before The Door Pictures partners on the tale of secret mind-altering drug tests with Sunchaser Entertainment and German producer Christian Arnold-Beutel.
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Ryan Guzman, Kathryn McCormick join Summit’s Step Up 4
Guzman makes his acting debut while news about McCormick, a discovery from the TV show So You Think You Can Dance, broke several weeks ago when producer Adam Shankman announced it on Twitter. Summit will release domestically and handles international sales.
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Lionsgate to release The Big Wedding in US, UK
The Two Ton Films and Nu Image / Millennium Films production stars Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried, Robin Williams, Ben Barnes and Topher Grace.
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Brendan Fraser, Jessica Alba join cast for Escape From Planet Earth
Sarah Jessica Parker, Rob Corddry, James Gandolfini and Craig Robinson will also provide character voices in the 3D animated production from The Weinstein Company and Rainmaker.
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FilmBuff strategises digital release for Rio Sex Comedy
FilmBuff has orchestrated a VoD release strategy for Jonathan Nossiter’s Toronto 2010 film on VoD starting Aug 30, to be followed by the Nov 15 DVD launch through FilmBuff and MPI Home Video.
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NewsParamount first studio to cross $2bn international in 2011
As Transformers: Dark Of The Moon prepares to cross $1bn at the global box office any day now, the studio says it has become the first to cross $2bn.