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NewsTribeca Film takes North American rights to Turkey Bowl
Kyle Smith’s real-time comedy set in Los Angeles premiered at SXSW and follows a group of friends who gather to play a backyard game of American Football.
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NewsHyde Park Imagenation, BBC to co-finance Lost Christmas
The joint venture between LA-based Hyde Park Entertainment and Imagenation Abu Dhabi has partnered with the BBC to co-finance John Hay’s Lost Christmas.
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NewsDanny Dimbort leaves Avi Lerner to head Red Granite sales
Danny Dimbort is to leave his longtime business partner Avi Lerner and go with Christian Mercuri to head the new sales division at Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland’s LA-based production and finance company.
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NewsWWE, Pathe team for Kitamura horror starring Luke Evans
WWE and Pathe UK are partnering to co-finance and distribute horror No One Lives, written by David Cohen and to be directed by Ryuhei Kitamura.
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NewsElephant Eye takes on sales for Tribeca's Swell Season, Beyond The Black Rainbow
Both films will have market premieres at Cannes Market.
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NewsThor delivers Marvel’s third biggest US debut on $66m
The estimated weekend tally was a commendable result for a relatively unknown property starring Australia’s Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman.
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NewsInternational arthouse label Fox World Cinema launches
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment launched the division, which will operate alongside Fox International Productions (FIP) and release prestige international films on DVD, VoD and digital download.
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MoonQuake picks up Nick Cassavetes script Kentucky Rhapsody
The film joins three additional projects that the new LA and New York-based company has in active development as part of a multi-million dollar development fund.
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NFI boards dark comedy Petunia starring Brittany Snow, Thora Birch
New Films International will commence sales on the Croisette next week on Yale Productions’ tale of a New York family coming to terms with the chaos of life.
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NewsJames Robinson's Inverness files for bankruptcy
Inverness Distribution, the Bermuda-based company formerly known as Morgan Creek International, has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy.
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Seduced Circumstances among winners at LAAPFF
Ian Gamazon took home both the grand jury prize for outstanding fiction film and outstanding director award for Living In Seduced Circumstances at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
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News50 Cent to attend Aruba premiere of Things Fall Apart
50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) will be attending the second annual Aruba International Film Festival to attend the red carpet premiere on June 14 of his new film Things Fall Apart.
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Odin’s Eye acquires 9/11-themed drama The Space Between
Sydney-based Odin’s Eye Entertainment (OEE) has picked up international rights to Travis Fine’s The Space Between, starring Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo (The Fighter).
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Archstone Distribution to launch Tombstone genre label
The Tombstone Distribution slate comprises a number of Archstone titles such as monster film Snow Beast and the Michael Madsen genre title Amsterdam Heavy.
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Wes Bentley signs on to Lionsgate’s Hunger Games
The studio’s weekly casting announcement for the upcoming young adult thriller brings the star of American Beauty into the mix.
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NewsThe Film Department to shut down on May 27
Company co-heads Mark Gill (pictured) and Neil Sacker took the decision after they were unable to raise $200m in recapitalisation.
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Sundance entry Crime After Crime to open in New York
The film recently won the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Golden Gate Award for investigative documentary feature and focuses on two rookie lawyers who take on a wrongful imprisonment case.
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NewsCBS locks up US rights to The Woman In Black
CBS Films has preemptively acquired US distribution rights for the gothic horror starring Daniel Radcliffe.
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NewsGK Films hires Fergus, Ostby to write Tomb Raider reboot
Mark Fergus [pictured] and Hawk Ostby wrote the upcoming Cowboys & Aliens as well as Iron Man and earned an Academy Award nomination for Children Of Men.
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NewsSC Films takes on sales for Bad Ass starring Danny Trejo
Simon Crowe’s UK-based SC Films has snapped up sales rights to all-action film Bad Ass, starring Danny Trejo (Machete), and will be introducing the project to buyers in Cannes.