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NewsLightning boosts Cannes slate with Coach and Taking Chances
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has added international rights to two romantic comedies heading into Cannes.
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NewsTribeca claims attendance increase
The Tribeca Film Festival attracted about 348,000 people this year, according to organisers.
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NewsScreen Media acquires US rights to Death In Love
Screen Media Rights has acquired US rights to Boaz Yakin’s erotic drama Death In Love starring Josh Lucas, Lukas Haas and Jacqueline Bisset.
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NewsSteve Rabineau joins United Talent Agency
Steve Rabineau, the former William Morris Agency senior motion picture literary agent and Endeavor founding partner, has joined United Talent Agency (UTA) as a partner and agent in the motion picture literary department.
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NewsStudent Oscars reveals foreign film nominees
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has picked five contenders for this year’s Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards.
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NewsFilm Movement picks up Gigante
US distributor Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Adrian Biniez’s Uruguayan comedy Gigante.
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NewsRichard Lorber is re-elected to NY Film Forum
Richard Lorber, president and chief executive of Lober HT Digital, has been re-elected as the chair of New York’s Film Forum’s board of directors.
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NewsAmerican World Pictures picks up Just Peck
Los Angeles-based sales company American World Pictures has picked up international rights to Michael A Nickles’s high school comedy Just Peck ahead of Cannes.
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NewsShoreline bulks up Cannes slate
Los Angeles-based Shoreline Entertainment has bulked up its Cannes sales slate with the acquisition of worldwide rights to Pierre Laffargue’s French genre title Black.
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NewsMaya acquires rights for La Linea
Maya Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production and distribution company, has acquired US rights to the crime drama La Linea (The Line) starring Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta and Esai Morales.
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NewsLove Child begins principal photography in Toronto
Love Child, the romantic comedy starring Donald Sutherland, has begun principal photography in Toronto.The Myriad Pictures and Alcina Picture co-production is directed by Michael Melski and produced by Toronto-based Alcina’s Paul Barking and Larissa Giroux, with theSanta Monica-based Myriad Pictures and Toronto-based Alcina Pictures have commenced principal photography in Toronto ...
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NewsCity Island wins Heineken Audience Award
Raymond De Felitta’s comedy City Island, starring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies, has won the eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival Heineken Audience Award.De Felitta will receive a cah prize of $25,000 for his film, which received its world premiere during the festival and tells of a Bronx family riddled with ...
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NewsMedia 8 snares The Horseman
Media 8 Entertainment has acquired the worldwide rights to Steven Kastrissios’ revenge thriller, The Horseman.
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NewsIFC buys US right for I Hate Valentines Day
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Nia Vardalos’ feature directorial debut I Hate Valentine’s Day, a New York-set romantic comedy in which she is reunited with her My Big Fat Greek Wedding co-star John Corbett.Judah Friedlander, Rachel Dratch and Zoe Kazan, who just won the best actress award at ...
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NewsWolverine storms US box office
The summer season arrived with a bang over the weekend as Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine roared to the top of the charts on an estimated $87m three-day gross.
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NewsWolverine dominates global box office
Fox International’s genre prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine kicked off the 2009 summer blockbuster season with a suitably dominant display, grossing an estimated $73m from 9,234 screens in 101 markets.
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NewsTribeca awards About Elly and Racing Dreams
The eighth-annual Tribeca Film Festival presented its best narrative feature prize to Asghar FarhadI’s Iranian drama About Elly (Darbareye Elly).
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NewsSony acquisitions division has taste for Blood: The Last Vampire
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up all North American rights to East Wing Holdings Corp and SAJ’s Blood: The Last Vampire.
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NewsFox's Wolverine sinks its claws into global box office
The summer season arrives this weekend with 20th Century Fox’s global release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which has one week to establish itself before PPI/Paramount launches Star Trek across the world the following weekend.
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NewsMGM Networks launches localised HD Channel in Brazil
MGM Networks is launching a Portuguese-language version of its MGM HD Channel on SKY Brazil, offering a round-the-clock library of films in 1080i high definition.