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NewsRelativity Media outlines sale process
A spokesperson for the bankrupt company outlined the imminent sale process on Monday, with the auction set for September 16.
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NewsLocarno round-up: Film Republic takes Carte Blanche title
In other news: Doc Alliance winner revealed; Viennale boss signs to 2018; update to reports of Tunisian filmmakers pulling titles.
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News'Rogue Nation' tops US on $28.5m
AUGUST 10 UPDATE: The Tom Cruise roadshow rolled on with gusto as Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation stayed top in its second weekend on a confirmed $28.5m that propelled the Paramount-Skydance film’s running total to $107.8m.
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NewsCinema Slate, Fandor in Brazilian film pact
Cinema Slate, a new distributor focused on Latin American cinema launched by Rodrigo Brandão, has struck a deal with streaming service Fandor to release four films.
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NewsColorado theatre shooter to get life sentence
James Holmes, who massacred 12 people during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in the Colorado suburb Aurora three years ago, is to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
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NewsHannah Minghella moves from Columbia to TriStar
The Columbia Pictures co-president of production has become president of TriStar Pictures as Tom Rothman shuffled his Sony executive pack on Thursday.
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NewsBold Films, Jake Gyllenhaal in pact
The Los Angeles-based producer-financier has struck a first-look production deal with its Nightcrawler star.
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NewsRLJ Entertainment acquires 'Pay The Ghost'
The distributor has taken all US rights to the Nicolas Cage horror film from the international sales agent Voltage Pictures.
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NewsNetflix dates 'Winter On Fire'
The streaming service has set its worldwide digital release date for Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary about the birth of the civil rights movement in Ukraine.
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NewsXLrator Media acquires 'Mateo'
XLrator Media has acquired North American rights to the SXSW documentary Mateo by Aaron I. Naar.
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NewsTodd Haynes to receive Gothams honour
The filmmaker, in awards contention this upcoming season for Carol, will receive the Director Tribute at the 25th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York on November 30.
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News'Dragon Ball Z' scores US opening day hit
FUNimation Entertainment announced a mighty opening night for the theatrical release of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F.
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NewsRADIUS co-heads exit company
Screendaily has confirmed that Tom Quinn and Jason Janego, the pair who founded the theatrical and VOD day-and-date enterprise four years ago under the auspices of TWC, have left the mothership.
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NewsSony Pictures unveils 2016, 2017 slates
The studio, urgently in need of lucrative franchises and facing the possibility it could lose the James Bond series in a competitive auction later this year after it releases Spectre, has announced 16 key releases over the next two years.
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NewsSPC picks up awards contender ‘Miles Ahead’
Sony Pictures Classics has pounced on a hot awards prospect, acquiring US rights and all available territories on Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic and feature directorial debut.
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NewsTennessee theatre gunman shot dead
UPDATE: Police have identified the man they shot dead at a Nashville suburban multiplex as 29-year-old Vincente David Montano. They also said he had been carrying what turned out to be an air pistol and not a gun.
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NewsBig World Pictures acquires 'Aferim!'
Big World Pictures has acquired US rights from Beta Cinema to Romania’s foreign language Oscar submission.
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NewsAvril Lavigne, Ashley Tisdale, G.E.M. join 'Charming'
The trio have joined star Demi Levato on 3QU Media’s animated musical comedy, which has begun shooting in Montreal at Cinesite’s new animation studio.
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NewsAlchemy boosts board, hires strategy and planning exec
Pat Fitzgerald and Mitch Lowe have joined the board of directors while Kelly Summers arrives as svp of strategy and planning.
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News'Doctor Strange' set for "dark", "psychedelic" look
Doctor Strange DoP Ben Davis discussed the visual palette and context of the anticipated superhero film starring Benedict Cumberbatch at BAFTA.