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NewsSea Of Trees commences shoot
Waypoint Entertainment and Netter Productions’ drama has begun shooting and will film on location in Massachusetts and Japan. Ken Kao and Alex Walton’s Bloom represents international rights and launched pre-sales in Cannes.
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NewsFIP hires Michael Andreen
Fox International Productions has named Michael Andreen svp of production, effective August 1.The appointment marks Andreen’s second return to the studio, having previously served in various creative production capacities on Master and Commander and The Day After Tomorrow, among others.He most recently worked at Narratology as a consultant to Chinese ...
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NewsGotham honour for Ted Sarandos
Leaders at the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) said the chief content officer will receive this year’s Industry Tribute at the 24th annual Gothams in New York on December 1.
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NewsWarner Bros names Harry Potter team
Team will be based in London and Burbank, and follows an expanded partnership between the studio and J.K. Rowling.
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NewsKino Lorber takes Decent One, Winter
The distributor has acquired all US rights to Vanessa Lapa’s documentary on the secret personal writings and photographs of Heinrich Himmler as well as mystery Winter In The Blood.
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NewsCinedigm, Great Point Media strike pact
Cinedigm Corp and Robert Halmi Jr’s Great Point Media have signed a multi-picture distribution and production output deal.
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NewsIFC Midnight embraces Inner Demons
Seth Grossman directed Schorr Pictures’ horror film about an intervention-style reality TV show.
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NewsBrazilian delegation set for Locarno
Film-maker Kleber Mendoça, who won the FIPRESCI Prize at Rotterdam and Wroclaw’s New Horizons for his fiction feature debut Neighbouring Sounds in 2012, will be in Locarno next month as part of an almost 60-strong Brazilian delegation.
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NewsComic-Con: WB leads social buzz
Comic-Con 2014 sparked 1.7m social media mentions as Warner Bros dominated the conversation, according to social media experts Way To Blue.
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NewsBuyers take The Devil’s Hand
EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Management Group has licensed the Rufus Sewell horror-thriller from Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment in a slew of markets.
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NewsDWKs Animation hires Mark Zoradi
The former president of Buena Vista International has been named COO of DreamWorks Animation while Ann Daly is promoted to president.
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NewsIM Global ventures into TV
Former Syfy president of original content Mark Stern has come on board as president and partner in the new venture, IM Global Television.
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NewsSundance unveils summer Labs
Sundance Institute has announced the participants for its annual Creative Producing Labs and Creative Producing Summit, both of which take place from July 28-August 1 at the Sundance Resort in Utah.
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NewsComic-Con D4: WB rules social media
Hollywood rolled out the big guns at Comic-Con on Saturday as Zach Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice promotion topped the chart of social mentions with 112,108 according to Way To Blue.
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NewsLucy tops North America on $44m
EuropaCorp’s thriller starring Scarlett Johansson delivered a strong debut through Universal as box office for the top 12 matched the comparable session of 2013.
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NewsComic-Con: Marvel mania grips Hall H
Marvel Studios repeated last year’s triumph with another rousing finale to three days of Hollywood presentations that sparked near hysteria as virtually the entire cast of Avengers: Age Of Ultron descended on Hall H.
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NewsComic-Con: Ben Kingsley makes debut
Sir Ben Kingsley became yet another British star to make his Comic-Con debut as he joined a Focus Features panel to promote Laika Entertainment’s The Boxtrolls on Saturday.
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NewsComic-Con: Guillermo del Toro thrills
A Legendary Entertainment panel heavy on action footage provided the perfect platform for Comic-Con favourite Guillermo del Toro to sneak footage from Crimson Peak and poll the crowd on the idea of a pair of future projects.
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NewsComic-Con: Sin City 2 dames talk it up
Nine years after the original hit theatres, director Robert Rodriguez and co-director Frank Miller returned to San Diego with key cast from their latest story and said they had already begun talks for a third episode.
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NewsComic-Con: Kevin Smith talks Tusk
Kevin Smith ruled the final Hall H session on Day 2 of Comic-Con (25) in his annual Q+A slot and used the occasion to enthuse about his return to film-making for what he called his best film.