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NewsDaniel Wagner forms BiFrost
Beverly Hills-based BiFrost Pictures launches as a specialty financing and production company that aims to invest at “various levels” in four to six films a year budgeted up to $20m.
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Fox to screen Cleopatra in Cannes
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment in association with Bulgari will premiere a restored version of the larger-than-life production in the Cannes Classics programme on May 21.
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NewsShade VFX moves to Santa Monica
The boutique visual effects company is relocating into a new facility at the Bergamot Station arts compound that doubles its footprint.
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NewsIM3 bursts into US on $175.3m
Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 arrived in North America amid a blaze of anticipation at the weekend and it did not disappoint, posting the second biggest debut of all time behind stablemate The Avengers.
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NewsAcademy: new voting rules
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has amended its rules so that for the first time every voting member will automatically be eligible to vote in all 24 Oscar categories.
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NewsOwen, Heigl to star in Survivor
EXCLUSIVE: Clive Owen and Katherine Heigl will star in the latest hot project to fall into place in the run-up to Cannes. Nu Image will introduce to buyers on the Croisette.
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NewsIM Global trio extend contracts
Senior executives Jonathan Deckter, Bonnie Voland and Tatyana Joffe have all signed new multi-year deals, founder and CEO Stuart Ford announced on Friday [3].
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NewsQED Int’l promotes Friedberg
John Friedberg has been named evp of international sales in the wake of Daniel Diamond’s segue into a production deal at the company.
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News108 Media acquires Jug Face
CEO Abhi Rastogi announced the deal on Friday [3] after negotiating rights for the Slamdance entry with Modernciné’s Andrew van den Houten. 108 Media will launch sales on the Croisette this month.
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NewsCMG Cannes-bound with Moon
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has bulked up its Cannes slate and acquired international rights excluding Latin America to Bruno Barreto’s Reaching For The Moon.
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NewsIM Global to sell Joplin biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Ford’s LA-based powerhouse is back in business with Lee Daniels and will introduce buyers in Cannes to the upcoming Janis Joplin biopic Get It While You Can to star Amy Adams.
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NewsIM3 crosses $450m global
Marvel Studios’ summer curtain raiser Iron Man 3 is fast becoming a behemoth after adding more than $110m worldwide on Friday – of which $68.3m came from the North American opening day – to reach $456.6m.
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NewsFilmBuff, Tugg in Arrested Development doc release
FilmBuff, Tugg and direct-to-consumer service VHX are partnering on the May 3 release of the Arrested Development Documentary Project.
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NewsContinental Media adds four for Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: The Los Angeles-based boutique sales agency run by partners James Andrew Felts, Matthew Shreder and Neil Harrington heads to the Croisette with Coldwater, God’s Slave, Solo and Duke.
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NewsTWC, Sundance Channel hail Kon-Tiki
Thor Heyerdahl’s 1951 documentary will air exclusively on May 11 on Sundance Channel and will be followed by a broadcast of the featurette Kon-Tiki: The Incredible True Story.
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NewsWorldview takes US on Jimmy P.
Chris Woodrow’s ambitious financier has acquired US rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s Cannes competition entry in a deal with Wild Bunch that marks its latest foray into the US distribution arena.
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NewsTimberlake to spin Gold for Foresight
Foresight Unlimited heads to Cannes with Spinning Gold, a biopic to star Justin Timberlake as the iconic 1970s music entrepreneur Neil Bogart. Timberlake will attend the market and host a buyers dinner.
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NewsMulroney joins JuntoBox’s Sacrifice
Dermot Mulroney has joined the crowdfunding platform’s first feature, currently shooting in Houston, Texas.
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NewsExchange plots Supremacy
Brian O’Shea and his sales team have added the Danny Glover thriller to its Cannes slate.
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NewsMyriad takes Life Partners to Cannes
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures has come on board to sell Life Partners starring Leighton Meester [pictured], Gillian Jacobs and Adam Brody.
