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Iron Sky to seek funding through Interactor
Timo Vuorensola is going the crowd-sourcing route for his long-gestating dark comedy about Nazis on the Moon and plans to raise $70,000.
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Sonoma applauds Absentia, Michael Rockerfeller
Mike Flanagan’s horror film Absentia earned best narrative feature honours as the 14th Annual Sonoma International Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.
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Scott Cooper to direct Out Of The Furnace for Relativity
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free are producing with Relativity and Energy Entertainment.
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Quartet joins Fantastic Films’ Bollywood animation Delhi Safari
Vanessa Williams, Brad Garrett, Jane Lynch and Christopher Lloyd have joined the stereoscopic 3D project, set to screen in the Cannes market.
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O-Scope takes US rights to If A Tree Falls
Marshall Curry’s follow-up to Racing Dreams and Street Fight recently earned a special mention at the Miami International Film Festival.
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Cohen Media Group to release Oranges And Sunshine in US
The distributor will handle the US release of Jim Loach’s true story about social worker Margaret Humphreys who in the late 80s uncovered a secret UK government programme to deport children from the UK to Australia.
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Bleiberg Entertainment picks up sales title There Be Dragons
The sales agency is preparing to commence business at the Cannes market on Roland Joffe’s sweeping drama produced by Ignacio Gomez Sancha, Ignacio Nunez and Joffe.
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Tributes pour in for US director Sidney Lumet
The 12 Angry Men director died on Saturday, aged 86.
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Entertainment One buys Hopscotch in Australia for $21m
Hopscotch MD Troy Lum talks to Screen about the deal.
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Trudie Styler plans The Harder They Come remake
Trudie Styler’s Xingu partners with Conquering Lion Pictures and Jamaican producer Justine Henzell.
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Stuart Pollok joins Indomitable as evp-executive producer
The producer-financier will run the New York and LA-based company’s film and film consulting business for the company, whose credits include Soul Surfer.
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MIPTV wraps with key deals
Interconnectivity and the monetising of splintering platforms were buzz themes at this year’s MIPTV, which also saw a number of deals on starry product.
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Dawn Hudson named CEO as Academy restructures
The board of governors voted on Thursday [7] to establish a new executive structure, replacing retiring executive director Bruce Davis with the former Film Independent head as CEO and long-time Academy executive Ric Robertson as COO.
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SPC moving in on Polanski's all-star Carnage
Sony Pictures Classics is understood to be close to a domestic deal. Roman Polanski’s agent Jeff Berg of ICM represented North American rights and declined to comment when approached by Screen at the start of the week, as did SPC co-head Michael Barker.
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25th anniversary Israel Film Festival to honour Liev Schreiber
The actor will receive the IFF Achievement in Film Award while philanthropist Charles Bronfman will collect the IFF Humanitarian Award and producer-director Micha Shagrir will receive the IFF Cinematic Achievement Award.
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Lionsgate, Varsity, Collective line up Night Of The Living Fred
The partners are turning the YouTube sensation into a 3D feature and Lionsgate will produce alongside Brian Robbins and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett of Varsity Pictures and Gary Binkow and Evan Weiss of The Collective.
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Madeline Zima to star in UK psycho-thriller Storage
The star of Showtime’s series Californication will play a woman who joins forces with a mysterious group of strangers to escape a terrifying underground facility.
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Blockbuster opts for DISH Network’s $321m purchase offer
The bankrupt rental and retail video and game outlet confirmed last night [6] that it had selected DISH Network Corporation’s $320.6m bid following what it called a “robust” auction.
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Wizard of Oz 3D animated feature gets underway
$20m film will be directed by Rob Silvestri of Starz Animation.
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Terry Curtin named new Relativity marketing head
Curtin currently serves as co-president of entertainment at the Cimarron Group and in her new post will report to Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh.