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NewsParticipant Media acquires SoulPancake
Participant Media has acquired the digital entertainment media company founded in 2009 by actor Rainn Wilson to create provocative, uplifting programming including web series such as Kid President and The Science Of Happiness.
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NewsAFI FEST honour for Annette Bening
AFI FEST top brass will celebrate the actress and awards season contender with a tribute and centrepiece gala screening of 20th Century Women.
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NewsFIP, White Horse partner on 'Silent Night'
Fox International Productions (FIP) has acquired an original serial killer screenplay from White Horse Pictures that the parties will jointly finance.
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News'Harry Potter' spin-off 'Fantastic Beasts' to span five films
JK Rowling confirmed on Thursday that the anticipated Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them will unfold over five episodes.
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NewsICM TV head Pippa Lambert joins WME
Former head of ICM Partners London TV team to take on senior television agent role.
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NewsGisela Asimus-Minnbergh hire bolsters Lionsgate unscripted TV unit
Heading into MIPCOM the company has appointed the executive to vice-president of alternative programming sales in a move that reflects its growing unscripted television business.
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NewsMomentum Pictures acquires 'The Possession Experiment'
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Scott B. Hansen’s horror film.
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News'Little Secret' director on Oscar controversy: "We were attacked as if we were the enemy"
Brazilian director David Schurmann’s film was selected over Aquarius by one vote, prompting some social media protests.
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News85 in foreign language Oscar race
Eighty-five countries have submitted a film for consideration in the 60th anniversary year of the foreign language film category.
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News'What Happened To Monday', 'Ballerina' on AFM screening roster
World premieres of the Noomi Rapace and Willem Dafoe sci-fi from SND M6 Group and Gaumont’s animation featuring Elle Fanning will screen at the Santa Monica market next month.
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NewsUncork’d Entertainment picks up 'Peelers'
EXCLUSIVE: Company president Keith Leopold said on Tuesday his distributor has acquired US rights to the upcoming zombie horror.
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NewsUS Briefs: 'La La Land' impresses Hamptons crowd
Damien Chazelle’s awards season prospect won the audience award for narrative feature as the Hamptons International Film Festival came to a close.
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News'The Ornithologist' goes to Strand for US
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ Portuguese drama The Ornithologist from Films Boutique.
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News'Girl On The Train' rides to number one in North America (update)
The DreamWorks thriller tops the chart with $24.5m while Fox Searchlight’s awards contender The Birth Of A Nation opens wide with a soft $7m.
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NewsSpielberg's Amblin, China's Alibaba enter strategic partnership
Alibaba Pictures is investing in Amblin Partners and has entered into a strategic partnership with the mini-major for co-productions, finance and distribution.
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NewsUS Briefs: Netlix CEO says exhibitors “strangling” business
PLUS: Forest Whitaker joins Black Panther; and more…
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NewsProduction begins on Haven’s Los Angeles Lakers doc
Haven Entertainment said on Thursday that shooting and archival retrieval is underway in Los Angeles on the untitled documentary.
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NewsNanfu Wang among IDA honourees
Top brass at the International Documentary Association (IDA) have announced the honourees at its upcoming 32nd Annual Documentary Awards.
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NewsDavid Oyelowo on diversity: "Change the decision-makers"
Selma and A United Kingdom star calls for greater diversity among industry decision-makers and within film companies.
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NewsAnthony Mackie joins 'IO'
Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie and Danny Huston will star in the sci-fi for Mandalay Pictures and Untitled Entertainment as production gets underway this week in France.