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NewsWTFilms boards Patricio Valladares’ Downhill
EXCLUSIVE: The Paris-based company has come on as co-producer and international sales agent on the Chilean director’s low-budget survival thriller.
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NewsCMG to sell The Games Maker
Edward Noeltner has come on board to handle international sales excluding Latin America to the children’s fantasy, set to receive its US premiere in Sundance next week.
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NewsAmazon Studios confirms film push
Ted Hope has been named head of production at Amazon Original Movies as the company behind Golden Globe winner Transparent plans to produce and acquire 12 original features a year.
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NewsAmerican Sniper hits bullseye in US on $107.2m
JANUARY 20 UPDATE: The Warner Bros war film expanded wide in its fourth session and vaulted 20 places to top of the charts in a record wide debut for a winter release and a handful of other records.
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NewsIndie int'l box office hits $1.2bn
EXCLUSIVE: Films licensed internationally through the major US-based sales agencies generated an estimated $1.152bn last year.
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NewsAnnapurna to produce 20th Century Women
Mike Mills, who shot to fame with festival hits Beginners and Thumbsucker, will direct the nostalgic trip back to the 1970’s.
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NewsTheatrical push for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman
Fox Searchlight is making hay while the sun shines and is pushing its two multiple Oscar nominees in US theatres.
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NewsSPC acquires Testament of Youth
First World War drama sold by Protagonist Pictures to North America, Latin America and Asia.
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NewsOscars 2015: nominees reactions
Eddie Redmayne tells of ‘once in a lifetime’ experience and Benedict Cumberbatch is knocked for six while Emma Stone finds the whole occasion ‘surreal’. Hear what the nominees had to say.
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NewsCEG subsidiary Air-Edel in buyout
Cutting Edge Group (CEG) subsidiary Air-Edel Associates Ltd has completed negotiations to split away via a management buyout.
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NewsContent Media to sell Going Clear
Content Media has come on to handle international sales on Alex Gibney’s documentary Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief ahead of the Sundance world premiere on January 25.
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NewsJim Berk takes UCLA TFT senior role
The Participant Media CEO has been appointed executive board chair of the UCLA School Of Theater, Film And Television (TFT).
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NewsBoyhood named best picture at Critics’ Choice Award
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) bestowed further glory on IFC Films’ coming-of-age drama on the day of Oscar nominations as the film collected best picture, director, supporting actress and young actor honours.
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NewsScreen Media finds Shelter
The distributor has acquired US rights to BiFrost Pictures and The Bridge Finance Company’s drama debut starring Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie that marks Paul Bettany’s feature directorial debut.
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NewsASC to honour Barbra Streisand
The entertainer will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) 2015 Board Of Governors Award.
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NewsDirty Grandpa adds cast
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Pally and Jason Mantzoukas have joined the cast of the raucous comedy that QED International is financing and selling outside the US, where Lionsgate will distribute.
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NewsSundance Institute to honour Alejandro Iñárritu
The DGA nominee and director of Birdman will receive the Vanguard Leadership Award at the fifth annual Sundance Institute benefit on June 2 in Los Angeles.
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NewsRob Friedman, Patrick Wachsberger renew Lionsgate contracts
The co-chairs of Lionsgate’s motion picture group have signed long-term renewals on their contracts.
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NewsGKIDS takes When Marnie Was There
The distributor has acquired North American rights to the upcoming Studio Ghibli animation following their collaboration on The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya.