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NewsDiscovery plans to diversify content
Discovery Networks International is focussed on diversifying the range of its content and boosting its free-to-air TV distribution, according to chief executive Mark Hollinger.
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Arts Alliance signs LatAm VPF deals
UPDATED: Rollout will start in January 2014 in Peru and Chile; company also adds another Colombian deal.
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NewsElectric’s Wannabe rounds out cast
Vincenzo Amato, David Zayas, Neal Huff, Mike Starr and Slaine have joined Patricia Arquette on the cast of The Wannabe and Dean Devlin’s nascent Electric Entertainment will commence pre-sales at the AFM next month.
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NewsMonuments Men pushed to 2014
George Clooney’s film about a team of soldiers and art experts sent behind Nazi lines to recover priceless works of art is out of this year’s awards race.
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NewsIFC buys Jimmy P
The distributor has acquired US rights from Worldview Entertainment to Arnaud Desplechin’s drama Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian starring Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric.
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NewsDisney sees Middle East opportunity
Speaking at the fourth Abu Dhabi Media Summit Andy Bird, chairman, Walt Disney International, has discussed how the company leverages the Disney brand in international markets.
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NewsAFI FEST rounds out programme
Festival top brass have announced the outstanding World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programmes.
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NewsEFP to screen Oscar titles in LA
European Film Promotion (EFP) to spotlight 14 European films submitted for the Oscars in LA.
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NewsSFFS launches Fall Celebration
Top brass at the San Francisco Film Society are seeking to get an early jump on awards season by staging the inaugural Fall Celebration, an annual event to honour “creativity, innovation, collaboration and inspiration in cinema.”
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NewsLocarno gives Brazil Carte Blanche
The fourth edition of Carte Blanche, the Locarno Film Festival’s initiative dedicated to films in post-production, will focus on Brazil.
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NewsNetflix to begin ordering movies
Online streaming service Netflix is moving into the movie production business as it plans to order a raft of original feature films.
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NewsCarl Icahn cashes in on Netflix
The self-styled activist investor has sold roughly half of his stake in the streaming service.
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NewsIntense/101 takes Banshee for UK
Cheung launches new genre distribution label with FrightFest hit.
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NewsAcademy selects Nicholl Fellows
Four individual writers and one writing team have been chosen as winners of the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.
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NewsIMAX, Cinepolis in LatAm deal
IMAX Corporation and Cinepolis have signed a deal to instal eight new IMAX(R) theatres in existing Cinepolis multiplexes throughout Latin America.
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NewsEllen Page to produce, star in 'Forest'
Ellen Page will produce and star opposite Evan Rachel Wood in Into The Forest, based on the adaptation of Jean Hegland’s novel of the same name.
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NewsGoldwyn, Phase 4 say hello Goodbye
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Phase 4 Films have jointly acquired all US rights to Denis Henry Hennelly’s Goodbye World.
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NewsContinental Media sells Solo to UK
EXCLUSIVE: The Los Angeles-based boutique sales agency founded by James Andrew Felts and Matthew Shreder has licensed the horror film to Kaleidoscope Entertainment.
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NewsLionsgate lines up AFM power slate
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate International will commence pre-sales at AFM next month on the Johnny Depp action comedy Mortdecai that has begun shooting in London (October 21) as well as the action epic Gods Of Egypt with Gerard Butler.
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NewsNetflix global members reach 40m
The streaming service saw a net rise in international members of 1.4m for the third quarter, executives said in an earnings call.