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NewsLionsgate plans UK TV push
Mad Men producer Lionsgate is to expand its TV production business into the UK as part of a wider international push.
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NewsWell Go buys TIFF drama McCanick
Well Go USA has acquired all US rights from Bleiberg Entertainment to the crime drama McCanick starring David Morse and the late Cory Monteith.
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NewsTWC buys Rigby, Railway Man
Sources confirmed that The Weinstein Company had paid $3m for North America, the UK and France on The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby and $2m for US on The Railway Man. Both will open in 2014.
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NewsBritdoc names five Puma finalists
The Act of Killing and Bully among those up for the $66,000 Puma Impact Award, with a jury including Susan Sarandon and Gael Garcia Bernal.
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NewsABC boss eyes UK for co-pros
US network ABC chief Paul Lee is keen to kick off talks with UK talent and producers to commission more international coproductions.
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NewsJurassic Park 4 sets release date
Universal sets June 2015 release for the latest in the dino franchise, which will be titled Jurassic World.
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NewsCMG closes Khumba sales
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has licensed rights on the animation and Toronto selection to Transmission in Australia, Kaleidoscope in the UK and Eagle for Italy.
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NewsGary Sanchez on Sleeping With Other People
Leslye Headland to direct Kirsten Dunst in their follow-up collaboration after Bachelorette.
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NewsNew Demme to debut at Rome
Oscar-winning director behind Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia to premiere new film at the Rome Film Festival and host a masterclass.
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NewsFSC takes world on Filthy Gorgeous
The Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide sales rights to Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story, Barry Avrich’s documentary that premiered on Monday night (September 9).
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NewsVirgil Films finds Foreclosure
Virgil Films has closed a US deal in Toronto on the horror tale Foreclosure starring Michael Imperioli from The Sopranos.
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Cohen takes Unjust doc
Cohen Media Group has acquired all North American rights to Shoah director Claude Lanzmann’s Toronto entry The Last Of The Unjust.
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News'App' downloaded to North America
Bobby Boermans’s thriller about smartphone-addicted teens makes first sales to English-language territories.
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NewsCBS Films confirms F Word deal
UPDATED SEPT 10: CBS Films top brass said on Tuesday evening (September 10) they had acquired US rights to Michael Dowse’s The F Word in a deal understood to fall between $2.5m and $3m.
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NewsNonStop finds When Jews Were Funny
EXCLUSIVE: NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavian, Icelandic and Baltic rights from The Film Sales Company to Alan Zweig’s documentary When Jews Were Funny.
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NewsImage, Film Arcade buy Midas Box
Image Entertainment and The Film Arcade have struck a deal in Toronto for US rights to $25m action fantasy The Adventurer: The Curse Of The Midas Box starring Michael Sheen and Lena Headey.
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NewsCorman to cameo in Dante’s biopic
Joe Dante set to direct a long-gestating biopic about legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman.
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NewsFogelson out at Universal
In a stunning development Adam Fogelson has left Universal Pictures as chairman and Jeff Shell has been named chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.
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NewsBAFTA/LA to honour Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen will receive the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award For Excellence In Comedy on November 9 in Los Angeles.
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NewsIFC Midnight enters The Station
The distributor has acquired US rights to Marvin Kren’s Midnight Madness entry about a group of scientists at a German Alpine research lab who encounter a horrifying biological force.