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NewsSony promotes three in domestic distribution ranks
Adrian Smith is promoted to president of Sony Pictures Releasing Domestic Distribution and Adam Bergerman and John Spinello are named assistant general sales managers for domestic distribution.
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NewsMusic Box takes Le Weekend, Dada goes gaga for Mental
Music Box will distribute Roger Michell’s Le Weekend, while MJ Peckos and Steven Raphael’s Dada Films has picked up Toni Collette’s reunion with her Muriel’s Wedding director PJ Hogan.
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NewsSkyfall writers to pen Refn's Barbarella series
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, writers of the last five James Bond movies, are to pen a new TV series based on ‘60s sci-fi character Barbarella.
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Arts Alliance and Cinevise ink Cine Colombia deal
Cine Colombia has agreed a deal with Arts Alliance Media (AAM) and Cinevise to equip its circuit with AAM’s Theatre Management System, Screenwriter.
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NewsCuracao festival starts new regional competition
As it heads into its second year, the Curacao International Film Festival Rotterdam is starting a new competition for emerging talents from region around the Caribbean Sea.
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NewsCinemaCon: NATO to honour Regal CEO Amy Miles
The National Association Of Theatre Owners (NATO) will present the Regal Entertainment Group CEO Amy Miles with the 2013 NATO Marquee Award at the annual convention on Apr 16.
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NewsTony Kushner earns WGA honour for Lincoln screenplay
The screenwriter will receive the WGAW’s (WGA-West) 2013 Paul Selvin Award for his adapted screenplay.
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NewsPierre Morel in talks to direct Prone Gunman
Sean Penn will star in the Silver Pictures/StudioCanal action thriller about a spy who is forced to flee across Europe after he is betrayed by his organisation.
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NewsMan of Steel exec Lloyd Phillips dies aged 63
The New Zealander recently served as executive producer on the upcoming summer release The Man Of Steel. He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on Jan 25. He was 63.
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NewsJeff Berg launches Resolution agency
The announcement follows Berg’s departure from ICM Partners following 27 years as chairman and CEO of its previous incarnation ICM.
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NewsScandinavian directors forge Creative Alliance
Thomas Vinterberg and Lone Scherfig are among six top Scandinavian directors who have joined forces with US outfit Parts & Labor to develop English-language films for the international marketplace.
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NewsKevin Tsujihara named Warner Bros Entertainment CEO
The digital and new media specialist will take over as sole leader of the entertainment behemoth on Mar 1 and work alongside outgoing chairman Barry Meyer, who will stay on in his role until the end of the year.
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NewsVoltage Pictures to start sales on Words And Pictures
Nicolas Chartier will look to stir up pre-sales in Berlin on the Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche romance in the run-up to a March 18 production start in Vancouver.
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NewsTaylor & Dodge to handle international sales on Hello Herman
Santa Monica-based All In Films Partners produced the drama about a bullied high school student who snaps and goes on a murderous rampage.
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NewseOne bites for Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are
Entertainment One has acquired the US rights to Mickle’s reimagining of Jorge Michel Grau’s cannibal horror of the same name.
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NewsMusic Box in tune with Roger Michell’s Le Weekend
Embankment Films closes US deal for drama starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum.
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NewsMemento picks up S-VHS following Sundance premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Gruesome horror feature complements French sales and production company’s growing genre slate.
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NewsHansel & Gretel slay competition with $19m US debut
Paramount’s action vehicle for Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton led a slow session at the box office in which the top 12 fell around 25% against the previous weekend and 10% against the same session in 2012.
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NewsArgo triumphs at 2013 Producers Guild Awards
Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s true-life thriller earned a timely boost one month before the Academy Awards by winning the Zanuck Award For Outstanding Producer Of Theatrical Motion Pictures on Saturday night [26] in Beverly Hills.
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NewsShooting commences on Exclusive, Playtone, AFC’s Parkland
Peter Landesman makes his feature directorial debut on the adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi’s book Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of President John F Kennedy. Colin Hanks has joined the cast.