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Arclight to offer Wolf Creek 2 at AFM
Arclight Films is to offer a sequel to successful 2005 Australian horror thriller Wolf Creek at next month’s American Film Market in Santa Monica.
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Stone gets female lead in new Spider-Man
Emma Stone, star of current Screen Gems hit Easy A, has been cast as the female lead in Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man film.
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NewsSpain’s 6 Sales take international rights to Captain Thunder
Leading Spanish outfit 6 Sales has taken international sales rights to award-winning Spanish director Antonio Hernandez’s hotly anticipated $12m project Captain Thunder.
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Feltheimer at MIPCOM: Choose reliable partners
In his MIPCOM keynote Tuesday, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer addressed the issues raised by the dramatic changes currently shaking the world of content to it foundations.
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Facebook's Shields at MIPCOM: Social networking adds value to content
Declaring that, “the last decade of the Internet was all about information and the way in which it was organised,” Joanna Shields, VP EMA, Facebook, used Tuesday’s MIPCOM Keynote to look at what the next decade of content on the Net had in store, and, unsurprisingly, she believes, “it will ...
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Paramount’s German outpost picks up second German production
Shooting has begun today on Elmar Fischer’s sensitive comedy Offroad, which marks the second local pickup by the German outpost of Paramount Pictures.
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NewsUK production company Ecosse opens Glasgow branch
London-based film and TV production outfit Ecosse Films has opened a Glasgow office with the aim of developing Scottish talent.
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CommentBollywood's boom and bust
Bollywood is officially in recovery, but unless it applies the brakes, it runs the risk of over-heating again quite soon.
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NewsAsian projects take the lead for Australia financing market
Two of the seven Australian projects chosen for the financing market held in mid-November during the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia are substantially or wholly set outside Australia.
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FeaturesScreen UK Marketing and Distribution Awards
Winners and guests at Screen’s inaugural UK Marketing and Distribution Awards, held Oct 5 at the Park Plaza Riverside Hotel in London.
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NewsAberg returns with The Stig-Helmer Story
After 11 years off-screen, Swedish writer-director-actor Lasse Åberg – whose comedies have generated over SEK 300 million ($45 million) domestic box office – is back behind and in front of the camera.
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NewsIndomina gets Wasted on the Young
Indomina Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Australian teen thriller Wasted on the Young (pictured), which had its international premiere in the Discovery section of last month’s Toronto festival.
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Paladin to launch Shadyac's I Am
I Am, director Tom Shadyac’s documentary about his post-accident journey of self-discovery, is to be released theatrically in the US by Paladin.
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Wolfe among new Lippin recruits
Looking to expand in the film and digital content fields, PR agency the Lippin Group has recruited three new vice presidents, among them former Nu Image publicity head Elizabeth Wolfe.
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Tekken goes to eOne for France, Scandinavia
Toronto-based Entertainment One has signed a distribution deal with Steven Paul’s Crystal Sky Pictures for all rights to Tekken in France, Scandinavia and South Africa.
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NewsGK takes Jersey Boys film rights
Graham King’s GK Films has acquired feature film rights to the hit musical stage play Jersey Boys: The Story ofFrankie Valli & The Four Seasons.
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NewsParticipant, Imagenation join Madden's Marigold
Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi have come aboard to co-finance Fox Searchlight’s comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which director John Madden (pictured) will start shooting this week in India with a cast led by Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Dev Patel.
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Drake keynote speaker at Filmmaker Forum
Lionsgate motion picture group president Joe Drake will be the keynote speaker at Film Independent’s sixth annual Filmmaker Forum, to be held October 29-31 at the Directors Guild of America headquarters in Los Angeles.
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ThinkFilm, Capitol declared bankrupt by US judge
ThinkFilm and Capitol Films Development, two of the companies in financier David Bergstein’s troubled film empire, have been effectively pushed into bankruptcy by a US Federal judge.
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NewsLubeck to show 140 films from Scandinavia, Baltics
Selections include Shameless and Home For Christmas.