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NewsUS Briefs: 'Finding Dory' passes $300m in record time
Plus: MGM secures new $1bn credit facility; Digimon Adventure gets US release; and more…
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NewsAMPAS calls on diverse new members group
The US Academy’s new invitees are 46% female and 41% people of colour. But research shows industry women still face “systematic lack of trust.”
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NewsMiranda's Fênix open for business in Brazil
EXCLUSIVE: The new Brazilian art cinema distributor has unveiled a slate including films from Marco Bellocchio, Amos Gitai and Gabriel Ripstein.
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NewsFilm Fest Gent reveals Nordic, Japanese programmes
Confirmed titles include Måns Månsson’s Yarden [pictured] and Eiji Uchida’s Lowlife Love.
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NewsCannes winner 'Mimosas' gets US deal
Fledgling NY outfit Grasshopper Film has taken rights to Oliver Laxe’s Morocco-set Western.
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NewsNFTS launches trio of initiatives to support women directors
A mentorship programme and paid internships are being introduced in a bid to help boost the number of female directors in the industry.
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NewsKarlovy Vary to close with 'Café Society', honour Jean Reno
Guests at this year’s event will include Joshua Marston and actor Michael Shannon who will present new mystery-drama Complete Unknown.
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NewsFrancis Ford Coppola to receive Stockholm fest honour
The Godfather director will be presented with the event’s lifetime achievement award.
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News'Team Joy' kicks off for Truth
Dallas Buyers Club producer Truth Entertainment and writer-director Joe Tripician are starting work on a new project about father-daughter grifters.
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NewsParker to get Sundance Vanguard award
Nate Parker, director of The Birth of a Nation, will get this year’s Sundance Institute award, which brings a cash prize and industry mentorship.
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NewsAwesomeness buys YA novel rights
DreamWorks Animation’s Awesomeness Films has acquired film rights to the debut novel by Australian author Krystal Sutherland.
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NewsCinefile takes UK rights to Brian Cox drama 'The Carer'
EXCLUSIVE: Edinburgh-based Cinefile has taken UK and Irish rights to Brian Cox-starring The Carer from sales company Yellow Affair.
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NewsAbdi set for 'Blade Runner' sequel
The BAFTA-winner boards Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up, joining a cast that already includes Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and Robin Wright.
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NewsArbouet to direct big screen Benjamin Dove
The Fair Market Value filmmaker will steer Fulton Street Entertainment’s adaptation of the coming-of-age novel.
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NewsBrittania Award for Jackson
BAFTA LA is to present Samuel L Jackson with this year’s Albert R Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment.
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NewsPiers Wenger appointed BBC head of drama
Channel 4 head of drama Piers Wenger has been appointed BBC director of drama commissioning after four years at the ad-supported broadcaster.
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NewsLionsgate, Idris Elba's Green Door partner on TV writing competition
Lionsgate UK is partnering with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures to launch a writing competition for UK residents who want to write a TV drama series.
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NewsChina box office: 'Now You See Me 2' beats 'Independence Day'
Lionsgate had its biggest opening in China with Now You See Me 2 on $43.64m from its first three days
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NewsNordisk Fond gives largest doc grant to Brugger's 'Hammerskjold'
Fond also backs two TV serires and Lisa Langseth’s new feature.
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NewsPicturehouse to release Zola Budd-Mary Decker doc 'The Fall'
Daniel Gordon directs the story of the controversial race between Zola Budd and Mary Decker at 1984 Olympics.