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NewsLionsgate, Village Roadshow extend pact
The parties have extended their multi-year output agreement in Australia.
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NewsFocus goes for gold with Race
Jason Sudeikis has joined Jeremy Irons and Stephan James in the true story of the Olympic legend. Focus acquired US rights in a deal with world sales agent Mister Smith Entertainment.
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NewsTime Warner rejects Murdoch bid
An $80bn initial offer by 21st Century Fox for Time Warner has been turned down, sending Big Media shares to historic highs.
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NewsNils, Neta and Situation win Jerusalem's Pitch Point
Winning film-makers are Ram Nehari, Nir Bergman and Elad Keidan.
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NewsDoug Belgrad earns SPE stripes
Columbia Pictures president Doug Belgrad has been promoted to president of the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) motion picture group.
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NewsAmnesty, TTFF launch human rights prize
The inaugural award will be given to the film which best highlights a human rights issue at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in September.
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NewsRightsTrade marches on with new signings
Fortissimo, GK Films, Lightning Entertainment and Odin’s Eye Entertainment are the latest companies to sign up to the online entertainment rights licensing marketplace.
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NewsRon Howard to direct Beatles doc
Documentary will focus on The Beatles’ touring years from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg to their last public concert in 1966.
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NewsPlans for Fox theme park, Korea
20th Century Fox and Village Roadshow have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Gyeongsang Province to build a theme park.
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NewsPeter Webber film among BAM projects
Pickpocket drama from Girl With a Pearl Earring director is one of 33 film projects in development being presented at the Bogota Audiovisual Market (BAM).
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NewsFilm London secures digital grant
Film London has received a £125K grant to explore the release of independent films on new digital platform We Are Colony, with help from Edge Hill University.
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NewsEd Vaizey gets digital brief
Ed Vaizey has been promoted to role of Minister responsible for digital industries as part of UK parliamentary reshuffle.
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NewsSimon's Cat teams with Indiegogo
The crowdfunding platform has already raised more than £88,000 for an extended version of Youtube hit Simon’s Cat.
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NewsEmpress Road takes Facility 31
Empress Road Pictures is to handle international sales on Facility 31 from UK based horror production company Bad Blood Films.
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NewsFirst timers gear up for Locarno
EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic, Oscilloscope and Koch Media are among the first-time companies attending the Locarno Film Festival this year.
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NewsLocarno unveils 2014 line-up
13 of the 17 films competing for the Golden Leopard are world premieres; Juliette Binoche to receive Excellence Award.
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NewsIM Global enters The Killing Pool
EXCLUSIVE: The LA-based production, sales and financing company will co-produce the Liverpool-set crime episodic with the UK’s Red Union Films and Pinewood Pictures.
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NewsDolby pledges $12m Academy gift
Dolby Laboratories is to provide a $7m gift for audiovisual technology in the Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures’ theatres and has committed an additional $5m to the Academy Museum’s capital campaign.
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NewsIra Sachs in Newfest honour
New York-based non-profit NewFest wil recognise the director with the third annual NewFest Visionary Award at its annual LGBT jamboree that runs from July 24-29.
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NewsReading Promise for Relativity, Walden
The companies will jointly develop, finance and produce a feature adaptation of Alice Ozma’s memoirs.