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NewsBuyers set for Perfect Day
Fernando León de Aranoa’s English-language debut pre-sells to multiple territories for WestEnd Films.
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NewsEdge Of Tomorrow roars on $81m
UPDATED JUNE 9: A muscular launch for the latest Tom Cruise tentpole-elect by Warner Bros Pictures International provided a timely reminder of how the veteran’s star power remains undiminished, outside North America at least.
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NewsTransilvania Trophy goes to Spain
The Transilvania International Film Festival’s (TIFF) main prize went this year to Spanish film-maker Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Stockholm as the week-long festival came to a close on June 8.
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NewsStars aligns in US on $48.2m
The Fox 2000 drama dislodged Maleficent and dismissed the challenge of Tom Cruise to storm to number one.
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NewsGary Lucchesi, Lori McCreary named PGA presidents
PGA elects Gary Lucchesi and Lori McCreary presidents
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NewsBoyhood triumphs at Seattle
Richard Linklater’s acclaimed family portrait won the Golden Space Needle Award for best film and best director honours as the 40th Seattle International Film Festival came to a conclusion on Sunday (June 8).
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NewsSheffield Doc/Fest enjoys biggest opening night ever
The 21st edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest kicked off last night with the European premiere of Florian Habicht’s documentary Pulp: A Film About Life, Death And Supermarkets, about Britpop band Pulp.
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NewsLincoln Center swells programmer ranks
Florence Almozini has been appointed senior programmer and Jake Perlin and Rachael Rakes have been named programmers-at-large.
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NewsSoundcheque launches in Hollywood
The London-based company, which claims to pay musicians without retaining any rights, has opened a Los Angeles office.
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NewsPeyton Reed to direct Ant-Man
Marvel took to Twitter at the weekend (June 7) to announce its replacement for Edgar Wright, who departed the project last month over what is understood to be creative differences.
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NewsCasey Affleck, John Middleton launch production venture
John Powers Middleton, who has worked as executive producer on A&E’s Bates Motel and the Oldboy remake, has teamed up with Casey Affleck to launch a production company.
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NewsMaleficent tops 22 Jump Street buzz
Angelina Jolie’s fresh approach to Sleeping Beauty holds its lead on its second week of release.
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NewsTransilvania reveals first grants
An observational documentary and two fiction films are the first projects to be supported by the Transilvania Film Festival Fund (TFFF).
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NewsBroadway cinema launches film fund
Broadway Cinema in Nottingham has launched a £100,000 film investment fund.
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NewsSecret Cinema breaks sales record
Ticket sales record set by Secret Cinema for its biggest live cinema event presenting Back to The Future.
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NewsMK2 buys Spanish cinema chain
French mini major MK2 has acquired Spain’s Cinesur cinema chain, the country’s third biggest chain.
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NewsPeter Bogdanovich to direct Tycoon
Cohen Media Group has tapped Oscar-nominated director Peter Bogdanovich to direct its television miniseries adaptation of Edward Ball’s The Inventor And The Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder And The Birth Of Moving Pictures.
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NewsOutfest 2014 unveils line-up
The 2014 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival has announced its complete programming line-up for the event, set to run from July 10-20.
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NewsProduction: Nyong’o plots Americanah; Dench has Fever
Lupita Nyong’o is reuniting with Plan B and has secured with D2 Productions and Potboiler Productions rights to develop Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah. Separately, Judi Dench has boarded Tulip Fever.
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NewsGravitas picks up Among Ravens
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Russell Friedenberg and Randy Redroad’s dramedy starring Johnny Sequoyah, Amy Smart and Victoria Smurfit.