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NewsSony options Edward Snowden book
Sony has optioned rights to Glenn Greenwald’s book No Place To Hide and teamed up with James Bond franchise producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions.
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NewsBold hires Matthew Rhodes
Matthew Rhodes has been named president of motion pictures at Bold Films, whose Lost River and Whiplash play in Cannes.
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NewsEdgar Ramirez in Point Break talks
The actor is in talks to play Bodhi in Alcon Entertainment’s reboot, which Lionsgate International represents outside the US.
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NewsSPC acquires Saint Laurent
Sony Pictures Classics led a flurry of acquisition announcements on Wednesday (14) as it picked up North American rights from EuropaCorp to Cannes competition entry Saint Laurent.
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NewsDancing Arabs to open Jerusalem
The 31st edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival will kick off July 10 with the world premiere of Eran Riklis’ Dancing Arabs.
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NewsShanghai media hub to offer incentives
Singapore’s Cubix International and China’s Bestlinkage Group are opening a $1.5bn media hub, D’Hive, in the Songjiang district of Shanghai.
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NewsIvanhoe acquires Begin Again for China
Ivanhoe Pictures and Beijing Galloping Horse Film Co have jointly acquired all Chinese rights for John Carney’s Begin Again.
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NewsAnnapurna backs Bigelow’s True American
Kathryn Bigelow and Annapurna Pictures are reuniting after Zero Dark Thirty on a true-life drama to star Tom Hardy.
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Quixote acquires Movie Movers
Quixote Studios has acquired production and talent trailers supplier Movie Movers in a move that creates one of the largest production vehicle fleets in Hollywood.
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NewsThompson, Bruhl, Rylance join Berlin
Cast rounds on Vincent Perez’s Alone in Berlin, shopped by Sunray Films.
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NewsHFG boards The Trust for Cannes
Ambitious Highland Film Group (HFG) has come on to handle world sales on crime thriller The Trust starring Nicolas Cage and Jack Huston.
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NewsRaven Banner gets Lost After Dark
EXCLUSIVE: Ian Kessner’s horror [pictured] to be introduced to buyers at Cannes.
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NewsMillennium pics up Elsa & Fred
Millennium Entertainment has taken US rights to Michael Radford’s romantic Elsa & Fred starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer.
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NewsHBF Plus supports three co-pros
Film projects from Topkapi Films, Lemming Film and Revolver selected in first round.
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NewsHomeland star joins Baba Joon
Navid Negahban [pictured] to star in first Persian-language film shot in Israel.
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NewsDavid Bailie joins Artificio Conceal
EXCLUSIVE: Pirates of the Caribbean star boards sci-fi short, directed by Ayoub Qanir [pictured].
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NewsParamount swoops on Story
Paramount Pictures has fired a rocket into the Cannes market, paying what is understood to be $20m for North American and Chinese rights to the Amy Adams sci-fi Story Of Your Life.
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NewsStudioCanal pacts with Danish dynamos
StudioCanal and Canal+ Group have joined forces with The Killing creator/writer Soren Sveistrup, Borgen writer Adam Price and veteran Danish producer Meta Louise Foldager [pictured] to launch production company SAM Productions ApS.
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NewsTWC in new Grace deal
The Weinstein Company is understood to be close to signing a new deal that will see it hold on to US rights to Cannes opener Grace Of Monaco.
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NewsSugar Man producers pay tribute to director Malik Bendjelloul
The producers of Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man have paid tribute to director Malik Bendjelloul who died this week aged 36.