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NewsEdinburgh to boost prize money
EXCLUSIVE: EIFF to significantly boost prize money, introduce a documentary award and double the number of galas.
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NewsBlockbuster to close last UK stores
DVD rental chain Blockbuster is to close down completely after failing to attract a buyer.
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NewsOmar wins best film at APSAs
Omar, set in the occupied West Bank, has won best film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs).
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NewsFilm London finds new drama spaces
Film and media agency Film London has identified 1.25 million sq ft of alternative stage space in the capital in a bid to satisfy growing demand.
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NewsScreen Australia backs 15 features
Two music-themed films and a love story from The Rocket director Kim Mordaunt are among the 15 features to secure new development money from Screen Australia.
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NewsAri Folman plans Anne Frank animation
Ari Folman, the Israeli director behind Waltz With Bashir and The Congress, is set to script and direct a family driven animation film based on Anne Frank’s life and diary.
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NewsMetrodome acquires Attila Marcel
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
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NewsWay To Blue reshuffles top level
Global communications agency promotes Marc Berry Reid to chief operating officer and Daniel Heale to chief client officer.
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NewsWesterhoff joins sales outfit WestEnd
Former HanWay exec joins as head of sales from January 2014.
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NewsEl-Batout’s Cat heads to Paris for post
Egyptian director Ibrahim el-Batout’s human organ-trafficking thriller The Cat will go into post-production at Paris-based Knightworks in January.
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NewsFleifel to kick off Oscar bid on Aflamnah
Danish-Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel is set to launch a crowd-funding campaign on Dubai-based platform Aflamnah this January to finance a 2015 Oscar race bid with his award-winning documentary A World Not Ours.
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NewsImaginarium wraps Assaf’s Curve
Jordanian director Rifqi Assaf is in post-production on his debut feature The Curve, co-produced by Jordan’s The Imaginarium Films and Egypt’s Film Clinic.
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NewsFront Row, KNCC take Helmy project
EXCLUSIVE: In a ground-breaking deal, the Kuwait National Cinema Company (KNCC) and Dubai-based Front Row Filmed Entertainment have jointly acquired worldwide rights to popular Egyptian comedian Ahmed Helmy’s next film.
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NewsFull Moon Night gets greenlight
Tunisian director Fares Naanaa’s A Full Moon Night, winner of the top Dubai Film Connection (DFC) prize last year, will start shooting in February 2014.
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NewsHobbit 2 storms to $85m global BO
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug pulled in a further $29.3m on Friday (December 13) and more than 3m admissions from 15,950 screens in 49 markets.
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NewsLionsgate picks up Zealot
Lionsgate has acquired film rights to Dr Reza Aslan’s Zealot: The Life And Times Of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Becky named partner at Management 360
Lainie Sorkin Becky has been promoted to partner at Management 360.
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NewsHoop Dreams to screen at Sundance
Festival top brass will mark the 20th anniversary of Steve James’ celebrated basketball documentary with a screening in From The Collection.
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NewsAldamisa Int'l to sell Vivien
Aldamisa International will commence pre-sales in the run-up to Berlin on the horror-romance Vivien Hasn’t Been Herself Lately.
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NewsMiami Jewish fest unveils line-up
When Comedy Went to School will open the 17th annual Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF), set to run from January 23-February 3 2014.