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  • Zainab Salbi
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    Salbi encourages voices of young Arab women

    2013-10-24T15:11:00Z

    Zainab Salbi, the founder of Women for Women International and Nida’a Network, talked about the important role of women in the Middle East, at the closing day of the fourth Abu Dhabi Media Summit.

  • 12 Years A Slave
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    IFP unveils Gotham nominees

    2013-10-24T15:00:00Z

    12 Years A Slave has earned three nods in the 23rd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, while Blue Caprice, Concussion, Fruitvale Station, Inside Llewyn Davis and Upstream Color earned two apiece.

  • The Engineer
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    WikiLeaks backs second film

    2013-10-24T14:35:00Z

    Julian Assange’s second film as producer is a doc about El Salvador.

  • Ronnie Screwvala
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    Screwvala to leave Disney UTV

    2013-10-24T13:10:00Z

    Siddharth Roy Kapur will take over the company’s India operations.

  • Carey Mulligan
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    Carey Mulligan, Pathe confirmed for Suffragette

    2013-10-24T12:53:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Details revealed about Ruby Films drama due to shoot February; project moves from Focus.

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    Doha launches first Ajyal Youth FF

    2013-10-24T12:31:00Z

    Event will include education, screenings, panels and workshops.

  • Wael Fakharany
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    MENA digital prospects 'immense'

    2013-10-24T11:48:00Z

    The opportunity to build successful digital businesses in the Middle East is ‘immense’ if companies can overcome finance and talent issues according to a group of venture capitalists in the region.

  • Dan Senor
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    Opportunities for MENA entrepreneurs

    2013-10-24T11:19:00Z

    Abu Dhabi Media Summit turns focus on entrepreneurship.

  • Big Game
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    Huffman, Garber join Big Game cast

    2013-10-24T10:53:00Z

    First image released of stars Samuel L Jackson and Onni Tommila.

  • ed_bice_meedan
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    Meedan.org spins off Labs

    2013-10-24T10:25:00Z

    First for-profit product is Translatedesk.

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    Ken Loach appeals for help

    2013-10-24T09:00:00Z

    Director searching for numbering tape to help finish editing his next and possibly last narrative feature, Jimmy’s Hall.

  • Troll Hunter
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    Goldcrest backs Ovredal’s Autopsy

    2013-10-24T09:00:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Andre Ovredal’s English-language horror The Autopsy of Jane Doe to shoot this winter.

  • Child of God
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    Spotlight lines up Child Of God for AFM

    2013-10-24T06:42:00Z

    Heading into AFM Spotlight Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime thriller Child Of God in its third collaboration with RabbitBandini.

  • Michael Fassbender
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    Weinsteins confirm Macbeth deal

    2013-10-23T23:34:00Z

    The Weinstein Company has confirmed its acquisition of North American rights from StudioCanal to Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Macbeth, previously reported on Screendaily.

  • Locke
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    Tom Hardy to play Elton John

    2013-10-23T20:59:00Z

    Focus Features has confirmed the in-demand star will portray Elton John and said it will distribute Rocket Pictures and Icon/AI Film’s biopic in the US after incoming CEO Peter Schelssel brought it over from FilmDistrict.

  • Pam Abdy
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    TriStar, New Regency staff up

    2013-10-23T18:20:00Z

    TriStar Productions chairman Tom Rothman has named his first production executives. Separately, New Regency president and CEO Brad Weston has appointed a production head.

  • Raffaele Annecchino
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    Viacom targets Generation C

    2013-10-23T17:39:00Z

    Generation C, the group of youngsters who love to create, curate and comment online, are the next demographic in the sights of Viacom International Media Networks.

  • The Notebook
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    Notebook launches Hungarian fest

    2013-10-23T17:34:00Z

    Hungary’s official foreign-language Oscar submission The Notebook will open the 13th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, set to run from November 15-21.

  • Shailesh Rao
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    Twitter: media must 'respect' audience

    2013-10-23T17:27:00Z

    Media owners must ‘radically change’ the way in which they communicate with audiences following the growth of social media, according to Twitter executive Shailesh Rao.

  • Randolph Blotky
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    DCDC launches distribution platform

    2013-10-23T17:18:00Z

    The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) has gone live with the launch of its North American satellite and terrestrial digital distribution platform to 17,000 screens across 1,200 venues.