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NewsElectric’s Wannabe rounds out cast
Vincenzo Amato, David Zayas, Neal Huff, Mike Starr and Slaine have joined Patricia Arquette on the cast of The Wannabe and Dean Devlin’s nascent Electric Entertainment will commence pre-sales at the AFM next month.
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NewsMonuments Men pushed to 2014
George Clooney’s film about a team of soldiers and art experts sent behind Nazi lines to recover priceless works of art is out of this year’s awards race.
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NewsAbu Dhabi awards new SANAD grants
The Fund awards a total of $500,00 each year to Arab filmmakers.
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NewsIFC buys Jimmy P
The distributor has acquired US rights from Worldview Entertainment to Arnaud Desplechin’s drama Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian starring Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric.
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NewsDisney sees Middle East opportunity
Speaking at the fourth Abu Dhabi Media Summit Andy Bird, chairman, Walt Disney International, has discussed how the company leverages the Disney brand in international markets.
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NewsIDFA Forum Selection announced
IDFA’s international co-finance and production market will run Nov 25-27 in Amsterdam.
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NewsAFI FEST rounds out programme
Festival top brass have announced the outstanding World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programmes.
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NewsBerners-Lee: protect web whistleblowers
World wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee has called on internet whistleblowers to be given special protection even if they break the law, in the wake of the Edward Snowden and Wikileaks scandals.
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NewsCatching Fire gets China release
The Hunger Games sequel has been approved for a November 21 release on more than 3,000 screens in China.
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NewsStockholm unveils 2013 line-up
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave to open festival; director Peter Greenaway to receive Visionary Award.
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NewsEurimages supports 20 co-productions
Fund awards a total of $8.3m to new titles from Susanne Bier, Miguel Gomes and Yorgos Lanthimos among others.
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NewsEFP to screen Oscar titles in LA
European Film Promotion (EFP) to spotlight 14 European films submitted for the Oscars in LA.
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NewsSFFS launches Fall Celebration
Top brass at the San Francisco Film Society are seeking to get an early jump on awards season by staging the inaugural Fall Celebration, an annual event to honour “creativity, innovation, collaboration and inspiration in cinema.”
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NewsLocarno gives Brazil Carte Blanche
The fourth edition of Carte Blanche, the Locarno Film Festival’s initiative dedicated to films in post-production, will focus on Brazil.
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NewsTykwer to direct first TV series
EXCLUSIVE: German director Tom Tykwer is to direct his first TV series, Babylon Berlin, as an internationally financed, German-language production.
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NewsNetflix to begin ordering movies
Online streaming service Netflix is moving into the movie production business as it plans to order a raft of original feature films.
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NewsCarl Icahn cashes in on Netflix
The self-styled activist investor has sold roughly half of his stake in the streaming service.
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NewsThird Window unveils Japan, UK, Italy, Taiwan, Germany co-pro
EXCLUSIVE: Japan-UK-Italy-Taiwan-Germany co-production of Yosuke Fujita’s Fuku-chan Of FukuFuku Flats
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NewsScreen launches UK Film Summit
Screen International is launching the 2013 UK Film Summit in association with the British Film Institute (BFI). Early bird discount £170+VAT for a limited time only, so book now
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NewsIntense/101 takes Banshee for UK
Cheung launches new genre distribution label with FrightFest hit.