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NewsSmurfs 2 targets $200m milestone
Sony Pictures Releasing International top brass expect two major markets to push The Smurfs 2 past the threshold this weekend. The family animation stands at more than $191.6m and opens in China and Australia.
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NewsD Films takes Wiig comedy
D Films has acquired Canadian rights from Cargo Entertainment to Welcome To Me starring Kristen Wiig.
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NewsArrow strikes Mr Morgan's Last Love
Global Screen inks deal with Arrow for Michael Caine romance-drama.
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NewsThirlby joins Wedding Ringer
Olivia Thirlby has joined the cast of the Screen Gems and Miramax comedy The Wedding Ringer that has begun shooting in Los Angeles. Separately, Feed The Gods starts production on Friday in Canada for Random Bench.
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NewsOpen Road, XLrator get Hendrix
Open Road Films has picked up its second title of Toronto after The Green Inferno, moving on North American rights with XLrator Media to John Ridley’s Jimi Hendrix tale All Is By My Side.
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NewsOpen Road snaps up Green Inferno
Open Road has acquired US rights to The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s cannibal thriller that premiered in Toronto last weekend.
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NewsWarner Bros, JK Rowling team for Harry Potter spin-off series
JK Rowling to make screenwriting debut with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
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NewsZurich unveils full 2013 line-up
Harvey Weinstein added as a masterclass speaker at the 9th Zurich Film Festival; Competition titles revealed.
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NewsBreaking Glass grabs Unhung Hero
Documentary about whether “size matters” proved a hit at SXSW.
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NewsFilm Movement buys Le Démantèlement
The distributor will release in the US and license to world airlines following a deal in Toronto with eOne Films International.
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NewsElstree upgrade underway
Construction work is underway at Elstree Studios on four-acres of new film and TV production facilities.
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NewsCurzon nabs Gordon Green’s Joe
EXCLUSIVE: Curzon takes UK rights to Venice drama starring Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan.
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NewsRio Film Festival unveils line-up
Titles include Alfonso Cuaron’s acclaimed Gravity and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
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NewsLionsgate plans UK TV push
Mad Men producer Lionsgate is to expand its TV production business into the UK as part of a wider international push.
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NewsSheffield Doc/Fest extends run
Documentary festival reveals 2014 dates, which will see it extended to six days.
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NewsAsia Summit fetes local strengths
How staying local could ironically be the key to reaching an international audience was one of the major messages to emerge at the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) second Asian Film Summit.
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NewsWell Go buys TIFF drama McCanick
Well Go USA has acquired all US rights from Bleiberg Entertainment to the crime drama McCanick starring David Morse and the late Cory Monteith.
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NewsTWC buys Rigby, Railway Man
Sources confirmed that The Weinstein Company had paid $3m for North America, the UK and France on The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby and $2m for US on The Railway Man. Both will open in 2014.
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NewsFilm New Zealand hires Mossman
Television New Zealand (TVNZ) programme commissioner joining Film New Zealand to encourage more productions to the country.