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NewsStudios serve up record summer
Lee Daniels’ The Butler restored supremacy at the top of the North American charts as a record four-day Labor Day weekend wrapped up a record $4.7bn summer.
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NewsHunnam, Johnson to lead Fifty Shades of Grey
Pacific Rim star and daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith land lead roles in the adaptation of E.L. James’ erotic novel.
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NewsYellow Affair acquires Bluebird
The Yellow Affair to take US drama, starring Amy Morton and Mad Men’s John Slattery, to Toronto.
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NewsTank Top Movies introduces on-demand widget
Widget enables any website to connect audiences to legal on-demand films.
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NewsNew Russian fund backs three
The recently created Saint-Petersburg-based Point Of View (POV) Development Fund has backed three film projects a total of $86,000 (€65,000).
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NewsDogwoof acquires Mullins’ Chameleon
Dogwoof has acquired all foreign rights for Ryan Mullins’ documentary Chameleon, currently in production.
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NewsUK, Morocco sign co-pro pact
The UK and Moroccan governments have signed a co-production treaty.
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NewsAnchor Bay pact with Richwater
Anchor Bay Entertainment, the UK home entertainment arm of US distributor Anchor Bay, has signed a four film co-production agreement with Jonathan Sothcott’s Richwater Films.
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NewsOne Direction top UK box office
Sony score second number one in as many weeks as One Direction: This is Us debuts with $5.5m (£3.5m), including previews.
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NewsGilliam: 12 Monkeys TV series a "very dumb idea”
EXCLUSIVE: Director responds to plans for a TV spin-off to the sci-fi thriller.
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NewsVenice: Making Locke under the radar
EXCLUSIVE: The team behind Tom Hardy drama Locke talk about how they quickly put the project together and shot in only eight nights.
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NewsFaith sells to France, Switzerland
EXCLUSIVE: Pan Nalin’s documentary Faith Connections has been sold to France and Switzerland ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week.
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NewsKurylenko in talks for YSL biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Olga Kurylenko is in talks to join Mandarin Cinéma and Europacorp’s Yves Saint Laurent’s biopic, set to begin shooting in October.
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NewsIFC Midnight buys Haunt
EXCLUSIVE: The distributor has acquired all US rights to Mac Carter’s genre title starring Jacki Weaver. QED International handles sales outside the US.
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NewsTWC gets Tracks in US
The distributor has reunited with See-Saw Films, the producers behind Oscar winner The King’s Speech, and acquired US rights from HanWay Films to the true-life Australian drama.
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NewsOne Direction win LDW on $17m
The summer session neared a conclusion over Labor Day Weekend as One Direction: This Is Us, Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about the UK-Irish pop sensation, opened top on an estimated $17m through Sony’s TriStar label over three days.
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NewsEFAs name people's choice nominees
The European Film Academy has announced its People’s Choice Award nominees.
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NewsElysium rules int’l on $18m
UPDATE: Sony Pictures Releasing International (SRI) executives reported that the sci-fi added an estimated $17.9m from 5,095 screens in 55 markets to reach the cusp of $100m.
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Ackermann joins Stealth
Glenn Kendrick Ackermann has joined Stealth Media Group as president of world sales.