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NewsHansel & Gretel tops UK box office
Paramount’s 3D action horror records $2.3m (£1.5m) debut, including previews, to topple Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph.
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NewsSteampunk Treasure Island sets sail
A new animated feature from Belfry Animation and DeZerlin Media will re-imagine Robert Louis Stevenson classic Treasure Island.
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NewsCarl Zeiss wins iF product design award
Optics company also wins four further product design prizes at the 2013 iF design awards, three for stills camera lenses and one for the cine Compact Zoom CZ.2 70-200/T2.9.
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News'Jack' slays $28m US box office
Warner Bros and New Line’s fantasy adventure Jack The Giant Slayer led an otherwise soft weekend that gained a mere 7% on the traditionally weak Oscar session seven days earlier.
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NewsDie Hard leads int'l on $18.3m
UPDATED MAR 4: A Good Day To Die Hard remained the top Hollywood film internationally courtesy of a confirmed $17.5m from 8,140 screens in 67 markets through Fox International that propelled the tally to $161.5m after three weekends.
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NewsHobbit crosses global $1bn
Warner Bros announced on Sunday [3] that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey had become the 15th film in history to reach the milestone, grossing $700m internationally and $301.4m in North America.
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NewsChristie MicroTiles utilised at 27th Goyas
Two T-shaped stands on stage where the winners received their prizes and gave their speeches were each made up of five MicroTiles modules.
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NewsZambezia soars for CMG
Adventures In Zambezia 3D has become the highest grossing South African film in more than 30 years, the animation’s sales agent and executive producer Cinema Management Group (CMG) announced on Friday [Mar 1].
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NewsJack slays Asian box office
Jack The Giant Slayer grossed around $2.3m from seven opening days in select Asian markets to rank number one in six out of seven through Warner Bros Pictures International.
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NewsPanorama bites into Pride, Prejudice And Zombies
Panorama Media will introduce a heavy-hitter to the Cannes market after the sales, production and financing company announced on Friday [Mar 1] it had come on board the red-hot Pride, Prejudice And Zombies.
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NewsLiam Neeson joins The Nut Job
Liam Neeson has joined the all-star voice cast on Canadian animator ToonBox Entertainment and South Korea-based Redrover Co’s animation comedy The Nut Job.
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NewsInsidious 2 sets September release
Insidious Chapter 2 sees Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, and Ty Simpkins reprise their roles in the sequel to the 2011 horror release that grossed $97m worldwide. eOne is financing the film.
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NewsTrademark rolls on The Wipers Times
My Week With Marilyn producer starts shoot on First World War feature, commissioned by the BBC, co-written by Ian Hislop and starring Ben Chaplin, Michael Palin and Emilia Fox.
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NewsNew £2m start-up fund launched
Funding from Arts Council England, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the McKenna Charitable Trust and Ingenious Media.
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HiBrow gets new programme
Former director Don Boyd’s online arts platform HiBrow has a new slate of programmes, including Here Be Dragons, a snapshot of Mark Cousins in Albania and AfriqueCannes, a feature about Africa’s foremost film festival in Ouagadougou.
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NewsDistrify, D-Word expand partnership
D-Word to oversee documentary collection for new Distrify VoD platform Muvies.com.
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NewsColombia unveils cash rebate details
International producers can qualify for 40% rebate of film service expenditures.
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New Europe Market launching in Dubrovnik
Media Vision is organising a new content market that will be held in Dubrovnik from May 8-11.
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NewsIPR launches book rights initiative for film-makers
Fox-owned Blue Skies Studios and Tribeca Film signed up.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Marion Cotillard is to star in the new film from the Dardenne brothers, while Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle has landed a role in an upcoming Christmas drama.