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NewsMemento picks up S-VHS following Sundance premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Gruesome horror feature complements French sales and production company’s growing genre slate.
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NewsApichatpong, Kawase among filmmakers selected for HAF
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) has unveiled the list of 25 projects selected for its 11th edition (March 18-20), including new projects from Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Japan’s Naomi Kawase.
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NewsDjango stays top on $43m international weekend
UPDATE JAN 28: Sony Pictures Releasing International reported that Quentin Tarantino’s global hit has reached $111.6m outside North America and $257.8m worldwide. Meanwhile Skyfall has produced a mighty $34.4m opening week in China.
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NewsHansel & Gretel slay competition with $19m US debut
Paramount’s action vehicle for Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton led a slow session at the box office in which the top 12 fell around 25% against the previous weekend and 10% against the same session in 2012.
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NewsArgo triumphs at 2013 Producers Guild Awards
Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s true-life thriller earned a timely boost one month before the Academy Awards by winning the Zanuck Award For Outstanding Producer Of Theatrical Motion Pictures on Saturday night [26] in Beverly Hills.
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NewsSundance: Fruitvale, Blood Brother score double honours
Ryan Coogler’s US Dramatic Competition entry Fruitvale nand Steve Hoover’s US Documentary Competition film Blood Brother both scooped their respective grand jury and audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony on Saturday [26].
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NewsKentaro Hagiwara wins 2013 Sundance/NHK honours
The alumnus of the inaugural Screenwriters Workshop in Tokyo received his award at a private ceremony at Sundance.
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NewsSundance: RADiUS-TWC buys again, O-Scope weighs in
RADiUS-TWC has secured its fifth film of the festival, taking North American and French rights to Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie And The Boxer. Meanwhile Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother Of George.
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NewsShooting commences on Exclusive, Playtone, AFC’s Parkland
Peter Landesman makes his feature directorial debut on the adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi’s book Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of President John F Kennedy. Colin Hanks has joined the cast.
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NewsSundance: SPC takes Midnight, IFC Saints, Magnolia S-VHS
UPDATE: The deals kept on rolling in on Friday [25] with a quartet of domestic acquisitions including Phase 4’s acquisition of Newlyweeds. King Records has struck a deal for Japanese rights to Cutie And The Boxier.
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NewsQED International snaps up Toy’s House on eve of EFM
New worldwide president of marketing and acquisitions John Hegeman made the announcement on Friday [25]. CBS Films picked up US rights earlier in the week and is targetting a 2013 release.
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NewsAcademy board creates costume designers branch
Costume designers were previously part of the designers branch, which also includes production designers, art directors and set decorators.
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NewsDisney confirms JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars
The studio ended speculation about who will helm Episode VII with a formal announcement on Friday [25].
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NewsFinal Draft announces finallists for Screenwriters Choice Awards
The winner of the 8th Annual Screenwriters Choice Awards will be unveiled on Feb 7 in Beverly Hills.
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RadioactiveGiant acquires original screenplay Table 18
The multi-media development, production and distribution studio announced the deal on Friday [25].
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NewsMartin Scorsese to exec produce British drama Tomorrow
London based Burn Hand Film Productions is to produce the feature directorial debut of Martha Pinson, Scorsese’s long time script supervisor.
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NewsGoteborg to spotlight Norwegian features
Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival, which opens tonight (Jan 25) with Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki, have improved services for the 1,500 film professionals expected for the showcase, which runs through Feb 4.
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NewseOne ups Clunie to grow Family unit
Entertainment One (eOne) has promoted Laura Clunie to expand the presence of its Family division in Canada and North America.
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NewsAcademy determines individual nominees for Amour
The producers branch executive committee named producers Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz on Friday [25].
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Shooting has commenced in Denmark on Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Someone You Love; while cameras are set to roll this spring in the UK on a film based around the winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2012 - talented canine Pudsey.