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NewsHanWay to handle world sales on Sundance entry Houston
Bastian Günther’s World Dramatic Competition film charts the meltdown of a German headhunter in pursuit of a Texan oil executive.
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NewsSearchlight to re-release Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin’s Academy Award nominee will return to select cities for a special engagement on Jan 18.
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NewsJohn Hegeman takes top QED marketing, acquisitions job
CEO Bill Block [pictured] announced on Wednesday [16] that the executive had joined QED International in the newly created role of president of worldwide marketing and acquisitions.
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NewsSecond edition of Frontières to run July 25-28
Inaugural edition of Fantasia International Film Festival’s international co-production market saw five projects find a co-producer, two find a sales agent and one project is currently in production.
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Berlin unveils Forum line-up
The 43rd Berlinale Forum features 41 films in the main programme, 22 of which are world premieres and 10 international premieres.
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NewsBlockbuster calls in administrators
The UK DVD rental store has gone into administration putting 4,190 jobs at risk, just a day after high street DVD and music store HMV suffered a similar fate.
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NewsMystery, Gangster head Asian Film Awards nominations
South Korea’s Nameless Gangster: Rules Of The Time and Chinese director Lou Ye’s Mystery top the list of nominees for this year’s Asian Film Awards, with six nods apiece.
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NewsBritish comedy first feature to premiere on Xbox 360
Pulp, a British comedy that combines comic book publishing with international crime, is to become the first film to premiere through Microsoft’s Xbox 360 online service - skipping a theatrical or DVD release.
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NewsGunnar Carlsson joins Anagram Produktion
Swedish producer Gunnar Carlsson - former head of drama at Swedish pubcaster SVT – has been signed as film and drama chief at Anagram Produktion, the Lund-based production company instigated in 2003 by Swedish actor-comedians, writers, directors and producers Anders Jansson and Johan Wester.
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NewsLoveFilm signs NBCUniversal deal
Amazon-owned LoveFilm has partnered with NBCUniversal International TV Distribution in a deal that aims to deliver a greater range of US content to audiences in the UK.
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Film London’s film education training returns
Cultivate: Inspiring Future Audiences is to return this year following a successful inaugural run in 2012.
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NewseOne aims to release most UK films, add another territory in 2013, build on US partnerships
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Hamilton and Patrice Theroux discuss the structure of the eOne-Alliance merger; Lara Thompson, Robert Walak and Jo Sweby will lead acquistion team in Berlin.
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NewsIncognito Pictures signs on to action thriller Surrounded
The Los Angeles-based company founded by former PayPal executive Jack Selby and Scott Stone will serve as producer alongside Patrick Aiello and Industry Entertainment.
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NewsBerneys resurrect Picturehouse, line up Metallica drama
New York-based husband-and-wife team Bob and Jeanne Berney are back in business and have reopened Picturehouse four-and-a-half years after then parent company Warner Bros closed down the distributor.
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NewsDistribution: ro*co films, Zeitgeist Films, Factory 25 in action
ro*co films educational, the educational documentary distribution arm of ro*co films, will handle the non-theatrical release of How To Survive A Plague [pictured] and A Place At The Table.
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NewsShane Carruth goes it alone on Upstream Color
Shane Carruth’s company erbp will self-distribute Upstream Color, the director’s upcoming US Dramatic Competition entry and follow-up to his 2004 Grand Jury Prize-winner Primer. Meanwhile Gravitas Ventures has taken worldwide VoD and digital rights to Sound City.
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NewsWar Witch leads Canadian Screen Awards nominations
The Academy Of Canadian Cinema And Television announced its 2013 Canadian Screen Awards nominees on Tuesday [15].
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NewsRo*co Films International boards Sundance pair
EXCLUSIVE: The sales division has signed on to represent the US Documentary Competition titles After Tiller and American Promise.
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NewsNagisa Oshima dead at 80
Nagisa Oshima, the iconoclastic Japanese director of In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, died of pneumonia in a Kanagawa hospital early on Tuesday (Jan 15). He was 80 years old.
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NewsKen Loach's Spirit of '45 among Berlinale Special world premieres
As part of the Festival’s official programme, the Berlinale Special 2013 is presenting recent works by contemporary filmmakers, including Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love and Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Best Offer.