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NewsJames Bond produces $11m to dominate North America
In a slow session Skyfall leapfrogged The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 to reclaim its earlier number one spot and reach $261.6m after five weekends.
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NewsGuardians edges out Twilight to rule international on $26m
DreamWorks Animation’s Rise Of The Guardians dominated a tight international session as the family release reached an estimated $90.5m in its fourth weekend through Paramount Pictures International (PPI).
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NewsLos Angeles critics honour Amour, The Master
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named (9) Michael Haneke’s meditation on mortality, Amour, the 2012 film of the year. Best picture runner-up The Master is a major presence, earning four awards including best director for Paul Thomas Anderson.
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NewsFirst Afghan web TV channel launches
Kabul and Dubai-based producer Hamida Aman has launched Afghanistan’s first web TV channel Globox.tv, tapping into the country’s burgeoning social media culture.
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NewsFront Row hunts down Bloodsport, Reykjavik
Front Row Entertainment, the Dubai-based distributor that is among the world’s most prolific pre-buyers of independent films, has added several more titles to its brimming release slate.
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NewsWide Management sells Zabana! to Cinecitta Luce
Cinecittà Luce has acquired Italian rights to Algerian Saïd Ould-Khelifa’s Zabana!, a contender in Dubai’s Muhr Arab feature competition, from French sales company Wide Management.
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NewsAlejandro González Iñárritu to tackle comedy
The Mexican auteur behind such intense work as Babel and Biutiful has lined up a dramatic change of direction and plans to direct Birdman from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo.
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NewsFrance set to boost film tax incentives
Ceiling on Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP) could rise $12.9 m (€10m) from $5.1m (€4m).
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NewsRamsay and Colman receive WFTV awards
Director Lynne Ramsay and actress Olivia Colman were among those honoured at the Sky Women in Film and Television Awards 2012.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Ed Speleers and Will Poulter will star in Plastic, while Scott Free Productions has plans to adapt The Fishing Fleet.
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NewsFoxtel tightens grasp on Australia's pay TV movie market
Australia’s Movie Network Channels (MNC) has lost its battle to survive and, while there is a lot of uncertainty around the impact, it is going to mean lower prices being paid in Australia for both studio and independent films.
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NewsQuartet co-producer DCM boards Buck's second children's film
DCM, the Berlin-based German co-producer of Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet, is to produce Detlev Buck’s second children’s film after his 2007 adaptation of Cornelia Funke’s Hands Off Mississippi.
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NewsImpossible sinks Titanic record in Spain
Tsunami drama has also started strongly in France and Thailand, where the film is set.
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NewsCalcio Storico triumphs at 3D Film Mart
This year’s 3D Stereo MEDIA event also hosted the inaugural International 3D Society Europe Awards.
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NewsFilm4.0 readies new projects with Entwistle, Shynola
EXCLUSIVE: Screen talks to Anna Higgs, Film4.0’s head, about its busy slate including films from Ben Wheatley and collective Shynola.
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NewsCreative England backs projects from Whitfield, Al-Daradji, Haigh
Creative England has backed development projects from Terence Davies, Andrew Haigh, Nick Whitfield, Mohamed Al-Daradji, David Whitney and Shona Auerbach.
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NewsClover sells Boys To Men to Star Chinese Movies
Singapore’s Clover Films has sold pay-TV rights in multiple Southeast Asian territories to Jack Neo’s Ah Boys To Men to STAR Chinese Movies.
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NewsPalm Springs career award for Sally Field
The 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) is to present two-time Oscar-winning actress Sally Field with its career achievement award.
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NewsSlamdance announces narrative, doc sections
The Slamdance Film Festival has announced the films in its narrative and documentary feature competitions, among them 13 world premieres and seven US premieres.
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NewsTwilight, Skyfall, Guardians set to rule again in international
With The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Skyfall and Rise of the Guardians still dominant, and the big holiday releases yet to come, there are only a handful of major-territory openings in the international marketplace this weekend.