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NewsSkyfall shoots back to the top of the UK box office
Latest Bond mission on brink of overtaking Avatar as the all-time champion; Breaking Dawn - Part 2 becomes eOne’s biggest film ever; Ben Wheatley’s critically acclaimed Sightseers opens with $342,000 (£213,014) from 92 sites.
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NewsLes Arcs unveils Work in Progress titles
Upcoming titles from Lech Majewski and duo Ben Rivers and Ben Russell are among the 12 films to be showcased in the Work in Progess section of the Les Arcs European Film Festival.
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NewsCreative Scotland boss Andrew Dixon quits
The head of Scotland’s arts funding body is stepping down following a critical attack on the organisation.
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NewsLoveFilm launches on Wii
LoveFilm is to launch on Nintendo’s Wii console today (Dec 4), bringing the Amazon-owned VOD service into eight million homes across the UK.
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NewsWallen quits Yellow Bird; Fernandez named CEO
Mikael Wallen is stepping down as president of Yellow Bird, the Swedish production company behind the original version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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NewsRealD ties with Bulgaria’s largest exhibitor
New deal will begin with the installation of RealD 3D on 44 Kino Arena screens.
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NewsFilming wraps on David Frankel’s One Chance
Comedy biopic One Chance, starring James Corden as Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts, has wrapped filming.
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NewsWenders and Loach sign Creators' Petition
Wim Wenders, Bela Tarr, Ken Loach [pictured] and Paul Laverty are among nearly 16,000 names from the European film industry who have so far signed a Creators’ Petition arguing for the safeguarding of authors’ rights.
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NewsSatellite Award nominees named
Les Miserables, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook are among the big nominees for the International Press Academy’s 2012 Satellite Awards.
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NewsAl Clark lines up trio including Stephan Elliott comedy
Producer Al Clark is working on an untitled comedy with director Stephan Elliott, a pairing that previously created The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, one of the best-known Australian films ever made.
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Documentary Oscar shortlist unveiled
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled its shortlist of 15 films in the running for this year’s Documentary Feature Oscar, among them Bully (pictured), The House I Live In and Searching for Sugar Man.
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Sundance reveal premiere line-up
Joshua Michael Stern’s Steve Jobs biopic, Alex Gibney’s Wikileaks documentary and Stoker, the English-language debut of Park Chan-Wook, are among a dynamic Sundance Premieres and Documentary Premieres line-up.
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NewsAmazing Cat wins Primer Corte prize
The fourth Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires has named The Amazing Cat Fish (Los Insólitos Peces Gato) winner of its Primer Corte section for films still in post production.
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NewsZero Dark Thirty takes NY critics award
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), the first of the US critics groups to announce their annual awards, has named Zero Dark Thirty Best Picture and its director Kathryn Bigelow Best Director.
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NewsBrave, Ralph, Guardians top Annie nominees
Pixar’s Brave, Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph and DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians got the most mentions in the nomination list for this year’s Annie Awards, presented by the International Animated Film Society, or ASIFA-Hollywood.
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NewsSan Sebastian to celebrate animation and Oshima
Animation and the work of Nagisa Oshima, the Japanese director behind Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, are to feature as part of the next San Sebastian Festival.
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NewsSapphires heads nominations for AACTA awards
This year’s standout box office hit The Sapphires, is up against Burning Man, Lore and Wish You Were Here for the crown of best film in the AACTA (Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts) Awards, to be presented at the end of January in Sydney.
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NewsJill Tandy joins Universal Pictures International
Tandy to assume commercial affairs role primarily across local language productions and will continue to work for Inside Pictures in reduced role.
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NewsMetrodome acquires period drama Summer in February
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning and Hattie Morahan star in UK drama about a love triangle in an artists’ colony.
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NewsEpilogue takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
Amir Manor’s Epilogue was awarded the grand prize and $8,500 (Y700,000) at the closing awards of the 13th edition of Tokyo Filmex (Nov 23-Dec 2).