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NewsFreestyle Releasing takes all domestic rights to Genius On Hold
Gregory Marquette’s documentary about telecoms inventor Walter L Shaw reveals how the scientist’s poor treatment at the hands of the major companies drive him to work for the Mob and led his son into a life of crime.
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NewsIn Darkness wins Manaki Brothers’ Golden Camera 300
Vasily Sigarev’s Living wins Silver Camera 300 and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place receives Bronze Camera 300 at the world’s oldest festival dedicated to cinematographers in Bitola, Macedonia.
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NewsWhite Tiger enters Oscar race for Russia
Karen Shakhnazarov’s World War II-set fantasy action selected by Russian Oscar committee.
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NewsArbitrage director Jarecki writing LA-set detective story
Jarecki hopes to shoot Fuel early next year.
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Magnet Media on board for Dolman's Recklessness
EXCLUSIVE: Company adds Veronica Ferres to cast of Married and Cheating.
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NewsMomentum strikes UK deal for Toronto hit Wasteland with Bankside
EXCLUSIVE: Bankside also sells Rowan Athale’s debut feature to France, Japan and airlines; Ben Drew’s urban drama iLL Manors sells to six new buyers.
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NewsGalloping Horse, Reliance join forces to buy Digital Domain
Beijing-based Galloping Horse and India’s Reliance MediaWorks (RMW) have formed a joint venture to buy bankrupt US visual effects studio Digital Domain for $30.2m.
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NewsHong Kong, Thailand, India announce Oscar submissions
Hong Kong, Thailand and India have all unveiled their entries for the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards.
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NewsIntandem takes on sales and UK distribution for Jadoo
Intandem Films has taken on worldwide sales rights for UK comedy Jadoo. The company’s new distribution outfit, Intandem Film Distributors (IFD), has also boarded UK distribution rights.For full details visitJadooJadoo, which is Hindi for ‘magic,’ is the story of two estranged brothers in Leicester, England. Raja and Jagi are both ...
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Focus Features to handle sales on Perez's Alone In Berlin
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Classics already in place to distribute English-language adaptation of Hans Fallada’s bestselling novel.
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NewsEurasia international jury declines to award grand prix
EurasiaInternational Film Festival’s international jury, under the presidency of German director-producer Wolfgang Petersen, announced on the closing ceremony at Almaty’s Palace of the Republic in Kazakhstan at the weekend that it has decided not to award a grand prix for best film.
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NewsMaster breaks into US top ten as two vie for number one
Another tepid session at the North American box office down approximately 25% on last year saw new releases End of Watch and House At The End Of The Street battle it out for the top spot while Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed drama surged into the top ten.
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NewsResident Evil 5 stays atop international charts
UPDATE: The horror thriller added an estimated $33m over the weekend as the running total climbed to $103.3m. Sony Pictures Releasing International markets have generated $99.2m overall.
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NewsVoice of My Father takes top prize in Adana
Watchtower also wins two prizes at the Turkish festival.
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News108 Media reports sales on Kazakh Oscar entry
The Toronto-based sales agent has racked up its first sales on Akan Satayev’s Myn Bala – Warriors Of The Steppe.
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NewsZurich expands industry offerings with new market
Works in progress selections include Horizon Beautiful and Recycling Lily.
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NewsMerced invests in select Exclusive Media titles
The joint venture from Minneapolis-based private investment film EBF & Associates and Kevin Frakes’ PalmStar Media Capital’s strategic partnership has closed on a structured facility for some Exclusive films, the first of which is the 2013 Formula One release Rush (director Ron Howard pictured in pre-production.)
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Dark Sky Films, Site B to partner on Late Phases
MPI’s Dark Sky Films announced at Fantastic Fest that it has signed a co-production agreement with producer Zak Zeman’s Site B to make the genre film Late Phases.
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GFZ Group to handles effects on Andy Lau thriller Switch
Vancouver-based visual effects company GFZ Group has won a contract to act as lead visual effects and post-production house on the China-US action thriller Switch.