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NewsHaneke co-producers reunite for Wolfgang Becker's latest feature
The adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s bestseller Ich & Kaminski will be Wolfgang Becker’s first feature since Good Bye, Lenin!, which he made ten years ago.
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NewsStuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl starts shoot in Glasgow
Belle and Sebastian frontman’s directorial debut underway in Glasgow, Emily Browning joins cast with Hannah Murray and Olly Alexander, Metrodome handles UK.
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NewsLipSync appoints Ben Shepherd head of 3D/VFX supervisor
UK VFX specialists LipSync have appointed Ben Shepherd as its new head of 3D/visual Effects Supervisor.
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Legendary Entertainment finalises Nerdist buy
Nerdist Industries is a multi-platform genre and popular content content generator whose pipeline includes a website, YouTube channel, iTunes podcast and BBC America show.
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NewsMiramax inks first Russian SVOD deal
Miramax has inked a multi-year deal with Russian SVOD service Stream LLC for titles inlcuding Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction and The English Patient.
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NewsFour new members bolster ranks of Film Export UK
New additions in last three weeks are uConnect, Altitude, StudioCanal and Park Circus, leading to the largest ever membership roster for the sales industry group.
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NewsNBCUniversal Films signs online distribution deal with China’s Youku
The multi year agreement is for video on demand rights to current and library titles.
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NewsLuke Snellin to direct teen musical feature The Wanderers
Bill Milner is atttached to star, with Blur’s Graham Coxon and Ash’s Tim Wheeler onboard to write music for the debut feature of former Screen Star of Tomorrow Luke Snellin.
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NewsCBS Films snaps up feature rights to Deus Ex
Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh are attached to produce the adaptation of the smash video game with John P Middleton on board as executive producer.
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NewsBekmambetov options UK action script
EXCLUSIVE: UK writer-director Faisal A Qureshi wins $10,000 pitching prize at third Astana International Action Film Festival in Kazakhstan.
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NewsSPWA gets into Agatha Christie business with Crooked House
Neil LaBute will direct from a screenplay he co-authored with Julian Fellowes (pictured) and Tim Rose Price. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired all North America and select territories from Ealing Metro International.
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NewsPhilip Seymour Hoffman cast in Catching Fire
The Oscar winner will play Plutarch Heavensbee, the enigmatic Head Gamemaker in the remaining episodes of Lionsgate’s dystopian young adult franchise The Hunger Games.
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NewsMichael De Luca, Dana Brunetti to produce Fifty Shades Of Grey
Rights holders Universal Pictures and Focus Features made the announcement n Monday (9).
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NewsThe Amazing Spider-Man takes $127m internationally
The Amazing Spider-Man grossed $126.8m in its second major session for a $200.2m running total, according to official numbers from Sony Pictures Releasing International issued on Monday (9).
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NewsLeiner, Karlsen, Gray, Brett, Bowles among Galway speakers
Sony Pictures Classics exec Dylan Leiner will give keynote speech at the The Galway Film Fleadh.
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NewsThe Last Elvis wins top award at East End Film Festival
The festival, now in its 11th year, wrapped last night.
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NewsThe Amazing Spider-Man catches competitors in its web at UK box office
Sony’s 3D reboot opens top with $17.2m (£11.1m), just behind previous best opening of the series, Spider-Man 3.
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NewsSpider-Man dominates July Fourth, Buena Vista crosses $1bn
The superhero reboot grossed an estimated $65m through Sony Pictures and claimed $140m over the first six days in North America. Buena Vista became the first distributor to cross the $1bn threshold in 2012 in an industry record 188 days.
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NewsPeccadillo Pictures gets Hit So Hard
P. David Ebersole’s music documentary set for October theatrical release in the UK.
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NewsLacote, Lapid win pitching awards in Jerusalem
Phillipe Lacote and Nadav Lapid win $80,000 between them at Jerusalem Film Festival Lab; Ehud Bleiberg to produce Lacote’s Run.