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NewsDjinn Carrenard starts shooting for Faire L’Amour
After €150 guerrilla film Donoma, director kicks off €2.7 million feature Faire L’Amour, produced by Realitism Films and backed by Arte and Pathé.
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NewsJCA remasters A Queen Is Crowned for ITV
Digital restoration timed for Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
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NewsHappy, Happy director Sewitsky plans Sonja Henie biopic
Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky, whose 2010 feature debut Happy, Happy won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, is currently casting her next feature, a $10 million biopic of skating princess Sonja Henie who became a Hollywood star.
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NewsGlobal Screen to handle Denis Dercourt's third feature
Global Screen, the world sales joint venture of Bavaria Film and Telepool, are to handle French director Denis Dercourt’s seventh feature film Zum Geburtstag and Arne Birkenstock’s documentary about the art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.
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NewsFilms Boutique selling two Critics' Week world premieres
Berlin-based Films Boutique will handle international sales for David Lambert’s Beyond The Walls (Hors Les Murs) and Bulgarian Ilian Metev’s documentary Sofia’s Last Ambulance [pictured] which will both have their world premieres in this year’s Critics’ Week in Cannes.
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NewsTWC in tune with Hoffman’s Quartet
TWC picks up US and Latin American rights to Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet from HanWay.
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NewsDogwoof partners with FilmClub
EXCLUSIVE: FilmClub adds ten titles to screening roster from UK distributor Dogwoof.
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Wildworks Productions to commence Stripped shoot in June
Former director of press and PR at the Dallas International Film festival John Wildman will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Justina Walford.
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NewsCelsius on board for Kasdan's The First Time
EXCLUSIVE: Celsius takes on world sales (excluding North America) for the teen romance which premiered at Sundance.
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Hot Docs Forum wraps after two days
The Hot Docs international co-financing market event introduced 25 projects from 14 countries to a panel of more than 170 key commissioning editors and other funders.
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NewsAvengers target $600m global through second weekend
SATURDAY UPDATE: Marvel Studios’ superhero mash-up enters Saturday on a $414.8m worldwide running total after adding $30.3m internationally on Friday and launching in North America on $80.5m including $18.7m in Thursday midnight shows. The international tally stands at $334.3m.
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Artsploitation unveils inaugural distribution slate
TLA Entertainment Inc. president Raymond Murray’s newly formed Artsploitation Films has announced three North American acquisitions.
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Poverty Row Entertainment heads to Croisette with Pickford biopic
Producers Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia are headed to Cannes to stage talks on financing and casting for their newly acquired Mary Pickford project.
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NewsThe Exchange heads to Cannes with Thin Ice
Brian O’Shea’s sales and finance company is Croisette-bound with international rights to the thriller starring Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Lea Thompson and Billy Crudup.
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NewsUPIE takes all int’l rights from Radiant Films to I Am
Radiant Films International president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer (pictured) has struck a deal for all rights outside the US and Canada on Tom Shadyac’s life affirming documentary.
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NewsThe Avengers crosses $280m at international box office
Thursday’s daily report from Disney revealed that the Marvel Studios action epic added $20.6m on Wednesday.
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Lance Volland, Désirée Finnegan rise at Warner Bros int’l publicity
Volland has led the studio’s international publicity efforts for the past five years and is promoted to evp while Finnegan becomes svp.
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Blancbiehn Productions plans June shoot on family drama Treachery
Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc Biehn have announced casting on their latest project and will star alongside Sarah Butler, Caitlin Keats, Chris Meyer and Matthew Ziff.
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O-Scope promotes Dan Berger, David Laub
The executive will jointly oversee marketing, distribution and acquisitions as it emerged that Oscilloscope Laboratories co-founder and president David Fenkel is seguing into a consultancy role after four years at the company.
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BAMcinemaFest organisers unveil line-up
Mike Birbiglia’s adaptation of his off-Broadway one-man show Sleepwalk With Me will open the BAMcinemaFest on Jun 20 in New York.