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Film Factory picks up Zip & Zap And The Marble Gang for Cannes
Popular Spanish comic Zip & Zap is headed to the big screen as a family adventure produced by Zeta Cinema, Mod Producciones, Antena 3 Films and Kowalski Films.
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Hammer options Winchester haunted house story
The Exclusive Media subsidiary will develop and produce with Imagination Design Works (IDW) and Nine/8 Entertainment.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Among the new projects added to Screenbase is Wasteland starring Luke Treadaway.
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NewsJames Newton Howard to be honoured at World Soundtrack Awards
Howard’s work will be showcased at the event, which will also see Italian composer Pino Donaggio receiving the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award.
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NewsStellan Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada join cast of The Railway Man
Shooting begins on Jonathan Teplitzky’s war drama in Scotland on April 30.
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Expanded Beijing Film Market wraps
The second Beijing Film Market (April 24-26) wrapped on Thursday after three days of increased participation and business, although delegates agreed that it remains a mostly domestic Chinese event.
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NewsWar Witch, Una Noche triumph at 11th Tribeca Film Festival
The $25,000 Founders Award for Best narrative feature went to War Witch by Kim Nguyen.
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Chinese online video sites form buying alliance
China’s three major online video companies – Tencent Holdings, Sohu Video and Baidu-owned iQiyi.com – are to establish an alliance of “Video Content Cooperation” (VCC) to jointly purchase or negotiate content for their platforms.
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NewsAndy Garcia, Vera Farmiga to star in Admissions
Garcia will also produce the rom-com through his CineSon Productions. Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group arranged financing and represents domestic rights while Film Bridge International handles sales on the rest of the world.
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NewsStruck By Lightning among five new titles on Lightning Entertainment slate
The Santa Monica-based company will introduce the Tribeca coming-of-age comedy written by and starring Glee’s Chris Colfer to buyers on the Croisette. Lightning negotiated the deal with ICM and Traction Media.
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Creative Europe comes in for criticism at public hearing in Brussels
Experts express concern at European Commission’s proposed programme
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Dimension Films acquires US rights to Dark Skies
Scott Stewart wrote and will direct the supernatural thriller, his follow-up to Priest that is being produced by Jason Blum and Alliance Films, which is fully financing. IM Global will commence pre-sales in Cannes through its Octane division.
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NewsUK box office 4% ahead year-on-year
FDA reports UK box-office currently running 4% ahead of 2011; passes £300m in year to date in record time.
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NewsThe Paris Cinema Festival to fete Olivier Assayas and Raoul Ruiz
Event celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012
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NewsAnnapurna enters sales game with Panorama venture
Megan Ellison has invested in the new LA-based production, financing and international sales entity which will arrive in Cannes with a slate that includes Kathryn Bigelow’s (pictured) Bin Laden project Zero Dark Thirty currently shooting, a new film from Spike Jones and Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher.
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NewsArts Alliance Media pacts with Sony in Latin America, ACES Cines in Spain
Digital cinema provider Arts Alliance Media signs new agreements with Sony and ACES.
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NewsPhil Rymer joins London law firm Lewis Silkin
The film and TV lawyer was previously principal of his own firm Rymer Media Law.
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NewsWillem Dafoe joins Out Of The Furnace
The two-time Oscar nominee will play the role of John Petty in the crime drama, which started shooting in Braddock, Pennsylvania, on Apr 13.
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Seattle to celebrate careers of Spacek, Friedkin
Sissy Spacek will receive the Outstanding Achievement In Acting award on Jun 7 at SIFF. Spacek is best known for her roles in Carrie and most recently The Help.
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NewsRooney Mara to star in Wildgaze Films' Brooklyn
Nick Hornby has adapted the film from the Colm Toibin bestseller set in 1950s Ireland and New York