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NewsIain Canning on Top of the Lake, See Saw's TV slate and producing future Steve McQueen films
Canning discusses See Saw’s growing TV slate and re-teaming with Steve McQueen; Jane Campion drama Top of The Lake set to hit screens early 2013, including BBC2 in UK and Sundance Channel in US.
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Song Of Silence, Jai Bhim Comrade take top prizes at HKIFF
Chen Zhuo’s Song Of Silence took the Firebird Award for best feature in the Young Cinema awards of this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), while Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade took the Firebird documentary prize.
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey among Tribeca Disruptive awards recipients
The Tribeca Film Festival in association with Harvard Business professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation team will host the Tribeca Distruptive Innovation Awards on Apr 27.
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NewsCMG to sell horror-thriller No Tell Motel in Cannes
Enderby Entertainment’s film follows five friends who get stranded at an abandoned roadside lodging where a terrible fate once befell a young girl and her parents.
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Battleship charts global course on IMAX
Universal’s Hasbro adaptation will be digitally remastered and released on the large screen format in more than 100 international theatres including sites in China and Russia, starting Apr 12.
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NewsStephanie Denton to head int’l at Indomina Releasing
The veteran of Lionsgate and Lakeshore among others joins in the run-up to Cannes and will take charge of a slate that includes Sundance titles Something From Nothing from Ice-T and Bart Layton’s acclaimed documentary-thriller The Imposter (pictured).
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Scott Steindorff, Andy Kleinman launch Stone Village Media
Kleinman, a former general manager at the social gaming company Zynga, has come on board the new media marketing and distribution venture and will lead it in his capacity as chief business officer.
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NewsExclusive Media to play The Odds with John Lesher
The company is reuniting with its End Of Watch collaborator and has optioned all rights to Stewart O’Nan’s novel The Odds: A Love Story.
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NewsMIPTV Deals Day 3: BBCWorldwide, ITV Studios Global, ZDF, Revolver
BBCWorldwide announces major nature series fronted by Top Gear’s Richard Hammond, pacts with Arte; ITV sells Titanic, Endeavour; Beta announces big-budget dramas; ZDF secures raft of sales including Into the Abyss and The Killing.
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NewsRedford’s new Sundance Productions lines up Watergate doc
Robert Redford and producing partner Laura Michalchyshyn’s venture will focus on television and multimedia content.
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NewsConstantin Film named Germany's most successful producer and distributor of 2011
For the seventh year in a row, Constantin Film has been named by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) as the nation’s most successful producer and distributor of German films.
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NewsAtsma, Schaap to star in Van Geffen's second film in Vinex trilogy
Dutch star Barry Atsma [pictured] has taken the lead role in In Your Name, the second in Marco Van Geffen’s Vinex trilogy which began with last year’s festival hit Among Us.
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NewsMusic Box acquires US rights to Cate Shortland’s Lore
Memento handling international sales for drama set in Germany in the aftermath of World War Two. Picture will be ready for Cannes.
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NewsCurzon On Demand now offers content from 10 other UK distributors
App for Samsung Smart TVs launches; day-and-date offerings include Into The Abyss and Le Havre [pictured].
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NewsA Royal Affair reigns supreme on opening weekend
Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair has had one of the strongest weekend openings ever for a local film, securing 91,578 admissions (including previews) from 101 Danish screens.
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James Murdoch to step down as BSkyB chairman
James Murdoch is to step down as BSkyB chairman following months of speculation about his future with the company.
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NewsSpanish government dramatically cuts budget for film fund
Government cuts film funding in Spain more than 30%.
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NewsJames Strong to direct Kenny Everett biopic for BBC
The BBC has revealed further details of its biopic of well-loved comedian Kenny Everett, two years after the commission was first announced.
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NewsAAM signs deal with independent exhibitor GI Group
Arts Alliance Media (AAM) is continuing its UK digital roll out into independent cinemas by signing a VPF deal with GI Group.
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