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NewsDisney signs deal with Google for UK YouTube, Google Play TVOD service
Disney extends YouTube deal to UK, range of portfolio titles available
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NewsEU committee calls for better recoupment and windows flexibility for online distribution
Flexibility of release windows, fair remuneration for rights holders for online distribution and net neutrality called for in European Parliament committee report.
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NewsLocarno's Casa Del Cinema project secures funding
The Locarno Film Festival’s long gestating Casa Del Cinema project has taken a major step forward following a CHF 10m donation by the recently established private foundation Fondazione Stella-Chiara.
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NewsMichael Murphy launches production services company Rockabill Media
Former Windmill Lane executive to work as co-producer and access Irish tax credit.
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NewsSpanish, South American films showcased during online festival
Fourteen titles showcased including A Contracorriente, Medianeras [pictured], La mitad de Oscar.
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NewsYour Sister’s Sister earns centerpiece slot at San Francisco
Lynn Shelton’s relationship comedy (pictured) starring Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass and Rosemarie DeWitt will screen at the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival on Apr 28.
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NewsWu, Eberts strike Allied Productions East JV
Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios has announced its second of three partnerships in the US in a deal with financier-producer Jake Eberts. First on the runway is the immigrant drama Mission Boys from Secretary screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson.
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NewsMy Way, The Intouchables bookend COLCOA
The 16th Annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels film festival will run from Apr 16-23, opening with the Claude Francois biopic My Way and closing with another French hit, comedy-drama The Intouchables (pictured).
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NewsJosh Hutcherson to receive CinemaCon breakthrough award
The star of global hit The Hunger Games (pictured, far right) will collect the honour at the annual Las Vegas convention’s awards ceremony on Apr 26.
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Paramount launches film channel in Spain
Available on free to air TV, the new channel will feature more than 600 films.
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NewsFestival Scope adds partnership with HAF
Festival Scope adds HAF pact in addition to Hong Kong International Film Festival.
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NewsViasat appoints Jakob Mejlhede svp acquisitions and programming
Mejlhede responsible for all of Viasat’s centralised programming acquisition and content development for its free-TV and pay-TV channels.
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NewsAndreas Rothbauer leaving Beta Cinema
Andreas Rothbauer, Head of Theatrical Sales & International Acquisitions at Beta Cinema, is to leave after 12 years in the post.
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NewsWerner Herzog eyes volcano, Helmut Newton docs
EXCLUSIVE: Werner Herzog developing “stylised documentary” about volcanoes, Helmut Newton portrait and Gertrude Bell feature, all with regular producing partner Andre Singer.
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NewseOne takes UK rights to The 4th Reich from Mann Made and AV Pictures
Shaun Robert Smith to direct the WW2 action horror; producers include Scott Mann [pictured].
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NewsUniversal, Focus win bidding war for Fifty Shades trilogy
Ending the most frenzied studio auction in years, the studio partners have snapped up rights to the S&M thriller Fifty Shades Of Grey and its two sequels by West London housewife and former TV executive E L James.
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NewsUnderworld duo Marlind and Stein return to Sweden for Collected Swedish Cults
Svensk adapting Anders Fager’s book.
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NewsBBC Films joins RPC for Julien Temple's Kinks feature
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Films is partnering with Jeremy Thomas’s Recorded Picture Company on You Really Got Me, Julien Temple’s feature film about British band The Kinks.
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Freestyle Digital Media takes North American rights to A Bird Of The Air
The deal with Tashtego Films excludes US theatrical after Paladin released the rom-com in autumn 2011.
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Mayor Bloomberg unveils five soundstages at Steiner Studios
The New York City Mayor was at Brooklyn Navy Yard with the city’s media and entertainment commissioner Katherine Oliver today for the ceremony, which brings an extra 45,000 sq ft of film set in addition to the venue’s existing facilities.