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NewsAlex Holdridge wraps shoot for Meet Me In Montenegro
EXCLUSIVE: In Search of A Midnight Kiss director’s new feature stars Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulrich.
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NewsHunger Games plunders $59.3m from 67 international markets
Lionsgate’s runaway train reached $214.3m worldwide after its opening weekend factoring in the $155m North American launch and opened top in virtually every market according to the distributor.
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NewsKatniss and co leap into record books with $152.5m US debut
UPDATE: Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games grossed a confirmed $152.5m down from the estimated $155m and beat the opening weekend of every Twilight film to date and secured the third biggest launch of all time, the biggest non-sequel debut and the biggest March debut to signal the arrival of the next ...
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NewsOkinawa fest opens, organiser Yoshimoto steps up international profile
The fourth edition of the Okinawa International Movie Festival (OIMF, Mar 24-31) launched this weekend with increased emphasis on the event’s organiser — comedy giant Yoshimoto Kogyo — working to establish itself internationally.
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NewsAs 3D novelty wears off, some experts call for more extreme uses
3D’s days as a novelty are up. That was the message at the second 3D Storytelling Conference at London’s Ravensbourne college.
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NewsHarry Potter named Best Film at Jameson Empire Awards
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy won three awards at the ceremony, which took place in London last night.
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NewsFilmDistrict hires Christine Birch as president of marketing
Peter Schlessel (pictured) has slotted an important piece of the jigsaw into place in the wake of the departure of former president of theatrical releasing Bob Berney and his wife, evp of marketing Jeanne Berney.
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NewsHunger Games hits target with $19.8m in midnight grosses
Lionsgate said on Friday morning (23) this was the highest non-sequel North American midnight performance in history and the seventh biggest of all time, beating among others The Dark Knight’s $18.5m score back in July 2008.
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NewsThe Associates PR company to close
Six months after the death of its founder Richard Larcombe last August, London-based film PR company The Associates is to close its doors.
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Universal, Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions sign first-look deal
The two-year agreement with Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg comes as the studio prepares to release American Reunion, the latest American Pie episode that was written and directed by the pair.
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NewsBarbara leads nominations for Germany's Lola Awards
Christian Petzold’s Berlinale competition film Barbara has received eight nominations for this year’s German Film Awards, known popularly as the Lolas, which will be presented in a gala ceremony at Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpalast on April 27.
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NewsLondon 2012 film plans include Ramsay's The Swimmer, Kapadia's The Odyssey
Olympics shorts — including one by Mike Leigh — to premiere in Edinburgh on June 24 before screening in London; Woolcock, Temple and Eyre projects also planned.
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NewsCinedigm/New Video take US rights to SXSW hit Citadel
Cinedigm and New Video have jointly taken US rights to Citadel, the winner of the audience award at SXSW’s Midnighter section.
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NewsEcotopia named best film at Ankara Film Festival
Yüksel Aksu also won the Best Director award at the festival for Ecotopia.
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NewsEuropean Commission's plans for Creative Europe under scrutiny
The European Commission’s (EC) proposal for a new Creative Europe programme to replace the current Culture, MEDIA and MEDIA Mundus programmes from 2014 has come under criticism from German politicians and representatives of the German arts and media world.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Gerard Depardieu will star in French thriller Miserere and the Film Agency For Wales will support Dominic Murphy’s Cassy and Jude.
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NewsEros acquires international rights to Tezz
India’s Eros International Media has acquired international distribution rights to upcoming action thriller Tezz, directed by Priyadarshan.
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NewsMacLennan Affair, Two Graves among winners at HAF
Derek Tsang and Jimmy Wan’s The MacLennan Affair took the HAF Award for a project originating in Hong Kong at the closing ceremony of this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).
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NewsLionsgate awaits destiny as The Hunger Games begin
International preview: The independent community will be willing the studio on as it launches the first of what it hopes will become a teen franchise across most of the world this weekend.
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NewsExclusive Media reports torrent of business on Undefeated
This year’s best documentary Oscar winner has sold to Dogwoof in the UK, Madman in Australia and CDC in Latin America, among others.