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NewsFilm 4.0 to discuss Dreams Of A Life cross-platform success during SXSW panel
Film4.0 head Anna Higgs will moderate the Monday panel; street-based game to launch during SXSW.
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NewsWes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom to open Cannes
The American indie darling’s ensemble piece will kick off proceedings on the Croisette on May 16, the same day as the film’s release in France through StudioCanal.
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NewsMGM cements int’l network with Lusomundo, Selim Ramia deals
Hot on the heels of clearing debt and securing a $500m revolving credit facility, the revitalised studio’s co-chairmen and CEOs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum say they have effectively sealed their global distribution network with two fresh multi-year agreements.
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NewsThe Blind Side producer Molly Smith launches Belle Pictures
Smith, who will remain Hilary Swank’s partner at 2S Films, will make features and TV in association with Alcon Entertainment in a four-year discretionary first-look deal.
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NewsInt'l preview: Disney plots global domination for John Carter
The fantasy adventure opens day-and-date around the world this weekend in virtually every major market through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International except China and Japan.
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MarVista Entertainment expands management team
Following new investment in August, the film and television company has brought in finance expert Susan Young as CFO and promoted Vanessa Goglio Shapiro from svp of worldwide sales to evp of sales.
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San Francisco Film Society announces SFFS/KRF grants
The Society in association with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have selected 11 narrative feature projects for the seventh round of grants up to $300,000.
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Autonomy Pictures kicks off with US rights deal on The Bunny Game
Distribution veterans Derek Curl, David Gregory and Lewis Tice’s new distributor aims to release “uncompromising cinema on a worldwide scale” and will handle four films this year, starting with Adam Rehmeier’s torture porn.
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Searchlight, Red Flag buy SXSW comedy Do-Deca-Pentathlon
Jay and Mark Duplass wrote and directed the film, set to receive its world premiere in Austin on Mar 11.
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Gravitas, Variance Films launch distribution alliance at SXSW
The partners aim to acquire and jointly release seven or eight films a year simultaneously in theatres and on VoD.
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Riviera Maya festival and Rivieralab market launch in March
Seventy films will screen during the Riviera Maya Film Festival, set to run in Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Cozumel and Holbox from Mar 20-25.
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NewsTribeca unveils Spotlight and Cinemania selections
Among the narrative Spotlight entries are Stefan Ruzowitzky’s thriller Deadfall starring Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde and Fox Searchlight’s Lola Versus with Greta Gerwig, Bill Pullman and Debra Winger, while documentaries include male grooming in Morgan Spurlock’s Mansome and sports in Knuckleball! from Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg.
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NewsMPI Media Group snatches North American rights to Heineken Kidnapping
The Dutch thriller is based on the actual 1983 abduction of the brewery magnate Alfred Heineken who was eventually released for a €16m ransom.
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NewsBarbican's 30th anniversary plans include opening new cinemas with dystopian film programmes
As the London-based arts centre The Barbican marks its 30th anniversary (the celebrations start tonight), the organisation has announced some highlights planned for the coming year.
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Horrible Bosses writer to script Tradition Studios feature
Mike Markowitz will get to work on the untitled project from Digital Domain Media Group’s new animated division.
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NewsJihlava launches new platform for documentary producers, East Doc Platform launched in Prague
A new networking and training platform for European documentary producers is to be launched by the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival during its 16th edition between October 25-28, 2012.
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NewsCOLCOA to show 1938 classic Hotel du Nord
Alexander Payne selected Marcel Carne’s film as one of his influences.
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NewsLondon Asian Film Festival to be open with Ribhu Dasgupta’s Michael
Trishna, Lucky and Bol among screenings at the festival’s 14th edition, which runs March 16-24.
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NewsNational Youth Film Academy launches apprenticeship scheme
20 budding young film-makers from the UK will take part in the scheme which runs for 9 months.
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NewsNew Zealand film-makers Albiston, Sutherland go Shopping
Their feature deubt is being produced by Warp Films Australia.