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Incognito Pictures launches, signs output deal with TWC
The production entity headed by ex-PayPal executive and financier Jack Selby is backed by $50m in financing and initial plans are to produce five or six films a year budgeted at $10m and below.
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NewsIndustry pays tribute to Bingham Ray
The highly regarded and beloved independent pioneer died on Monday (23) after suffering a series of strokes while attending Sundance. He was 57.
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NewsWar Horse leads the field for second consecutive week at UK box office
Disney’s adaptation showcases decent stamina, while Haywire KO’s the rest of the new releases.
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AFI, Levi's launch Show Us The Way shorts contest
The competition calls filmmakers to submit treatments that are five minutes long on the subject of a better tomorrow.
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NewsNorthern Film & Media launches pilot jobs fund
The £75K fund is aimed at creating more jobs within the creative industries in the North East of the UK.
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NewsGranier-Deferre makes directorial debut with Le Weekend
The British producer is directing from a script by Geoffrey Gunn.
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NewsTrustNordisk takes Escape to EFM for pre-sales
Koch already strikes deal for German theatrical rights.
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NewsPark Circus expands with US sister company
UK-based film sales and distribution company Park Circus has opened a sister company in the US, Park Circus LLC.
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NewsBerlin's Culinary Cinema section to open with The Chef; Forum Expanded lines up 10
Culinary programme includes 15 features and shorts; Forum Expanded section to feature ten experimental film programmes.
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GE, Cinelan announce Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge
The initiative was unveiled at Sundance on Monday morning (23) and will award $200,000 in cash to the top five entries with $100,000 reserved for the grand prize winner.
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NewsDon Boyd's HiBROW launches with 9 hours of arts content
Highlights include Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre performing David Eldridge’s All Is Vanity.
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NewsAntonia Campbell Hughes in talks to join Malone in Lonely Hunter
Antonia Campbell Hughes, a 2011 Screen Star of Tomorrow and an EFP Shooting Star at Berlin 2012, is in talks to join Deborah Kampmeier’s Lonely Hunter.
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NewsSundance: The Words speaks to CBS Films, LD finds Black Rock
After a frenzied 24 hours of negotiations with several heavyweight buyers, the Bradley Cooper drama closed on Sunday (22) in Sundance 2012’s biggest deal yet as US rights went for approximately $3.5m including a $1.5m p&a pledge.
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NewsSandberg, Ronning to follow Kon-tiki with Beatles
Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning, who recently made Norway’s most expensive feature film, Kon-Tiki, are now ready to rock’n’roll.
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NewsHolmes rules international for WBPI on $18m
Sherlock Holmes stayed top of the international charts for the third weekend in a row through Warner Bros Pictures International as it soared past $260m.
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NewsAustralia’s 2011 box office gross down 3% in 2011; Red Dog cracks top 10
Gross box office in Australia in 2011 was $1,147.5 million (A$1,093.7m), three per cent down on the previous year, while cinema admissions were down 7.7 per cent to 85 million.
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NewsPGA awards honour The Artist, Tintin
The Artist produced by Thomas Langmann won the 23rd annual Producers Guild Of America’s Darryl F Zanuck producer of the year award in theatrical motion pictures in Los Angeles on Saturday night (21).
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NewsProtagonist sells UK, Australia on Sundance doc Sugar Man
Ben Roberts has wasted little time capitalising on SPC’s deal for North American rights to Malik Bendjelloul’s opening night film.
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NewsVertigo plans August UK release of Top Cat: The Movie
Anima Studios project will be released in 2D and 3D.
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NewsGreek box office down 7% in 2011; distributors try new measures during financial crisis
Greek acquisitions at EFM could be impacted by financial woes in the country.