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NewsThe Artist named Regional Critics' Film of the Year
The award was voted for by critics and writers in all branches of the UK regional media.
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NewsUnderworld: Awakening rules US charts on $25m debut
Screen Gems’ latest foray Underworld delivered a respectable opening gross that returned the franchise to winning ways after the third episode opened in second place three years ago.
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Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds to star in Big Eyes
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will write and direct the biopic of Margaret and Walter Keane, whose ‘Big Eye’ paintings shot to fame in the 1960s.
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Cinedigm, New Video strike strategic partnership
Ambitious digital exhibition leader Cinedigm Entertainment Group and New Video have signed a deal to jointly acquire and distribute independent film.
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Ro*Co Productions, 1492 sign production deal
The production arm of ro*co films international is partnering with 1492 Pictures to adapt documentaries into narrative features.
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NewsBingham Ray taken to hospital after sudden illness
The independent film veteran is being cared for after falling sick at Sundance.
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NewsElle Driver bulks up slate, The Words sparks interest
The French sales agency has acquired international rights to Twenty-Eight Hotel Rooms which screens on Saturday (21), while Bradley Cooper drama The Words energised the domestic scene in the morning following a packed buyers screening.
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Sundance hosts unveiling of two online services
Slated is billed as an online financing forum and marketplace for filmmakers and investors while The Watchbox will allow content creators to set their own rental price point. Both launched in Park City on Saturday (21).
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Oak Street, Zero Gravity, Epic unite for The Outsider
Craig Fairbrass is set to star in the action film about a British military contractor who rescues his kidnapped daughter and goes after the internet fraudster who abducted her.
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NewsFIP Berlin slate includes Mortensen thriller Plan
Shebnem Askin-Schreger and her Fox International Productions sales team will be at the EFM with a slate led by the Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan.
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NewsSundance: SPC, Magnolia first out of the gate
Submarine has completed a rare two-for-two, selling its first pair of Sundance screenings as it emerged on Friday (20) that Magnolia had paid low-to-mid six figures for North American rights excluding TV to The Queen Of Versailles.
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NewsIsland President wins Hilton Worldwide LightStay Sustainability Award
The award was launched by Hilton Worldwide and Sundance Institute and includes $25,000 to the winner to be handed out at the Sundance awards ceremony.
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NewsCinedigm to release Slamdance entry No Room For Rockstars
The digital distributon specialist has set limited US engagements on Mar 1 for Parris Patton’s documentary about the Vans Warped Tour.
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NewsLionsgate, Wrekin Hill, Row 1 swim with Dark Tide
Lionsgate and Wrekin Hill in association with Row 1 Productions have acquired US rights to the Halle Berry shark thriller from IM Global.
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NewsFriedman, Wachsberger to lead Lionsgate motion picture group
The contracts have been signed and Summit chiefs Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger have been named co-chairs of Lionsgate Motion Pictures Group in the wake of last week’s merger.
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NewsContent Film, Preferred Content strike genre deal
The partners will produce a slate of six “elevated” genre, formalising an existing sales relationship on current Sundance entry The Pact and Content’s long-running collaboration with producer and Preferred Content partner Ross Dinerstein.
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NewsJan De Bont to remake crime drama Five Minutes To Live
The director has teamed up with Joseph and Jack Nasser, executive producers on the Sundance Premieres entry For A Good Time, Call…, to remake the 1961 Johnny Cash film Five Minutes To Live.
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Comedy Cool Water underway in Amman
Ali Samadi Ahadi directs the black-comedy set against the Mideast conflict.
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NewsFrancisco Barreiro to star in Here Comes The Devil
The rising Mexican star will play the lead in MPI Media Group and Mexico City-based Salto de Fe Films’ supernatural thriller to be directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano.
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NewsEnglish-language Frankenstein update readies in Greece
Costas Zapas directs, Minus Pictures produces Greek update of Mary Shelley classic.