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NewsBoyer responds to "French attack" on Directors Fortnight selection
Boyer says 2011 selection was attacked by French press before films were even screened.
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NewsStephen Moore to chair jury for Screen's UK Marketing & Distribution Awards
Other jurors include Jane Barclay, Sandra Hebron, Adrian Wootton, Nik Powell and Julia Short, among others.
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NewsUK High Court will hear landmark copyright case against Newzbin site
This week, a new case goes to trial in the UK High Court as a test case on copyright infringement.
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NewsDisney/Pixar's Cars 2 on top overseas on $43m launch
Cars 2 dominated the international arena as a $42.9m weekend haul based on estimates from the first wave of 18 markets set up the latest Pixar release for what looks to be another big run.
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Vibrant Palm Springs Int'l Shortfest unveils winners
Zaid Abu Hamdan’s Bahiya & Mahmoud (Jordan/USA) won the 2011 Palm Springs International ShortFest’s Best Of Festival Award last night [26] and becomes eligible for Oscar consideration.
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NewsCars 2 maintains Pixar's 100% record with $68m US debut
Cars 2 was the number one attraction in North America at the weekend, scoring Pixar’s 12th straight number one opening weekend..
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LAFF rounds out with awards, Dark screening
In the two top awards of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Stephane Lafleur’s Familiar Ground won the Narrative Award and Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi’s Wish Me Away took the Documentary Award last night [26].
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Our School, Family Instinct among Silverdocs winners
Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coco-Cozma’s Our School won the Sterling Award for best US feature at the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival in Maryland.
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NewsFilm Policy Review panel opens public survey for industry and audiences
The new Film Policy Review panel in the UK has launched a public survey to ask film industry experts and audiences how the UK government can best support the film sector.
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Academy invites four to join board
Cinematographer Richard P Crudo, producer Gale Anne Hurd, composer David Newman and film editor Michael Tronick have been voted on for the first time.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
French language animation Ernest & Celestine and Fernando Trueba’s new feature El Artista y la Modelo, as well as an adaptation of Danny Wallace [pictured]’s forthcoming debut novel Charlotte Street spark excitement on Screenbase this week.
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NewsBFI's first Lottery funded projects include projects by Glazer, Creevy, Marsh, Mackenzie, Branagh
Under the Skin, the long-gestating film from Jonathan Glazer (pictured) receives £1.8m in funding.
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NewsPirates 4 becomes third biggest international release
The latest entry in Disney’s Pirates canon reached the milestone on Wednesday [22] and is bearing down on $1bn worldwide. Disney stablemate Cars 2 from Pixar revs up for the first wave of international markets.
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NewsWarner Bros, Imagine team up on Blood Wars
The studio has came on board to handle film and television rights on the action property while Imagine’s Brian Grazer will serve as producer.
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NewsRiver Road's Bill Pohlad to move ahead on Brian Wilson biopic
The River Road founder first revealed the long-gestating project to Screendaily last summer and has hired Oscar nominee Oren Moverman to write the screenplay.
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NewsLionsgate confirms Alliance-Maple acquisition
Alliance’s successful $38.5m play for Lionsgate-owned Maple and its film library gives the ambitious Canadian operation distribution rights to the Lionsgate slate for the next five years.
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Maya to launch third Indie Film Series in July
Maya Entertainment’s third annual tour will bring acclaimed Latino-themed films to seven cities and kicks off in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago on Jul 29.
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NewsWorking Title options rom-com novel Charlotte Street
Danny Wallace’s upcoming debut novel follows a disillusioned teacher in London who tracks down an unknown woman in a series of photographs.
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NewsProcacci-produced Blood to start shooting next week
Italian producer Domenico Procacci on Thursday announced the long-gestating police brutality project, Diaz — Don’t Clean Up This Blood, will go into production next week for a 10-week shoot between Romania and the Italian city of Genoa.
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A Lonely Place For Dying set for VODO bow
Justin Eugene Evans’ award-winning spy thriller, executive produced by James Cromwell, will receive a serialised release on the free-to-share online distributor in July.