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NewsParticipant, Imagenation join Madden's Marigold
Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi have come aboard to co-finance Fox Searchlight’s comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which director John Madden (pictured) will start shooting this week in India with a cast led by Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Dev Patel.
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NewsAsian projects take the lead for Australia financing market
Two of the seven Australian projects chosen for the financing market held in mid-November during the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia are substantially or wholly set outside Australia.
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Montreal's Nouveau Cinema Fest going multi-platform
The 39th edition of Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinema (FNC), Canada’s oldest film festival, will launch the country’s first simultaneous VOD screenings as well as a co-production website for the industry.
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NewsGK takes Jersey Boys film rights
Graham King’s GK Films has acquired feature film rights to the hit musical stage play Jersey Boys: The Story ofFrankie Valli & The Four Seasons.
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Tekken goes to eOne for France, Scandinavia
Toronto-based Entertainment One has signed a distribution deal with Steven Paul’s Crystal Sky Pictures for all rights to Tekken in France, Scandinavia and South Africa.
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Wolfe among new Lippin recruits
Looking to expand in the film and digital content fields, PR agency the Lippin Group has recruited three new vice presidents, among them former Nu Image publicity head Elizabeth Wolfe.
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Paladin to launch Shadyac's I Am
I Am, director Tom Shadyac’s documentary about his post-accident journey of self-discovery, is to be released theatrically in the US by Paladin.
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NewsIndomina gets Wasted on the Young
Indomina Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Australian teen thriller Wasted on the Young (pictured), which had its international premiere in the Discovery section of last month’s Toronto festival.
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NewsLFF adds The Trip, LENNONYC, Attenberg
Ahead of next week’s launch the BFI London Film Festival has added three new titles to its lineup.
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NewsUK production company Ecosse opens Glasgow branch
London-based film and TV production outfit Ecosse Films has opened a Glasgow office with the aim of developing Scottish talent.
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Paramount’s German outpost picks up second German production
Shooting has begun today on Elmar Fischer’s sensitive comedy Offroad, which marks the second local pickup by the German outpost of Paramount Pictures.
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Facebook's Shields at MIPCOM: Social networking adds value to content
Declaring that, “the last decade of the Internet was all about information and the way in which it was organised,” Joanna Shields, VP EMA, Facebook, used Tuesday’s MIPCOM Keynote to look at what the next decade of content on the Net had in store, and, unsurprisingly, she believes, “it will ...
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Feltheimer at MIPCOM: Choose reliable partners
In his MIPCOM keynote Tuesday, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer addressed the issues raised by the dramatic changes currently shaking the world of content to it foundations.
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NewsSpain’s 6 Sales take international rights to Captain Thunder
Leading Spanish outfit 6 Sales has taken international sales rights to award-winning Spanish director Antonio Hernandez’s hotly anticipated $12m project Captain Thunder.
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NewsMelo's VIP's wins big in Rio
Toniko Melo’s VIP’s was the big winner at the 12th Festival do Rio, taking five of the main awards at the Brazilian event.
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Stone gets female lead in new Spider-Man
Emma Stone, star of current Screen Gems hit Easy A, has been cast as the female lead in Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man film.
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Arclight to offer Wolf Creek 2 at AFM
Arclight Films is to offer a sequel to successful 2005 Australian horror thriller Wolf Creek at next month’s American Film Market in Santa Monica.
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NewsStreetDance, Fox, Optimum among winners at first Screen Awards
Fox wins UK Distributor Of The Year; StreetDance 3D picks up British Independent Film Campaign and UK Theatrical Campaign.
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Moving Pictures adopts First Dog
Moving Pictures Film & TV (MPF&TV) has acquired all international rights to family film First Dog.
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Red Flag sets US launch for Meskada
Red Flag Releasing is to give independent crime thriller Meskada a simultaneous US theatrical/VOD/digital download release on December 3.