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NewsRegional German funds support Alex Winter's horror remake
Frankfurt’s HessenInvestFilm and Stuttgart-based MFG Baden-Württemberg have allocated $1.9m (€1.35m) to Germany’s first 3D live action film, Alex Winter’s The Gate.
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NewsWeinstein and Kavanaugh to attend Ischia production summit
Harvey Weinstein and Relativity Media’s Ryan Kavanaugh are among the heavy hitters attending the Global Production Summit at this year’s Ischia Global Film & Music Festival.
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NewsPaul Andrew Williams gears up for summer shoot on third feature
London To Brighton director Paul Andrew Williams will begin principal photography on his third feature, Cherry Tree Lane, on July 16 in North London.
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Film Movement takes US rights to Israeli thriller For My Father
Film Movement will release Dror Zahavi’s For My Father this winter after acquiring US rights to the Israeli Academy Awards nominee.
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NewsEurope gives green light to French tax break
The European Commission has given the go-ahead to a French tax break that aims to encourage big-budget foreign films to shoot in the country.
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NewsPasolini’s Machan wins Golden Iris in Brussels
Uberto Pasolini’s directorial debut Machan won the Golden Iris Award at the 7th Brussels Film Festival, which closed on Sunday (July 5).
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NewsKorean box office surges in first half of 2009
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced that South Korean box office receipts reached a record $375.68m (KW476.8bn) in the first half of 2009.
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NewsDance and Chandler appointed as new Screen South Interim CEOs
Screen South, a Regional Screen Agency for the South East, announced the appointment of joint new interim CEOs on Thursday, leading Arts consultant Sarah Dance and film cultural advisor Chris Chandler.
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NewsQadhafi, Beckerman start $100m production fund Natural Selection
Libya’s Major General Engineer Al-Saadi Qadhafi has come on board as the major financier behind Natural Selection LLC, a new $100m+ private equity funded production company. Matty Beckerman formed Natural Selection, and will serve as CEO, based in Los Angeles.
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Hong Kong’s TVB set to take control of pay-TV unit
Hong Kong’s leading broadcaster, Television Broadcasts (TVB), is set to regain control of its pay-TV unit, TVB Pay Vision, after agreeing to buy a 31% stake from local content producer See Corp.
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NewsTransformers noses past Ice Age in box office photo finish
Paramount/DreamWorks’ Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen narrowly held on to the number one spot over the Independence Day holiday period as roughly $42.4m beat Fox’s Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaur’s $41.6m debut.
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NewsFox's Ice Age 3 sets opening record for animated film
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs crushed all before it as an estimated $148m haul from 101 markets through Fox delivered the sixth biggest international launch ever and the biggest animated debut in history.
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NewsTribeca Film Institute CEO Brian Newman steps down
Tribeca Film Institute, the non-profit branch of Tribeca Enterprises, has lost its popular CEO Brian Newman.
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NewsAlec Baldwin, Jon Robin Baitz to wrap Stonybrook Southampton conference
Stonybrook Southampton, in New York, will host its second screenwriting conference from July 29-August 2.
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NewsWim Wenders halts production of 3D dance feature Pina
German director Wim Wenders has halted production of his planned 3D dance film with legendary choreographer Pina Bausch following her unexpected death earlier week.
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NewsDepartures lands in Spain, Germany dabbles in Small Crimes
ScreenDaily’s weekly round-up of the local and independent releases this week.
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NewsDe Menezes film sees strong opening in Brazil
Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles has taken $416,121 in its opening weekend in Brazil, catapulting it into Screen’s International top 40 chart, despite only opening in the one territory.
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NewsNational Theatre Live attracts 14,000 for first cinema screening
The London National Theatre’s live cinema broadcast of Phedre, starring Helen Mirren and Dominic Cooper, pulled in an audience of 14,000 from 73 screens across the UK. It was the first performance in the National Theatre Live season.
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NewsFox's Ice Age 3 dawns in 68 territories day-and-date
20th Century Fox International launches its animated blockbuster-in-waiting Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosuars this weekend on 11,370 prints in 68 territories day-and-date with North America in a bid to knock megahit Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen off the top spot.
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