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NewsArtificial Eye snaps up Cannes prize winners
UK distributor Artificial Eye has taken UK rights to Mia Hansen-Love’s Father Of My Children (Le Pere De Mes Enfants).
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NewsIndia’s PVR Pictures stocks up on Cannes titles
PVR Pictures, the production and distribution arm of Indian exhibitor PVR, has announced a slew of acquisitions concluded at Cannes, including competition titles Broken Embraces and Taking Woodstock.
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NewsAngels & Demons fly away from Indian multiplexes
Sony Pictures Releasing India (SPRI) has gone ahead with the release of Angels & Demons only in single screen cinemas, after last-minute negotiations with the multiplexes on revenue-sharing terms collapsed.
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NewsParamount Vantage rounds up buyers for Eisner's Crazies
Paramount Vantage saw strong sales in Cannes for director Breck Eisner’s The Crazies, the reinvention of George A Romero’s 1973 horror thriller that has just wrapped production.
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NewsStar Trek ready to land in Japan as Angels fly to India
The international debut of Up in Russia and Star Trek’s landing in Japan are the highlights of a relatively quiet weekend at the international box office.
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NewsNew York City hopes to extend but trim film tax credit
Legislation is being introduced this week to seek $24m to extend New York City’s popular film and TV tax credit programme until 2011, but the move aims to trim the rebate from 5% to 4%.
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NewsLAFF to open with Paper Man starring Jeff Daniels
The Los Angeles Film Festival will open on June 18 with the world premiere of Paper Man.
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NewsCassian Elwes, Rena Ronson to leave William Morris Endeavor
William Morris Independent’s heads Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson will leave the merged William Morris Endeavor (WME) Entertainment superagency, a company spokesman has confirmed.
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NewsNorway's Norsk Filmstudio and Chimney Pot merge
Major Norwegian production and facility houses Norsk Filmstudio (NF) and The Chimney Pot (TCP) will join forces in what they call “North Europe’s most modern and innovative full-service studio”.
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NewsGoldwyn ties up US rights to Yellow Handkerchief
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Udayan Prasad’s The Yellow Handkerchief.
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NewsItaly’s Bim picks up six titles at Cannes
Italy’s Bim Distribuzione has added six titles to its slate during the Cannes market including the in-production romantic comedy Hysteria from Elle Driver.
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Aurum is won over by Pattinson
Aurum, the Madrid based distributor, has fallen for Twilight star Robert Pattinson again.
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NewsGerman distributors hit Marche with gusto
German distributors went on a spending spree at Cannes picking up news films by Michael Douglas, George Romero, Sophie Marceau and Cecile de France.
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NewsSaminathan steps down as chairman of Pyramid Saimira
P.S. Saminathan has stepped down as chairman of Indian exhibitor Pyramid Saimira following huge losses and a scandal over share price rigging at the company.
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NewsOther Angle makes strong Cannes Marche debut
French sales company Other Angle reported robust business at its first Cannes Marche.
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NewsAlex De La Iglesia set to become Spanish Film Academy president
Spanish film-maker Alex De La Iglesia is set to take over as president of the Spanish Film Academy after becoming the only candidate to put his name forward.
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NewsBAFTA/LA to honour Blunt with Britannia Award
BAFTA/LA will honour Emily Blunt with the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year.
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Macedonian Film Fund joins EFP
The Macedonian Film Fund has become the 30th member of European Film Promotion (EFP), the pan-European network of film promotion and export organisations.
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NewsGerman court lifts ban on Martin Weisz’s cannibal film
The German Federal Supreme Court has lifted the ban on Martin Weisz’s Butterfly – A Grimm Story (Rohtenburg), a horror film based on the true story of a cannibal.
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NewsWarner Bros to speed up VoD releases in Japan
Warner Bros has reached a deal with Japan’s largest cable channel operator, Jupiter Telecommunications, to offer films through its high-definition PPV VoD channel at around the same time as their DVD release.