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Image Entertainment launches faith label Slingshot Pictures
Suzette Schafer has joined as Image’s svp of specialty product and will manage the line-up. Slingshot will premiere in November with the release of period romance Alleged.
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NewsMiramax signs Hulu deal for Japan, eyes Asian expansion
The studio has announced the latest move in its digital expansion strategy, closing a multi-year deal with the subscriber service that covers such library titles as Pulp Fiction, Chocolat and There Will Be Blood (pictured).
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CMG takes on int’l sales for doc Forks Over Knives
Ed Noeltner’s Beverly Hills-based sales company will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming AFM in November.
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Illumination brings in two new key executives
Chris Meledandri’s animation company has hired Brooke Breton as a senior production executive while Kit Giordano is named director of development.
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Lionsgate options Dead Island zombie feature
The studio has cut a deal with Deep Silver for feature rights to the “global brand” after a trailer for the Dead Island video game went viral in February.
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NewsDrive, Faust, George Harrison set to screen in Rio
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (pictured), Aleksander Sokurov’s Venice Golden Lion winner Faust and Asghar Farhadi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner A Separation are among the line-up in the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, set to run from Oct 6-18.
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NewsTwo years after arrest, Polanski collects Zurich honour
The filmmaker was in Switzerland to accept his lifetime achievement award, two years after he was first invited to collect the honour before being promptly arrested on a 30-year-old charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
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Record breaking opening weekend for Where Do We Go Now?
Toronto winner achieves biggest ever opening weekend for any Arabic-speaking film in Lebanon.
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NewsAlvernia Studios to partner with co-production market Gotham in Progress
The Krakow based production company is offering up one of the awards.
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NewsDirector Yann Samuell ahead in first week of the war of The War of the Buttons
Rival adaptations of French literary classic The War of the Buttons battle it out at the box office in France on more than 500 prints each. Version directed by Yann Samuell some 130,000 entries ahead in first week.
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NewsSimon Rumley to direct thriller chase movie Stranger
The Living And The Dead director Simon Rumley has also written the script for the China-set thriller, which is inspired by Steven Spielberg’s 1971 film Duel.
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NewsHuman Rights Festival joins forces with Dogwoof's Pop Up Cinema
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF) is teaming up with film distributor Dogwoof’s Pop Up Cinema to highlight social issue documentaries in non-traditional venues around the UK.
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NewsTerraferma chosen as Italy's foreign Oscar submission
Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma, the director’s third film about immigration which just scooped up the Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival, has been selected by the Oscar commission to represent Italy as a foreign Oscar hopeful.
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FeaturesScreen Awards 2011: Winners Slideshow
Winners photos from the Screen UK Marketing & Distribution Awards, at the Hilton Park Lane on Sept 27.
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FeaturesScreen Awards 2011: Photo Slideshow
More photos from the Screen UK Marketing & Distribution Awards.
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NewsStudioCanal and LoveFilm ink exclusive content deal for UK and Germany
All StudioCanal titles to be available to subscribers of LoveFilm’s streaming service at no extra cost
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NewsSpain chooses Black Bread over Almodovar for Oscar race
The Spanish Film Academy has made the surprising decision of putting forward Agusti Villaronga’s post Spanish Civil War drama Black Bread (Pa Negre) as Spain’s entrant for the foreign-language Oscar, snubbing Pedro Almodovar’s critically acclaimed film The Skin I Live In.
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