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NewsMarimbas From Hell, The Interrupters win in Miami
Marimbas From Hell, The Piano In A Factory and The Interrupters were among the big winners as the 28th Miami International Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.
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NewsThe King’s Speech crosses $200m overseas
The best picture Academy Award winner grossed $16m from 3,980 screens at the weekend to boost the international running total to $206.4m.
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NewsAliens storm US box office as Battle claims $36m
Sony’s alien invasion action film dominated the charts in its first weekend out thanks to an estimated $36m launch.
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NewsTribeca unveils Spotlight, Cinemania, special screenings
World premieres for A Good Old Fashioned Orgy and documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne are Tribeca-bound as festival organisers announced the Spotlight, Cinemania and special screenings roster.
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NewsCJ Systems gets leading stake in post house AZWorks
CJ Group subsidiary CJ Systems buys up majority share in AZWorks, other subsidiaries merge into CJ E&M
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NewsSwiss Oscar entry wins two awards at this year’s Swiss Film Prize
Switzerland’s 2011 Oscar entry La Petite Chambre by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond won the awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay at this year’s Swiss Film Prize Quartz 2011.
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NewsFrightFest moves into UK distribution and takes on Shadow
UK festivals organiser FrightFest is expanding into theatrical distribution, through a new venture formed with Wild Bunch.
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New website launches for film industry recruitment
My First Job In Film aims to standardise recruitment by presenting the industry a cost-free, turnkey offering for job vacancies.
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NewsShoot wraps for Solimeno's thriller The Glass Man
UK independent film The Glass Man starring Andy Nyman, Neve Campbell and James Cosmo has finsihed principal photography.
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NewsRed Riding writers hope 1977 will be made as stand-alone film
Novelist David Peace and screenwriter Tony Grisoni speak about the ‘1977’ script at Newcastle’s Story Engine conference.
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NewsHayley Atwell plays Charlotte Rampling's daughter in I, Anna
Barnaby Southcombe’s debut feature just wrapped shooting this weekend.
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NewsTroubled Magma looks set to appoint a liquidator
A creditors’ meeting will be held in Galway later this week for troubled Irish-based production outfit Magma European Scripting House (MESH), which now looks set to appoint a liquidator.
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FeaturesSofia International Film Festival
The 15th Sofia International Film Festival ran March 4-13 in Bulgaria.
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NewsLuke Evans to star in FilmNation's Amateur American
Rising star Luke Evans is to play the lead in action thriller The Amateur American, to be directed by Ross Katz, which is due to start shooting in Europe in September.
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NewsSkillset training academy launched in UK
It will focus on seven key areas where Skillset research has revealed a short fall of qualified talent.
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FeaturesBattle: Los Angeles conquers UK box office
Sony’s action-sci-fi records a week-high location average of $6,872 (£4,269) to topple Rango from the number one slot.
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NewsIsrael, AJC call for New York premiere of Miral to be cancelled
The film’s director Julian Schnabel, producer Jon Kilik, screenwriter Rula Jebreal and distributor Harvey Weinstein have issued a response to claims that the film “portrays Israel in a highly negative light.”
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NewsSony launches UK TV channel geared toward female audience
Sony Entertainment Television will launch on April 7 with the UK premiere of US medical drama Hawthorne, starring and executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith.