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NewsGlobes joy for Boyhood, Budapest
Boyhood flew the flag on a strong night for independent cinema as IFC Films’ coming-of-age tale prevailed in the motion picture drama, director and supporting actress categories at the 72nd Golden Globes awards in Beverly Hills on Sunday night (January 11).
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CommentGolden Globes winners: analysis
We learned very little from the 72nd annual Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday night, which is to take nothing away from the joy of the occasion and its proud championing of independent cinema.
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NewsAlibaba Pictures unveils Wong Kar Wai project
Leading Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai will produce the first project to be greenlit by China’s Alibaba Pictures, a drama entitled Bai Du Ren (Ferryman).
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NewsTaken 3 tops UK chart
Fox’s threequel opens to excellent $10.2m (£6.7m), including previews, to dethrone The Theory of Everything; Disney’s Into the Woods hits $3.75m (£2.48m) note on UK bow.
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NewsLumière Awards nominations unveiled
Two Days, One Night, Mommy and Fevers nominated in French-language foreign film category.
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NewsBeta to sell Sundance title Umrika
EXCLUSIVE: Indian drama stars Life of Pi’s Suraj Sharma and The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Tony Revolori.
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NewsEFA elects six to board
Six women have been elected onto the board of the European Film Academy (EFA).
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NewsS Korea's NEW launches int'l sales arm
Major South Korean investor/distributor Next Entertainment World (NEW) has launched its own international sales division through subsidiary Contents Panda.
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NewsHarold van Lier to leave eOne
Entertainment One Films International president Harold van Lier is to leave the company as it looks to focus sales attention on in-house productions.
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NewsGlobal's Ooops! Noah Is Gone... sells worldwide
eOne among those to acquire rights to 3D animated family feature.
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NewsVisit Films brings quartet to Sundance
EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has filled out its Sundance sales slate, adding international rights to People, Places, Things and The Strongest Man as well as world rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Sam Klemke’s Time Machine.
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NewsEpic Pictures readies Tales Of Halloween
Epic Pictures Group has rounded out the cast of directors and actors on its upcoming horror anthology.
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NewsStudioCanal hires LA-based Shana Eddy-Grouf
Shana Eddy-Grouf has been appointed svp of international production and development based in Los Angeles as the company deepens its commitment to global production and development.
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NewsCinema Audio Society unveils nominees
The group has announced nominees in six categories for the 51st Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2014 and the CAS Technical Achievement Award Nominations.
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NewsJamie Adams readies Black Mountain Poets
Benny & Jolene director completes Modern Romance Trilogy with Downton Abbey’s Tom Cullen, Alice Lowe and Dolly Wells.
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NewsScreen Best Pitch winners talk Impaled Rektum
The Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event last December went to Finnish producers Kaarle Aho and Kai Nordberg of Making Movies Oy who were pitching Impaled Rektum with the feature debutants Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio [pictured].
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NewsImaginarium to produce Fungus the Bogeyman
Andy Serkis’ performance capture studio to produce with Double Negative for Sky.Imaginarium Studios, in partnership with Double Negative, is to bring Fungus the Bogeyman to life for a new 4 x 60-minute series.UK broadcaster Sky 1 has commissioned the adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ classic family story ...
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NewsUnifrance Rendez-vous in Paris goes ahead as planned
Annual event set to showcase 90 French productions, 48 of them market premieres.