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NewsScreen January 19 2015
Browse the digital version of Screen International here including a focus on cinema bookers, Rotterdam and Sundance Film Festivals, and interviews with Birdman director Alejandro G Inarritu, Nightcrawler cinematographer Robert Elswit, The Grand Budapest Hotel production designer Adam Stockhausen and The Imitation Game composer Alexandre Desplat.
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NewsRoland Emmerich gay rights drama gets int’l deal
EXCLUSIVE: Goldcrest nabs rights to Stonewall starring Jeremy Irvine ahead of EFM.
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NewsNew EFM market director talks future plans; debutants revealed
EXCLUSIVE: Companies from Panama, US, Middle East to debut at Berlin’s EFM; Matthijs Wouter Knol discusses his first six months as market director.
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NewsTaken 3 retains UK box office lead
Fox’s threequel adds $5m (£3.3m) for $18.5m (£12.2m) after 11 days in play; Warner Bros’ American Sniper records Clint Eastwood’s best-ever opening with $3.8m (£2.5m).
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NewsAmazon Studios confirms film push
Ted Hope has been named head of production at Amazon Original Movies as the company behind Golden Globe winner Transparent plans to produce and acquire 12 original features a year.
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NewsCMG to sell The Games Maker
Edward Noeltner has come on board to handle international sales excluding Latin America to the children’s fantasy, set to receive its US premiere in Sundance next week.
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NewsWTFilms boards Patricio Valladares’ Downhill
EXCLUSIVE: The Paris-based company has come on as co-producer and international sales agent on the Chilean director’s low-budget survival thriller.
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NewsCoen brothers to head Cannes jury
Palme d’Or winners Joel and Ethan Coen will serve as presidents of the jury for the 68th Festival de Cannes.
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NewsLatin Everywhere launches Pongalo
The Spanish-language digital rights holders of television and feature film content has launched the beta version of streaming portal and mobile app Pongalo.
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NewsPure Flix sets Do You Believe? for US release
The company behind 2014’s top independent faith-based film God’s Not Dead has announced the release for its follow-up.
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NewsAscot Elite sets seven for German-speaking Europe
EXCLUSIVE: Titles from Voltage, Hannibal, Highland Film Group among haul.
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NewsEFM: Mongrel International to sell Prince
EXCLUSIVE: Mongrel International will handle international sales in Berlin on 100% Halal and VICE Media Benelux’s Dutch Generation 14+ opening night selection.
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NewsElevation, Bleecker Street in distribution pact
Elevation Pictures will distribute the Bleecker Street slate in Canada, the company heads announced on Tuesday (January 20).
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NewsBAFTA New York chief executive to step down
Christina Thomas will step down as chief executive of BAFTA New York on July 1 and the search for her replacement will begin in February.
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NewsSTX secures Showtime window
Robert Simonds’ nascent studio has closed an exclusive, four-year premium television deal with Showtime starting this year as it moves ahead with its first four features.
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NewsSony: The Interview at $40m digital
The studio issued an unverifiable update on Tuesday (January 20) to say its controversial comedy had reached $40m via digital platforms and been viewed more than 5.8million times.
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NewsO-Scope to release Mad As Hell
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired rights to the Hot Docs Film Festival world premiere and upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival selection.
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NewsCinedigm to release AIP remake package
Cinedigm has signed a 10-film deal with Lou Arkoff, Jeff Katz and Hal Sadoff to reinvent a series of American International Pictures (AIP) classics from the 1950s including The Brain Eaters and Girls In Prison.
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NewsACE to honour Frank Marshall
Frank Marshall will receive the American Cinema Editors’ ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker Of The Year Award in Los Angeles on January 30.