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NewsLincoln, Les Miserables dominate Critics’ Choice nods
DreamWorks’ Abraham Lincoln saga earned a record 13 nominations on Tuesday [11] followed by Universal’s Les Miserables on 11 and The Weinstein Company’s Silver Linings Playbook on 10.
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NewsDavid Kornblum to receive CinemaCon Passepartout Award
The knowledgeable and popular Disney executive will collect the honour at CinemaCon’s International Day Luncheon on Apr 15 in Las Vegas.
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NewsDistribution round-up: Anchor Bay, RADiUS-TWC strike pact
Anchor Bay will distribute the RADiUS-TWC slate on DVD and Blu-ray. Also in action on Tuesday: BAM and Well Go USA; Zeitgeist; Kaleidescape and Warner Bros Digital Distribution; and BoPaul Media Worldwide.
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Production round-up: Brett Ratner, James Packer launch Ratpac
Australian casino entrepreneur James Packer has united with the Hollywood filmmaker and is personally bankrolling the film finance, development and production outfit. Separately, Los Angeles-based Esperanza Films and Thailand’s Angel Bear Productions have started a production parternship.
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Production update: La Ultima Pelicula lines up Dec 16 start
Principal photography is scheduled to begin in and around Yucatán, Mexico, on Raya Martin and Mark Peranson’s sub-$100,000 fiction-documentary hybrid.
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News75 original songs make it to Oscar longlist
Music branch members will receive a “reminder list” of the submissions and a DVD copy of song clips.
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SFFS, Kenneth Rainin award grants to six filmmakers
The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have announced the six recipients of grants totalling $300,000 to fund the next stage of their production.
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NewsTurkey’s Sinema TV strikes James Bond deal
The Medyavizyon affiliate announced the distribution agreement with MGM this week [11].
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NewsDCAA launches Emirati filmmaker project
The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (DCAA) has commissioned three Emirati filmmakers - Ali F. Mostafa, Nayla Al Khaja and Khalid Ali - to make short films for a new cultural initiative, Soul Of Dubai.
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NewsStarfield unites Under the Bombs team in London
Quartet behind 2007 road move shot against backdrop of 2006 Lebanese War reunites for comedy, provisionally entitled London Haram.
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NewsIraqi-Kuwaiti filmmakers join forces in Babylon
Iraqi-Italian Haider Rashid and Kuwaiti Abdullah Boushahri recently collaborated on It’s About To Rain (Sta Per Piovere).
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NewsShowbox takes on Jang Joon-hwan's Hwayi
Korea’s Showbox/Mediaplex has announced it is investing in, distributing and selling Save The Green Planet director Jang Joon-hwan’s highly-anticipated second film Hwayi, starring Kim Yun-seok (The Thieves).
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NewsAAM strikes deal with Spain's Cines ABC for digital conversion
Arts Alliance Media to convert 55 of Cines ABC screens to digital.
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NewsScreen Actors Guild unveils 19th Annual Awards nods
Denzel Washington and John Hawkes are among the male lead performers while Helen Mirren, Marion Cotillard and Naomi Watts feature in the female lead category.
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Samantha Morton, Michael Shannon join The Harvest
International sales agent Elephant Eye Films announced the development on Wednesday (12). John McNaughton will direct from a screenplay by Stephen Lancellotti.
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NewsDaniel Battsek named president of Cohen Media Group
The experienced British executive has resurfaced after most recently serving as president of National Geographic Films.
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Seven Stars forms joint venture with Arad Productions
Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment is forming a joint venture with US producer Avi Arad (The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man) and his company Arad Productions, to develop superhero franchise properties.
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NewsDanny Dyer has Vendetta for Chata Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: Danny Dyer, Kate Magowan and Josef Altin to star in UK vigilante drama Vendetta from Chata Pictures.