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NewsMann Made boosts UK operation
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Dockery hired as head of development; company launches writing programme.
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NewsFilm Agency Wales launches $450k fund
Ambition to boost Welsh film industry with new company support fund.
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CommentTarantino has a laugh in Morelia
The youthful Mexican festival also welcomes Alejandro Jodorowsky.
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Carol Morley’s Falling underway
Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake among cast of drama produced and sold by Independent.
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NewsAMC acquires Chellomedia for $1bn
US cable group AMC Networks has acquired Chellomedia, the European content arm of Liberty Global, for $1 billion.
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NewsCloudy 2 storms UK box office
Sony’s sequel records $5.9m (£3.66m) debut, including previews, to dethrone Fox’s Turbo; Captain Phillips tops Fri-Sun weekend for second consecutive week with $3m (£2.44m).
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NewsEnnio Morricone wins EFA award
Italian composer, famous for his Spaghetti Western scores, honoured for his work on The Best Offer.
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NewsCheadle to direct Trumpet Player
UPDATED EXCLUSIVE: IM Global will look to strike a chord at AFM with Don Cheadle’s feature directorial debut, the Miles Davis biopic Kill The Trumpet Player.
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NewsNoomi Rapace to star in Monday
Noomi Rapace will star in What Happened To Monday? for director Tommy Wirkola.
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NewsSleeping Room using equity crowdfunding
EXCLUSIVE: Movie Mogul’s supernatural thriller to become the first UK film to use fundraising method provides backers with an actual return on their investment.
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NewsPGA to honour Chris Meledandri
The Producers Guild Of America (PGA) will present the founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment with the 2014 Visionary Award.
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NewsGreat Beauty to open Cinema Italian Style
Cinema Italian Style 2013 will kick off on November 14 in Hollywood with the US premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian foreign-language Oscar submission The Great Beauty.
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NewsEmile Hirsch to play John Belushi
Emjag’s Alexandra Milchan, Bonnie Timmermann, Film 360’s Scott Lambert and Judy Belushi Pisano are serving as producers. Dan Aykroyd serves as executive producer.
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Brightest Star heads to Gravitas
Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to Maggie Kiley’s Brightest Star, previously known as Light Years.
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NewsIMAX signs home ent deal
IMAX Corporation has acquired a stake and a “significant option position” in PRIMA Cinema Inc, whose proprietary systems transmit theatrical releases for secure home viewing.
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NewsLightning to sell Place
EXCLUSIVE: Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for AFM to Zeke and Simon Hawkins’ Toronto and Fantastic Fest entry We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
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NewsIFC Midnight bites into Wolf
The distributor has picked up US rights to Jim Taihuttu’s Dutch crime thriller. XYZ Films will continue international sales at AFM.
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NewsIncarnate to start shooting this week
Production is scheduled to commence on October 30 on the Aaron Eckhart horror tale from producer Jason Blum that IM Global and Blumhouse International are co-financing.
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NewsThai roadshow heads to LA
Thailand’s deputy prime minister and minister of commerce will lead a delegation to Los Angeles this week for the Thai Film and Animation Business Alliance Roadshow.
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NewsPixar answers Ken Loach appeal
Animation studio behind Toy Story and Monsters University answers appeal from veteran director for editing supplies.