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NewsCaptain America opens big in China
Disney and Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier topped the China box office during the week March 31-April 6, grossing $36.23m after just three days.
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NewsTimothy Spall joins Sucker
LevelK to handle international distribution on feature adapted from con artist stage show.
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CommentElstree unearths snow from The Shining
Clearance work at Elstree Studios finds fake snow from the horror classic.
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NewsStars of Tomorrow launch during Creative Week
Screen International’s UK Stars of Tomorrow 2014 will be launched as part of parent company MBI’s new Creative Week.
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NewsBaltasar Kormakur to direct Trapped
LA and Paris-based Dynamic Television heads to MIPTV with a 10-part crime series to be directed by the Icelandic filmmaker.
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NewsProduction begins on Marco Polo
The Weinstein Company hierarchy announced (8) that production is underway on the Netflix original series based on the epic adventures of the legendary explorer.
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NewsImax to sell 20% China stake
The $80m sale of the stake in Imax Corporation’s Greater China business to investment fund CMC Capital Partners (CMC) and private equity firm FountainVest Partners (FountainVest) values the company at $400m in the eyes of the investors.
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NewseOne US takes You’re Not You
The distributor has acquired North American rights to George C Wolfe’s drama starring Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum and Josh Duhamel. Myriad Pictures handles international sales. Separately, ARC has picked up Louder Than Words.
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NewsMIPTV round-up: Day 2
US producer and writer Frank Spotnitz hits Croisette with multiple announcements. YouTube head of Entertainment Alex Carloss examines platform’s pulling power.
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NewsElectric sells Boys to UK
EXCLUSIVE: Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has closed multiple territories including a UK deal for the military thriller Boys Of Abu Ghraib.
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NewsX-Files' Spotnitz signs with Tandem
MIPTV: The X-Files and Hunted writer and producer is developing a slate of high-end television shows through his London-based Big Light Productions.
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NewsRai restructures sales force
MIPTV: New structure will be more active in co-productions. Current Rai Trade director Luigi De Siervo [pictured] to serve as CEO of new division.
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NewsSorrentino to direct first TV series
The Oscar-winning director of The Great Beauty signs deal with Sky Italia and Wildside.
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NewsGerman fund budget cut by $14m
Plans by the German government to slash the budget for incentive programme DFFF by €10m ($13.8m) has surprised the film community.
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NewsFilm production levels on the rise
Update on the global movie market at the British Screen Advisory Council’s annual conference also claimed that box office remains the major driver of revenues for US studios; older audiences are increasingly important; and physical media remains ahead of digital - for now.
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NewsTranter talks BBCWW US strategy
The head of BBC Worldwide Productions also discussed the creation of sister company Adjacent Productions.