Small MPU – Page 2597
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NewsZero Motivation is Israeli box office hit
Talya Lavie debut marks best opening for an Israeli indie in three years.
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FeaturesFilms Without Borders at Windsor Castle
Charity Films Without Borders celebrated its fourth anniversary with an evening at Windsor Castle on July 8.
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NewsMiami Fest to host MIFFecito
Top brass at the Miami International Film Festival (MiamiFF) have organised a mid-season festival to celebrate the re-opening of the Tower Theater.
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NewsJim Belushi joins The Whole Truth
Jim Belushi will join Keanu Reeves and Renée Zellweger on the cast of Courtney Hunt’s The Whole Truth, which has begun production this week in New Orleans. FilmNation handles international sales.
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NewsCBS Films takes Pride in US
The distributor has pounced on US rights to Pathe International’s comedy drama set during the Margaret Thatcher regime that closed the recent Directors’ Fortnight section in Cannes.
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NewsDakota Johnson to star in Forever, Interrupted
The Fifty Shades Of Grey star has come on board Gidden Media and Good Universe’s adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book Forever, Interrupted: A Novel.
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NewsRadcliffe, Cumberbatch set for Comic-Con
A UK double whammy is heading for Comic-Con with scheduled appearances by Daniel Radcliffe and Benedict Cumberbatch in his Con debut.
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NewsDavid Ansen to depart LAFF
Film Independent top brass announced on Thursday (10) a restructuring of the programming team as Los Angeles Film Festival artistic director David Ansen steps down by mutual agreement and the role of Elvis Mitchell is expanded.
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NewsLionsgate takes God’s Not Dead
The studio has entered into an agreement with Pure Flix Entertainment for the US home entertainment rights to the faith-based spring hit.
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NewsScott Roth extends ADG tenure
The executive director of the Art Directors Guild has been granted a three-year extension to his contract, effective January 1, 2015.
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NewsTransformers 4 passes $435m
Paramount’s Transformers: Age Of Extinction will cross the half-billion threshold despite what is expected to be a strong challenge from Fox’s Apes.
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FeaturesRichie Mehta, Siddharth
In Richie Mehta’s profoundly engrossing drama Siddharth, a chain-wallah in India sends his young son to work far away on the sub-continent. When the child does not return home, the father sets off on a quest.
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NewsWildcard plays strong hand
EXCLUSIVE: Distributor picks up films with Maisie Williams, Jessica Paré and Killian Scott.
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NewsBritish delegation set for Colombia
The British film industry is to send its biggest ever delegation to the Bogota Audiovisual Market (BAM).
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NewsPuskepalis in Clinch with Leviathan star
Russian actor Sergey Puskepalis is to make his directorial debut and has cast Alexey Serebryakov, star of Cannes winner Leviathan.
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Transformers retains UK buzz lead
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes also proves popular in the UK.
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NewsJerusalem shorts directors eye features
Directors with shorts at the Jerusalem Film Festival are readying an intriguing slate of features, including an ambitious period drama about Judas Iscariot, a documentary omnibus about life in the West Bank and a drama about gay life in Israel.
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NewsProduction begins on Natasha
Principal photography got underway this week in Toronto on David Bezmozgis’ drama. Mongrel Media holds Canadian rights.