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Capri, Hollywood Festival honours Silver Linings Playbook
Festival top brass have anointed David O Russell’s rom-com and awards season contender its Best Film Of The Year.
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NewsTLA, Spain’s filmin form online partnership
TLA Releasing’s LGBT catalogue will be available to the Spanish market.
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Awards round-up: Judd Apatow; WGA
The comedy powerhouse will receive the Critics’ Choice Louis XIII Genius Award at the 18th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Jan 10.
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Breaking Glass acquires North America on From The Head; world on Stuck To Your Pillow
UPDATED: George Griffith’s From The Head stars Matthew Lillard as the charismatic bathroom attendant of a seedy New York strip joint and was shot entirely in a bathroom.
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Palm Springs International Film Festival unveils festival roster
Pablo Berger’s Spanish foreign language Oscar submission Blancanieves and Paul Andrew Williams’ Unfinished Song will bookend the festival as organisers announced the galas, premieres and New Visions / New Voices strands.
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Imogene gets release date, new name
The Toronto 2012 entry starring Kristen Wiig is now called Girl Most Likely and will go out theatrically through Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions on Jul 19.
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NewsHobbit to soar past $200m international box office
Warner Bros/New Line/MGM’s fantasy stands on the cusp of $189m through Warner Bros Pictures International after its first week in release and is expected to dominate the weekend session.
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NewsLost In Thailand finds success at Chinese box office
Local comedy Lost In Thailand has grossed a whopping $77.8m (RMB485m) after eight days on release in China, blowing away the peak box office season’s bigger budget films.
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NewsGormican starts New York shoot for Zac Efron, Imogen Poots comedy
London-based What If It Barks Films has started shooting its first US feature, Are We Officially Dating.
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NewsMetrodome takes on UK rights to Finnish hit Purge
Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to Finnish drama Purge from TrustNordisk.
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FeaturesNew world order
China’s continued growth, the Eurozone crisis and the ongoing debate about release windows made the past year a tumultuous one for the global film business. Screen revisits 10 game-changing stories of 2012.
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FeaturesWes Anderson
The director talks about Moonrise Kingdom, a film inspired by children’s literature and Americana
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NewsAcademy unveils foreign-language shortlist
Nine films will advance to the next round of voting from a pool of 71. Germany’s Barbara and Spain’s Blancanieves fail to make the cut.
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NewsDisney completes $4.1bn LucasFilm acquisition
At closing Disney issued 37.07m shares and made a cash payment of $2.2m. Based upon the closing price of Disney shares on Dec 21 at $50, the transaction had a total value of approximately $4.06bn.
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NewsHobbit stands tall on $96m international hold
UPDATE: Warner Bros Pictures International top brass confirmed on Monday (Dec 24) that New Line/MGM/Warner Bros’ Middle Earth saga added $96m over the weekend from 18,417 screens in 59 markets – $5m higher than Sunday estimates.
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NewsHobbit stays top in US; Zero Dark Thirty stuns in limited bow
The fantasy saga from New Line/MGM/Warner Bros stayed atop the box office despite a 57% slide and grossed an estimated $36.7m to climb to $149.9m heading into the holidays. Disney crossed the $1.5bn mark for the year-to-date.
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