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NewsV/H/S Viral attracts Magnet
Magnet Releasing has acquired US rights to V/H/S: Viral and has earmarked an autumn release. Epic Pictures represents international rights and commences talks with buyers on the Croisette this week.
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NewsLast Weekend, Master Builder bookend PIFF
The 16th Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) will open with the East Coast premiere of Tom Dolby and Tom Williams’ Last Weekend starring Patricia Clarkson on June 18.
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NewsDon Haber to retire from BAFTA LA
BAFTA LA executive director and COO Donald Haber will step down from the organisation on May 31 after 20 years of service.
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NewsGlenn Close in Sundance Vanguard honour
Glenn Close will be honoured at the Sundance Institute Celebration benefit on June 4 in New York for her career and advocacy of independent cinema.
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NewsCannes sets Prophet screening
Cannes organisers have scheduled a screening of official selection work-in-progress animation Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet on May 17.
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NewsScouts Vs Zombies shoot underway
Paramount Pictures has commenced principal photography in Los Angeles on the action film with Mud star Tye Sheridan (pictured), Logan Miller and newcomer Joey Morgan.
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NewsSugar Man producers pay tribute to director Malik Bendjelloul
The producers of Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man have paid tribute to director Malik Bendjelloul who died this week aged 36.
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NewsTWC in new Grace deal
The Weinstein Company is understood to be close to signing a new deal that will see it hold on to US rights to Cannes opener Grace Of Monaco.
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NewsStudioCanal pacts with Danish dynamos
StudioCanal and Canal+ Group have joined forces with The Killing creator/writer Soren Sveistrup, Borgen writer Adam Price and veteran Danish producer Meta Louise Foldager [pictured] to launch production company SAM Productions ApS.
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NewsParamount swoops on Story
Paramount Pictures has fired a rocket into the Cannes market, paying what is understood to be $20m for North American and Chinese rights to the Amy Adams sci-fi Story Of Your Life.
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FeaturesBennett Miller, Foxcatcher
“It’s the kind of film that’s very funny until it’s not funny,” says Bennett Miller of his US competition entry Foxcatcher, backed by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures and Columbia Pictures.
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NewsDavid Bailie joins Artificio Conceal
EXCLUSIVE: Pirates of the Caribbean star boards sci-fi short, directed by Ayoub Qanir [pictured].
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NewsHomeland star joins Baba Joon
Navid Negahban [pictured] to star in first Persian-language film shot in Israel.
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NewsHBF Plus supports three co-pros
Film projects from Topkapi Films, Lemming Film and Revolver selected in first round.
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NewsMillennium pics up Elsa & Fred
Millennium Entertainment has taken US rights to Michael Radford’s romantic Elsa & Fred starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer.
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NewsHFG boards The Trust for Cannes
Ambitious Highland Film Group (HFG) has come on to handle world sales on crime thriller The Trust starring Nicolas Cage and Jack Huston.
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NewsThompson, Bruhl, Rylance join Berlin
Cast rounds on Vincent Perez’s Alone in Berlin, shopped by Sunray Films.
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NewsMoviehouse go on Giant Adventure
EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit boards animation, readies production slate.
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NewsManifest boards doc America
EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit boards doc which imagines that the US never existed.