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NewsFrench box office dipped 5.9% in 2012
French films accounted for 40.2% of market against 45.3% for US pictures.
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NewsHaut et Court boards Ellis’ Sundance-bound Metro Manila
EXCLUSIVE: Haut et Court has taken French rights from Independent ahead of the thriller’s Sundance premiere.
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NewsValiant Entertainment shuffles Shamdasani, Kothari
Co-founder and chief creative officer Dinesh Shamdasani is named chief executive while founding CEO Jason Kothari has been appointed vice-chairman of the board.
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NewsAcquisitions: Lorber tastes Honey, Freestyle sets inAPPropriate
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights to festival favourite More Than Honey ahead of the documentary’s US premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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NewsJoseph Gordon-Levitt bulks up 3D Sin City sequel
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For was one of the hot market titles in Cannes last summer, when Aldamisa International introduced sales. North American distributor Dimension Films made the casting announcement on Monday [7].
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NewsAmber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen join McG thriller
EuropaCorp and Relativity Media made the announcement on Monday [7]. The new cast join previously announced Kevin Costner on the untitled project.
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GE and Cinelan announce Focus Forward prize winners
Jurors included Sundance senior programmer Caroline Libresco, actress Daryl Hannah, Barbara Kopple, Jose Padilha and Joe Berlinger.
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NewsMetrodome nabs Baumbach’s Frances Ha
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor picks up rights to Telluride and Toronto comedy from Celluloid Dreams.
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NewsZero Dark Thirty sweeps EDA Awards
Zero Dark Thirty has scooped eight prizes at the EDA Awards, hosted by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ).
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NewsVisit Films heads to Park City with four new titles
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe’s New York-based sales agency has acquired rights to The Future, It Felt Like Love, Halley and A Teacher.
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NewsGerman box office set to hit €1bn
German cinemas are expected to have shattered the €1bn ($1.31bn) turnover barrier in 2012.
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NewsCineworld touts 2.4% annual revenue bump
UK exhibitor’s drop in admissions was offset by 5% higher ticket price.
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NewsRussian cinema reports tough 2012
Domestic films in Russia suffered a 2.1% dip at the box office in 2012.
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NewsBlancanieves leads Spanish Goya nominations
Re-telling of the Snow White story receives 18 nominations, with The Impossible, Unit 7, The Artist and the Model also up for multiple awards.
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NewsSPC takes North American rights to Blue Jasmine
The acquisition from Gravier Productions marks the distributor’s sixth collaboration with Woody Allen.
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NewsSolar Entertainment Group launches investment bank
SEG has partnered with Hoffman Lloyd to create the specialised media and entertainment entity Solar Entertainment HLB.
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NewsTeam launch new UK management and production company
Two of Independent Talent Group’s top agents have left the company to set up a new management and production company with the executives behind UK indie Between the Eyes.
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NewsKathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck among DGA nominees
The Directors Guild Of America unveiled on Tuesday [8] the five contenders for its 65th feature film award, but there will be no joy for absentees Paul Thomas Anderson, David O Russell, Quentin Tarantino or Robert Zemeckis.
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Annapurna Pictures, Color Force unite on Bernadette
The parties have acquired feature film rights to Maria Semple’s acclaimed bestseller Where’d You Go, Bernadette and have set Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber of (500) Days Of Summer fame to adapt the screenplay.
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Miramax promotes Joe Patrick, Beth Minehart
Patrick is named evp of worldwide television while Minehart becomes evp of global digital, reporting to Miramax interim CEO Steve Schoch. Separately, Robert Green has joined the ranks at Condé Nast Entertainment.