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NewsBritish comedy first feature to premiere on Xbox 360
Pulp, a British comedy that combines comic book publishing with international crime, is to become the first film to premiere through Microsoft’s Xbox 360 online service - skipping a theatrical or DVD release.
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NewsMystery, Gangster head Asian Film Awards nominations
South Korea’s Nameless Gangster: Rules Of The Time and Chinese director Lou Ye’s Mystery top the list of nominees for this year’s Asian Film Awards, with six nods apiece.
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NewsBlockbuster calls in administrators
The UK DVD rental store has gone into administration putting 4,190 jobs at risk, just a day after high street DVD and music store HMV suffered a similar fate.
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CommentSundance 2013, Oscars 2014?
As the 2013 festival circuit kicks off, the Oscar nominees are a strong reminder of the role festivals play in launching prize-winning films.
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NewsJohn Hegeman takes top QED marketing, acquisitions job
CEO Bill Block [pictured] announced on Wednesday [16] that the executive had joined QED International in the newly created role of president of worldwide marketing and acquisitions.
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FeaturesHugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman threw himself into playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, and talks to Screen about the ‘role of a lifetime.’
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NewsHanWay to handle world sales on Sundance entry Houston
Bastian Günther’s World Dramatic Competition film charts the meltdown of a German headhunter in pursuit of a Texan oil executive.
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NewsPeter Kujawski expands role at NBC Universal
The evp of worldwide acquisitions will now oversee acquisitions for Focus Features in addition to his role as top buyer at Universal, where he has overseen the recent acquisition of territories for Zero Dark Thirty and The Wolf Of Wall Street.
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NewsBrazilian box office surges 16% in 2012; local titles down
Last year marked the seventh consecutive year that box office increased in the market. After crossing R$1bn ($489m) for the first time in 2011, the market closed 2012 on R$1.6bn ($783m), for a 15.6% year-on-year gain.
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Industry moves: SPWA hires Chan Phung
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) made the announcement about the new vp of acquisitions on Wednesday [16].
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Dylan McDermott joins Envision Media Arts’ Freezer
The action-thriller shoots this month in Canada. Mikael Salomon will direct from a script by Tom Doganoglu and Shane Weisfeld.
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Distribution: Inception Media Group, Factory 25 in action
IMG has acquired the Luke Goss thriller Pressed from Double Dutch International and A Haunting At Silver Falls from Outsider Pictures.
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NewsA24 acquires US rights to Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
The ambitious New York distributor made the announcement on the eve of Sundance [16]. FilmNation handles international sales on the story of real-life affluent friends who robbed the homes of the Hollywood wealthy.
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Busan West expands programme, launches competition
The annual pan-Asian film festival staged by Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film And Media Arts in partnership with South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival takes place from Mar 8-10 in California.
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NewsNew Directors/New Films unveils first seven films
Shane Carruth’s Sundance entry Upstream Color is among the line-up for the 42nd edition, set to run under the auspices of MoMA and Lincoln Center from Mar 20-31 in New York.
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NewsCinereach announces 22 grant recpiients
The organisation announced on Wednesday [16] it will award grants totalling more than $500,000 to 22 feature-length film projects that applied for support in 2012.
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Alejandro Ramirez Magaña to receive CInemaCon award
The Cinépolis CEO will collect the Global Achievement In Exhibition Award on International Day on Apr 15.
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