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NewsMIPTV Deals Day 3: BBCWorldwide, ITV Studios Global, ZDF, Revolver
BBCWorldwide announces major nature series fronted by Top Gear’s Richard Hammond, pacts with Arte; ITV sells Titanic, Endeavour; Beta announces big-budget dramas; ZDF secures raft of sales including Into the Abyss and The Killing.
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NewsExclusive Media to play The Odds with John Lesher
The company is reuniting with its End Of Watch collaborator and has optioned all rights to Stewart O’Nan’s novel The Odds: A Love Story.
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NewsStephanie Denton to head int’l at Indomina Releasing
The veteran of Lionsgate and Lakeshore among others joins in the run-up to Cannes and will take charge of a slate that includes Sundance titles Something From Nothing from Ice-T and Bart Layton’s acclaimed documentary-thriller The Imposter (pictured).
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Battleship charts global course on IMAX
Universal’s Hasbro adaptation will be digitally remastered and released on the large screen format in more than 100 international theatres including sites in China and Russia, starting Apr 12.
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NewsCMG to sell horror-thriller No Tell Motel in Cannes
Enderby Entertainment’s film follows five friends who get stranded at an abandoned roadside lodging where a terrible fate once befell a young girl and her parents.
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey among Tribeca Disruptive awards recipients
The Tribeca Film Festival in association with Harvard Business professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation team will host the Tribeca Distruptive Innovation Awards on Apr 27.
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Scott Steindorff, Andy Kleinman launch Stone Village Media
Kleinman, a former general manager at the social gaming company Zynga, has come on board the new media marketing and distribution venture and will lead it in his capacity as chief business officer.
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Song Of Silence, Jai Bhim Comrade take top prizes at HKIFF
Chen Zhuo’s Song Of Silence took the Firebird Award for best feature in the Young Cinema awards of this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), while Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade took the Firebird documentary prize.
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NewsLipSync promotes Lisa Jordan, James Clarke
LipSync Post has promoted Lisa Jordan to Facility Director and James Clarke to Head of DI.
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Newsblinkbox adds content deal with Disney
UK-based online movie service blinkbox has signed a deal with Disney UK & Ireland for selected content.
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NewsIron Sky co-producer turns to First World War for DH Lawrence adaptation
Oliver Damian’s Berlin-based 27 Films Productions, the German co-producer on Iron Sky, is turning to the First World War for an adaptation of DH Lawrence’s 1923 novella The Fox to be directed by Matthias Luthardt [pictured].
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NewsKaty Perry 3D documentary to be released in July
Part Of Me looks at the superstar’s life on- and off-stage.
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NewsSchweighofer kicks off Warner slate with Goller's Frau Ella
EXCLUSIVE: Actor-producer-director Matthias Schweighöfer is to be reunited with director Markus Goller for Frau Ella, the first project of Schweighöfer’s four-picture deal with Warner Bros Entertainment.
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NewsSouth Africa to expand TV tax credits
The South African government is poised to expand TV tax incentives, just weeks after the UK announced its own plans to adopt such a scheme.
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NewsLoach, Gertten, Noujaim to present at Good Pitch Europe
Seven filmmakers selected to present projects at June 25 event in London.
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NewsParamount, YouTube strike online rental deal
Despite ongoing legal action between parent companies Viacom and Google over an alleged piracy incident stemming back to 2006, the companies said YouTube would make close to 500 titles available online.
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Michelle Pfeiffer joins CinemaCon honourees
The star of Warner Bros’ upcoming gothic comedy Dark Shadows will collect the 2012 Cinema Icon Award in Las Vegas on Apr 26.
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NewsAlesia Weston to head Jerusalem Film Center
Finally white smoke comes out at the Jerusalem Film Center (JFC). After many long months of deliberation, the board of directors has named its new head of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israeli Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival.