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NewsVue goes pan-European with takeover of CinemaxX
Combined group would run 119 multiplexes with nearly 1,100 screens.
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Cinematographer John Harris dies, aged 87
Career spanned 53 years, working on the likes of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Superman and The Running Man.
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NewsTomb of the Dragon continues shoot in Beijing starring Dolph Lundgren
GFM, Midsummer, Beijing Zhongshida working on $12m 3D family adventure.
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NewsLeopardrama to develop Danny La Rue feature
UK production outfit Leopardrama has secured BFI funding to develop the screenplay about the British female impersonator, which will be written by Martyn Hesford.
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CommentGold Medal for Coach Carter
Team GB has chosen Coach Carter as its favourite sports movie of all time, whilst Chariots Of Fire came out top amongst facebook users.
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NewsCBS Films snaps up feature rights to Deus Ex
Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh are attached to produce the adaptation of the smash video game with John P Middleton on board as executive producer.
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NewsLionsgate to split The Hunger Games finale into two
The studio confirmed on Tuesday (10) that it will turn The Hunger Games: Mockingjay into a two-parter, setting up a November 2015 series finale.
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NewsSSFS to be lead investor in The Last Empress
Seven Stars Film Studios chairman Bruno Wu has lined up Jake Eberts to produce and Jeremy Thomas to act as consultant on the English-language China-US production.
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JK Simmons among wave of new cast on jOBS
Kevin Dunn, Elden Henson, Lenny Jacobson, Giles Matthey, Ahna O’Reilly and Victor Rasuk have also joined the biopic. Shooting is underway in the Los Angeles area.
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NewsThe Film Arcade takes US rights to Simon & The Oaks
The recently launched distributor has added the Swedish hit to its initial slate and plans an Oct 12 platform release in New York and Los Angeles.
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NewsStudioCanal acquires RoboCop for select territories
The company has picked up the UK, Germany and France to MGM and Sony’s sci-fi reboot. José Padilha (pictured) directs.
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Legendary Entertainment finalises Nerdist buy
Nerdist Industries is a multi-platform genre and popular content content generator whose pipeline includes a website, YouTube channel, iTunes podcast and BBC America show.
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Alexis Alexanian voted as NYWFT president
The New York Women in Film & Television have elected Alexis Alexanian to serve as president and voted in five new board members.
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Sundance Institute awards $490,000 in tenth anniversary year
Twenty-seven documentaries have received the grants through the Institute’s documentary film programme.
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NewsScola, Tavernier, Loach and Costa Gavras join Cinecittà protests
Filmmakers support studio worker demonstrations over plans to ‘dismantle’ historic studios where Ben-Hur, La Dolce Vita, Gangs of New York were shot.
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News16 film-making teams selected for iFeatures 2
Teams include Jonathan Entwistle, Dominic Buchanan, Samm Haillay, Simon Ellis, and Martin Radich.