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NewsAcademy: new voting rules
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has amended its rules so that for the first time every voting member will automatically be eligible to vote in all 24 Oscar categories.
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NewsIM3 crosses $450m global
Marvel Studios’ summer curtain raiser Iron Man 3 is fast becoming a behemoth after adding more than $110m worldwide on Friday – of which $68.3m came from the North American opening day – to reach $456.6m.
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NewsIM3 soars past $500m int'l
UPDATED MAY 6: An extraordinary $175.9m second international weekend for Iron Man 3 pushed Marvel Studios’ smash to $504.8m and $680.1m worldwide as Disney crossed the $1bn international mark in record time.
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NewsIM3 bursts into US on $175.3m
Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 arrived in North America amid a blaze of anticipation at the weekend and it did not disappoint, posting the second biggest debut of all time behind stablemate The Avengers.
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Breakthrough adds two for Cannes
The Toronto-based company has added Cubicle Warriors and Looking Is The Original Sin to its Cannes sales slate.
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NewsPretty Pictures acquires Hany Abu-Assad's Omar
EXCLUSIVE: Cannes Un Certain Regard selection sold by The Match Factory.
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NewsLost Paradise takes top prize at Jeonju
The 14th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF)’s international competition Grand Prize went to Eve Deboise’s French coming-of-age film Lost Paradise at the closing ceremony Friday (May 3). The award comes with a $18,000 (KW20m) cash prize.
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NewsZigzag Kid wins Young EFA award
Young juries in nine European cities elect Dutch film by Vincent Bal.
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NewsStudioCanal, Disney to release 100-Year-Old
StudioCanal to partner with Disney Nordic to distribute adaptation of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
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NewsDaniel Wagner forms BiFrost
Beverly Hills-based BiFrost Pictures launches as a specialty financing and production company that aims to invest at “various levels” in four to six films a year budgeted up to $20m.
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NewsTIFF celebrates Chinese culture
Christopher Doyle [pictured] will be one of the stars of TIFF Bell Lightbox’s A Century Of Chinese Cinema event, set to run in Toronto from Jun 5-Aug 11.
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NewsTrio lines up AIP remakes
Producer Lou Arkoff, filmmaker Jeff Katz and industry consultant and former agent Hal Sadoff will remake a series of American International Pictures (AIP) classics from the 1950s including She-Creature and Teenage Caveman.
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NewsExclusive takes Skiptrace to Cannes
The LA-based finance, production and sales company will produce and co-finance with China’s Talent International the action comedy starring Jackie Chan and Fan Bingbing.
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NewsWeaver, Sands set for Six Lessons
Two-time Oscar nominee Jackie Weaver and actor Julian Sands have joined the cast of Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, the new film based on Richard Alfieri’s play of the same name.
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NewsOpen Road, XLrator strike pact
Open Road Films CEO Tom Ortenberg said on Monday [6] the company had struck a deal to market and sell XLrator Media titles to pay-TV, free television outlets and select S-VOD carriers.
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NewsGood Universe finds Three Little Words
James Mangold will reunite with Reese Witherspoon on the drama following Witherspoon’s Oscar-winning turn in Walk The Line. Good Universe will introduce to buyers in Cannes.
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NewsWitch Hunter heads to Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: As Cannes slates continue to come together with a week to go before the market kicks off on the Croisette, Lionsgate International has confirmed it will commence pre-sales on The Last Witch Hunter.