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NewsLionsgate confirms Alliance-Maple acquisition
Alliance’s successful $38.5m play for Lionsgate-owned Maple and its film library gives the ambitious Canadian operation distribution rights to the Lionsgate slate for the next five years.
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NewsRiver Road's Bill Pohlad to move ahead on Brian Wilson biopic
The River Road founder first revealed the long-gestating project to Screendaily last summer and has hired Oscar nominee Oren Moverman to write the screenplay.
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NewsPirates 4 becomes third biggest international release
The latest entry in Disney’s Pirates canon reached the milestone on Wednesday [22] and is bearing down on $1bn worldwide. Disney stablemate Cars 2 from Pixar revs up for the first wave of international markets.
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NewsBFI's first Lottery funded projects include projects by Glazer, Creevy, Marsh, Mackenzie, Branagh
Under the Skin, the long-gestating film from Jonathan Glazer (pictured) receives £1.8m in funding.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
French language animation Ernest & Celestine and Fernando Trueba’s new feature El Artista y la Modelo, as well as an adaptation of Danny Wallace [pictured]’s forthcoming debut novel Charlotte Street spark excitement on Screenbase this week.
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NewsFilm Policy Review panel opens public survey for industry and audiences
The new Film Policy Review panel in the UK has launched a public survey to ask film industry experts and audiences how the UK government can best support the film sector.
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NewsUK High Court will hear landmark copyright case against Newzbin site
This week, a new case goes to trial in the UK High Court as a test case on copyright infringement.
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CommentTheatrical industry needs boldness and fresh vision
How the industry can learn from the past and reinvent itself.
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NewsStephen Moore to chair jury for Screen's UK Marketing & Distribution Awards
Other jurors include Jane Barclay, Sandra Hebron, Adrian Wootton, Nik Powell and Julia Short, among others.
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Academy invites four to join board
Cinematographer Richard P Crudo, producer Gale Anne Hurd, composer David Newman and film editor Michael Tronick have been voted on for the first time.
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NewsDisney/Pixar's Cars 2 on top overseas on $43m launch
Cars 2 dominated the international arena as a $42.9m weekend haul based on estimates from the first wave of 18 markets set up the latest Pixar release for what looks to be another big run.
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NewsCars 2 maintains Pixar's 100% record with $68m US debut
Cars 2 was the number one attraction in North America at the weekend, scoring Pixar’s 12th straight number one opening weekend..
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Our School, Family Instinct among Silverdocs winners
Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coco-Cozma’s Our School won the Sterling Award for best US feature at the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival in Maryland.
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Vibrant Palm Springs Int'l Shortfest unveils winners
Zaid Abu Hamdan’s Bahiya & Mahmoud (Jordan/USA) won the 2011 Palm Springs International ShortFest’s Best Of Festival Award last night [26] and becomes eligible for Oscar consideration.
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LAFF rounds out with awards, Dark screening
In the two top awards of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Stephane Lafleur’s Familiar Ground won the Narrative Award and Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi’s Wish Me Away took the Documentary Award last night [26].
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NewsNorwegian Film Institute backs new films from Olso director Trier
Norwegian director Joachim Trier, whose Oslo, August 31st was launched in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and Oslo-based production outfit, Motlys, have received slate funding for their next two, maybe three projects together, from the Norwegian Film Institute.
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NewsTrinity to distribute, co-finance Graham Chapman project
London-based Trinity will handle distribution of A Liar’s Autobiography, which is scheduled to hit UK cinemas in spring 2012.
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NewsDabangg leads winners at IIFAs; Shah Rukh Khan wins best actor
First IIFAs in North America welcome 22,000 fans to Toronto’s Rogers Centre.
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Dutch distributors sanction AAM digital cinema rollout
14 members of the NVF sanction AAM and Cinema Digitaal cinema conversion
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NewsUNIC gets new CEO, new members and Brussels HQ
Jan Runge elected head of cinemas union; Odeon, Cineworld among exhibitors to join