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Disney lands $660m Miramax sale to Ron Tutor's equity group
Disney has finally struck a deal to sell its Miramax film division to the Filmyard group of private equity investors.
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UK distributor Metrodome calls off talks for Target acquisition
Metrodome’s trading on AIM has been restored now, following a suspension of trading over reports that Metrodome was eyeing a possible acquisition of Target Entertainment Group.
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Brazil blooms
Screen editor Mike Goodridge introduces Elaine Guerini’s territory focus exploring the production and distribution scene in Brazil.
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Financing the Dream
In 2009, DreamWorks secured $825m for the next stage in its development. Jeremy Kay speaks to COO Jeff Small about the studio’s cost-conscious international focus and how new backers, including Reliance and Disney, fit in
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Call For Submissions: Screen's Toronto 2013 Product Guide
Screen International presents our 2013 Toronto Product Guide.
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Japanese box office up 1.5% in first half of 2010
Japanese box office earnings for the first half of 2010 totaled $1.09b (Y95.28b), a 1.5% increase over the same period last year.
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The start of something Big
The 2009 deal between Reliance Big Entertainment and DreamWorks marked a major new alliance between India and Hollywood. Reliance chairman Amit Khanna tells Liz Shackleton about the company’s global ambitions
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‘Financing is still predicated on foreign value’
The US business is in uncharted waters, with the global financial meltdown creating new paradigms and opportunities for independents. Screen’s US editor Jeremy Kay gathered a diverse group of luminaries to discuss the business in 2010
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Breaking dawn for Summit
Summit Entertainment has succeeded where others have failed in creating a vibrant new independent with studio-level capabilities. Patrick Wachsberger and Robert Friedman tell Jeremy Kay how
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Film London’s Best of Boroughs Winners
L to R: Adrian Wootton (CEO, Film London), Rohan Green (Physical Education), Mark Gutteridge, Jack Tarling, Tom Clutterbuck (Assessment) and Eran Creevy (Shifty).
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Warner Bros lines up slew of brands to promote Cats & Dogs 2
Warner Bros. UK has teamed with a host of brands, including Virgin Active, Toys ‘R’ Us and Direct Line to promote family comedy Cats& Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, which opens across the UK on Aug 4.
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‘There is still capital flowing into domestic distribution'
In the second of two round-table debates on the new realities in Hollywood, Jeremy Kay speaks to executives about pre-sales, banks and the rise of international power hubs
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Germany holds key to overseas box office weekend
Toy Story 3 is expected to cross $400m this weekend but will face a strong challenge from Inception for the overseas box office crown.
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Virgin Produced launches in LA, partners with Relativity
Richard Branson’s brand new film and television company Virgin Produced has entered into a joint venture with Relativity Media’s Rogue Pictures.
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Vamps cast adds Kristen Johnston as Michigan shoot starts
Kristen Johnston has joined the cast of Amy Heckerling’s Vamps, which is about to start shooting this week in Detroit, Michigan.
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October and The Blacks take Motovun prizes
The 12th Motovun Film Festival (July 26-30) closed last night with Diego and Daniel Vega’s October (Octubre) winning the main Propeller Award in the international competition.
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Lezaic's Tilva Rosh wins Hearts of Sarajevo for best film, actor
Tilva Rosh, the feature debut of Serbian director Nikola Lezaic won the Heart of Sarajevo for the best film at the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival.
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NYFF selects The Tempest as centrepiece screening
The North American premiere of Julie Taymor’s The Tempest will screen as the centerpiece film at the 48th New York Film Festival on October 2.