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UIP: The comeback?
The dramatic reorganization of Paramount Pictures International, which will see 80 people lose their jobs in the UK, raises big questions for all the studios’ international businesses.
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Love Is Not Blind leaves Immortals behind at China box office
Low-budget local rom-com takes more than $30m in its first week to leave Hollywood alternatives trailing in its wake
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AAM gets Odeon UCI contract in Germany, Italy, Austria
Odeon UCI selects Arts Alliance Media as Theatre Management System supplier in Germany, Austria and Italy
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Berlinale World Cinema Fund announces awards winners
World Cinema Fund awards production funding of $283,000 (€210,000), with biggest grant to African feature The Boda Boda Thieves.
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Ending all Expectations
Dickens purists should look away now - David Nicholls has revealed that he has written an alternative ending for his forthcoming adaptation of Great Expectations.
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Margaret Thatcher film gets first response from UK media
Although trade press were not invited to be among them, UK critics and commentators have been ripping up column inches with their reviews and impressions of The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep.
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Breaking Dawn tees up dominant international weekend
Early estimates suggest Summit International’s latest Twilight episode is in for a big session as the film grossed at least $8.9m from opening days reported, led by number one debuts in France on $3.8m and Italy on $2.3m.
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J Martin Willhite joins Legendary Entertainment as general counsel
The partner is appointed to the new post and most recently served as partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.
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Rum Diary, Breakaway bookend Bahamas Fest
A red carpet screening of The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp will kick off the Caribbean event on Dec 1 as organisers line up 68 films including 42 features.
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Hot projects on Screenbase
Italian comedy Come Non Detto and Spain’s La Banda Picasso, are among the host of new films on Screenbase.
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Mission Accomplished
Screen went down to London’s BFI IMAX to check out some early footage of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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George Clooney to receive PSIFF’s Chairman’s Award
The star of awards season contenders The Descendants and The Ides Of March will collect the annual honour at the Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala on Jan 7.
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Action comedy Outrun finds US, international buyers
Open Road will distribute Dax Shepard’s caper in the US in 2012 while a slew of deals have closed outside North America following a strong market launch at AFM by Exclusive Films International.
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Provincetown Film Society secures grants for festival, Institute renovation
Massachusetts-based Provincetown Film Society has been awarded grants by MassDevelopment and The National Endowment For The Arts (NEA) to support the filmmaking community in Provincetown and Outer Cape.
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Buck, Paradise Lost 3 among 15 on Oscar doc shortlist
The Academy on Friday (18) unveiled the features that advance in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards, but Werner Herzog’s Into The Abyss, Steve James’ The Interrupters and Asif Kapadia’s Senna are notable absentees.
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Dwayne Johnson learns Monster’s Hunt Survival Guide
The former wrestling star is attached to star in the comic book adaptation that Simon Kinberg will produce through his Genre Films label.
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