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Johnny Lin partners with Ted Field, Stan Lee on The Guardian Project
Taiwanese businessman and head of Studio Solutions Group Lin is partnering with veteran producer Field and comic book icon and POW! Entertainment head Lee on NHL enterprise and Lin also announced he is teaming up with Field and others on Trauma Records 2.
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Sparrows Dance, Informant win at Austin Film Festival
Noah Buschel’s Sparrows Dance claimed the narrative feature prize while Jamie Meltzer’s Informant won top documentary feature honours.
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Premiere Entertainment Group lines up The Police doc for AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Bob Yari, Norman Golightly and Brett Morgen are the producers on Can’t Stand Losing You, which is based on the memoirs of the British rock band’s guitarist Andy Summers.
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Masquerade hits 10m admissions at Korean box office
CJ Entertainment’s historical drama Masquerade [pictured] has clocked up over 10 million admissions, becoming the seventh Korean film to pass that benchmark at the local box office.
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Gibney’s Catholic Church abuse doc finds brave suitors in Italy, Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Italian distributor Feltrinelli takes aim with LFF-winning documentary about paedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church and plans live debates with clergy.
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Alex Gibney
Screen talks to Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney about new film Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, about paedophilia in the Catholic Church, which yesterday picked up the Best Documentary prize at the London Film Festival.
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Serkis and Cavendish's Imaginarium takes on The Bone Season, Animal Farm
The Imaginarium, the new London-based performance capture studio founded by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish, has secured film rights to the book series The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon as well as the rights to George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm; Serkis will direct and star in the latter.
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LevelK dives into fishing documentary The Last Ocean
LevelK has boarded sales for New Zealand filmmaker Peter Young’s The Last Ocean.
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Sundance London to return to O2 in 2013 and 2014
The festival will present new work from American film-makers and musicians from 25-28 April, 2013.
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Sarah Bemand joins Margaret as account director
London-based creative agency Margaret hs expanded its team by adding Sarah Bemand as Film PR Account Director.
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Madagascar 3 swings into top spot at the UK box office
Paramount’s animation scores $9.6m (£6.0m) opening, including previews, to topple Taken 2; distributor records a one-two as Paranormal Activity 4 scares up $4.1m (£2.5m).
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Australia’s SPAAMart unveils line-up of seven projects
The Diary Of Jimmy Porterfrom veteran director Nadia Tass, Hard Option from Paul Goldman and supernatural thriller The Fear Of Darkness, which sees Chris Fitchett back in the directors’ chair after several decades, are among the seven features to be presented at SPAAMart.
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Mumbai film fest wraps market; talks restoration
The second edition of the Mumbai Film Mart (MFM) wrapped on Sunday with no deals announced, but participants reporting they were happy with the results. The market was held during the Mumbai Film Festival, which also raised the issue of film restoration over the weekend.
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eOne takes on North American rights to Miele's Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
Early 2013 theatrical launch planned.
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Europa Distribution mulls Creative Europe plan in Lyon
“No reason to implement revolutionary changes” to existing Media programme says Jakub Duszynksi, co-president of independent distributors body Europa Distribution.
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Hugh Grant to star in untitled Castle Rock rom-com
Producer Martin Shafer confirmed the development on Monday (22). Writer-director Marc Lawrence’s project will commence shooting in New York in April 2013.
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US deals for Deflowering and Out in the Dark
North American deals have signed by Berlin‘s m-appeal for Michiel ten Horn’s The Deflowering of Eva van End and Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark.
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Dogwoof strikes home entertainment deal with Fusion Media Sales
Deal starts Jan 1 and will include titles such as The Queen Of Versailles.