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NewsUK firms may gain from quiet MipTV
A relatively quiet MipTV was good news for British producers and distributors, who took advantage of a noticeable lack of Americans to strike deals.
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NewsDailyMotion in scripted first
Video-sharing site DailyMotion has commissioned a ‘sci-fi hipster’ drama as its first piece of original scripted content, which will also receive a theatrical release.
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NewsMipTV: The hunt for global partners
MipTV was awash with producers, networks and broadcasters looking for international partners to co-finance high-end drama projects that appeal beyond national borders.
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NewsScreen Int'l winner wins fresh funding
EXCLUSIVE: Screen award-winner among seven features funded by Lithuanian Film Centre (LFC).
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NewsParticipant to co-finance Image Nation's Malala doc
Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth making the film about the Pakistani teenager who survived a brutal assassination attempt by the Taliban.
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NewsMurdoch, Dneg back UK animation studio
Former Aardman Features exec Sarah Smith, has launched a UK animation studio with backing from Elisabeth Murdoch and Double Negative.
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NewsGoldcrest sues Summit over Twilight
Goldcrest Film Distribution has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Summit Distribution in a bid to recover millions of dollars it claims it is owed from profits made by the Twilight franchise.
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NewsFocus sets Hawking drama for Nov
Working Title Films’ Stephen Hawking drama Theory Of Everything will go on limited release through Focus Features on November 7 in the awards season corridor.
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NewsTFF launches Tribeca N.O.W.
Festival top brass have also announced the programme for the fifth Tribeca Online Festival and Tribeca Film’s VOD slate during TFF, set to run from April 16-27.
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NewsRiver Road boards The Last Face
River Road chief Bill Pohlad is understood to be financing the romance for Sean Penn to direct starring Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem.
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NewsParkes/MacDonald, CNÉ to adapt See No Evil
Parkes/MacDonald Productions and Condé Nast Entertainment will develop See No Evil based on a 2013 WIRED feature about a drug operation.
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NewsWinter Soldier hits $250m int’l BO
Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier has amassed an even $250m through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International and must be the favourite to dominate the arena for a third consecutive session.
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NewsEx-Ingenious boss launches $250m fund
Patrick Bradley to create a new growth capital fund for mid-sized firms in films, TV and more.
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NewsAMBI Pictures moves into animation
Italian firm to produce animated feature film about an adventurous gang of kids in Rome.
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NewsMia Bays, Mike Kelly leave Microwave
EXCLUSIVE: Creative producer, business exec plan future collaborations.
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NewsFilm Movement takes Human Capital
Film Movement has picked up US rights from Bac Films to Paolo Virzi’s Italian drama head of its North American premiere at Tribeca on April 18.
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NewsDivergent tops UK buzz chart
Teen action drama Divergent distinguished itself from the competition on social networks in the UK for its second week on release.
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NewsLionsgate plots Allegiant split
In a move that will come as little surprise, Lionsgate has announced (11) it is splitting up the third entry of its YA Divergent adaptation into two films.
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CommentTucking into The Lunchbox
The tastes and aromas of Indian cuisine were offered to cinemagoers to mark the UK release of Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox.