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Brave retains control of the UK box office
Disney/Pixar’s latest closes in on £15m; Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight Rises becomes highest grosser of year so far.
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Documentary Unstoppables to continue filming at London Paralympic Games
The team behind the documentary Unstoppables, about the Spanish Paralympic cycling team aka the Pirates Team, will be filming at London’s 2012 Paralympic Games, which kick off this week.For full production credits visitUnstoppablesDani Jariod directs the project, which started shooting more than two years ago.The story focuses on the preparation, ...
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Pinewood pushes ahead with expansion plans
New film and TV revenues boost Pinewood expansion; studio group to submit planning application in autumn.
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Raising Embargo
A bumper 2012 has seen the UK production company’s films at Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Edinburgh and Toronto. Screen talks to the company’s founders about their projects from Nick Love’s The Sweeney to Paul Andrew Williams’ forthcoming Miss You Already.
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Zurich to host Easy Money II as part of Sweden focus, strong masterclass series
Easy Money II gets European premiere; Asghar Farhadi, Frank Darabont, Daniel Espinosa, Pietro Scalia among those to give masterclasses.
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BAC to handle international sales for Kormakur's Toronto premiere The Deep
WME to handle US rights on the Icelandic true-life drama/thriller.
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Cambodia makes first Oscars submission in 18 years
Cambodia has submitted Chhay Bora’s Lost Loves to the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards, marking the first time in 18 years that the country has sent a film to the Oscars.
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Robin Friday biopic gathers steam
Football biopic backed by Telegael, Film Agency Wales, Moonscoop USA, Tasty Films and Ambergreen Entertainment.
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The Imposter records impressive opening salvo in UK
Critically acclaimed documentary grosses £345,279 over four-day Bank Holiday weekend.
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Spidey, Batman make waves on shared opening day in China
Both films launched on Monday (Aug 27) and the results are strong: The Amazing Spider-Man grossed an estimated $5.46m through Sony Pictures Releasing International while Warner Bros Pictures International reported a $4.45m debut for The Dark Knight Rises.
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Mira Nair talks The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The filmmaker tells Screen about the pressure of opening Venice, wanting to tell a story of contemporary Pakistan and America, and preparing Riz Ahmed (and his beard).
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Double Dutch International enters House Of Last Things
The Canadian-based sales agency and international sales division of Double Dutch Media has boarded worldwide rights to Michael Bartlett’s thriller.
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BiteSize Entertainment options Elvis Presley project
The film will be called Growing Up Graceland based on David E Stanley and Dr David Gruder’s book Conversations With The King: Journals Of A Young Apprentice.
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Scott Steindorff, Exclusive Media strike sales pact
Steindorff’s Stone Village Productions affiliate Scott Pictures has launched Scott Pictures International (SPI) under an exclusive three-year partnership with Exclusive Media and announced Natalie Portman action project Jane Got A Gun.
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Warner Bros signs first-look deal with Gulfstream Pictures
Mike Karz and Bill Bindley’s new production and financing company leads off with The Nut Job and is backed by what the studio said was a “multi-million-dollar” development fund from South Korean 3D stereoscopic Redrover Ltd and US private equity.
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Bela Tarr, Arturo Ripstein to head Busan juries
The 17th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has announced its upcoming juries to include filmmakers Bela Tarr and Arturo Ripstein, Toronto fest director Cameron Bailey and Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
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Sydney-based Fuel VFX in financial strife
One of Australia’s few world-class visual effects and animation companies, Sydney-based Fuel VFX, has placed itself into voluntary administration due to financial difficulties.
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Lilou's Adventure takes Red Chameleon at CinDi
The 6th Cinema Digital Seoul (CinDi) Film Festival wrapped with Lilou’s Adventure, directed by Japan’s Izuru Kumasaka, taking the Red Chameleon Award.
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Sharp shooters
Screen speaks to James Nunn and Ronnie Thompson, directors of Tower Block which received its world premiere as this year’s FrightFest closer.
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