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Gravitas Ventures promotes Melanie Miller to vp of acquisitions
The newly created title will see Miller oversee a five-person team charged with feeding 500 titles a year into the VoD pipeline.
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Thailand’s censorship board bans local Macbeth
Thailand’s Film Censorship Board has banned a local horror adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Shakespeare Must Die, directed by Ing K.
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Zeitgeist takes China Heavyweight, RT gets Dylan's Blood
The distributor brokered the US rights deal to Yung Chang’s latest film with EyeSteelFilms.
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TV Tax Credit – Enabling the UK to Strike Back
Wiggin partner Charles Moore says new TV tax credit in UK could boost the UK economy by about £1bn per year.
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High Horses & High Art
The Cannes Film Festival came down hard this week on a hapless blogger who published a faux competition lineup. But, as Thierry Fremaux made clear, Cannes is a serious business and tomfoolery will not be tolerated.
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Features
Lee Hirsch
Fresh from the successful limited release of Bully in the US, director Lee Hirsch talks to Screen about his childhood battle with bullying, the filming of his documentary and the ratings fight with the MPAA.
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Updated: Sky announces multi-million pound investment in British TV films
Sky to invest in new family films for Sky Movies and feature docs for Sky Atlantic; company open to day and date releases on other platforms, including theatrical.
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French director Claude Miller dies after long illness
Career spanned 50 years and some 20 pictures including Garde à Vue, Deadly Circuit (Mortelle Randonnée), L’Effrontée and The Little Thief (La Petite Voleuse).
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The X-Files writer Frank Spotnitz talks new UK spy series Hunted, working in the UK and a feature sequel to The X-Files
Frank Spotnitz talks to Screen about new UK spy-thriller series Hunted - produced by Kudos and BBC - and the UK as an exciting hub for big-budget TV.
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Dogwoof takes on sales for guitarist doc Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
Film won awards at Cinequest and now headed for Full Frame and HotDocs.
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Global Screen to handle sales of Oops! Noah Is Gone
Global Screen is to handle international sales for Ulysses Filmproduktion’s 3D CGI animation film Oops! Noah Is Gone… which is expected to go into production at the end of year as a co-production with Belgium, Luxembourg and Ireland.
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Red Granite to handle sales on Out Of The Furnace
President of international sales Danny Dimbort and co-president Christian Mercuri will begin talks with buyers in Cannes on Scott Cooper’s gritty follow-up to Crazy Heart. Relativity Media holds US rights.
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Warner Bros Italia takes territories on The Best Offer
Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sturgess have joined Oscar winning director Giuseppe Tornatore’s $21m English and Italian-language film, purportedly a love story set in the luxurious world of Viennese art auctions.
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Disney sets Apr 4 2014 for Captain America sequel
The blockbuster season will start early in two years’ time now that Marvel Studio’s super-patriot has secured an April berth Captain America 2.
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Laura Linney to receive Dallas Star Award
Top brass at the Dallas International Film Festival also confirmed that Josh Radnor’s previously announced Liberal Arts will play as the opening night screening, while Todd Louiso’s Hello I Must Be Going and Marius A Markevicius’ The Other Dream Team earn Centerpiece slots.
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Tribeca Film Institute names Sloan student screenwriter winner
Grainger David of NYU’s Tisch School Of The Arts will receive the 2012 Alfred P Sloan Foundation Student Grand Jury Prize for Screenwriting at an evening reception in New York on Thursday (5).
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Titanic 3D prepares to set sail in global voyage
International preview: All hands will be on deck at Fox International this weekend as the second biggest film of all-time returns in its new format, although there will be a couple of major obstacles to navigate.
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Haxan Films, Amber Entertainment to shoot Exists
The Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez is directing the horror-thriller about friends who encounter Bigfoot in the woods.
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