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NewseOne acquires Badassdom
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Knights Of Badassdom starring Peter Dinklage, Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn and Summer Glau.
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NewsMagnolia takes How I Live Now
Kevin Macdonald’s apocalyptic thriller stars Saoirse Ronan. Genre arm Magnet has earmarked an autumn theatrical release in the US.
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NewsSony acquires Cold Comes The Night
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has acquired all worldwide rights to Tze Chun’s Cold Comes The Night starring Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston and Logan Marshall-Green.
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NewsMessenger starts shoot
Production has begun in Atlanta, Georgia, on the Jeremy Renner thriller Kill The Messenger, Focus Features CEO James Schamus and co-CEO Andrew Karpen announced on Thursday [25].
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NewsSFFS unveils Doc Fund winners
The recipients of 2013 San Francisco Film Society Documentary Film Fund awards totalling $100,000 are Anne Bogart and Holly Morris’ The Babushkas Of Chernobyl, Jamie Meltzer’s Freedom Fighters and Jimmy Goldblum and Adam Weber’s Tomorrow We Disappear.
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NewsFox Int'l unleashes The Wolverine
Hugh Jackman returns in his sixth outing as the mutant with adamantium claws in The Wolverine and Fox International’s action release is the favourite to tear through the competition this weekend.
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NewsRush to open Sept 20
Universal Pictures has revised the release scheduled for the F1 drama and switched to exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles on Sept 20 followed by wide expansion one week later.
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NewsITV buys Big Talk for $19m
Big Talk Productions, the company behind The World’s End and Sightseers, has been acquired by ITV for $19.2m (£12.5m).
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NewsCollabor8te backs new shorts
EXCLUSIVE: Eight scripts selected from 1,400 submissions, including short from The Brothers Lynch.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
New films on Screenbase include comedy-drama Legacy as well as animation Once Upon A Time In The Kitchen voiced by Nicholas Holt and Gemma Arterton.
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NewsManana to produce Floating director's third film
EXCLUSIVE: Piotr Kobus’ distribution-production company Manana is to produce Tomasz Wasilewski’s third feature which aims to go into produciton at the end of 2014.
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FeaturesAharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, Big Bad Wolves
Ian Sandwell talks to the filmmaking duo behind Israel’s first horror film Rabies about their latest feature, Big Bad Wolves.
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NewsPinewood, BFI launch paid internships
Pinewood Studios and the BFI announce a new intern programme to develop film production skills.
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CommentSpain's Smurf village
The village of Juzcar has been given new life thanks to Sony’s Smurfs and a lick of blue pain so news of a sequel brought camera crews back to the area along with a famous footballer.
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NewsAlcon lines up Dolphin Tale 2
Harry Connick Jr, Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman will return for Alcon’s Dolphin Tale 2 following the $72m North American success of the original family drama in 2011 through Warner Bros.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires Salvo
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s Salvo, winner of the Critics Week Grand Prix and the France 4 Visionary Award in Cannes.
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NewsDoppelgänger lands Smash
Music Box Films’ genre arm has acquired US rights to Smash & Grab: The Story Of The Pink Panthers, Havana Marking’s documentary about the world’s most successful diamond thieves.
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NewsCNN boards Sole Survivor
CNN Films top brass made the announcement on Friday [26] ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan on Saturday.
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NewsParkland to open on Sept 20
Exclusive Releasing will roll out the JFK assassination drama in theatres following the autumn festival debuts in Venice and Toronto.
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John Williams to score Star Wars: Episode VII
World renowned composer announced by Kathleen Kennedy at Star Wars Celebration. Williams discusses new film and JJ Abrams in video message.