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Screen Media takes North American rights to Heleno
Jose Henrique Fonseca’s biopic of the 1940’s Brazilian footballer Heleno de Freitas has just screened at the Miami International Film Festival and will open theatrically in summer.
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NewsEd Palluth promoted to evp, global distribution AMC/Sundance Channel
Palluth takes on most senior distribution role for company’s international business.
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Image takes North American rights to Freak Dance
The satire about performers who strive to master a notorious dance move in order to win a contest features Amy Poehler and Tim Meadows.
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NewsCinedigm, New Video to jointly release The Invisible War
The partners have acquired North American rights to Kirby Dick’s winner of the Sundance US Documentary Audience Award earlier in the year.
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NewsLorax scores biggest US launch of year-to-date on $71m
Universal’s estimated opening weekend delivered by far the most resounding debut of the year-to-date as Dr Seuss’ The Lorax demolished the competition to maintain the first quarter’s hot pace at the box office.
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NewsBruce Willis to star in Five Against A Bullet for Columbia
Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Jordan Schur and David Mimran are developing the action thriller about a Mexican politician who hires a quintet of ace bodyguards to protect him during an election after his father is killed by drug lords.
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Radius-TWC takes US rights to Only God Forgives
Nicolas Winding Refn is currently in production in Thailand on the crime thriller with his Drive star Ryan Gosling. Wild Bunch and Gaumont are producing together for the first time.
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NewsSacha Baron Cohen, Paramount agree first-look deal
In advance of the May 11 release of The Dictator, the star’s Four By Two label has signed a three-year deal with Paramount.
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NewsAdopt Films takes US rights to Berlin hit Tabu
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’s romantic tale impressed critics in Berlin where it won the FIPRESCI award and the Alfred Bauer Prize for its innovative approach to storytelling.
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NewsEmma Watson to star in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
The ensemble project, allegedly based on real events, follows a group of teens as they carry out a series of celebrity break-ins.
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Creative Coalition, Alcon strike marketing alliance
Under its Spotlight Initiative the arts and entertainment charity will integrate issue agendas into promotional campaigns for Alcon’s slate including the upcoming Speedboys.
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NewsNicole Kidman in talks for Rowan Joffe thriller Before I Go To Sleep
EXCLUSIVE: Kidman in talks to play lead in Rowan Joffe’s adaptation of Steve Watson’s acclaimed novel; Scott Free produces.
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Deals round-up: GoDigital goes to Circus, TLA champions Spork
GoDigital has picked up North American VoD and digital rights to You, Me & The Circus produced by Omar Epps.
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NewsIFP announces programming for Script To Screen Conference
Moneyball director Bennett Miller will take part in an on-stage conversation in the Mar 17 event, presented in partnership with WGA East, the New York Television Festival and BookExpo America.
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NewsFilm Movement takes The Day I Saw Your Heart
The French comedy stars Melanie Laurent and played in official selection at Canada’s Cinerama Film Festival and in various US festivals.
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NewsNina Jacobson recruits Brad Simpson to Color Force
Simpson produced the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid with Jacobson and has been drafted in to expand the pipeline. His appointment begins on Mar 1.
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NewsColumbia Pictures to adapt Dutch thriller Taped
Red Wagon’s Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce the English-language feature.
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Strand Releasing takes US rights to Crazy Eyes
Adam Sherman’s contemporary noir starring Lukas Haas and Madeline Zima is due to receive its world premiere at SXSW in March.
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NewsTerence Davies, Leopardrama developing Mothers of Sorrows
Davies developing adaptation of Richard McCann memoir about a US family in post-WWII Washington; Leopardrama also closes distribution deal on Swan Lake 3D.