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MarVista Entertainment expands management team
Following new investment in August, the film and television company has brought in finance expert Susan Young as CFO and promoted Vanessa Goglio Shapiro from svp of worldwide sales to evp of sales.
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San Francisco Film Society announces SFFS/KRF grants
The Society in association with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have selected 11 narrative feature projects for the seventh round of grants up to $300,000.
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Autonomy Pictures kicks off with US rights deal on The Bunny Game
Distribution veterans Derek Curl, David Gregory and Lewis Tice’s new distributor aims to release “uncompromising cinema on a worldwide scale” and will handle four films this year, starting with Adam Rehmeier’s torture porn.
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Gravitas, Variance Films launch distribution alliance at SXSW
The partners aim to acquire and jointly release seven or eight films a year simultaneously in theatres and on VoD.
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NewsTribeca unveils Spotlight and Cinemania selections
Among the narrative Spotlight entries are Stefan Ruzowitzky’s thriller Deadfall starring Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde and Fox Searchlight’s Lola Versus with Greta Gerwig, Bill Pullman and Debra Winger, while documentaries include male grooming in Morgan Spurlock’s Mansome and sports in Knuckleball! from Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg.
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NewsMPI Media Group snatches North American rights to Heineken Kidnapping
The Dutch thriller is based on the actual 1983 abduction of the brewery magnate Alfred Heineken who was eventually released for a €16m ransom.
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NewsCOLCOA to show 1938 classic Hotel du Nord
Alexander Payne selected Marcel Carne’s film as one of his influences.
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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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