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NewsW2 Media moves into The Killing House
Jonathan English (pictured) will direct from his own screenplay.
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NewsMagnolia strikes US deal for Marley doc
Magnolia Pictures has taken US rights to Kevin Macdonald’s Marley, which has its world premiere at the Berlinale.
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NewseOne inks output deal with Steven Schneider and Adi Shankar
Producers of Paranormal Activity and The Grey to deliver two micro-budget genre titles annually.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires Israeli comedy Off White Lies
Film screens at Berlinale in Generation section.
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NewsTribeca Teaches programme expanded to Los Angeles
The Tribeca Film Institute launches new programme in Los Angeles and celebrates African American women’s leadership in its Tribeca Youth Screening Series.
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NewsChronicle sees off Woman in Black at US box office on Super Bowl weekend
Opener Chronicle scores an estimated $22m in North America as top two impress.
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NewsAspect strikes three-picture genre deal with Blanc/Biehn
Michael Beihn to star in all three films.
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NewsSubmarine, Dogwoof Global partner for foreign sales on Marina Abramovic doc
US-based sales company Submarine Entertainment has partnered with the new Dogwoof Gobal for foreign sales of acclaimed documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.
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NewsRuffalo, Johansson to star in Carney's Song for Exclusive
Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson are set to star in Can A Song Save Your Life? which will be written and directed by John Carney (Once).
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NewsAlcon to finance, Summit Int'l to sell Beautiful Creatures
Alcon Entertainment has secured rights to Kami Carcia and Margaret Stohl’s bestselling trilogy to star Oscar nominee Viola Davis. Richard LaGravenese will direct from his adaptation.
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NewsCargo stocks up for EFM with Rob Cohen thriller Undone
The New York and LA-based sales, financing and production company will commence talks with buyers in Berlin on the action-thriller.
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NewsRed Sea Media heads for Berlin with maiden slate
Chairman and CEO Roman Kopelevich has acquired international sales rights to the starry duo of heist thriller Pawn and revenge tale Officer Down and will commence talks with EFM buyers next week.
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NewsCamelot Entertainment Group has Berlin slate including Norman, Herbals
President Steven Istock and co-presidents of Camelot Distribution Group and DarKnight Pictures Michael Kananack and Jessica Kelly will attend the EFM next week.
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NewsSharon Stone joins Attachment for W2 Media
Stone will play a married woman who has a one-night stand with a college student who stalks her and her family. Tony Kaye will direct from Christopher Denham’s screenplay.
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NewsSony, Film District, Alliance team up for Insidious sequel
Leigh Whannell will once again write the script and James Wan is in talks to reprise his role as director. FilmDistrict will distribute in the US, while the project financier Alliance will release in Canada, the UK and Spain and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions will handle remaining territories.
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NewsMyriad brings Chastain-Edgerton double feature to EFM
Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain and rising Australian star Joel Edgerton have signed on to The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Hers – a double project that will shoot back-to-back offering alternate perspectives from the male and female protagonists.
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NewsThe Raid producers to make sequel later this year
Gareth Huw Evans returns to direct his The Raid star Iko Uwais on the project, which will shoot in Indonesia towards the end of the year. Celluloid Nightmares has already closed a slew of territories and SPWA holds US and select territory rights.
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NewsLightning Entertainment boards international sales rights to Five Thirteen
The thriller joins the EFM slate for Berlin buyers and marks the Hollywood debut of French filmmaker Kader Ayd.
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NewsCode Name Geronimo shoot gets underway in New Mexico
Filming began on Wednesday (Feb 1) on Voltage Pictures’ story about the Navy SEAL mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.
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NewsSPC swoops on Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone
The distributor negotiated terms with Hengameh Panahi of Celluloid Dreams to North America, Latin America and East European rights to the filmmaker’s follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 Cannes world premiere A Prophet.