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MIP deals: Prime Suspect, The Firm among early sellers, Lionsgate inks Latin American TV partnership
US TV updates on Lynda La Plante’s crime series and John Grisham’s novel are selling well at MIPCOM.
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NewsHopscotch/eOne strikes output deal with Summit
Hopscotch/Entertainment One has signed a three-year output deal to distribute Summit films in all media across Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsDolphin surfs low domestic box office tide on $14m
A dismal domestic weekend saw Warner Bros’ family tale climb two places to the top as a cadre of lacklustre new releases failed to ignite the box office.
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NewsSmurfs stays top internationally as Abduction performs well
Sony Pictures Releasing International’s (SPRI) blue wave ruled yet again at the box as an estimated $10.7m weekend gross from 5,400 screens in seven markets boosted the tally to a confirmed $380.6m.
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NewsWME signs writer-director Oskar Thor Axelsson
Oskar Thor Axelsson, whose first feature, Icelandic crime thriller Black’s Game, is still in post, has been signed by WME.
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NewsSPC expected to announce Hysteria deal shortly
The distributor is understood to have acquired domestic and possibly select territory rights to Tanya Wexler’s period rom-com in a deal that Screendaily first learned about on Wednesday (28) but is yet to be confirmed.
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Anchor Bay, Raven Banner close Canadian home entertainment pact
Raven Banner will release three titles: Bounty Hunters, The Collapsed and Neverlost.
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Tooley, Brenner promoted at Relativity
Tucker Tooley rises from president of worldwide production to co-president of the company, while Robbie Brenner assumes Tooley’s former role.
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NewsScreen Star Vanessa Kirby among cast of thriller Labyrinth
Recent Screen International Star of Tomorrow Vanessa Kirby [pictured] is set to play Alice Tanner in the epic thriller Labyrinth, adapted from Kate Mosse’s bestseller.
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NewsIMG Media to handle international sales of Dorsey's Airmen
IMG Media will handle the international rights to Mike Dorsey’s Lost Airmen of Buchenwald.
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Nicholl Committee unveils writing fellowship finallists
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences said on Thursday (29) that seven writers and three writing teams are finallists in the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in screenwriting.
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Self-help publisher Hay House launches film, TV units
Reid Tracy, president and CEO of the renowned publisher, will head Hay House Films and Hay House Television and serves as executive producer working alongside production chief Michael Goorjian.
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NewsSierra/Affinity to handle key sales on Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
Nick Meyer is understood to have cut a deal with Paramount to pre-sell a handful of major territories on the live-action film starring Denzel Washington, in a development that further underscores the ability of the independent market to support prestigious commercial fare.
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NewsSPC takes all US rights to Where Do We Go Now?
Nadine Labaki’s film recently claimed the Cadillac People’s Choice Award in Toronto and will represent Lebanon in the foreign language Academy Award race.
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NewsGKIDS picks up US rights to Chico & Rita
Director Fernando Trueba and illustrator and designer Javier Mariscal’s film premiered at Telluride and played in official selection in Toronto.
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NewsUniversal, Cross Creek Pictures sign distribution pact
The first project to go under the three-year deal will be Rush, the in-production F1 drama co-financed by Cross Creek and Exclusive Media Group that marks the first project financed outside the studio system that Ron Howard is directing in 25 years.
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Inferno, Breaking Glass strike US deal over 5 Star Day
Danny Buday’s debut feature stars Cam Gigandet and Jena Malone and will open in theatrically through Check Entertainment on Nov 2 followed by VOD roll-out two days later and DVD in the first quarter of 2012.
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NewsFormer Columbia executive, Chaplin champion Mo Rothman dies
Mo Rothman, the respected international film producer and distributor whose career spanned for more than 60 years has died following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
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NewsSimon Rumley to direct thriller chase movie Stranger
The Living And The Dead director Simon Rumley has also written the script for the China-set thriller, which is inspired by Steven Spielberg’s 1971 film Duel.
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WIFF Finishing Fund announces grant recipients
Women In Film’s Finishing Fund co-chairs Betsy Pollock and Nancy Rae Stone have announced the recipients for the annual fund grant programme.