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CommentThe World Belongs To Rio
The fact that most international audiences saw Rio a week before domestic shows how the North American release is losing its power in dictating the success of film.
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NewsSony, MGM reach Bond 23 co-fi, marketing and distribution deal
The studios announced the agreement last night [13] and will explore co-financing opportunities on future features produced by each studio over the next five years.
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Shooting underway on Aaron Eckhart thriller The Expatriate
Philipp Stolzl is directing the film in Montreal before production relocates to Brussels in May.
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Denis Bieber, Wayne Duband to produce The Chinese General
The $45m project centres on the gun-runner Morris Abraham Cohen (aka Two-Gun Cohen) and his role as aide-de-camp to China’s first modern president, Sun Yat-Sen.
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NewsTom Ortenberg staffs up at new venture Open Road
The CEO of the new distributor announced today [13] that Jason Cassidy becomes president of marketing, Elliott Kleinberg general counsel and evp of operations and business affairs, Steven Andriuzzo CFO and Ben Cotner svp of acquisitions.
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Sally Field joins DreamWorks' Abraham Lincoln project
The two-time Academy Award winner will play Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to the 16th US President, opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in the starring role.
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NewsTii Ricks to direct Finland-set horror
La Brea Pictures to produce its first feature film, Tii Ricks’ Rage – Midsummer’s Eve.
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NewsOdin's Eye to Go For It with US dance movie
Sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment has acquired all rights outside the US to hip hop dance drama GO FOR IT! and will introduce it to buyers at Cannes.
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Iron Sky to seek funding through Interactor
Timo Vuorensola is going the crowd-sourcing route for his long-gestating dark comedy about Nazis on the Moon and plans to raise $70,000.
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Sonoma applauds Absentia, Michael Rockerfeller
Mike Flanagan’s horror film Absentia earned best narrative feature honours as the 14th Annual Sonoma International Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.
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NewsScott Cooper to direct Out Of The Furnace for Relativity
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free are producing with Relativity and Energy Entertainment.
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NewsQuartet joins Fantastic Films’ Bollywood animation Delhi Safari
Vanessa Williams, Brad Garrett, Jane Lynch and Christopher Lloyd have joined the stereoscopic 3D project, set to screen in the Cannes market.
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NewsO-Scope takes US rights to If A Tree Falls
Marshall Curry’s follow-up to Racing Dreams and Street Fight recently earned a special mention at the Miami International Film Festival.
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NewsCohen Media Group to release Oranges And Sunshine in US
The distributor will handle the US release of Jim Loach’s true story about social worker Margaret Humphreys who in the late 80s uncovered a secret UK government programme to deport children from the UK to Australia.
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NewsBleiberg Entertainment picks up sales title There Be Dragons
The sales agency is preparing to commence business at the Cannes market on Roland Joffe’s sweeping drama produced by Ignacio Gomez Sancha, Ignacio Nunez and Joffe.
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NewsTributes pour in for US director Sidney Lumet
The 12 Angry Men director died on Saturday, aged 86.
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NewsStuart Pollok joins Indomitable as evp-executive producer
The producer-financier will run the New York and LA-based company’s film and film consulting business for the company, whose credits include Soul Surfer.
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NewsMIPTV wraps with key deals
Interconnectivity and the monetising of splintering platforms were buzz themes at this year’s MIPTV, which also saw a number of deals on starry product.
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NewsDawn Hudson named CEO as Academy restructures
The board of governors voted on Thursday [7] to establish a new executive structure, replacing retiring executive director Bruce Davis with the former Film Independent head as CEO and long-time Academy executive Ric Robertson as COO.
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NewsSPC moving in on Polanski's all-star Carnage
Sony Pictures Classics is understood to be close to a domestic deal. Roman Polanski’s agent Jeff Berg of ICM represented North American rights and declined to comment when approached by Screen at the start of the week, as did SPC co-head Michael Barker.