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Curzon Artificial Eye confirms new funding
Dedicated company Curzon Film Rights raised the funding in the form of Film Rights Structured Notes (Lipworth Capital served as advisor).
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ATO Pictures moves into North American distribution
ATO Pictures (Art Takes Over) is moving into North American distribution, extending its original remit to finance and produce films in the $3-10m range.
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Lionsgate strikes home entertainment deal with Newmarket
Lionsgate has signed a deal to become the exclusive US home entertainment distributor of all theatrical releases from Exclusive Media Group subsidiary Newmarket Films.
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FeaturesBuying movies today
The buyer-seller relationship is a delicate one of mutual dependency, rather like the buyers’ own subsequent bond with the exhibitor. Each has their own agenda, yet each needs the other to survive. The seller needs the buyer’s financial commitment to get a film made, the buyer needs the product to ...
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Screen Australia, Emerging Pictures plan quarterly Australian film showcase in US
The first set of films is Accidents Happen, The Waiting City and Charlie and Boots.
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Berney's departure from Apparition: Unfair Games?
Cannes competition title Fair Game appears to be the chief reason behind Bob Berney’s abrupt departure from Apparition, the company he co-founded with Bill Pohlad and unveiled this time last year.Doug Liman’s Valerie Plame drama starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn was never necessarily going to be an Apparition release ...
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NewsIFC launches genre label Midnight
IFC Films has launched the genre label IFC Midnight and will debut four new films each month on VOD and premiere select titles simultaneously in theatres and on VOD.
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NewsFortissimo pacts with Fox International Productions
The first two titles under the deal will be Italian-language production Vallanzasca, directed by Michele Placido, and Russian-language Alien Girl, directed by Anton Barmatov.
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Strand takes US rights to Passenger Side
Foreign sales here at Cannes market are being handled by Mark Austin of Breakaway Media.
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E1 strikes UK deals for Fair Game, The Runaways
E1 Entertainment has taken UK and Irish rights to Doug Liman’s Cannes Competition title Fair Game, and for The Runaways.
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NewsWWE plans ambitious slate of 9 films in next 2 years
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. is bringing its film business in house, handling all finance, production and distribution for films with wider audience appeal.
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Media 8, XYZ team up on action project Breaking Point
Media 8 Entertainment has partnered with XYZ Films to acquire worldwide rights to the upcoming action film Breaking Point.
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Magnolia takes US theatrical rights to Night Catches Us
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US theatrical rights to Tanya Hamilton’s debut feature and Sundance premiere Night Catches Us.
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NewsScreen starts new UK Marketing and Distribution Awards
The event, slated for Oct. 5, will honour outsanding achievement in UK film marketing and distribution in 15 categories which will be judged by an illustrious panel of judges chaired by Lord Puttnam.
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FeaturesThe foreign fallout
A decade after Crouching Tiger rewrote the rules for foreign-language films in the US, the situation is looking more difficult than ever for sellers and producers trying to infiltrate the domestic market. Anthony D’Alessandro takes the temperature in the US foreign-language distribution arena
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NewsIron Man 2 steals the show with $133.6m summer launch
Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 2 kicked off the summer season as it powered to the fifth biggest domestic launch in history thanks to an estimated $133.6m opening weekend through Paramount.
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NewsIron Man 2 adds $57.2m to fly past $190m overseas
Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 2 surged towards $200m in its second weekend as an estimated $57.2m from 10,774 sites in 61 territories boosted the tally to $194m.
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NewsParamount Famous takes North America on The Romantics
Paramount Famous Productions has made its first acquisition, taking all US and Canadian rights to Galt Niederhoffer’s Sundance premiere The Romantics.
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FCC approves select VOD launches of new releases before DVD and Blu-ray
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a request by the Motion Pictures Association Of America (MPAA) that paves the way in some cases for VOD releases of new releases before their DVD or Blu-ray launch.
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D Films takes Canadian rights to South African biopic Winnie
D Films has acquired all Canadian rights in all media to South African film-maker Darrell Roodt’s upcoming Winnie Mandela biopic starring Jennifer Hudson.