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NewsItalian family drama ‘Children Of The Monkey’ wins top prize at Jerusalem Industry Days
$120,000 of prizes were handed out at the ceremony at the new Sam Spiegel building.
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NewsGalway Film Fleadh winner ‘Apocalypse Clown’ rounds up global deals (exclusive)
It has sold across Europe, the US and Canada, Russia and CIS and India.
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News‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ drives to UK-Ireland box office summit with franchise record £6.3m
The film’s opening including previews is also a record, at £10.4m.
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NewsKarlovy Vary Proxima opener ‘The Lost Children’ scores world sales representation (exclusive)
The fantasy title follows a group of siblings stuck in an isolated house in a forest.
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NewsVictor Erice’s Cannes Premiere title ‘Close Your Eyes’ scores UK-Ireland distribution deal (exclusive)
Erice did not attend the Cannes launch in protest at a lack of “dialogue and consultation” over its Competition omission.
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News‘Apocalypse Clown’, ‘Verdigris’ scoop prizes at Galway Film Fleadh, as marketplace packs a punch
Further winners include ’Past Lives’ in the world cinema competition and Agnes O’Casey for the Bingham Ray New Talent Award.
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News‘Mission: Impossible 7’ blasts off with $235m global box office debut; ‘Elemental’ holds while ‘Indiana Jones 5’ slides
Excluding China, ’Dead Reckoning Part One’ has delivered the biggest international opening for the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise.
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NewsDerek Malcolm, UK film critic and former London Film Festival director, dies
The well-respected film reviewer also contributed to Screen International, the Evening Standard, and HuffPost.
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News‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One’ sets franchise record $80m five-day US bow, ‘Sound Of Freedom’ nears $100m
Searchlight’s Sundance acquisition Theater Camp opens on $45,000 per-site average.
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NewsActress and singer Jane Birkin dies age 76
Birkin’s death has shocked her adopted France over the long Bastille Day weekend.
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NewsUniversal cancels ‘Oppenheimer’ New York red carpet as actors strike kicks off
Christopher Nolan’s tentpole opens on July 21.
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NewsSAG-AFTRA head Fran Drescher blasts “terribly repugnant” strike remarks by Disney CEO
“High seven figures, eight figures – this is crazy money that they make, and they don’t care if they’re land barons of a medieval time.”
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NewsIndie producers await SAG-AFTRA clarity on waivers as union members join picket lines
Defiance as Guild members take to the streets on first day of strike.
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News‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One’ reaches $122.5m at global box office, targets $78m domestic bow
Tentpole heading for global debut in $240m range.
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NewsInternational shoots paused on ‘Deadpool 3’, Gladiator 2, ‘Venom 3’ due to SAG-AFTRA strike; cameras still rolling on ‘The Watchers’ in Ireland
Marvel Studios production was filming in UK’s Pinewood Studios and most recently Norfolk.
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NewsFormer Screen Ireland execs join expanding team at Wild Atlantic Pictures (exclusive)
Dublin-based company is a prolific Irish partner on international co-productions.
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NewsGKIDS acquires North American rights to Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy And The Heron’
Miyazaki’s first feature in a decade opens in Japan this weekend.
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NewsVenice Final Cut 2023 includes project from Oscar-nominated director Scandar Copti
The programme supports work-in-progress films from Africa and the Middle East
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NewsUK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ kicks off blockbuster spree
Annecy animation ‘The Tunnel To Summer…’ has 100+ location release.
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NewsFinecut strikes deals with ‘Devils’ across Asia
Sales launched on the body-switch action thriller in Cannes.