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NewsCulture action plan also to encourage co-production between EU and Brazil
Encouraging more co-production between the EU and Brazil could be part of a new Joint Programme on Culture signed by the European Commission (EC) and Brazil.
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Netflix strikes first UK content deal
Netflix has signed one of its first UK content deals, buying the UK original of Being Human and the US remake.
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NewsSteve Jobs, tech crusader extraordinaire, dies at 56
Apple announced late on Wednesday (5) that the Silicon Valley visionary, Apple co-founder and Pixar chief finally lost his battle with pancreatic cancer.
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NewsUTA to handle global sales on Paul Walker vehicle Hours
Hot off the $600m-plus global success of Fast Five, Walker will star as a father desperate to keep his newborn alive in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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Cinedigm deploys record number of digital screens in quarter
Cinedigm this week reported the biggest quarter in its history in terms of digital cinema installation.
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Blacklight Transmedia, Random House Worlds strike partnership
Zak Kadison’s Los Angeles-based company has signed a direct-to-publisher development partnership with Random House Publishing Group’s intellectual property creation and development division.
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Dodge College, Busan partner on Busan West Asian Film Festival
Chapman University’s ambitious film school said the festival will run in Orange County, California, from Nov 11-13 when Bong Joon-ho will receive the inaugural Busan West Icon Award.
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MPAA chief Chris Dodd joins AFI board of trustees
The former Senator for Connecticut was one of several new inductees in a list that includes Verizon Digital Media Services David Rips.
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Henry Hoberman named MPAA global general counsel
Motion Picture Association Of America chairman and CEO Chris Dodd made the announcement on Wednesday (5).
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New York to host inaugural Dialogue Of Cultures festival
The Dialogue Of Cultures International Film Festival (DCIFF) will hold its first film festival in New York from Oct 20-27 when 16 world features and docs will screen.
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Hazanavicius, Aronson among upcoming Hollywood Film Festival honourees
Midnight In Paris producer Letty Aronson will receive the producer award and Diablo Cody will be honoured with the screenwriter award for Jason Reitman’s upcoming release Young Adult.
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Image Entertainment acquires Bernie Mac tribute doc
Image has acquired North American home entertainment and digital rights to I Ain’t Scared Of You: A Tribute To Bernie Mac chronicling the life and career of the comedian and featuring previously unseen performance footage.
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NewsDoha Film Institute comes on board for Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Riz Ahmed stars in the Mirabai-Cine Mosaic production, which starts shooting this week.
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NewsWilde, Crowe linked to Cross Creek / EMG F1 project Rush
Olivia Wilde is in line to play the 70s model Suzy Miller, who wed racing driver James Hunt only to get a quick divorce and tie the knot with his friend Richard Burton.
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As Lion King reaches $80m, Disney plans quartet of 3D re-releases
Encouraged by the box office performance of The Lion King (In 3D) the studio announced on Tuesday it would give the same treatment to Beauty And The Beast, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc and The Little Mermaid.
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Tribeca Institute announces recipients of inaugural TFI New Media Fund
The Institute has awarded grants amounting to $400,000 for six non-fiction projects including The Tillman Story Interactive Edition and a broader experience based on Steve James’ The Interrupters.
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NewsKiefer Sutherland says '24' feature could start shooting in April
Fox’s feature version of TV series 24 “very close”, “looking at end of April to start production,” according to Sutherland.
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NewsGK Films hires Robert Towne to script Battle Of Britain drama
Graham King and business partner Tim Headington will produce the project, based on a screenplay that Towne will write about the legendary fight over London between the RAF and the Luftwaffe that played a pivotal role in the second world war.
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Curtis Jackson in Pursuit for Emmett / Furla, Cheetah Vision
Soul Plane and Gun director Jessy Terrero has signed a three-film deal with the producers and will kick off on this story about a police officer and a criminal who hunt down a bank robber.
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NewsPink joins cast of Stuart Blumberg’s Thanks For Sharing
The performer, aka Alecia Moore, is collaborating on The Kids Are All Right screenwriter’s feature directorial debut as principal photography gets underway.