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NewsNorth American briefs: Loews hotel deal to have 'no impact' on AFM
Plus: TIFF, Telefilm Canada partner on See The North; Film market researcher Richard Del Belso dies; and more…
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NewsArt House Convergence opposes Screening Room
MARCH 15 UPDATE: The group representing 600 distribution entities on Tuesday sent an open letter in protest over the distribution platform proposed by Napster co-founder Sean Parker and music industry executive Prem Akkaraju.
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NewsContent Media closes Asia deals for 'Higher Power', 'Don't Knock Twice', 'Pandemic'
LA-based firm closes deals on genre titles and brings slate to Hong Kong Filmart.
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NewsLu Chuan to adapt 'River Town'
The Chinese director of local box office hit Chronicles Of The Ghostly Tribe is attached to direct and produce Peter Hessler’s memoir.
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News'Sword Master 3D' cuts US, UK deals
EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA has acquired North American and UK rights to Derek Yee’s highly-anticipated martial arts epic Sword Master 3D.
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NewsKorea’s M-line sends 'Poet', 'Spirits' to US
EXCLUSIVE: Sales also secured with Japan, Hong Kong.
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NewsVertical, XYZ take world on 'Holidays'
Vertical Entertainment and XYZ Films have partnered on worldwide rights to the horror anthology.
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NewsTribeca launches TV showcase
Organisers at the 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) unveiled on Monday Tribeca Tune In, featuring six season premieres, three sneak peeks and season finales, three conversations, and four special events.
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NewsLantica, AMBI partner on slate, facility
Dominican Republic-based Lantica Media and AMBI Group are to partner on a slate of English and Spanish-language features.
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NewsVisit Films takes trio to SXSW
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe’s New York-based sales agency is in Austin, Texas, with three new titles for buyers.
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NewsBenny Chan’s 'Call Of Heroes' sold to US, UK
EXCLUSIVE: Martial arts epic also sold to Germany and several Asian territories.
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News'Dheepan' and 'Paulina' triumph in Miami
Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan won the Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize and Argentine filmmaker Santiago Mitre’s Paulina won the Lexus Ibero-American Feature Film Prize at the 33rd edition of Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival.
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News'Zootopia' stays top in US on $51m
MARCH 14 UPDATE: Disney’s latest animation juggernaut held on to pole position in its second session as a confirmed $51.3m boosted the running total to $143.9m.
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NewsNapster co-founder’s first-run film service draws fire
Sean Parker’s The Screening Room is shaping up to be a controversial proposition as exhibitors and celebrated film-makers including Peter Jackson line up on opposite sides of the release window divide.
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NewsKevin Spacey passes on Relativity chairman role
The actor has stepped away from the position announced in January as the company continues to wade through a restructure process, according to court documents.
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NewsIM Global names trio of new hires
The Los Angeles-based production, sales and financing venture, whose upcoming slate of releases includes Free State Of Jones, has bulked up its finance, business and legal affairs, and marketing and publicity divisions.
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NewsUS Briefs: Paramount pulls out of US release of 'The Little Prince'
Plus: Imax, UN in programme to effect change.
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NewsJohn Goodman joins 'Patriots Day'
The star of March 11 new release 10 Cloverfield Lane joins previously announced J.K. Simmons and Mark Wahlberg on CBS Films and Lionsgate’s Boston Marathon bombing drama.
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NewsMarketing exec Christine Birch rejoins Sony
The executive previously served at the studio in senior positions for 12 years and returns in the newly created role of evp of domestic creative marketing strategy.
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NewsA24 picks up 'Free Fire' for the US
The cutting-edge distributor, fresh from its recent three-Oscar haul, has acquired US rights to UK wunderkind Ben Wheatley’s thriller.