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NewsTarantino teases TV ambitions
COMIC-CON: Quentin Tarantino hinted at a possible move into television as he riffed on one of his bête noires – digital filmmaking – during Saturday’s The Hateful Eight panel.
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NewsWarner Bros lights up San Diego
COMIC-CON: Warner Bros set the bar high with the first Hall H session of Saturday, unleashing a slick and loud session that suggested it has begun to execute on a long-term strategy to exploit the treasures that lie within the DC Comics vaults.
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News'X-Men', 'Deadpool' delight Hall H
COMIC-CON: Fox executives love their traditional end-of-day slot at Comic-Con and kept their appointment with the early evening crowd to good effect in a raucous finale to Saturday’s Hall H programme.
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NewsTurturro delivers masterclass in Jerusalem
The actor spoke about working with Michael Cimino, William Friedkin and Woody Allen in a masterclass at Jerusalem Film Festival.
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News'Game Of Thrones' cast reflect on roles
COMIC-CON: The panellists from HBO’s smash series took to the hallowed Hall H on Friday with their hands – and mouths – tied.
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News‘Star Wars’ panel feels the Force
As has happened so often in recent years, a Disney-owned property delivered a Comic-Con show-stopper as JJ Abrams rounded off Friday’s Star Wars love-fest by inviting the entire 6,000-plus capacity of Hall H to a live concert.
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NewsLuc Besson talks ‘Valerian’ plans
The French filmmaker and EuropaCorp head flew into Comic-Con on Thursday for a rare and deeply personal presentation that featured concept art from his upcoming $180m space opera.
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NewsMUBI, Sony Pictures Television strike content deal
EXCLUSIVE: Online service inks first major studio deal; titles include Taxi Driver, Dr. Strangelove, Snatch.
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NewsSundance Institute Native Filmmakers Lab selects two
Razelle Benally and Randi LeClair will take part in the Lab, set to run in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from July 10-14.
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NewsMarc Danon to oversee acquisitions at Broad Green
The company has hired the former Lionsgate senior executive as president of acquisitions and co-productions.
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NewsJennifer Lawrence, Bill Murray wow Comic-Con
Two pop culture superstars took part in separate panels in the legendary Hall H for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and Rock The Kasbah as the San Diego jamboree got underway on Thursday.
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NewsAbramorama to re-release ‘Montage Of Heck’
Richard Abramowitz’s distribution platform will release Brett Morgen’s documentary in select US theatres on August 7.
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NewsParamount, AMC in windows pact
In the boldest move yet by a studio and exhibition partner to challenge the traditional distribution structure, Paramount has struck a revenue-share deal with AMC Theatres and Canada’s Cineplex Entertainment that will see it roll-out two autumn releases digitally 17 days after the films dip below 300 theatres.
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NewsHumanoids, sci-fi icon strike deal
EXCLUSIVE: The LA-based graphic novel publisher has made its latest move in an aggressive push into film and TV, teaming on the eve of Comic-Con with multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Robert Silverberg.
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NewsProduction duo rise at Fox Searchlight
The studio’s president of production Claudia Lewis has promoted Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum to executive vice-presidents of production, effective immediately.
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NewsEllen Page to star in ‘Lioness’
The actress will play a US Marine in the drama inspired by the real-life female soldiers who deployed alongside Special Forces under the Lioness Program.
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NewsCinema On The Edge to show banned Chinese films
Organisers behind a New York-based festival highlighting films from the Beijing Independent Film Festival (BIFF) that fell foul of local authorities have turned to Kickstarter.
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NewsBarry Ward to star in ‘Never Walk Alone’
EXCLUSIVE: The star of last weekend’s US release Jimmy’s Hall from Ken Loach has come aboard KPI Entertainment and Deadpan Pictures’ Ireland-set contemporary generational drama.
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NewsChristopher Miller, Phil Lord board Han Solo film
The red-hot writer-directors behind The LEGO Movie and 22 Jump Street will direct the next episode in the anthology series of Star Wars films set to open on May 25, 2018.