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NewsRelativity, Europacorp launch JV
EuropaCorp has committed around $130m to form a joint marketing and distribution venture with longtime partner Relativity that uses the latter’s infrastructure and gives it the ability to directly distribute in the US.
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NewsPulse Films acquires The Dirties
Kevin Smith-endorsed comedy marks first acquisition for the UK’s Pulse.
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News20 Feet From Stardom singer talks exposure
Claudia Lennear, a US soul singer featured in Oscar-nominated documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, returned to the stage at Screen’s latest awards-season event.
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NewsAnchorman 2 gets R-rated re-release
Will Ferrell comedy to return to US and UK theatres with “763 new jokes”.
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NewsRay Winstone joins thriller Zipper
EXCLUSIVE: Ray Winstone has joined Patrick Wilson on the cast of the political thriller from 33 Pictures, Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures and Cargo Entertainment.
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NewseOne Films US rounds out senior team
eOne Films US has promoted Allen Blackwell to svp urban and comedy, Patrick McDonough to svp and general manager, home video and Hank Lawhead to vp of sales, home video.
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NewsOddLot re-fi to grow production
OddLot Entertainment has closed a $50m revolving credit facility with JP Morgan and Comerica as co-lead arrangers with the option of increasing to $150m.
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NewsDonald Petrie lands Dodge College gig
Donald Petrie has been named the Spring 2014 Marion Knott Filmmaker-in-Residence at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
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NewsSundance trio among ND/NF roster
The Film Society Of Lincoln Center and The Museum Of Modern Art have announced the complete line-up today for the 43rd edition of New Directors/New Films.
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NewsMusic Box in tune with Beloved Sisters
Dominik Graf’s Berlin drama sells to US, Australia for Global Screen.
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NewsXYZ Films racks up Berlin sales
EXCLUSIVE: Fast-rising global genre specialist XYZ Films has reported a strong response to its recent Berlin sales slate led by Brian Horiuchi’s ensemble sci-fi drama Parts Per Billion.
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NewsFreestyle sets Hornet’s Nest release
Freestyle Releasing will distribute war documentary The Hornet’s Nest nationwide in theatres on May 23.
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NewsFilm Festival Flix acquires trio
Film Festival Flix has picked up North American rights to a three films led by Mary Queen Of Scots.
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NewsNoah Cowan to lead SFFS
The new executive director becomes the fourth person in less than three years to lead the San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) and arrives after five years at the head of TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.
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NewsCOLCOA reveals classics line-up
For the first time a daily matinee of a classic film will accompany the new films shown in competition at the upcoming City Of Lights, City Of Angels: A Week Of French Film Premieres In Hollywood.
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NewsCinemaCon honour for Rogen, Goldberg
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, producers of Universal’s upcoming May release Neighbors, will receive the CinemaCon Comedy Filmmakers Of The Year Award.
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NewsDistribution: Anchor Bay tastes In The Blood
Anchor Bay Films and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have signed a joint distribution agreement to release In The Blood day-and-date in theatres, on VOD and on iTunes on April 4.
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NewsMeryl Streep to join Suffragette
EXCLUSIVE: From Iron Lady to feminist icon – Meryl Streep to join Carey Mulligan in women’s suffrage drama.
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NewsNas doc to open Tribeca
The world premiere of Time is Illmatic followed by a performance by the hip-hop star will kick off the 13th Tribeca Film Festival on April 16.