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NewsNetflix to double original content spend
Original commissions are set to account for a fifth of Netflix’s content spend within the next few years.
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NewsSubmarine sells Art Addict
Submarine Entertainment has closed a slew of pre-sales in Toronto on it’s the art world documentary Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict.
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NewsRay Dolby audio pioneer dies aged 80
US audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories has died in San Francisco.
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NewsWeinsteins acquire Paddington; Firth, Kidman join cast
Principal photography to begin this month; 2014/15 release dates set.
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NewsMagnolia Int'l seals TIFF deals
EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: Magnolia International has reported brisk sales in Toronto on several of its key titles.
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NewsThirlby joins Wedding Ringer
Olivia Thirlby has joined the cast of the Screen Gems and Miramax comedy The Wedding Ringer that has begun shooting in Los Angeles. Separately, Feed The Gods starts production on Friday in Canada for Random Bench.
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NewsOpen Road, XLrator get Hendrix
Open Road Films has picked up its second title of Toronto after The Green Inferno, moving on North American rights with XLrator Media to John Ridley’s Jimi Hendrix tale All Is By My Side.
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NewsOpen Road snaps up Green Inferno
Open Road has acquired US rights to The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s cannibal thriller that premiered in Toronto last weekend.
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NewsWarner Bros, JK Rowling team for Harry Potter spin-off series
JK Rowling to make screenwriting debut with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
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NewsBreaking Glass grabs Unhung Hero
Documentary about whether “size matters” proved a hit at SXSW.
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NewsFilm Movement buys Le Démantèlement
The distributor will release in the US and license to world airlines following a deal in Toronto with eOne Films International.
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NewsCurzon nabs Gordon Green’s Joe
EXCLUSIVE: Curzon takes UK rights to Venice drama starring Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan.
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NewsRio Film Festival unveils line-up
Titles include Alfonso Cuaron’s acclaimed Gravity and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
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NewsLionsgate plans UK TV push
Mad Men producer Lionsgate is to expand its TV production business into the UK as part of a wider international push.
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NewsWell Go buys TIFF drama McCanick
Well Go USA has acquired all US rights from Bleiberg Entertainment to the crime drama McCanick starring David Morse and the late Cory Monteith.
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NewsTWC buys Rigby, Railway Man
Sources confirmed that The Weinstein Company had paid $3m for North America, the UK and France on The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby and $2m for US on The Railway Man. Both will open in 2014.
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NewsBritdoc names five Puma finalists
The Act of Killing and Bully among those up for the $66,000 Puma Impact Award, with a jury including Susan Sarandon and Gael Garcia Bernal.
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NewsABC boss eyes UK for co-pros
US network ABC chief Paul Lee is keen to kick off talks with UK talent and producers to commission more international coproductions.
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NewsJurassic Park 4 sets release date
Universal sets June 2015 release for the latest in the dino franchise, which will be titled Jurassic World.