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NewsCinema Guild lands Cousin Jules
The Cinema Guild announced on Thursday [25] that it has acquired all distribution rights to a digitally restored version of Dominique Benicheti’s 1972 documentary Cousin Jules.
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NewsOddLot, Summit line up Draft Day
Shooting on the dramedy is set to commence on Apr 25 in New York, Summit Entertainment and OddLot Entertainment announced on Wednesday [24].
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NewsFFI to sell Amy Winehouse doc
Focus Features International (FFI) will handle worldwide sales on the new documentary from Senna and The Warrior director Asif Kapadia and will kick off pre-sales next month in Cannes.
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NewsTFI unveils TAA, Sloan winners
Terence Nance’s narrative project The Lobbyists and Lyric R Cabral and David F Sutcliffe’s documentary (T)ERROR prevailed at the 10th Annual Tribeca All Access (TAA) Creative Promise Awards on Wednesday night [24]. Newton’s Laws Of Emotion won the inaugural TFI Sloan Filmmaker Prize.
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CNN Films, Cinedigm acquire Our Nixon
Penny Lane directed the documentary that CNN will broadcast in August and Cinedigm will release theatrically.
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NewsIMAX, Picturehouse cut Metallica deal
In a move that illustrates the growing must-see cachet of the giant screen company, Nimród Antal’s Metallica Through The Never will be digitally re-mastered into the IMAX 3D format and released wide in North America exclusively in IMAX theatres for a one-week run starting on Sept 27.
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NewsRealD opens Latin America office
The 3D cinema specialist has set up a hub in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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NewsZach Braff turns to Kickstarter
UPDATE: Hot on the heels of Kristen Bell’s Veronica Mars campaign, Zach Braff has targeted a $2m raise to get his directorial follow-up to Garden State off the ground and had already received $1.54m or 57% in pledges as the end of the first day [24] approached.
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NewsThree promoted at Sundance Selects / IFC
Lauren Schwartz will head film publicity and Shani Ankori will head marketing for the company’s distribution labels, Sundance Selects and IFC Films.
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K5 takes Cutie and the Boxer
K5 International has secured the rights to Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer, screening this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Osiris enters theatrical arena
Television and home entertainment distributor Osiris Entertainment is to make its first foray into theatrical.
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Voltage sparks to Home Invasion
Voltage Pictures will finance the micro-budget thriller Home Invasion for Joel Silver.
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NewsDiamond switches roles at QED
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Diamond has segued from president of international sales into a production deal with QED International. The first project under the deal will be the ensemble comedy Mothers.
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NewsDom Rep studio gets $20m investment
Pinewood Indomina Studios in the Dominican Republic has received a $20m investment from World Bank Group member IFC.
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NewsFocus takes Dallas Buyers Club
The distributor has bolstered it awards season war chest and acquired the Matthew McConaughey drama for the US and Latin America in a deal brokered with CAA. Voltage Pictures handles international sales.
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NewsBuscemi joins Khumba cast
Steve Buscemi and Anika Noni Rose have joined Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne and AnnaSophia Robb on South Africa-based Triggerfish Animation Studios’ Annecy-bound Khumba.
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NewsProduce By Conference adds trio
Jerry Bruckheimer, Roland Emmerich and Curtis Jackson will participate as speakers at the 5th annual Produced By Conference on the Fox lot.
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NewsXLrator enters Warhouse
XLrator Media has acquired all US rights to the psychological thriller Warhouse for release later this year.
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The Mercy List starts shoot
Producers Jan Wilson of Happy Frog Films and Scarlet Karimian of Escargo Productions have partnered up for psychological thriller The Mercy List.
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NewsTall begins shoot for SPWA, AFFIRM
Principal photography started on Monday [22] in New Orleans on the high school football film When The Game Stands Tall, produced by Mandalay for Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) and its AFFIRM Films division.