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NewseOne cleared to acquire Alliance for $228m
Waiting period expires to pave way for major indie acquisition.
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NewsMaggie Gyllenhaal, Artificial Eye board Frank
Michael Fassbender, Domnhall Gleeson also star in Lenny Abrahamson’s comedy, which gets underway this week.
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NewsAl Jazeera acquires Current TV in $500m deal
International news operator Al Jazeera has acquired Al Gore’s Current TV in a move that will give it significant access to the US market.
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NewsPGA announces motion picture nominations one day early
The Master and The Dark Knight Rises miss the cut but James Bond smash Skyfall is among the 10 nominees for the Darryl F Zanuck Award For Outstanding Producer Of Theatrical Motion Pictures.
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NewsLeonardo DiCaprio to receive Santa Barbara Fest honour
The actor will receive the American Riviera Award. Festival organisers also announced on Wednesday [2] that the annual jamboree will open on Jan 24 with The US premiere of Henry-Alex Rubin’s ensemble drama Disconnect.
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NewsCapri honours Silver Linings, Beasts
David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook was named Best Film Of The Year as the Italian event came to a close on Wednesday [Jan 2].
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NewsPSIFF unveils Talking Pictures programme
Palm Springs International Film Festival top brass have lined up events with Peter Greenaway, Naomi Watts, Tom Hooper and Eddie Redmayne and Alan Cumming.
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NewsHobbit stays top in US; Zero Dark Thirty stuns in limited bow
The fantasy saga from New Line/MGM/Warner Bros stayed atop the box office despite a 57% slide and grossed an estimated $36.7m to climb to $149.9m heading into the holidays. Disney crossed the $1.5bn mark for the year-to-date.
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NewsDisney completes $4.1bn LucasFilm acquisition
At closing Disney issued 37.07m shares and made a cash payment of $2.2m. Based upon the closing price of Disney shares on Dec 21 at $50, the transaction had a total value of approximately $4.06bn.
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NewsGormican starts New York shoot for Zac Efron, Imogen Poots comedy
London-based What If It Barks Films has started shooting its first US feature, Are We Officially Dating.
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NewsUniversal Pictures sets $2.9bn box office record
The studio’s astonishing turnaround was underlined emphatically on Thursday (20) when top brass announced that 2012 will mark the best year at the global box office in Universal’s 100-year history with theatrical grosses surpassing $2.927bn to date.
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Palm Springs International Film Festival unveils festival roster
Pablo Berger’s Spanish foreign language Oscar submission Blancanieves and Paul Andrew Williams’ Unfinished Song will bookend the festival as organisers announced the galas, premieres and New Visions / New Voices strands.
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Imogene gets release date, new name
The Toronto 2012 entry starring Kristen Wiig is now called Girl Most Likely and will go out theatrically through Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions on Jul 19.
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NewsUS senators criticise ‘grossly inaccurate’ Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden thriller is under fire from a bipartisan group of senators who have written to Sony calling for a disclaimer to be added to the film; Bigelow disputes interpretation.
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NewsTLA, Spain’s filmin form online partnership
TLA Releasing’s LGBT catalogue will be available to the Spanish market.
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Breaking Glass acquires North America on From The Head; world on Stuck To Your Pillow
UPDATED: George Griffith’s From The Head stars Matthew Lillard as the charismatic bathroom attendant of a seedy New York strip joint and was shot entirely in a bathroom.
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Awards round-up: Judd Apatow; WGA
The comedy powerhouse will receive the Critics’ Choice Louis XIII Genius Award at the 18th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Jan 10.
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NewsRelativity Foreign launches; company hires Camela Galano
UPDATED: Relativity Media has cemented its international ambitions with the launch of a new division that creates another sales agency in what has been a busy year for the space.
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NewsOpen Road sets Jan 24 release for Ten
David Ayer directs Arnold Schwarzenegger in the thriller. QED International financed and handled international sales.
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Constantin Film acquires film rights to Unwind
Neal Shusterman’s young adult sci-fi bestseller takes place in a dystopian future where parents can elect to donate their teenage children’s organs.