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NewsJill Jones among Mister Smith staff additions
David Garrett’s London-based sales outfit Mister Smith has added former Summit and Lionsgate exec Jill Jones as its London and Paris based executive vice president of marketing and publicity.
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NewsDreamWorks Studios boosts international distribution
DreamWorks Studios has struck 10 further output deals under its representation arrangement with David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment.
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NewsStudiocanal to co-produce French remake of Starbuck
Studiocanal is to finance, distribute and co-produce a French remake of hit Canadian comedy Starbuck.
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NewsTrustNordisk kicks off pre-sales on new Lukas Moodysson film
Story is about three teenage girls in 1980s Stockholm.
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NewsHigh Point enrols in Class of Fun
High Point Media Group acquires world rights to Barbara Bredero’s school-set comedy [pictured], which broke records domestically in Holland.
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NewsThe Match Factory boards Prince Avalanche
Sales company picks up international rights to David Gordon Green’s latest feature, which will receive its international premiere in competition at Berlin.
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NewsK5 International revives Selick's The Shadow King
K5 International is bringing the director [pictured] to the EFM to conduct special presentations to selected buyers.
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NewsBankside picks up Philosophers in time for Berlin
Bankside Films has come on to handle international sales in Berlin on fantasy thriller The Philosophers starring James D’Arcy. Paradigm represents North American rights.
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NewsIncognito and Intuition team for Hitsville
Jack Selby and Scott Stone’s LA-based Incognito Pictures and Madrid’s Intuition Films have teamed up to produce the genre film Hitsville.
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NewsEye on Films, Dailymotion launch online film season
Catalogue of films to be screened for free on the first Monday of every month.
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NewsScreen Training Ireland to transfer from FÁS to the Irish Film Board
Transfer of these functions follows the recent publication of the Further Education and Training Bill 2013, which will see the disbanding of FÁS and the establishment of SOLAS.
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NewsMK2 closes theatrical distribution unit
French theatrical release of MK2 slate in France will be handled by Diaphana in the future.
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Estonia's Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma plan historical drama
Estonian filmmaker/producer duo Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma are going back in time to the eve of the First World War for their next feature film project The Hoppers (Hüppajad) which won the Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event in December.
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NewsSC Films boards animation Wish
EXCLUSIVE: Simon Crowe’s SC Films takes international and joint North American rights to family feature from Prana Studios.
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NewsGoteborg’s Dragon Award goes to Before Snowfall
Other winners include Dog Flesh, Searching for Sugar Man, Northwest, A Hijacking, Wadjda, La Ravadeuse and Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart.
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NewsMemento's Artscope picks up Berlinale title In Bloom
Artscope, a label of Paris-based Memento Films International, has picked the Georgian Berlinale Forum title In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimshvili and Simon Gross.
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NewsParadise: Love scores Austrian hat trick; Marcel Gisler's Rosie dominates Swiss noms
The Austrian and Swiss film industries are currently gripped with awards fever with the Austrian Film Awards presented for the third time in Vienna and the nominations for the Swiss Film Awards (aka as the Quartzs) announced at this week’s Solothurn Film Days.
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NewsFilms Distribution picks up Golden Bear contender Harmony Lessons
Paris-based sales outfit also selling Nanouk Leopold’s Panorama screener It’s All So Quiet and documentary Parade.
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NewsDirector Jean-Paul Salomé elected new president of Unifrance
Salomé replaces Mact Productions’ Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre who is leaving to focus on producing.