Small MPU – Page 1017
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NewsTwilight's Stephenie Meyer to produce rom-com Austenland
Meyer’s Fickle Fish, the production company the Twilight author runs with Meghan Hibbett, is financing the feature directorial debut of Jerusha Hess, who co-wrote Napoleon Dynamite with her husband Jared Hess.
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NewsNancy Fishman Film Releasing boards Romeo And Juliet In Yiddish
The San Francisco Bay Area-based distributor negotiated the deal with director and producer Eve Annenberg and holds US rights and non-exclusive broadcast and festival international rights.
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NewsWell Go USA takes all rights to Let The Bullets Fly
The Asian cinema specialist picked up North American rights to four films from Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures.
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NewsAktis acquires KVIFF competitor Lollipop Monster
Aktis Film International has acquired the international distribution rights for Ziska Riemann’s feature debut Lollipop Monster which has its international premiere in Karlovy Vary’s main competition today (July 6).
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Switzerland, Germany and Austria sign trilateral co-production agreement
Trilateral co-production agreement between Switzerland, Germany and Austria comes into effect, but international visibility of Swiss cinema dealt a blow by ministry’s cost-cutting.
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NewsEuropa Distribution elects new board, co-presidents
Lumiere, Gutek heads assume co-presidency of European indies organisation; Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu takes on Presidency of Honor role.
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NewsDIFF showcases Arab cinema at London Shubbak festival
Films from UAE, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Egypt to screen during capital’s first festival of contemporary Arab culture
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FeaturesElizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, Number 9 Films
Number 9 producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen talk to Screen about Mike Newell’s adaptaiton of Great Expectations and the challenges of running an independent production company in the UK.
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FeaturesWeekly International Box Office July 1 - 3
Transformers shuts out international opposition as China and India fly the flag for local fare
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NewsChristian Grass steps down from role at Universal
Industry stalwart Christian Grass has stepped down from his role as President, Universal Pictures International Productions & Acquisitions.
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FeaturesNuno Bernardo
Cross-platform producer Nuno Bernardo talks to Screen about the opportunites afforded by transmedia and his work on Noel Clarke comedy The Knot.
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NewsImagi strikes deals with Disney on Pleasant Goat
Hong Kong’s animation studio Imagi International and its strategic partner Guangdong Creative Power Entertaining (CPE) have reached a distribution deal with The Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture to distribute the fourth movie of popular Chinese animation series Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf.
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NewsChina's box office up 13.6% in the first half of 2011
The box office revenue in China reached $850m (RMB5.5bn) in the first six months of 2011, a 13.6% increase from the figure of the same period in 2010.
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NewsMikael Hafstrom to direct Wake for Exclusive's Hammer label
The genre director behind 1408 and The Rite will direct the thriller about a sociopath without any sense of fear.
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NewsParamount launches animation division
Paramount Animation will release one film a year budgeted in the $100m range as uncertainty hovers over the future of its relationship with DreamWorks Animation.
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NewsIFC Midnight pounces on Autoerotic
Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard’s film stars Kate Lyn Shiel, Amy Seimetz, Lane Hughes, Kris Swanberg, Ti West and Frank V Ross.
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NewsMandate, Reiser, Levine reunite on Jamaica
Will Reiser teams up with longtime collaborators Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jonathan Levine to develop the comedy feature.