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FeaturesTinkering with the masterplan
As StudioCanal rebrands Optimum Releasing and Kinowelt, Danny Perkins and Wolfgang Braun discuss why it is more than a name change, and Olivier Courson lays out the company’s pan-European ambitions
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NewsSouth Korea submits The Front Line for Oscar race
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced The Front Line, directed by Jang Hun, will be the Republic of Korea’s entry to the Academy Awards’ foreign language film category.
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FeaturesNaked ambition
With all eyes on Scandinavia to find the next lucrative international franchise, Norway is stepping into the frame.
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Features
Catch me if you can
Tom Hanks’ genial, engaging persona has made him one of the most successful film stars in the world. We examine the key territories for Hanks at the box office.
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NewsLevelK boards Toronto-bound Finnish feature The Good Son
LevelK has taken on sales for Zaida Bergroth’s psychological drama The Good Son, which will premiere in Toronto.
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NewsMichael Radford to direct PG Wodehouse feature
A film based on the true story of writer PG Wodehouse is set to begin production in spring 2012 in Germany, France and the UK.
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NewsOverheard 2 big in China as The Inbetweeners storms the UK
Screen rounds up the biggest independent movers and shakers on the international scene
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NewsChazz Palminteri to play mafia boss in Levinson's mob feature
Palminteri will star alongside John Travolta, Al Pacino and Ben Foster in Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father.
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NewsJeb Brody named president of production at Focus Features
The executive arrives from his parallel role at Vendome Pictures and replaces John Lyons, who is returning to work as a producer and devoting more time to philanthropy.
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NewsSky could be forced to loosen grip on Pay TV rights in UK
UK independent sales agents and distributors have given a cautious welcome to the report from industry watchdog the Competition Commission recommending that Sky’s grip on premium Pay TV movie rights in the UK should be loosened.
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FeaturesUK premiere of One Day at Westfield
Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess were out on the pink carpet for the UK premiere of One Day at London’s Westfield Shopping Centre.
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NewsNYFF to screen revised Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory with new ending
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Toronto-bound miscarriage of justice documentary will receive its US premiere with the fresh new ending that includes the release of the West Memphis 3.
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NewsTribeca Film launches VoD slate Tomorrow's Cult Classics Today
The line-up launches on demand on Aug 25 and includes Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, a documentary that resulted from a series of tape recordings of noisy neighbours by a pair of friends.
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Features
Kino Lorber takes US rights to Moroder's Metropolis
The distributor will open Giorgio Moroder’s version of Fritz Lang’s classic in more than 20 markets before it launches on Blu-ray and DVD on Nov 15. The official title will be Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis.
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NewsLondon shoot begins on UK rom-com The Wedding Video
Director Nigel Cole reunites with his Calendar Girls writing partner Tim Firth on the story of a best man at his brother’s society wedding who films the event as it falls apart.
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CommentChina’s international ambitions
What the Relativity Media and Legendary Pictures deals say about China rallying forth into the world.
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NewsTyrannosaur marks Bavaria Film’s return to theatrical distribution
UK actor Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur is set to mark Bavaria Film’s return to the world of theatrical distribution when the film opens in German cinemas on October 13.
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NewsBFI opens new £12m archive facility as part of Screen Heritage UK
The BFI has opened a new Master Film Store at Gaydon in Warwickshire as part of its £22.8m Screen Heritage UK (SHUK) programme, funded by the DCMS.
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CommentOn the road with the rain man
The welcomes might have been warm at the Karlovy Vary, St Petersburg and Sarajevo festivals, but the weather proved more inhospitable
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FeaturesNorthern exposure
Some of the world’s most electric foreign-language titles are being made by Norwegian film-makers right now. Screen profiles a selection of new films and spotlights a trio of rising directors.