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Roger Birnbaum announced on Wednesday (Oct 3) that he is stepping down from the joint leadership role at the studio to focus on producing.
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Red Granite Pictures and Alexandra Milchan have settled their legal dispute over the upcoming memoir adaptation and dismissed their respective lawsuits against each other.
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The chairman of the RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television announced the acquisition on Wednesday (3) and said shareholders from Image and Acorn had approved the transaction. The new company is called RLJ Entertainment.
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Nine individual screenwriters and one writing team have been selected for the competition. The Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee will now read and judge the screenplays and may award up to five of the $35,000 fellowships.
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The session will take place from Oct 21-16 at the Sundance Resort in Utah and will support projects that “use technology to deepen story and engage audiences.”
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Patricia Clarkson stars in the feature directorial debut from Tom Dolby and Tom Williams.
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Scotland’s first CGI animated feature boasts the vocal talents of Sean Connery in his first voice-over role.
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Amazon’s original content arm has added Ania Ahlborn’s gothic tale to its development slate.
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Steven C Miller’s new film hails from the producing team behind festival horror hit V/H/S. Bleiberg will commence sales in MIPCOM through its Compound B label.
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ARC Entertainment has acquired domestic theatrical and home entertainment rights to Benjamin Epps’ comedy starring Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine and Olesya Rulin.
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Sales company Odin’s Eye has sold North American rights to the Chinese film Million Dollar Crocodile to Screen Media Films, which will now begin planning for a release in the first quarter of next year.
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For the fifth consecutive year five directors have been selected for the initiative targeted at emerging filmmakers of African nationality and residence. Each will receive $10,000.
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Screen’s US editor Jeremy Kay talks to director Rian Johnson, his producer Ram Bergman and producer/financier Jim Stern about how they packaged the film and how China’s DMG came on board.
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The BFI demonstrates some real business savvy in its new Forward Plan.
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The Bullhead director was the subject of the annual Binger-Screen International interview in Utrecht.
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Dir: Ang Lee. US. 2012. 125mins
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Dir/scr: Stevan Riley. UK. 2012. 98mins
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Dir: Scott Derrickson. US. 2012. 110mins
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Dir/scr: Eric Walter. US. 2012. 88mins
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Iron Sky director Timo Vuorensola is also working on I Killed Adolf Hitler and TV series Deus X.
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The high-profile cast of Laurent Tirard’s highly anticipated Asterix and Obelix: in Britain 3D — led by Gérard Depardieu, Edouard Baer and Catherine Deneuve — were out in force on Sunday afternoon for a packed, first public preview of the film at Paris’ iconic, 2,800-seat Grand Rex cinema.
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AMPAS celebrated the extraordinary career of cinematographer and director Chris Menges on Friday night at London’s Soho Hotel.
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Screen International presents our AFM 2012 Product Guide; entries deadline is Oct 1.
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