Tag: Global

British Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn to Deliver Edinburgh TV Festival Lecture

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  1. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn To Give Alternative MacTaggart At Edinburgh International TV Festival
  2. Great Point Boards Sales On Maxine Peake Movie From ‘Deep State’ Producer Endor
  3. British Politicians Urge Inclusion Riders To Be Introduced To Secure Film & High-End TV Tax Relief
  4. ‘Chewing Gum’ Creator Michaela Coel To Give Prestigious MacTaggart Lecture At Edinburgh International TV Festival

Sally Field, Bill Pullman Set London Stage Debuts in ‘All My Sons’

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  1. ‘The Sinner’ Review: Not Much Virtue In Jessica Biel & Bill Pullman Series
  2. Hyde Park Takes Overseas On Bill Pullman & Lotte Verbeek Thriller ‘The Coldest Game’
  3. Bill Pullman Says He’s “Coming Of Age” With ‘The Ballad Of Lefty Brown’ – SXSW
  4. How Sally Field Landed Her First Major Role in ‘Gidget’

‘El Angél’ Breaks Argentina’s Domestic Box Office Record

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  1. Director Luis Ortega On The Real-Life Horror Of ‘El Angel’ – Cannes Studio
  2. MPAA Report: World Box Office Topped Record $40 Billion In 2017, But Domestic Dipped 2%
  3. Disney Sets Industry Record At Domestic Box Office; Crosses $4B Intl For First Time
  4. Argentina Admissions Edge Down, Gross Box Office Shoots Up 25% To All Time Record

Chile’s Sanfic: 7 Takes on This Year’s Festival

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  1. SANFIC: Chile’s Roberto Doveris Producing ‘The Prince,’ Santiago Muñoz’s Directorial Debut (EXCLUSIVE)
  2. Cannes Critics’ Week and Chile’s SANFIC Strike Partnership
  3. Chile’s Sanfic Announces Works in Progress Participants (EXCLUSIVE)
  4. SANFIC: Venezuelan Drama ‘La Familia’ Snags Top Honors at This Year’s Festival

Cannes Prizewinner ‘3 Faces’ Bought for U.S. by Kino Lorber (EXCLUSIVE)

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  1. Bi Gan’s Cannes Pic ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Gets U.S. Deal Via Kino Lorber
  2. Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘The Image Book’ Acquired By Kino Lorber – Cannes
  3. Kino Lorber Acquires ‘Pop Aye’ — Sundance 2017
  4. Tribeca Winner ‘Keep the Change’ Bought by Kino Lorber (EXCLUSIVE)

San Sebastián Adds Films by Mendoza, Groeningen, Garrel, Strickland to the Golden Shell Race

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  1. Brillante Mendoza to Head Jury at Malaysia Festival
  2. San Sebastian: Claire Denis, Kim Jee-woon, Naomi Kawase Make Competition
  3. San Sebastian: Latido Films, Colombia’s 64-A Films Strike Sales Alliance (EXCLUSIVE)
  4. IDFA: Brazil’s Habanero Films Boards Ruben Mendoza’s ‘Miss María, Skirting the Mountain’ (EXCLUSIVE)

‘Ága’ Wins Top Prize At Sarajevo Film Festival

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  1. ‘I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians’ Wins Top Prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
  2. Czech-Slovak Film ‘Little Crusader’ Wins Top Prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
  3. Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War’ Kicks Off Sarajevo Film Festival
  4. Sarajevo Film Festival Signs Gender-Parity Pledge

Stormy Daniels Reportedly Storms Out of U.K. ‘Big Brother’ at Last Minute

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  1. Stormy Daniels NOT In British ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, Reportedly Pulls Out At The Last Minute
  2. Trump’s Lawyer Sues Stormy Daniels For $20M In Advance Of ’60 Minutes’ Interview
  3. Peter Bart: Donald Trump’s Nightmare, Stormy Daniels Has A Secret Side As Prolific Film Director With Skills
  4. Viacom’s Channel 5 Lines Up Porn Star Stormy Daniels & Kirstie Alley For ‘Celebrity Big Brother’

Sarajevo’s Kinoscope Sidebar Focuses on the Bold and Experimental

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  1. ‘Piercing’ Director Nicolas Pesce On Confronting “A Different Sort Of Beast” — Sundance Studio
  2. Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott Starring in Nicolas Pesce’s Upcoming Thriller ‘Piercing’
  3. Mia Wasikowska, Christopher Abbott Starring in Thriller ‘Piercing’ (EXCLUSIVE)
  4. Sarajevo: Albanian Director Gentian Koçi Breaks Ground With First Feature Film, ‘Daybreak’

Korean Actress Lee Ha-nee Signs with WME, AGI for Hollywood Debut

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  1. Korean Talent Agencies Ordered to End Slave Contracts
  2. Tyler Perry to Produce English-Language Remake of Korean Film ‘Miss Granny’ With CJ E&M
  3. Korean Broadcasters Introduce Kocowa To Stream K-Wave Entertainment
  4. Gang Dong-won’s Hollywood Debut ‘Tsunami LA’ Secures Korean Distributor

Chile’s Jirafa Taps New Exec Producer, Relaunches Distribution Operations (Exclusive)

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  1. Ventana Sur: Bruno Bettati Rejoins Jirafa as Chilean Prod Co Bows Distribution Op (EXCLUSIVE)
  2. ‘47 Meters Down’ Producer Fyzz Facility Recruits Former Ingenious Exec Charles Auty (EXCLUSIVE)
  3. BYU Broadcasting to Streamline TV and Radio Operations, Boost BYUtv Distribution
  4. ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Taps ‘Chicago Justice’ Exec Producer as Showrunner

Feature Debut of Ileana Vasquez Set to Roll (EXCLUSIVE)

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  1. Iconoclast To Produce Karim Boukercha’s Feature Debut
  2. Morelia: Mexican Filmmaker Alejandro Rios Prepares ‘Robat,’ His Animated Feature Debut
  3. Femme-Power Drives Ecuadorian Gabriela Calvache’s Feature Debut ‘La Mala Noche’ (EXCLUSIVE)
  4. LevelK, Meta Film Team on Mads Brügger’s Feature Debut, ‘St. Bernard Syndicate’ (EXCLUSIVE)

‘Stranger Things’ Star Millie Bobby Brown to Narrate Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Spheres’

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  1. Patti Smith Narrates Darren Aronofsky’s VR Experience ‘Spheres: Pale Blue Dot’
  2. Millie Bobby Brown to Return as Eleven for Season 2 of ‘Stranger Things’
  3. ‘Stranger Things’ Star Millie Bobby Brown to Face Down ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’
  4. ‘Stranger Things’ Star Millie Bobby Brown on Arguing With the Duffers and Her Surprising Next Goal

San Sebastian: Films in Progress Picks ‘Los Fuertes,’ ‘The Prince,’ ‘Sirena’

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  1. San Sebastian: Pablo Fendrik, Jayro Bustamante, Pepa San Martín, Emiliano Torres Set for Co-production Forum
  2. San Sebastian: ’Underground,’ ‘The Sower’ ‘Killing Jesus,’ ‘Princesita’ Make New Directors Cut
  3. Glocal In Progress Launches at 2017 San Sebastian Fest
  4. San Sebastian: ‘A Simple Man,’ ‘Queen Lear,’ ‘Invisible’ To Feature at Glocal in Progress

‘Prisoners of War’ to Be First Hebrew-Language Show to Roll Into India

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  1. Viacom18 Takes India Format Rights to ‘Rising Star’ From Keshet
  2. ‘Homeland’ Was Just the Beginning, as Gideon Raff’s ‘Prisoners of War’ Inspires More Shows Globally
  3. BuzzFeed Teams Up With Keshet for New Digital Game Show
  4. Nicolas Cage To Star In Sion Sono’s English-Language Debut ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’ – Cannes

Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’ Sets London Film Festival First With Manchester Premiere

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  1. ‘Peterloo’ First Trailer: Mike Leigh Returns and Brings to Life Britain’s Infamous 1819 Massacre
  2. BFI London Film Festival Sets First Non-London Premiere With ‘Peterloo’ In Manchester
  3. ‘Peterloo’ First Look: Mike Leigh Recreates the 19th Century Massacre For His 13th Feature Film
  4. Cannes: Cornerstone Boards Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’

Sarajevo Film Festival Signs Gender-Parity Pledge

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  1. Locarno Film Festival Signs Pledge for Gender Parity in Programming
  2. Locarno Film Festival Set to Sign Gender Parity Pledge (EXCLUSIVE)
  3. Locarno Film Festival Signs Pledge for Parity
  4. Cannes Film Festival Directors Sign Pledge Vowing to Increase Gender Equality at Festival

Wong Kar-wai Hires Virginia Leung for Film Sales Role

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  1. Tony Leung Breaks With Wong Kar-wai’s Jettone (Reports)
  2. UK Sales Outfit Great Point Media Hires Trio Including Former Altitude Staffer
  3. Andrea Wong Exits As President Of Sony Pictures TV International Production
  4. FremantleMedia Hires Katrina Neylon for Global Content Role

Melanie Laurent Joins Michael Bay’s ‘6 Underground’ for Netflix

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  1. AFM: Melanie Laurent to Direct Ben Foster, Elle Fanning in English-Language Debut ‘Galveston’
  2. Mélanie Laurent, Ben Foster, and Elle Fanning on the dark allure of Galveston
  3. UniFrance Rendez-Vous: Director Laurent Tirard on ‘Return of the Hero’ Starring Jean Dujardin, Melanie Laurent
  4. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’s Ben Hardy Joins Michael Bay’s ‘6 Underground’ At Netflix

Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones Reunited in First Look at Amazon’s ‘Aeronauts’

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  1. Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones Together Again for Amazon’s ‘The Aeronauts’
  2. Felicity Jones-Eddie Redmayne Ballooning Pic ‘The Aeronauts’ Under Way In UK, Amazon Releases Striking First-Look
  3. Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones in Talks to Reunite for Amazon Film ‘The Aeronauts’ (EXCLUSIVE)
  4. Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones In Talks To Pair Again For ‘The Aeronauts’ At Amazon Studios