UPDATE, Writethru: The Official Selection for the 69th Cannes Film Festival was unveiled this morning at Paris’ UGC Normandie cinema on the Champs-Elysées (where a mini-protest against reforms to national labor laws kicked off the proceedings). Chief Thierry Frémaux revealed his picks for next month’s … Read entire story.
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China being one of GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s big talking points this election cycle, what better time for 60 Minutes to take its first look at the film market that brought in more than $1 billion in box office for the first time ever, beating the U.S. and … Read entire story.
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Idris Elba is adding another thread to his resumé with documentary Cut From A Different Cloth. From Woodcut Media and Elba’s Green Door Pictures, the one-hour project focuses on Superdry founders Julian Dunkerton and James Holder as they team with Elba to launch their first premium fashion line. … Read entire story.
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ITV Studios Global Entertainment has signed a host of pre-sales on its upcoming drama, Victoria, which is a Mammoth Screen and Masterpiece co-production for ITV and PBS. Starring Doctor Who‘s Jenna Coleman, the eight-part series has now been acquired by Sweden’s TV4, Norway’s NRK, DR in … Read entire story.
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American Supergroup co-creators and exec producers Kevin Wayne Waldrop and Gary Wayne Bridges were at Mip-TV in Cannes this weekend to announce the launch of international format sales to the show (also exec produced by Barry Josephson, Bones). CAA is handling world rights. The project was originally hatched … Read entire story.
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