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What You Need To Know About beIN Media Group, The Qatar-Based New Owner Of Miramaxby alirjaafar

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Protagonist Posts Strong Sales On Oren Moverman’s ‘The Dinner’ And Other EFM Slate

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Protagonist Pictures enjoyed its best ever EFM in Berlin with a slew of sales on its slate, most notably for Oren Moverman’s The Dinner. The multi-character drama, starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall, virtually sold out with deals with Videa (Italy), Dea Planeta (Spain), Phantom Film (Japan), Green Narae (Korea), California Filmes (Latin America), Tanweer (Greece and Turkey), Front Row Entertainment (Middle East), Lev Film (Israel), Freeman… Read

Oscar Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Joins Megyn Kelly & Kerry Washington For Tina Brown’s Global Womens’ Initiative

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EXCLUSIVE: Journalist Tina Brown has never had trouble attracting A-listers to her projects, whether for cover stories in Vanity Fair and Newsweek magazines, top journalists to the publications she has edited or, more recently, women at the forefront of global issuers affecting them for her annual confabs. The Women In The World conference, taking place next month at New York’s Lincoln Center, is a passion project for Brown, founded under the umbrella of her latest… Read

Scott LaStaiti Acquires Anti-Terror Lawyer Stephen Flatow’s Life Rights, AG Capital On-Board To Co-Produce

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Producer Scott LaStaiti is partnering with Alex Garcia’s AG Capital to tell the real-life story of Stephen Flatow, the New Jersey-based lawyer whose daughter Alisa was killed by terrorists in a 1995 suicide bombing. After winning a historic judgment against his daughter's killers, Flatow uncovered an international conspiracy exposing corruption within the world's banking system and captured the imaginations of the public worldwide. LaStaiti acquired the exclusive life… Read

Film Movement Acquires Cesar-Nominated Pic ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’

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New York-based distributor Film Movement has snapped up North American rights to French filmmaker Clément Cogitore's feature directorial Neither Heaven Nor Earth, formerly known as The Wakhan Front. The France-Belgium production was nominated for a César in the Best First Film category, and it played Cannes Critics’ Week last year. The pic will make its U.S. premiere in New York on March 19 and will be released later this year followed by a digital and home video release… Read

Endemol Beyond USA Names Maker Studios’ Bonnie Pan As New President

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Bonnie Pan, a former Maker Studios and Yahoo Video programming executive, will head up Endemol Beyond, the company’s North American digital division. She replaces Will Keenan, who left the company in August after launching the division two years earlier. At Maker, Pan was EVP Programming, responsible for original series in the gaming, lifestyle, family and entertainment categories. She oversaw development and distribution of more than 70 scripted and unscripted series… Read

Colin Callender’s Playground Acquires Epic Migrant Book ‘The New Odyssey’, Planning Major TV Series

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EXCLUSIVE– Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment has acquired Guardian journalist Patrick Kingsley’s epic forthcoming book The New Odyssey- The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis and will use it as the basis to develop and produce a major new TV drama series. Playground, whose credits include the multi-award winning Wolf Hall and The Missing, will develop the project out of its UK office. Kingsley, a former winner of the Frontline Award for print journalism, has spent… Read

Japanese Icon Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano Boards ‘Ghost In The Shell’

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Takeshi “Beat” Kitano has joined the cast of Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks' Ghost in the Shell, his first U.S. role since Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Mnemonic in 1995. Rupert Sanders direct the feature adaptation of famous Japanese manga series by Masamune Shirow. Paramount will release the film in the U.S. on March 31, 2017. The film follows a female Special Ops cyborg (Scarlett Johansson) who is part of an elite task force called Section 9 that’s devoted to stopping the… Read

Netflix In Talks To Acquire Revamped ‘Top Gear’: Report

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Reports surfaced Thursday morning that streaming giant Netflix is in talks with the BBC to acquire some rights on the revamped car show Top Gear.  The deal could mirror the one signed by the two companies on Danger Mouse, the BBC's reboot of the classic children's animated series. On that show, the BBC retained UK broadcast rights, exclusively at first, with Netflix taking selected international rights. Netflix passed on acquiring former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson’s… Read

beIN Media: What You Need To Know About Miramax’s New Owner

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EXCLUSIVE: Miramax’s new owner beIN Media may have raised some eyebrows when it closed its deal to acquire 100% of the once-iconic indie label. For the Qatar-owned group, however, this is only the latest piece in an expanding business empire led by its fiercely ambitious chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi. The reasons behind beIN’s expansion into general entertainment fare are simple. Two thirds of the Arab world's population of 370 million people is under the age of 30. That… Read

‘Carol’ Producers Elizabeth Karlsen And Stephen Woolley On Turning Good Taste Into A Business

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EXCLUSIVE– Getting one high-end, sophisticated independent film off the ground in today's climate is no mean feat. Carol producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen and their company Number 9 Films seem to have cracked a way to turn good taste into a viable business. They are on the verge of having their biggest ever year. Buoyed by the critical success in 2015 of Todd Haynes' period love story, not to mention Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, Woolley and Karlsen… Read

Tom Sturridge, Maisie Williams & More Join Haifaa Al-Mansour’s ‘A Storm In The Stars’

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A Storm In The Stars, the English-language helming debut of Wadjda‘s Haifaa Al-Mansour which began shooting late last month, has now been joined by Far From The Madding Crowd‘s Tom Sturridge, fresh off an Olivier Award nomination for the West End production of American Buffalo. Game Of Thrones‘ Maisie Williams and Stephen Dillane, and Downton Abbey‘s Joanne Froggatt have also been confirmed by the production. Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth star with Bel Powley and Ben… Read

Tony Warren, Creator Of Longest-Running Soap ‘Coronation Street’, Dies At 79

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Tony Warren, the creator of the quintessential British soap opera Coronation Street, has died. The news was announced this morning on the show’s Twitter account. He was 79. Coronation Street is the world’s longest-running soap, having aired continuously since December 1960, when it was first broadcast on Manchester-based Granada Television. Its theme music has become iconic in the UK. Warren first conceived the show, set in the UK’s north-west and centered on a little… Read

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