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  • EntertainmentDeadline

    Mamoru Oshii To Oversee 4K Remastering Of 1985 Animation ‘Angel’s Egg’ As Gebeka Int’l Lines Up Cannes Sales Launch

    EXCLUSIVE: Animation-focused sales company Gebeka International has acquired world sales rights to an upcoming 4K remastered version of Japanese animation director Mamoru Oshii’s 1985 animated feature Angel’s Egg. Oshii is best known internationally for 1995 breakout Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, which world premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2004, and the Patlabor sci-fi franchise. …

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    Rapt Films Boards Queer Sports Drama ‘Riley’ And Will Launch Sales At Cannes Market

    EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales outfit Rapt Films International has acquired worldwide sales rights to Benjamin Howard’s debut US film Riley and will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes Market. The pic charts the life of a talented teenage athlete who begins to unravel when his burgeoning queer identity competes against his idea of what it means …

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  • NewsDeadline

    Chinese Giant iQIYI Accused Of Streaming Korean Masterpiece ‘Oldboy’ For Years Without Permission

    EXCLUSIVE: Chinese streaming giant iQIYI is involved in a legal row after featuring Korean masterpiece Oldboy in its library for at least six years without a proper license. iQIYI is one of the biggest streaming services in the world, with more than 100M subscribers, but the company has faced a legal claim from Oldboy’s London-based …

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  • EntertainmentDeadline

    ‘Such Brave Girls’: BBC & Hulu Comedy From Various Artists Ltd & A24 Gets Second Season

    EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominated British comedy Such Brave Girls is returning for a second season. The BBC has reordered the series, which plays on Hulu in the U.S. and is from Various Artists Ltd and A24. Such Brave Girls follows Josie (Kat Sadler), her sister Billie (Lizzie Davidson) and their mum Deb (Louise Brealey), as they attempt …

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  • EntertainmentDeadline

    All3Media’s Objective Consolidating Betty and Triple Brew: The Indies That Make ‘Lingo’ & ‘Wheeler Dealers’ Will Be Replaced By A Single Label

    EXCLUSIVE: Two well-known UK indies will become one as All3Media’s Objective Media Group consolidates Triple Brew and Betty into a new, as-yet-unnamed single label, Deadline has learned. The restructure of Objective’s unscripted business means the prodcos’ combined slate, including the likes of The Cube, Lingo, Wheeler Dealers and Bear Grylls series Bear’s Mission With…, will …

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  • EntertainmentThe Guardian

    ‘I love erotic thrillers, but this so isn’t one’: Damian Hurley on directing his mother, Elizabeth, in a ‘sensual mystery’

    At 22, Damian Hurley has made his first feature film, in which his very famous mum is snogged and fondled by her female co-star. He talks about being a nepo baby, finally getting to vote, and coping with the deaths of his father and stepfather

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  • NewsThe Hollywood Reporter

    Eurovision: Israel’s Entrant Booed During Rehearsal

    Eden Golan, Israel’s entrant for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, was booed during rehearsals on Thursday, with the crowd in Malmö, Sweden chanting “Free Palestine” during the singer’s performance. Ahead of the Eurovision semi-final, Golan was performing her song “Hurricane” when sections of the crowd turned on her and the jeering began. In video clips …

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