reported by Cal Gervais, CyberScreenwriter.com

Danny Fisher, CEO of New York-based City Lights Pictures, a division of City Lights Media Group, has acquired North American distribution rights to 2007 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner "Manda Bala." Simultaneously, Celsius picked up foreign distribution rights and the Sundance Channel took domestic broadcast rights.

Cinetic Media represented the filmmakers in the deal.

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reported by Betty Paulsino, CyberScreenwriter.com

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, two of the most famous and celebrated filmmakers working today, have joined forces to create a series of motion picture films based on the adventures of Tintin, the iconic character created by Georges Remi, better known to the world by his pen name "Herge."

Spielberg and Jackson have selected three stories from the Tintin book series to develop into theatrical feature films, which they intend to direct back to back, employing state of the art performance capture technology.

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