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Film News: Coin helps subsidize distribution — In international sales, most Latin American films’ biggest problem is that they’re not European.

Film News: Wall Street vet to head media and entertainment practice — Lisbeth Barron joins the firm as Managing Director and Head of its Media, Entertainment and Leisure Advisory Practice.

Film News: Distribs
fight Hollywood juggernaut — In 2009, an avalanche of Hollywood 3D tentpoles, including “Avatar” and “Ice Age 3,” drove the French B.O. to an all-time record high with €1.2 billion ($1.8 billion) from some 200 million admissions.

Film News: Former Sony executive named senior adviser — Former Sony Pictures exec Benjamin Feingold is joining Hill & Knowlton as a senior adviser.

Film News: Actor wraps up deal to join videogame adaptation — Jamie Foxx is wrapping up a deal to play the schizophrenic killer in ‘Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.’

Film News: Parker, Nixon, Cattrall, Davis nab ensemble kudo — Who could have known when Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristen Davis filmed the “Sex and the City” pilot in 1997 that it would become not only a phenom but a 21st-century film franchise?

Film News: Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz starrer will hit theaters on June 25 — Twentieth Century Fox is moving up the release of Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz starrer “Knight & Day.”

Film News: Former WB general counsel joins as partner — Former Warner Bros. general counsel John Schulman has joined Los Angeles-based law firm Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp as a partner, chairman of its entertainment department and member of its governing board, effective Jan. 1.