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Independent UK exhibitor SBC International Cinemas has acquired Warner Village Cinemas, the UK exhibition joint venture between Warner Bros International Theatres and Village Roadshow, for $402m  拢250m .At the same time, SBC is rumoured to be eyeing another local circuit, Cine-UK, which, with a current estate of 30 sites and 329 screens, has plans to build six further cinemas <a href=https://www.stanleycups.it>stanley italy</a>  throughout the UK. The current  <a href=https://www.cups-stanley-cups.us>stanley cup</a> acquisition already creates the second largest cinema circuit in the UK behind Odeon Cinemas: adding 36 Warner Village sites to SBC s existing four, creating a chain of nearly 400 screens. SBC also has one site in Portugal, and one in Taiwan.Under a new company called Vue  pronounced  View   the entire circuit will be re-branded over the next six months. Private equity firm Boston Ventures, which founded SBC in 1998, is providing significant additional funding for the acquisition and has been joined <a href=https://www.stanleywebsite.us>stanley cup</a>  as equal partners by private equity firms Clarity Partners and Legal  General Ventures. CIBC World Markets provided the debt financing for the acquisition.  Warner Village did a great job in constructing a very high quality portfolio of multiplex cinemas,  J.Timothy Richards, president  CEO of Vue, said in a statement.  We will continue to expand and enhance this platform to ensure that we have the leading, most modern and best equipped cinema circuit in the UK. The Vue brand will become synonymous with the best screens, the best sound and the best seating, to create t Ysgx UK Film Council P A Fund backs films including London To Brighton and The Host
EXCLUSIVE: The project is co-written byDogtooth writer Efthimis Filippou.Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has signed Babis Makridis black comedy Pity for world sales. The directors follow-up to 2012 Sundance selecti <a href=https://www.stanley-germany.de>stanley germany</a> on L is co-written by Makridis and Yorgos Lanthimos screenwriting collaborator Efthimis Filippou  Dogtooth, The Killing of a Sacred Deer .Pity is billed as the absurd story of a lawyer who feels happy only when he is unhappy. When his wife falls intoacoma, he notices how much better his life is when the people around him pity him. When she recovers, he becomes obsessed with being sad again.Set for delivery later this year, the film is a Greek-Polish coproduction between Neda Film, Faliro House Productions, Madants and Beben Films, supported byEurimages, The Onassis Foundation, ERT SA, the Greek Film  <a href=https://www.stanleycup.ro>stanley romania</a> Center,  Polish Film Institute.New Europe Film Sales past sales line-up has included Cannes ACID selection Scaffolding by Matan Yair, Berlinale Generation ti <a href=https://www.stanleyus.us>stanley us</a> tle Summer 1993, Porto starring Anton Yelchin, Zoology, One Week And A Day and United States Of Love.TopicsEuropeSales           No comments                                                                       Related articles                                                                                                                                        News                                      Luxbox takes on international sales to Radu Judes offbeat comedy drama Dracula                              
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