Production news archive
Dialogue of Cultures festival launches $40,000 grant
The grant is for the production of a 30 minute documentary and is open to director/producer teams from around the world.
Easternlight picks up Chinese trio
Arclight’s Asian division, Easternlight Films, has picked up international rights to three upcoming Chinese productions – The Assassins, The Four and Hur Jin-ho’s Dangerous Liaisons.
BFI Shorts scheme open for applications
The scheme is being managed by Lighthouse, the digital agency behind filmmaker mentoring programme Guiding Lights.
Robert Redford to star in J.C. Chandor's All Is Lost
FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales on the project, which will be distributed in the US by Lionsgate.
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Naomi Watts to play Princess Diana
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Billy Connolly joins cast of The Hobbit
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Wild Bunch delves into Lou Ye's Mystery
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Memento bites into Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are remake
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Renny Harlin ventures to Ural Mountains for Aldamisa thriller
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Bankside boards Gillian Armstrong’s The Great and Amma Asante’s Belle
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WestEnd boards The Invisible Woman, Kristin Scott Thomas joins cast, Fiennes to star as Dickens and direct
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Schwarzenegger joins Stallone in The Tomb, sold by Summit
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HanWay picks up Daniel Stamm thriller The Darkness
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Jack O'Connell, Alice Englert in talks for Beautiful Creatures
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in final talks for Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man
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Amy Adams signs on for Object of Beauty
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Hungarian Fund backs Balint Kenyeres project; brings animated Tragedy of Man to EFM
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Dolph Lundgren to star in Battle of the Damned for Bleiberg's Compound B
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W2 Media moves into The Killing House
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Russian producers head to Berlin with new projects from Seidler and Lungin, Bondarchuk and Bekmambetov
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Screen Yorkshire unveils £15m production fund
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Ruffalo, Johansson to star in Carney's Song for Exclusive
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Iben Akerlie to star in Knut Hamsun adaptation Victoria
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Working Title confirms Hugh Grant still in Bridget Jones's Baby cast
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Alcon to finance, Summit Int'l to sell Beautiful Creatures
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Sony, Film District, Alliance team up for Insidious sequel
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The Raid producers to make sequel later this year
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Stewart Till backs Daniel Battsek as head of BFI Film Fund
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Kate Hudson is Everly for Crime Scene, Anonymous Content
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FilmEngine to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan
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Ahmed's Fineline gets funding for development slate in South Africa
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Denis Villeneuve to direct adaptation of Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza
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K5 strikes output and development deal with Knudsen and Van Hoy
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Endgame to finance Steven Soderbergh’s Bitter Pill
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Swedish Film Institute backs new films from Andersson, Hallstrom, Odell
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Deluxe expands UK digital cinema operation
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Nala Films plans festival run for Decoding Deepak
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Relativity takes over Stretch Armstrong project with Hasbro
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Lightning lines up comedy The Hot Flashes for EFM
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Shooting begins on The Seasoning House
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Sarah Jessica Parker replaces Demi Moore on Lovelace
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Hot projects on Screenbase
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Black Pond directors reveal plans for second feature
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Hugh Bonneville to star in adaptation of Peter James' Dead Simple
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Film Factory picks up Fangs for international sales
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European film funding reached peak in 2009
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Casting update: Hemsworth is Timeless, Sevigny joins Lovelace
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MEDIA says Bosnia & Herzegovina to be full member by end of year
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Percentage of women directors in Hollywood declining
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Northern Film & Media launches pilot jobs fund
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TrustNordisk takes Escape to EFM for pre-sales
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Antonia Campbell Hughes in talks to join Malone in Lonely Hunter
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Greek box office down 7% in 2011; distributors try new measures during financial crisis
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Ro*Co Productions, 1492 sign production deal
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Content Film, Preferred Content strike genre deal
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Comedy Cool Water underway in Amman
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English-language Frankenstein update readies in Greece
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Lena Headey to play lead in Gary Sinyor thriller The Unseen
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Goodwin joins UK production company Western Edge; busy slate includes golf, Dumas projects
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K5 boards Groundswell’s Very Good Girls starring Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen
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New Regency strikes first-look deal with Israel's ADD
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eOne inks output deal with Steven Schneider and Adi Shankar
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Harvest, Sun Redrock launch $800m fund to invest in Asian and Western companies and films
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Aspect strikes three-picture genre deal with Blanc/Biehn
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Damian Lewis, Natascha McElhone join Romeo And Juliet
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Hot projects on Screenbase
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Juno Temple to play Princess Margaret in Ecosse’s Girls' Night Out
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Fortissimo takes aim at Monsoon Shootout
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Focus, Working Title sign Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall for thriller
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Jim Sheridan writing US update of Into The West
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Code Name Geronimo shoot gets underway in New Mexico
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Netherlands Film Fund overhauls model in wake of funding cuts
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Mia Wasikowska joins cast of Richard Ayoade's The Double
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Daisy Lowe, Alfie Allen to star in London thriller Confine
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Sierra / Affinity sets April start in Romania for Wer
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Columbia, Hasbro, Adam Sandler go to Candy Land
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Strategic Partners co-production spotlight on UK and US
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UK domestic productions down, co-productions up in 2011
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Vera Farmiga to play Fleetwood Mac singer in The Drummer
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Likely Story sets writers for Too Cool graphic novel adaptation
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LevelK boards indie rom com Not Another Happy Ending
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Rotterdam roundup: new plans from Odoul, Kaurismaki; Raul Ruiz's widow takes over project
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Home Again shooting in Trinidad before move to Toronto
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Agnieszka Holland to direct mini series for HBO Czech Republic
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Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly in talks to join Writers
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Films of Record to put life at Cern on YouTube
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K5 launches LA division with Kevin Frakes as CEO
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beActive unveils new transmedia documentary show Road To Revolution
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F. Javier Gutiérrez attached to direct Relativity's The Crow
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Theo Angelopoulos dies after road accident on shoot near Athens
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BFI Film Fund backs projects by Newell, Potter, McDonagh
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Incognito Pictures launches, signs output deal with TWC
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Granier-Deferre makes directorial debut with Le Weekend
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GE, Cinelan announce Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge
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Sandberg, Ronning to follow Kon-tiki with Beatles
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Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds to star in Big Eyes
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Oak Street, Zero Gravity, Epic unite for The Outsider
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Jan De Bont to remake crime drama Five Minutes To Live
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Francisco Barreiro to star in Here Comes The Devil




