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25 Oct 2012

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EFP sends communication to EP and EC, call to lobby national politicians over Creative Europe programme

Over 400 figures from the European film industry, including Carey Mulligan [pictured], put their name to European Film Promotion’s communication to the European Parliament and European Commission.
A change of image

As a growing part of the global visual-effects industry, China offers more than low costs and outsourcing. Liz Shackleton reports
Academy issues animation feature awards

Filmmakers must submit entry forms and supporting materials to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences by 5 pm PT on Nov 1.
Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures moves ahead

Award-winning architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali have designed the first major US museum dedicated to the history and ongoing development of motion pictures.
Academy unveils five Nicholl Fellows for screenwriting

Each writer will receive a $35,000 prize, the first instalment of which will be distributed at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov 8.
Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner, Julianne Moore topline Mister Smith’s Imagine

Al Pacino will star as an ageing rocker who reconnects with his son and his music in Dan Fogelman’s directorial debut.
Alex Gibney

Screen talks to Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney about new film Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, about paedophilia in the Catholic Church, which yesterday picked up the Best Documentary prize at the London Film Festival.
AMC/Sundance Channel Global sets up Asia headquarters

Content secured includes Crossfire Hurricane, Downton Abbey and The Imposter.
Araf, Hidden Beauties among winners at Abu Dhabi Film Festival

Araf/Somewhere in Between, directed by Turkey’s Yesim Ustaglu, won the Black Pearl Award for best narrative film at the close of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 11-20). Nouri Bouzid took best director from the Arab world for Hidden Beauties, about two Tunisian women demanding their rights during the revolution.
Artificial Eye adds A Late Quartet to 2013 slate

Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Imogen Poots are among cast.
Arts Alliance to launch Coldplay film in cinemas on Nov 13

More than 50 countries to show concert film.
Asia Pacific heights

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Nov 23) shines the spotlight on a vast region that organisers say does not always receive the attention it deserves. Sandy George reports
Australia’s SPAAMart unveils line-up of seven projects

The Diary Of Jimmy Porterfrom veteran director Nadia Tass, Hard Option from Paul Goldman and supernatural thriller The Fear Of Darkness, which sees Chris Fitchett back in the directors’ chair after several decades, are among the seven features to be presented at SPAAMart.
Balinese industry talks about government support

Two seminars on the subject held as part of Balinale Film Festival.
Beasts, Bernie among Gotham nominee leaders

Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Bernie, Moonrise Kingdom and Middle Of Nowhere each earned two nominations in the run-up to IFP’s 22nd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Nov 26 in New York.
Black Nights unveils titles for inaugural Tridens Herring competition

Feature debut competition replaces previous Baltic competition aiming to present young talent from around the Baltic Sea.
Bollywood icon Yash Chopra dies aged 80

Indian director, producer and studio head Yash Chopra died today in Mumbai where he was being treated for dengue fever. He was 80 years old.
Box office hits The Thieves and Masquerade to bookend London Korean Film Festival

Seventh edition of the festival runs Nov 1-11.
Breakthrough Entertainment to show Cas & Dylan footage at AFM

Jason Priestley makes his feature directorial debut on the caper to star Richard Dreyfuss and Tatiana Maslany.
CAA form joint venture with Indian talent agency KWAN

The new company will represent local talent on the sub-continent and throughout South Asia across a slate of portfolios that includes entertainment, sports consulting, licensing, merchandising, live events and business developments.
Caesar Must Die to open Cinema Italian Style 2012

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Italian foreign language Oscar submission won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale earlier in the year and kick off the Los Angeles event on Nov 13.
Celluloid Nightmares to tempt AFM buyers with Home, Stung

EXCLUSIVE: Celluloid Nightmares will kick off sales at the AFM next week on a pair of genre titles from Los Angeles-based XYZ Films.
Chris McGurk

The chairman and CEO of Cinedigm Entertainment Group tells Jeremy Kay about helping exhibitors fill empty seats.
Cinedigm signs deal with Caribbean Cinemas

The first large-scale deployment outside the US is part of an international expansion plan underway at the digital conversion specialist and independent cinema and alternative content distributor.
Cinema Guild acquires US rights to Before And After Dinner

Cindy Kleine’s documentary Before And After Dinner: The Life And Work Of André Gregory chronicles the life of Louis Malle’s collaborator on My Dinner With André.
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away

Dir/scr: Andrew Adamson. US. 2012. 97mins
CMG to screen new Sarila footage at AFM

Nancy Florence Savard directed The Legend Of Sarila and Cinema Management Group head Edward Noeltner plans to show a trailer of the 3D family adventure.
Crossfire Hurricane

Dir/scr: Brett Morgen. US. 2012. 111mins
Damian Jones to produce viral video director's debut feature

EXCLUSIVE: Newport State of Mind’s MJ Delaney will make her feature debut with adaptation of hit Edinburgh Fringe play.
Distrify works on adding more Led Zep screenings

Omniverse Vision release made more than $2m on its opening night.
Doc team kicks off UK Kickstarter

Kickstarter finally launches in the UK today (Oct 31, no tricking, only treats!) and one of the first UK film projects to use the service is feature documentary The Dark Matter of Love.
Doha selects 21 films for Contemporary World Cinema and 12 for Special Screenings

Festival will close with Rise of the Guardians 3D [pictured].
DT's Move On film to premiere on Nov 6

Asger Leth directs and Mads Mikkelsen stars.
Ealing Metro boards Falklands War thriller Destroyer with Paul Bettany, Matthew Goode attached

EXCLUSIVE: Warp and Crab Apple produce the emotional story surrounding warship HMS Coventry, which was sunk during The Falklands War; Transmission pre-buys Australia-New Zealand.
EC scheme awards €2m to Wild Bunch, ARP and Artificial Eye

Distributors Wild Bunch, ARP and Artificial Eye have secured nearly €2m from the European Commission (EC) to support simultaneous multiplatform releases – a scheme that has drawn criticism from cinema-owners.
EE partners with FilmFlex for 4G VoD

VoD provider FilmFlex has partnered with mobile operator EE to launch a film service aimed at 4G subscribers.
Eli Roth cements The Green Inferno cast ahead of Peru shoot

Worldview Entertainment’s eco-horror film is on the runway for a Nov 5 start. Exclusive Media will commence sales at the AFM and Roth will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Aftershock co-writer Guillermo Amoedo.
Emmy Rossum in talks to join You’re Not You

Rossum [pictured] could star along the previously announced Hilary Swank will star in Alcon Entertainment-based 2S Films’ drama.
Fancy a stay in a Secret Hotel?

Ticket holders to upcoming Secret Cinema production can expand their experience with a night in Secret Hotel.
Feng Shui

Dir: Wang Jing. China. 2012. 120mins
Film Independent unveils 12th Producing Lab participants

The intensive five-week course offers producers support and advice on their feature projects.
Film Movement signs Tugg deal

The world cinema distributor has made available an inaugural 15 films from its slate for US release through the elective theatrical service Tugg.
FilmNation heads to AFM with Hold On To Me

Carey Mulligan and Robert Pattinson will star in James Marsh’s thriller in the vein of To Die For. CAA represents US rights.
Flight

Dir: Robert Zemeckis. US. 2012. 139mins
Flight to receive Chicago fest’s Founder’s Award

Top brass at the 48th Chicago International Film Festival will present the award to director and Chicago native Robert Zemeckis at the closing night ceremony on Oct 25.
Foresight Unlimited to finance, produce And So It Goes…

Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton will star in the rom-com and Mark Damon and Tamara Birkemoe will introduce to buyers at the AFM.
Fort Lauderdale to screen The Sapphires, Quartet

Stefan Ruzowitzky and actors Dabney Coleman and Garret Dillahunt are set to attend this year’s Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Fortissimo picks up world rights to Capturing Dad

Award-winning film [pictured] stars Japanese actress Makiko Watanabe as a divorced mother of two angst-ridden teenage sisters who she sends on a road trip to find their estranged father.
Fox International Productions, Bona unveil production deal

The announcement follows a deal signed this May in which FIP parent company News Corp acquired a 19.9% equity stake in Bona.
Fun Size

Dir: Josh Schwartz. US. 2012. 87mins
Gibney’s Catholic Church abuse doc finds brave suitors in Italy, Ireland

EXCLUSIVE: Italian distributor Feltrinelli takes aim with LFF-winning documentary about paedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church and plans live debates with clergy.
Gravitas Ventures bulks up Halloween slate

The digital distributor has announced its upcoming VoD horror acquisitions for October and November.
Growing up fast

Local films are losing ground to Hollywood imports at the Chinese box office. Liz Shackleton explores how China’s production sector, still in a relatively early stage of development, is approaching the marketplace
Guttentag to shoot French Concession in China

Film is billed as being the first entirely financed out of China and shot by a Hollywood director.
Hans Rosenfeldt, Liz Rosenthal, Susan Miller among speakers at World Conference of Screenwriters

Second edition of the two-day conference, discuss changes to screenwriting and the business of film and television, to take place in Barcelon on Nov 9 and 10.
Holy Motors earns three awards at 48th Chicago Int’l Film Festival

Leos Carax’s surreal drama won the international competition Gold Hugo for best film and Silver Hugos for best actor Denis Lavant and cinematographers Yves Cape and Caroline Champetier.
Horowitz, Rhodes, Ronson among speakers at Nov 5 conference in LA

Magnet Media Group, Forrest Equity Management and the Film Finance Awards are planning a top-level International Film Finance, Production and Distribution Conference to be held in Los Angeles on Nov 5, during the American Film Market.
Hot projects on Screenbase

Among the new films on Screenbase is thriller Mindscape starring Mark Strong and the third film in Easy Money trilogy, Life Deluxe.
Hugh Grant to star in untitled Castle Rock rom-com

Producer Martin Shafer confirmed the development on Monday (22). Writer-director Marc Lawrence’s project will commence shooting in New York in April 2013.
Ian Lewis, Sky Movies

As it moves into production, Screen talks to Sky Movies head Ian Lewis about the company’s varied innovations.
IDA announces documentary nominees

The 28th International Documentary Association Awards are set to take place on Dec 7 at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles.
IMAX plans five European venues

One location will be in Milton Keynes, UK.
Indomina lines up Ewan McGregor, Kate Hudson for King

The Scot is confirmed while Kate Hudson is in talks to star in Born To Be King, a rom-com that Peter Capaldi will direct. Indomina Releasing will commence worldwide sales at the AFM.
It's not about the Monet, Monet, Monet

Momentum and Evening Standard team up for unique Gambit-themed competition.
Japan In A Day

Dirs: Philip Martin, Gaku Narita. Japan-UK, 2012. 91mins
Jaws dropped at budget of Bali opening night film

Indonesian producer Lavesh M Samtani [pictured] reveals budget of Jakarti Hati as it opened Balinale Film Festival.
Johnny Depp in talks to star in Alcon’s Transcendence

Wally Pfister’s feature directorial debut is set to commence shooting early next year and will go through the company’s output deal with Warner Bros.
Johnny Lin partners with Ted Field, Stan Lee on The Guardian Project

Taiwanese businessman and head of Studio Solutions Group Lin is partnering with veteran producer Field and comic book icon and POW! Entertainment head Lee on NHL enterprise and Lin also announced he is teaming up with Field and others on Trauma Records 2.
K5 sells Hello Quo documentary to UK, Germany

Ahead of the AFM, K5 has sold Status Quo rockumentary Hello Quo [pictured] to Anchor Bay in the UK and StudioCanal in Germany.
Kaleidoscope sees plenty in Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing

EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit takes world sales rights (excluding US) to Joss Whedon’s update on Shakespearean comedy.
LevelK dives into fishing documentary The Last Ocean

LevelK has boarded sales for New Zealand filmmaker Peter Young’s The Last Ocean.
LevelK, Reelport partner on online tool for digital files

The Danish international sales company LevelK has worked with Germany’s Reelport to create a secure professional online tool to send fast, secure streaming and download links.
Lightning Entertainment moves into feature production

EXCLUSIVE: First title on the slate for the Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company is the thriller Dead Drop starring Luke Goss, Cole Hauser and Nestor Carbonell. Lightning will serve as executive producer and handle world sales at the AFM next week.
Lightning Entertainment takes int’l rights to Drugs

How To Make Money Selling Drugs premiered in Toronto where it became one of the must-see docs at the festival. Lightning will commence sales at the AFM later this month.
Lionsgate targets Globes for Stand Up Guys

The Sidney Kimmel and Lakeshore Entertainment comedy will screen for one week in New York at Lincoln Center and in Los Angeles at Arclight Hollywood and The Landmark starting on Dec 14.
London Film Festival deals emerge

A raft of distribution deals were secured throughout the London Film Festival, it has emerged, including controversial title Compliance.
Lumpy

Dir/scr: Ted Koland. US. 2012. 89mins
Magnolia's Magnet takes US on Noel Clarke horror Storage 24

Magnolia’s genre arm Magnet Releasing has acquired US rights to Independent Film Company’s horror Storage 24, starring Noel Clarke.
Marc Evans to direct Birthright

Israeli-Palestinian comedy was presented at last week’s Pixel Pitch at PttP’s Cross-Media Forum.
Masquerade

Dir: Choo Chang-min. South Korea. 2012. 131mins
Masquerade hits 10m admissions at Korean box office

CJ Entertainment’s historical drama Masquerade [pictured] has clocked up over 10 million admissions, becoming the seventh Korean film to pass that benchmark at the local box office.
Meeting Leila

Dir: Adel Yaraghi. Iran. 2012. 91mins
Miami Fest to stage 29-day retrospective countdown

Organisers of next year’s 30th anniversary of the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will count down with a 29-day retrospective commencing on Jan 26 2013 with a screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s Dark Habits (Entre Tinieblas).
Mumbai film fest wraps market; talks restoration

The second edition of the Mumbai Film Mart (MFM) wrapped on Sunday with no deals announced, but participants reporting they were happy with the results. The market was held during the Mumbai Film Festival, which also raised the issue of film restoration over the weekend.
NBA all star Chris Webber, Hoop Dreams producer Peter Gilbert form Webber Productions

The film production company will make fictional and documentary features focused on the intersection of sport, culture and society.
Negri defends Cornelius Cinema in Kasander financial controversy

Livio Negri, the Italian-based executive producer of Ben Sombogaart’s To Be King, has responded to remarks made about financial problems on the production by the film’s Dutch producer Kees Kasander [pictured].
New projects from Riklis, Norgaard, Farhadi to receive Eurimages support

Eurimages grants €5.4m of support to 18 European co-productions.
On the horizon

The latest project from the producers of The King’s Speech and a sequel to Wolf Creek are among the enticing new films from Australia and New Zealand. By Sandy George
Open Road acquires US rights to Machete Kills

Robert Rodriguez’s revenge action sequel – the second in a trilogy –becomes the latest broad commercial title in the distributor’s stable. A wide release is planned for 2013. Aldamisa International handles sales outside the US.
O-Scope catches Wasteland, Virgil takes Boateng doc

Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up US rights to Rowan Athale’s feature debut Wasteland [pictured] following a deal with Bankside Films.
Pablo Trapero to direct Working Title's crime drama Six Suspects

EXCLUSIVE: Pablo Trapero is on board Paul Raphael and Working Title’s India-set crime drama adapted from Vikas Swarup’s novel by John Hodge.
Panorama to commence sales at AFM on The Voices

EXCLUSIVE: Marjane Satrapi will direct Ryan Reynolds in the psychological thriller for producers Mandalay Vision and Vertigo Entertainment. Panorama sales chief Kim Fox will introduce the project in Santa Monica next week.
Paranormal 4 edges out Taken 2 to rule international arena

UPDATED: Paramount Pictures International (PPI) reported on Sunday (21) that Paranormal Activity 4 launched day-and-date with the number one North American weekend on a confirmed $26.2m, narrowly beating EuropaCorp’s thriller on $25.4m through Fox International. Meanwhile The Impossible has become the biggest release of the year-do-date in Spain on $25.5m through Warner Bros Espana.
Paranormal 4 rules US box office with $30.2m debut

Horror returned to the top of the North American charts over the weekend as the prevailing genre franchise stormed to the top through Paramount. Overall box office for the top 12 releases climbed approximately 12% against the same period last year when Paranormal Activity 3 opened top on $52.6m.
Pathe boards feature based on UK dance troupe Diversity

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has UK rights to feature starring and choreographed by troupe frontman Ashley Banjo.
Plus Camerimage unveils competition line-up

Ben Affleck, PT Anderson and Leos Carax among filmmakers with works screening in the cinematography competition.
Power to the Pixel: Baumgartner’s "masterpiece of engagement"

Michel Reilhac, outgoing executive director at Arte France Cinéma, has hailed Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive as “a masterpiece of engagement” and questioned how to reproduce the same effect in film.
PPI unleashes first wave of Paranormal Activity 4

Halloween approaches and so the horror returns. The fourth entry in the global horror smash goes out day-and-date with North America this weekend.
Premiere Entertainment Group lines up The Police doc for AFM

EXCLUSIVE: Bob Yari, Norman Golightly and Brett Morgen are the producers on Can’t Stand Losing You, which is based on the memoirs of the British rock band’s guitarist Andy Summers.
Protagonist hits AFM with Yann Demange’s '71, Monsters sequel

EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has pre-bought UK rights to ‘71; Protagonist’s slate also includes Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant.
Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs head back to theatre

Marking the two-decade career of Quentin Tarantino, Miramax has struck a partnership with advertising company National CineMedia Fathom and internet media and services provider IGN to stage a limited release of two of the filmmaker’s modern classics.
Puppet Master X: Axis Rising among Full Moon AFM roster

Charles Band’s [pictured] genre distributor will introduce buyers to a packed slate that includes the tenth instalment in the killer puppets thriller.
Queen visits BFI; Royal Collection to be digitised

The Queen, alongside an invited audience of members from the British film industry, watched a screening of rare works from the BFI National Archive, which has looked after the Royal Collection since the late 1960s.
Radiant Films Int’l lines up As Cool As I Am for AFM

Golden Globe winner Claire Danes from the smash series Homeland stars alongside James Marsden, Sarah Bolger, Thomas Mann and Jeremy Sisto in the comedy drama.
Rome 2012: 15 new films

With 59 world premieres, the Rome Film Festival is serving up a feast of new cinema. Lee Marshall profiles a selection of 15 new films from across the line-up
Rome unveils full CinemaXXI selection

New section bookended by world premieres of Historic Centre and Amos Poe’s A Walk in the Park [pictured].
Rowley's Molly Moon starts shooting in London

Cast includes Raffey Cassidy, Dominic Monaghan [pictured], Emily Watson, Lesley Manville and Joan Collins.
Rules of attraction

China has been emerging as an exciting international partner. But with its government putting co-productions under scrutiny, could that be about to change? Liz Shackleton reports
Santa Barbara acquisitions dates revealed

The second annual acquisitions programme of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) will run from Jan 24-27 2013.
Sarah Bemand joins Margaret as account director

London-based creative agency Margaret hs expanded its team by adding Sarah Bemand as Film PR Account Director.
Scott Free, Orchard, Focus International team on genre slate

Focus Features International will handle sales on six titles over three years; Orchard Capital and Northern Ireland Screen also on board; most titles to shoot in Northern Ireland.
Serkis and Cavendish's Imaginarium takes on The Bone Season, Animal Farm

The Imaginarium, the new London-based performance capture studio founded by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish, has secured film rights to the book series The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon as well as the rights to George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm; Serkis will direct and star in the latter.
Shopping trip

Lucrative, stable and sophisticated - it’s no surprise the Australia and New Zealand market is drawing foreign investors. Sandy George reports
Shoreline Entertainment takes world sales on The Zombinator

Sergio Myers’ action film stars Patrick Kilpatrick and Joseph Aviel. Shoreline will kick off sales at the AFM next week.
Sky Atlantic lines up top directors for Footprint docs

Bafta and Academy Award-winning directors Beeban Kidron and Errol Morris [pictured] have been commissioned to produce feature-length films for Sky Atlantic’s Footprint strand.
Sola’s Jelly T travels with 11 deals

Part three of animated trilogy now in production.
Sparrows Dance, Informant win at Austin Film Festival

Noah Buschel’s Sparrows Dance claimed the narrative feature prize while Jamie Meltzer’s Informant won top documentary feature honours.
Straughan: 'I know that I don’t know anything'

BAFTA-winning screenwriter [pictured] spoke at the BFI Southbank last night as part of the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriter Lecture Series.
StudioCanal to show first footage of Ben Stassen’s Thunder at AFM

Other StudioCanal AFM buzz titles include Jaume Collet-Serra’s air-flight action thriller Non-Stop reuniting the director with Liam Neeson [pictured].
Taking command

The Master’s US opening scored a record-breaking screen average, and now it is looking to convert global audiences. By Ian Sandwell
Taking the bait

Studio shoots may have slowed but Australia’s hot film-making talent and incentives are ensuring the territory is a sought-after international partner. By Sandy George
Technicolor unveil latest initiatives at Technology Days showcase

The two-day invitation-only event highlighted initiatives in fields including 3D, visual effects, audience response measurement and piracy deterrence.
TF1's Wolves strike in Germany, Japan, Russia, Middle East

EXCLUSIVE: Other buzz titles on TF1 International’s AFM slate include The Brass Teapot and Before The Winter Chills.
The Door, Just The Wind to open Hungarian Film Festival Of LA

Bunyik Entertainment presents the 12th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, to run from Nov 15-22.
The Exchange boards The Last 5 Years for AFM

Founder Brian O’Shea and Nat McCormick will represent international rights to the hit musical when the AFM kicks off in Santa Monica on Oct 31. Anna Kendrick will star.
The Hunger Games, Arthur Christmas nominated for BAFTA Children's Awards

Gary Ross’ popular adaptation [pictured] and Aardman’s animation receive two nods each.
The Road: A Story Of Life And Death

Dir: Marc Isaacs. UK. 2012. 75mins
The Selfish Giant wraps principal photography

Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, based on Oscar Wilde’s short story, has wrapped principal photography after shooting for six weeks in Bradford.
The world in Rome

The first edition of the Rome Film Festival (Nov 9-17) under artistic director Marco Müller has a wealth of world premieres. Melanie Goodfellow reports
Through the window

Recent VoD releases in the US have underlined the potential of shrinking release windows for independent distributors. Geoffrey Macnab explores the UK market, where excitement about multiplatform releasing is tempered by a wariness of alienating exhibitors.
TIFFCOM opens with record number of exhibitors

229 from 25 different countries and regions attending this year’s market, up from 222 from 20 last year.
Tinker, Tailor’s Iglesias named Film Composer of the Year

Alberto Iglesias picked up the main prize at the World Soundtrack Awards for his work on The Monk, The Skin I Live In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
TLA Releasing, Tugg strike LGBT pact; Wolfe takes Petunia

TLA Releasing has struck a deal with web-based elective theatrical platform Tugg to bring LGBT films to theatres across the country kicking off with screening tours of Oliver Hermanus’ Cannes Queer Palm D’or winner Beauty and Terracino’s Elliot Loves.
Tokyo International Film Festival gets underway

The 25th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) opened on Saturday night (Oct 20) with the world premiere of 3D extravaganza Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away, executive produced by James Cameron.
Trailer Park Productions, Topsail Productions line up third comedy

John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells and Mike Smith have signed on to star in a third Trailer Park Boys [pictured] film, which Alliance will distribute in Canada as it has done on the previous instalments.
Tye Sheridan joins David Gordon Green’s Joe

The youngster starred alongside Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain in Tree of Life and is on board alongside Nicolas Cage. Principal photography is scheduled to start on Oct 31 in Austin, Texas. WestEnd Films is handling international sales.
U2 drummer joins Binoche in cast of Poppe's Good Night

Film shooting now in Dublin.
UK premiere of Astérix to open 20th French Film Festival UK

Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia [pictured] will screen in four cities as it opens the festival, which runs Nov 8-Dec 2.
US deals for Deflowering and Out in the Dark

North American deals have signed by Berlin‘s m-appeal for Michiel ten Horn’s The Deflowering of Eva van End and Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark.
Vince Vaughn to receive Starz Film Festival’s John Cassavetes Award

The honour is presented annually “to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the world of filmmaking.”
Voltage to commence sales at AFM on I Am Wrath

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Cage will star in the Death Wish-style vigilante story that Emmet/Furla Films is financing. The project marks William Friedkin’s follow-up to the widely admired Killer Joe, which Voltage also sold internationally.
Watching 'Withnail' with The Queen

The bizarre experience of sitting in the cinema with royalty.
Well Go USA takes Tai Chi Hero, Cinedigm finds Call Me Kuchu

Tai Chi Hero is the second in a trilogy from director Stephen Fung, Detective Dee And The Mystery Of Phantom Flame producer Chen Kuofu and action director Sammo Hung.
Wild Bunch boards Simon Brand’s hijacking thriller Default ahead of AFM

EXCLUSIVE: Slate also features new films from Patrice Leconte, Arnaud Desplechin, Santiago Zannou and Philippe Godeau and 11-minute Blood Ties promo.
Winners of Imagination short film competition revealed

The five winners of the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series film competition, offering budding filmmakers the chance to make their own short film, have been named.
Workshop of the world

Renowned for its facilities, locations and film-making skill, New Zealand is a major international draw. And its inward investment success is benefiting local production. Sandy George reports
XLrator Media launches Screamfest and Macabre labels

The multi-platform releasing labels will cater to the horror and genre demographics.
Zhang Yimou honoured at opening of Mumbai film festival

The 14th Mumbai film festival opened last night (Oct 18) with a screening of Silver Linings Playbook and the presentation of the lifetime achievement award to Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou.

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