All articles by Andreas Wiseman – Page 118
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NewsScott 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.
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NewsKaleidoscope 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.
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NewsPathe boards feature based on UK dance troupe Diversity
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has UK rights to feature starring and choreographed by troupe frontman Ashley Banjo.
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NewsThe Sapphires trio reteam on thriller Six Mile Bottom
EXCLUSIVE: Goalpost Film and Goalpost Pictures re-team with writer Keith Thompson on historical thriller.
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NewsSC Films re-teams with The Animation Picture Company on Flying South
EXCLUSIVE: SC Films acquires 3D family animation Flying South and thriller Bullet ahead of AFM.
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NewsLionsgate strikes UK VOD deal with pizza firm Domino’s
Lionsgate UK has struck a deal with pizza delivery firm Domino’s, which will see Domino’s offer Lionsgate films alongside its pizzas via a streaming service; The Hunger Games, Dirty Dancing among titles.
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NewsBeta brings Paganini biopic, Enid Blyton adaptations to AFM
Acclaimed violinist David Garrett plays composer Paganini alongside Joely Richardson; Beta also showcases Uberto Pasolini’s Still Life and big budget epic The Physician.
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NewsMagnolia'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.
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NewsArtificial Eye adds A Late Quartet to 2013 slate
Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Imogen Poots are among cast.
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NewsPablo 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.
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NewsTaussig named Revolver MD; "new focus" for Gunslinger
Nick Taussig to oversee more co-productions for Gunslinger.
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NewsEaling 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.
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NewsProtagonist 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.
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NewsAl 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.
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FeaturesAlex 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.
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NewsGibney’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.
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NewsBBFC appoints Patrick Swaffer president, wants wider classification of film downloads
Swaffer succeeds Sir Quentin Thomas who stepped down after ten years.
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NewsWhat Richard Did sells to UK, France, Australia, Scandinavia
EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist has done good business on Lenny Abrahamson’s Toronto and London drama, which has opened strongly in Ireland.
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NewsMark Strong, Brian Cox, Taissa Farmiga confirmed on Collet-Serra-produced Mindscape
EXCLUSIVE: First film under the StudioCanal-Ombra Films banner gets under way; Oscar Faura to DoP; production to shoot in France, Barcelona and Canada.
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NewsThird film in Easy Money trilogy under way
Life Deluxe, starring Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dejan Cukic and Madeleine Martin, is under way in Sweden.