All articles by Ellie Calnan – Page 29
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NewsWestEnd Films boards Eran Riklis’ ‘Reading Lolita In Tehran’ starring Golshifteh Farahani
The film was shot in Italy and is now in post-production.
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NewsCannes 76th edition poster honours Catherine Deneuve
The black and white poster depicts Deneuve on the set of Alain Cavalier’s 1868 romance Heartbeat.
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NewsTull Stories head joins UK production company Park The Bus (exclusive)
Jonny Tull is speaheading the intenational sales of football referee doc ‘In The Middle’.
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NewsJulien Leclercq to direct untitled ‘The Wages Of Fear’ remake for Netflix
The 1953 original by Henri-Georges Clouzot won best film at Cannes, Berlin and Bafta.
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News‘A Deal With The Universe’ producer Loran Dunn awarded £15,000 Simon Relph Bursary (exclusive)
Dunn was a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2017
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NewsCannes Directors’ Fortnight to honour Souleymane Cissé with Carrosse d’Or award
The Malian filmmaker will be honoured with the award at the opening ceremony on May 17
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NewsDavid Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ among €8.3m Eurimages funding recipients
The selection also includes projects from Kirill Serebrennikov and Agnieszka Holland
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NewsBas Devos’ Berlin award-winner ‘Here’ picked up for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
The film follows a chance encounter between a Romanian construction worker and a Belgian-Chinese botanist
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NewsDaniel Dale, writer and Independent’s former head of acquisitions and development, dies aged 42
Dale worked at Independent Entertainment for 10 years
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NewsWarner Bros launch second series of Black British filmmaker development programme
Black Britain Unspoken supports and finances the production of three short films from Black British filmmakers
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NewsFinnish Film Affair expands to minority Finnish co-productions
The industry event is part of Helsinki International Film Festival (HIFF) – Love & Anarchy
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News‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ makes killer £4.8m debut at UK-Ireland box office
It has already surpassed the entire box office takings of the first John Wick (2015)
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NewsMichael Blyth to step down as senior programmer for BFI London Film Festival, Flare
Programmer has been involved with the festivals for 17 years.
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NewsHannes Hirsch’s Berlinale Panorama feature ‘Drifter’ sells to UK and US (exclusive)
Salzgeber has also sold ‘Bones And Names’ and ’Captain Faggatron Saves The Universe’ to various territories
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NewsUK-Ire box office preview: ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ hopes to make a killing for Lionsgate
Also opening is ’80 For Brady’, ’Louis Tomlinson: All Of Those Voices’ and ‘A Good Person’
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NewsUK’s Embankment Films hires from Salon Pictures, CB Films to lead new unscripted team
Nick Taussig, Malcolm Neaum, Sophie Harmer and Henry Farrington set to join Embankment Films.
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NewsUK-Ireland cinemas need more saturation releases in 2023 to reach “full potential”, says report
Box office is currently 3% behind the same period in 2022.
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News‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods’ tops UK-Ireland box office with £2.4m; ‘Allelujah’ opens in top five
The ‘Shazam!’ sequel is down 40% on its predecessor.
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NewsLevelK closes multiple deals for Berlin Generation title ‘Sea Sparkle’ (exclusive)
The family drama has sold to France, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and Denmark.
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NewsBerlin Encounters title ‘Samsara’ picked up for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
The Spanish film follows a Buddhist monk who helps an elderly woman transition from death to her next life