All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 102
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NewsMandela biopic scores major sales
Pathe International and Distant Horizon have done roaring business on an upcoming Nelson Mandela biopic.
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NewsMusic Box takes Oh Boy for US
Beta has closed a US deal with Music Box for German box office hit Oh Boy.
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NewsUK's Arrow targets thriller Pioneer
UK distributor Arrow has bought Erik Skjoldbjærg’s 1980s set thriller Pioneer, set at the height of Norwegian “oil boom”, from TrustNordisk.
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NewsKevin Williams acquires Zomblogalypse
EXCLUSIVE: Madrid-based company takes world sales rights to feature adaptation of the cult zero budget British web series.
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NewsYellow Affair embraces The Carer
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish company acquires international rights to the late Gilbert Adair’s last film.
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NewsIndependent boards Pussy Riot doc
EXCLUSIVE: London-based company takes UK rights to Maxim Pozdorovkin and Mike Lerner’s documentary [pictured].
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NewsPaulo Branco reveals new projects
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Portuguese producer and sales agent Paulo Branco has revealed further details of his new projects with Mathieu Amalric and Monte Hellman through his company Alfama Films.
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NewsWebber to direct The Colour
EXCLUSIVE: Director [pictured] boards adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel of the same name.
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NewsMiss Julie producer plans incest drama
EXCLUSIVE: Company has attached newcomer Ine Wilman to star.
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NewsSugar Man exec making God of Driving
EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Monteith’s Dignity Film Finance is pushing ahead with a movie version of Vanity Fair journalist Amy Fine Collins’ [pictured] autobiographical God of Driving.
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NewsLUFF 2013 titles revealed
EXCLUSIVE: London UK Film Focus to screen the likes of Powder Room, Johnson, In Fear and Good Morning Karachi.
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NewsRoyal Affair star joins Serial Killer
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish actor boards Thomas Quick - The Making of a Serial Killer.
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NewsEyewell gets into bed with Nymphs
EXCLUSIVE: Local distributors who board Nymphs will be able to use green screen and CGI technology to provide customised ads in their own territories.
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NewsCinenord planning heroic husky film
EXCLUSIVE: Heroic husky Balto famously led an expedition across the Alaskan ice carrying a life-saving serum for the victims of a diphtheria epidemic.
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NewsProducers to finish last Luna film
EXCLUSIVE: Carles Porta, already on board the film for four years as writer and producer, will take on directorial duties in place of Bigas Luna
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NewsMetrodome gets Moodysson
EXCLUSIVE: A short promo was presented to buyers on Saturday at the Marché du Film. TrustNordisk has now closed a number of deals on the film.
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NewsCorsan sends Haggis film global
New Paul Haggis movie Third Person has been sold by Corsan to over 20 territories.
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NewsWenders: loss of 'cultural exception' would be disaster
German director Wim Wenders has waded into the increasingly fractious debate about the “cultural exception” possibly being abandoned in new trading relations between the EU and US. Wenders has insisted that the European film industry must have state subsidy and support if it is to survive.
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NewsBlack Book star to play Garbo
EXLUSIVE: On the day [May 20] that the Swedish Film Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary, details have emerged of an ambitious new biopic of Sweden’s greatest ever film star, Greta Garbo.