All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 130
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NewsGhent festival to honour Ronni Chasen
The Film Festival Ghent 2011 (October 11-22) is to hold a special tribute to publicist Ronni Chasen, who was murdered in Los Angeles last November.
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NewsRevolver takes UK rights to Creation Records doc
The feature doc tells the story of music impresario Alan McGee and the Creation Records label he co-founded.
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NewsVajna promises swift action on Hungarian film crisis
Newly appointed Hungarian Film Commissioner Andy Vajna says Hungary won’t duck its co-production obligations despite the current crisis in the local film industry.
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NewsYoung sailor gets documentary, drama treatment
Filming has started for projects about 15-year-old Dutch girl Laura Dekker.
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NewsAntonia Bird's Cross My Mind to shoot in May
The film marks a further collaboration between Film & Music Entertainment and Rotterdam-based Kasander Film.
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Spring, F&ME to shoot Manila child prostitution story
Jacco Groen’s Spring Films teams with Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) to produce Snow White.
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NewsZentropa, Nordisk, Network pact for crime thriller series
Trio partner on new series based on successful novelist Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Danish series about a Danish police force.
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NewsIrvine Welsh's Eleven closes financing
Stealth Media Group closes financing on The Magnificent Eleven.
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NewsFilms Distribution chats up The Slut
Israeli-German co-production is directed by Hagar Ben Asher.
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NewsGreenaway readies Goltzius, Eisenstein projects
Two new Peter Greenaway features are in the pipeline.
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NewsStudioCanal sees 'incredible response' for African Safari 3D
Other hot sellers at EFM include Tinker, Tailor and Blackbird.
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NewsSola closes US deal on Turtle documentary
Nick Singer’s feature documentary Turtle: The Incredible Journey has closed a US deal for Sola Media.
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NewsFilms Transit, Autlook join forces on select films
Jan Rofekamp’s Quebec-based Films Transit and Peter Jager’s Vienna-located Autlook, two of the leading sales agents for feature docs, are to join forces on selected projects.
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NewsLara, Hogg join cast of Jakimowski's Blind Watching
The shoot will start in early May in Lisbon.
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NewsMarvin Gaye biopic slated to shoot later this year
British director Julien Temple is set to make a biopic, tentatively titled Sexual Healing, about legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye.
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NewsLate Bloomers sells to US
Gaumont also closes a batch of other territories on Julie Gavras’ Berlinale Special title.
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NewsBen Stassen readies African Safari 3D
Belgian animation supremo and nWave boss reveals further details of his first live-action 3D venture.
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NewsFlowers to bloom with Iraqi release
Fariborz Kamkari’s The Flowers Of Kirkuk, being sold by Adriana Chiesa in the EFM, is set to be released in Iraq in late March.