All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 56
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NewsCelsius Entertainment racks up pre-sales on ’The Last Bus’ starring Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan
The film, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, is produced by Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter at Hurricane Films
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NewsLeading UK producer Alison Owen speaks out on film industry sexism
Monumental Pictures co-founder was delivering the keynote address at Film London’s Production Finance Market.
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News‘Lingua Franca’ director Isabel Sandoval lines up next project ‘Park Avenue’ (exclusive)
Project is due to shoot in the spring and will star Sharon Cuneta.
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NewsPoland’s Jan Komasa sets English-language horror ‘Sara’ as next film (exclusive)
Komasa’s previous films include Suicide Room and Venice Days title Corpus Christi.
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FeaturesAtom Egoyan talks respect on set, the childhood passion that inspired his new film and why guinea pigs just don’t cut it
‘Guest Of Honour’ is screening at Filmfest Hamburg.
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Features‘Cunningham’ filmmaker Alla Kovgan on how she pieced together the €3m budget for the feature documentary
The film is playing at Filmfest Hamburg and the BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsKen Loach warns of Brexit’s damage to filmmaking
Veteran director talks latest film ‘Sorry We Missed You’.
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NewsHerflix puts out call to female filmmakers
Adriana Shaw appealed to Women in Film & Television International (WIFTI) members at FilmFest Hamburg.
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NewsNina Hoss: “Female directors should be allowed to fail”
The German actress is the recipinet of Hamburg FilmFest’s presitgious Douglas Sirk prize.
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NewsDutch FilmWorks takes ‘The Ice Road’, ‘Harry Haft’ for Benelux
Details of new film and TV sales arm, DFW International, also revealed.
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NewsVue and Odeon to screen Netflix films at the London Film Festival despite window concerns
But Vue CEO criticises the decision to programme ‘The Irishman’ as the closing night gala.
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NewsThe Match Factory reveals roaring business on Venice and TIFF favourite ‘Martin Eden’ (exclusive)
The film won the Coppa Volpi in Venice and the Platform award at TIFF.
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NewsAltitude buys ‘Snow Queen’ animations for the UK (exclusive)
The deal was done with Russian sales outfit Wizart.
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NewsFilm and music figures pay tribute to filmmaker and journalist Andrew Horn
Horn has died aged 66.
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NewsUK film industry reacts to Disney/Pinewood deal
Could the move freeze out independent British productions?
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NewsRebecca Daly, Malgorzata Szumwoska films lead Cowtown slate (exclusive)
Cowtown’s debut completed film is Peter Mackie Burns’ Rialto, which premiered at Venice’s Horizons.
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NewsEuropean filmmakers react jubilantly to news that Oleg Sentsov has been freed
The Ukrainian director was part of a Russia-Ukraine prisoner exchange, it was confimed.
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NewsRussia gets creative with Toronto Film Festival launches
Mars Media, Art Pictures Studios and Metrafilms among Russian companies unveiling projects.
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FeaturesChile’s Pablo Larrain on creating an unapologetic modern heroine in ‘Ema’
The fiery, dance-obsessed mother at the heart of Pablo Larrain’s Ema had some Venice critics blushing.
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News‘System Crasher’ director lines up new feature to shoot in Germany (exclusive)
’How To Spell Dignity’ is about a Nazi war criminal who take’s his brother’s identity.