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NewsGeddes to be festival director for ActionFest
Colin Geddes (pictured) takes new role at ActionFest but will retain TIFF duties.
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Edinburgh Film Festival launches new producers programme
Inaugural participants are Wendy Griffin, Carolynne Sinclair Kidd, Micky MacPherson, Suzanne Reid, Andy Green and Ciara Barry.
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Betting on the Palme
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has placed 3/1 odds on Ken Loach’s last minute competition entry Route Irish to scoop the Palme D’Or.
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NewsThe Other Guys tops UK box office
Sony’s cop-buddy comedy The Other Guys topped the UK box office over the weekend, taking $3.1m (£2m) from 441 screens at a per-print average of $6,965 (£4,491).
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NewsUK Jewish Film Festival to open with The Debt
The 14th UK Jewish Film Festival (UKJFF) will open on Nov 4 with a UK preview of John Madden’s thriller The Debt, starring Helen Mirren as a former Mossad agent who captured a notorious Nazi war criminal.
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Sur La Planche and House For Sale win San Sebastian Cinema In Motion awards
Leila Kilani’s Sur La Planche and Mohamed and Atia Al-Daradji’s House For Sale were announced as the winners of the Cinema In Motion awards at San Sebastian for incomplete films from the Maghreb region of Africa and Portuguese speaking countries.
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NewsGenie in the House being adapted into 3D films
Wild Bunch Germany, Maestranza Films and Cyber Group Studios have come on board for the 3-D film trilogy adaptated from TV series Genie in the House.
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NewsFilmax strikes key deals for hostage thriller Kidnapped
Miguel Angel Vivas’ thriller is about a family held hostage.
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India's Photon Kathaas announces studio plans
South Indian film production company Photon Kathaas Productions has announced plans to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and to raise funds to establish a corporate film studio focused on South Indian cinema for audiences in India and worldwide.
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London Screenwriters' Festival launches Inspired by Science Treatment Award
The London Screenwriters’ Festival launches the Inspired by Science Treatment Award in association with charitable foundation Wellcome Trust.
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UKFC, Skillset back WFTV mentoring scheme
UKFC and industry training body Skillset support new Women in Film and Television (WFTV) scheme to give women with more than five years experience in the industries the opportunity to be mentored for six months by a key industry figure.
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Sylvain Estibal starts shoot for debut feature
Principal photography has begun on When Pigs Have Wings, the feature directorial debut from Sylvain Estibal, France’s Marilyn Productions announced.
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FeaturesChinese film libraries set for digital reboot
The shifting distribution models that have changed the library business globally may lead to a slightly more hopeful picture for the Chinese-speaking world.
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NewsBavaria sells Silence; EEAP takes on Kokowääh
Bavaria Film International has closed a series of all-rights deals for Baran bo Odar’s debut feature The Silence (Das letzte Schweigen).
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NewsReykjavik festival kicks off today, presenting 140 films
The seventh Reykjavik International Film Festival kicks off tonight with Cyrus by Jay and Mark Duplass.
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Stealth, Premiere start new fund for film and TV finance
Stealth Media Group (SMG) and financier Premiere Picture have partnered to create a joint venture TV and film finance fund, Premiere Stealth Securities (PSS), set to launch at MIPCOM.
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FeaturesLoft
Producer Rachel van Bommel of Millstreet Films and director Antoinette Beumer discuss their new feature Loft, a Dutch remake of Erik Van Looy’s runaway Flemish hit of the same name. As they reveal, the film, currently in post-production, was an eventful and sometimes very hazardous shoot.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest speakers Life In A Day, Penny Woolcock
Sheffield Doc/Fest is to run its second Crossover Summit at this year’s edition of the festival which runs from Nov 3-7.
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NewsMann is Universal's girl for The Change-Up
Leslie Mann will play the female lead opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman in Universal’s The Change-Up, a body-swap comedy to be directed by David Dobkin.