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NewsRed Bull and YouTube partner for 23 mile skydive
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner is to attempt a record-breaking 120,000 foot freefall live on YouTube as part of a tie-up with Red Bull Media House.
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CommentChris Menges: “I would die for the right script”
AMPAS celebrated the extraordinary career of cinematographer and director Chris Menges on Friday night at London’s Soho Hotel.
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NewsVon Trier's Challenge to the People to premiere in Copenhagen on Oct 12
User-generated project Gesamt - Disaster 501: What Happened To Man [pictured] to premiere at Charlottenborg.
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NewsSeth MacFarlane to host 85th Academy Awards
The announcement continues the comedian’s annus mirabilis in the wake of the global success of Ted.
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Odeon West End gets two-week exclusive run of The Master in 70mm
Entertainment Film Distributors has confirmed that Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master will get a 70mm release in the UK.
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Martin Radich, Alex Taylor, Jonathan Entwistle, Rachel Tunnard among directors selected for iFeatures2
Creative England, BFI Film Fund and BBC Films have selected eight projects for the full development stage of iFeatures2.
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NewsDavid Thewlis, Tilda Swinton join The Zero Theorem
Lucas Hedges and Melanie Thierry are also on board Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi project. Voltage Pictures handles worldwide sales.
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NewsCargo to commence sales at AFM on The Late Bloomer
Elijah Wood to star in comedy for Dignity Film Finance (DFF).
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Elijah Wood launches production company The Woodshed
The actor-producer teams up with Daniel Noah and Josh C Waller for a stable of projects that will explore the horror genre and include Curse The Darkness.
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Daron Keet, Pete Villani among young cinematographer winners
The 16th annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards evening in Los Angeles on Sunday (Sept 30) awarded prizes to several young talents.
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Singapore's MDA appoints Koh Lin-net as CEO
Koh Lin-net has been appointed CEO of Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA), replacing Aubeck Kam who leaves the post on October 31.
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NewsEuropean Parliament drafts 197 amendments to EC's Creative Europe programme
EXCLUSIVE: Italian MEP Silvia Costa’s [pictured] report will be presented at the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education in Brussels next week.
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NewsMan Booker shortlist set for live cinema broadcast
Authors competing for the Man Booker Prize are to feature in a live broadcast to Picturehouse, Cineworld and independent cinemas around the UK.
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NewsShooting begins on John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary
McDonagh’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Guard stars Brendan Gleeson [pictured], Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly and Aidan Gillen, among others.
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FeaturesWayne Borg
Bill Gates will be among speakers discussing the future of the ‘digital frontier’ at the 2012 Abu Dhabi Media Summit. Wendy Mitchell talks to Wayne Borg of organiser Twofour54
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NewsBreillat shooting adaptation of her novel Abus De Faiblesse
Catherine Breillat is now shooting her fourteenth feature, Abus De Faiblesse.
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CommentAsterix and Obelix: in Britain 3D -- Catherine Deneuve massacres the French language, à l’anglaise
The high-profile cast of Laurent Tirard’s highly anticipated Asterix and Obelix: in Britain 3D — led by Gérard Depardieu, Edouard Baer and Catherine Deneuve — were out in force on Sunday afternoon for a packed, first public preview of the film at Paris’ iconic, 2,800-seat Grand Rex cinema.
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NewsBFI Future Plan to invest £500m over next five years
Three areas of concentration are education and audiences, filmmaking and film heritage; Film Fund will rise to £24m annually by 2017.
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NewsEuropaCorp, Relativity sign Kevin Costner for McG thriller
The untitled project centres on a dying secret serviceman who undertakes a volatile drug trial that could extend his life and allow him to reconnect with his estranged family in exchange for one final mission.