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NewsProduction wraps on The Girl From Nagasaki
The husband-and-wife team of Michel Comte and Ayako Yoshida updates Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly.
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NewsLarrain’s No wins at first Baja International Film Festival
Pablo Larrain’s Chilean foreign language Oscar submission, No, prevailed in the International Feature Competition at the weekend (17) as the four-day event came to a close in the Mexican resort of Los Cabos.
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NewsDolph Lundgren to receive Swedish-American honour
The veteran action star will collect the 2012 Eliason Merit Award at a ceremony on Nov 30 in Los Angeles.
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NewsEuropa International to hold first conference on Nov 24
Topics include new ways of distributing and promoting films; speakers to include Ted Hope [pictured], Ryan Werner, and Marieke Jonker.
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NewsFirst European VoD film festival reveals line-up
The programme has been unveiled for Europe’s first video on demand film festival, which will screen through seven VoD providers.
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NewsBahman Ghobadi calls on Iran to release brother
Behrouz Ghobadi, a production manager and short film director, is believed to have been detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, accused of acting against national security.
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NewsIndia's Everymedia makes indie marketing move
Nikhil Garth D’Rozario, former business head of India’s DAR Media, has teamed with Gautam Thakkar of EveryMedia Technologies to start a boutique entertainment marketing agency.
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NewsDisney to launch movies on demand in Spain
The Walt Disney Company and streaming service Wuaki.tv have joined forces to offer movies on demand in Spain.
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NewsAmitabh Bachchan to star in Kabuliwala
EXCLUSIVE: Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is attached to play the lead in French-Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi’s screen adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala.
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NewsGlobal partners tuck into Lunchbox
EXCLUSIVE: Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra has lined up a host of international collaborators for his debut feature The Lunchbox (Dabba), a co-production between France’s ASAP Films, Germany’s rohfilm, New York-based Cine Mosaic and India’s Anurag Kashyap Films.
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NewsThe Conspiracy sells well for XYZ, Celluloid Nightmares
EXCLUSIVE: Christopher MacBride’s Fantastic Fest hit [pictured] also played at Sitges and has closed in several major markets.
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NewsCassadega to kick off Archstone Distribution 2013 slate
Horror [pictured] stars Kelen Coleman and Kevin Alejandro.
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NewsSeattle festival receives $150,000 Academy grant
The multi-year award will allow Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) top brass to develop its African Pictures programme and showcase emerging talent from the continent.
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NewsShoot date set for Killing Winston Jones
RadioactiveGiant is to commence shooting on Killing Winston Jones on Nov 26 in Savannah, Georgia.
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NewsChopra's Broken Horses starts shooting with D'Onofrio
Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s first English-language film, Broken Horses, has started shooting in Los Angeles with Vincent D’Onofrio [pictured], Anton Yelchin and Chris Marquette heading the cast.
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NewsBenton, Brunskill launch SUMS with interactive thriller Phone Book
EXCLUSIVE: Angus Wall will direct segments of the interactive feature from Raw Shark Texts author Steven Hall.
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NewsGerman distributors secure AFM deals
Several German distributors returned from this year’s American Film Market with signed and sealed deals for new acquisitions.