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NewsFortune Cookies to shoot at Elstree Studios
The low budget cross cultural comedy is being partly financed via crowdfunding.
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NewsIndependent swoops on NFTS duo
EXCLUSIVE: “Exceptional year” for NFTS directors sees duo signed early by Independent Talent; United Talent also takes on graduate.
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NewsCharlotte van Weede starts new job at eOne
Charlotte van Weede has today started her new position as Head of Sales for Entertainment One.
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NewsBFI Southbank launches Made In Britain season
The first installment will kick off in April, with a focus on female directors from the UK.
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NewsTulpa starts shooting in Rome
IDF begins production on Federico Zampaglione’s third feature, based on a story by genre veteran Dardano Sacchetti.
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CommentWelles diggers
Brian Cox has signed on to a performance of Orson Welles’ unmade screenplay Heart of Darkness.
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NewsSundance Channel launches in Romania, expands in other Euro markets
AMC Networks’ Sundance Channel is making its debut in Romania; expands service in Hungary and Belgium.
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NewsSPC gets Smashed, IFC Midnight falls for Grabbers
Two late Sundance deals have closed, with SPC taking worldwide rights to Smashed and IFC Midnight acquiring North and Latin America on Grabbers.
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NewsPaolo Ferrari named president of Rome’s Cinema Foundation
The founding partners of Rome’s Cinema Foundation voted on Monday (Mar 5) four to one in favour of Ferrari, ending a fierce political struggle that waged for two months.
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Universal, Hasbro sign deal for Ouija thriller
Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir will produce for Hasbro alongside Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form of Platinum Dunes and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions.
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PGA names Susan Sprung associate national executive director
Sprung previously served as special counsel at the law firm of O’Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles and before that she was an associate at Barrett Smith Shapiro Simon and Armstrong in New York.
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NewsCinedigm, New Video to jointly release The Invisible War
The partners have acquired North American rights to Kirby Dick’s winner of the Sundance US Documentary Audience Award earlier in the year.
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NewsTribeca unveils narrative, documentary competitions and Viewpoints
Tribeca Enterprises chief creative officer Geoff Gilmore and incoming artistic director Frederic Boyer, previously artistic director of Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, have unveiled the first tranche of selections for the upcoming 11th festival, set to run in New York from Apr 18-29.
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NewsLives of YSL and Pierre Bergé to hit big screen
Yves Saint Laurent’s long-term partner Pierre Bergé collaborating on feature to be written and directed by French director Jalil Lespert.
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NewsMatt Bate starts documentary starring Sam Klemke
Rebecca Summerton is producing Sam Klemke’s Time Machine.
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NewsBeaufoy, Buffini, Watkins among speakers at Page to Screen Festival
UK festival to host preview screening of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen; Beaufoy in conversation with novelist Torday.
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NewsLipSync boards Murphy's Blood, Athale's Wasteland
The Soho based post production house will provide equity investment and post services for Murphy’s second feature.
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NewsUK MPs urge BBC Worldwide to be more commercial
The BBC should reconsider how much income it can generate through its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, in a report by MPs that labels its current plans “unambitious”.
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NewsUFA moves ahead with Fatherland adaptation
EXCLUSIVE: The Wave writer-director Dennis Gansel has been working on the feature adaptation of Robert Harris’ controversial best-seller Fatherland; Gansel among candidates to direct.