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Italian regions boost support of foreign production
The Apulia Film Commission Foundation in Italy is has launched a new international Fund in support of foreign film productions.
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NewsNicole Kidman said to be reuniting with Lee Daniels on Butler
EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-winning actres is reportedly poised to join the cast of IM Global hot seller The Butler, reuniting with director Lee Daniels whose The Paperboy receives its world premiere here on Thursday.
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NewsScherfig, August team for Serious Game
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Lone Scherfig and Swedish actress-director Pernilla August are to collaborate on €5 million costume epic/love story
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Metrodome keen for Once Upon a Time in Essex
EXCLUSIVE: Metrodome has picked up UK rights to crime-thriller Once Upon a Time in Essex, based on the iconic ‘Range Rover’ killings.
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Buyers wake up for Five Star’s 3AM
Thailand’s Five Star Production is lining up a second 3D horror, 3AM, following the Asian box office success of its first such production, Dark Flight 3D.
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DFI unveils first funding round of 2012
The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has unveiled the 23 features, documentaries and short films that will receive funding as part of its 2012 grants programme.
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NewsFrench shooting hours steady
Most popular shooting location remained central Ile de la France region.
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NewsAngelWorld, HanWay wear Big Shoe with Sturgess, Sarandon
Steven Shainberg to direct comedy-drama backed by new fund AngelWorld Entertainment. HanWay to handle sales.
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NewsBBC Films announces new projects with Simon Curtis, David Heyman
Saoirse Ronan to star in adaptation of Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, Simon Curtis to direct drama based on struggle for Klimt paintings
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NewsWenders to stay with 3D for next feature project starring Sarah Polley
Director Wim Wenders is to stay with the 3D format for his next feature film project Every Thing Will Be Fine.
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Cargo escorts Hendricks film Zipper into Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Cargo Entertainment sales chief Mark Lindsay has been talking up the thriller Zipper starring Patrick Wilson and Christina Hendricks, which Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures is on board to produce.
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NewsWeide plans Vonnegut doc
EXCLUSIVE: Robert B. Weide, whose Woody Allen: A Documentary is in official selection) is looking to revive his long-gestating feature doc on sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut.
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Iris and Rezo prep Rainer bio-pic
Luxembourgish Iris Group has unveiled a ten-picture slate of films due to be distributed in France and sold worldwide by its Paris-based partner Rezo.
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Iron Sky getting prequel and sequel
On the eve of Cannes, Blind Spot Pictures’ Tero Kaukomaa, the producer of cult Third Reich in space movie Iron Sky, has confirmed that he is plotting not one but two sequels.
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Gens planning Monet art heist caper
EXCLUSIVE: French genre director Xavier Gens is set to direct a comedy crime caper inspired by the real-life robbery of Claude Monet’s Impression, Soleil Levant.
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NewsBlind Spot plans prequel and sequel to Iron Sky
Stealth Media has sales rights to the first Nazis on the moon film.
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NewsLes Films du Losange fetes 50 years
As Haneke’s Amour premieres, MD Margaret Ménégoz talks about the company’s storied history.
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NewsRomeo team could work with Swarovski again
Screenwriter Julian Fellowes and producer Ileen Maisel plan to develop future projects with Swarovski Entertainment, which backed their new Romeo and Juliet.
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NewsCoppola at the Mercy of Highsmith
Bruno Coppola and Joseph Pierson have acquired the film rights to Patricia Highsmith’s A Suspension of Mercy.
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Carol Polakoff, Susan Wrubel unveil strategic alliance
EXCLUSIVE: New York and Paris-based producer Carol Polakoff is ramping up efforts to attract talent, funding and partnerships to her eclectic slate and has struck a strategic alliance with veteran acquisitions and packaging executive Susan Wrubel.