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NewsArte's Reilhac to deliver keynote at Canada's Strategic Partners
Michel Reilhac [pictured], executive director of Arte France Cinema, will be delivering a key note speech at co-production market Strategic Partners, which will take place during the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Canada (Sept 15-18).
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NewsCanada's NFB appoints Roddy McManus as head of animation studio
He replaces David Verrall as of Aug 8.
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NewsLe Quattro Volte producer to partner on Italian remake of Uchitel’s The Stroll
Project is discussed by Cinecitta Luce at Russia’s Voices festival, where there is a strong Italian presence.
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NewsFocus developing UK director Daniel Mulloy’s debut feature A Cold Day
Arta Dobroshi and Melissa Leo favoured to co-star in story set in tough New York high school.
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NewsFrench producers stalk Quebecois Denis Coté’s Bear at Paris Project
Hot titles at ninth edition of Paris Project included Vic & Flo Saw a Bear, Evil Woman, Mitrovica, Cannibal and A Screw. Rotterdam Films seals co-production deal on Thai director Sivaroj Kongsakul’s Cinefondation project Arunkarn.
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NewsICO plans series of UK workshops for producers, distributors, exhibitors
Series of six day-long events starts Sept 8 with speakers including Monsters director Gareth Edwards [pictured].
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NewsBerlinale's World Cinema Fund backs eight projects
Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat has been awarded the biggest production award of 50,000 euros for In What City Does It Live?.
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NewsTaiwan’s Joint Entertainment targets Chinese mainland with wedding comedy Marry Go Round
Taiwanese Joint Entertainment and China’s Enterprising Dragon Entertainment unveiled romantic comedy co-production, due to shoot in Taipei, Paris and provincial Chinese city of Chongqing, to European producers at Paris Project.
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NewsEli Roth's next projects include producing Chilean earthquake film
New projects include producing next film by young director Nicolas Lopez; he also talks about radical solution to film piracy.
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NewsCasting underway for New Zealand feature Kiwi Flyer
The New Zealand Film Commission backed project is being directed by Nelson-born filmmaker Tony Simpson.
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NewsMikael Hafstrom to direct Wake for Exclusive's Hammer label
The genre director behind 1408 and The Rite will direct the thriller about a sociopath without any sense of fear.
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NewsTwilight's Stephenie Meyer to produce rom-com Austenland
Meyer’s Fickle Fish, the production company the Twilight author runs with Meghan Hibbett, is financing the feature directorial debut of Jerusha Hess, who co-wrote Napoleon Dynamite with her husband Jared Hess.
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NewsSony, Adam Sandler reunite for Hotel Transylvania
The comedian continues his long association with the studio and is set to voice the lead role in the film, set for release on Sept 21 2012.
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NewsAlicia Silverstone, Sharon Stone on board Gods for Big Beach
Production on the comedy Gods Behaving Badly is scheduled to begin in mid-July in New York.
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NewsPatton, Hernandez join Abbie Cornish in The Girl
Goldcrest is handling international sales on David Riker’s road movie which just wrapped shooting in Texas and Mexico.
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NewsActor Martin Donovan plans to direct again after feature debut Collaborator
Martin Donovan has unveiled his directorial debut Collaborator as a world premiere in competition at Karlovy Vary.
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NewsSherry Hormann to direct one of Bernd Eichinger's last screenplays
The US born director of Desert Flower has been picked by producer-distributor Constantin Film to direct Kampusch, one of the last projects which Bernd Eichinger had been working on before his untimely death in January this year.
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NewsNoel Clarke to direct and star in mixed martial arts feature
He has also written the script for the film, which will be in the vein of The Wrestler, The Fighter and Rocky.
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NewsJohn Malkovich to star in Salvatores' Siberian Education
The actor will head up the cast of Gabriele Salvatores’ upcoming English language project about the Siberian criminal underworld.
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NewsStranger Things directors plan London-set feature
The writing/directing team of Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal, in Karlovy Vary with the international premiere of their award-winning feature Stranger Things, are already writing the script for their next feature together.