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NewsAl-Ghanim Entertainment sets sail
SUNDANCE: Kuwaiti industrialist Nawaf Alghanim announced in Park City on Friday (January 23) the formation of his Los Angeles and Kuwaiti-based financing and production company.
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NewsDreamWorks Animation unveils restructure
The embattled studio is letting go of marketing chief Dawn Taubin, vice-chair Lew Coleman and COO Mark Zoradi as it plans to lay off approximately 500 people and cut the feature slate to two films a year.
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NewsGreenaway talks new film Walking To Paris
British director will premiere Eisenstein in Guanajuato at the Berlinale next month.
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NewsStienette Bosklopper reveals screenwriting plans
Veteran Dutch producer Stienette Bosklopper, owner and MD of Circe Film, is turning screenwriter and has written two projects already in advanced development.
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NewsWar Book producer reveals development slate
Stray Bear Productions, producer of IFFR opening film War Book, has features lined-up including the story of a gay miner in 1980s Yorkshire.
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NewsMongrel International takes Departure to EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Mongrel International has bulked up its Berlin sales slate, taking international rights on Andrew Steggall’s feature debut.
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NewsAnnapurna Pictures launches VR unit
Megan Ellison is venturing into virtual reality and has formed the joint venture VRSE.farm with artist Chris Milk, whose Evolution Of Verse premieres in Sundance this week.
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NewsFábrica de Cine, SharpSword Films board Silence
Martin Scorsese’s prestige independent drama and passion project Silence is moving ahead with a January 30 production start in Taiwan as the latest financing element has entered the equation.
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NewsFortitude International lines up Dive
EXCLUSIVE: Ariel Vromen will direct the submarine thriller that Fortitude International is fully financing.
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NewsAgile's Brodie sets up VERYFINE
Kristian Brodie, one of the producers of BIFA-winning documentary Next Goal Wins, is departing Agile Films to become an independent producer under his own banner VERYFINE.
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NewsDocs dominate When East Meets West winners
Projects from Italy, Ireland, Hungary and Poland were the winners at this year’s edition of the When East Meets West (WEMW) co-production market.
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NewsSTX secures Showtime window
Robert Simonds’ nascent studio has closed an exclusive, four-year premium television deal with Showtime starting this year as it moves ahead with its first four features.
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NewsSundance Institute unveils NHK 2015 Award winner
Sundance Institute and Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have selected French actress and writer-director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre as winner of the 2015 Sundance Institute/NHK Award.
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NewsTelevisa USA boosts US operations
The division of Mexican titan Grupo Televisa is ramping up English-language production and distribution and has appointed Chris Philip to lead its new global distribution and production unit.
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NewsWTFilms boards Patricio Valladares’ Downhill
EXCLUSIVE: The Paris-based company has come on as co-producer and international sales agent on the Chilean director’s low-budget survival thriller.
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NewsAmazon Studios confirms film push
Ted Hope has been named head of production at Amazon Original Movies as the company behind Golden Globe winner Transparent plans to produce and acquire 12 original features a year.
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NewsAnnapurna to produce 20th Century Women
Mike Mills, who shot to fame with festival hits Beginners and Thumbsucker, will direct the nostalgic trip back to the 1970’s.
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Mitic, Mansky, Jashi projects join East Doc Platform
New documentaries by Boris Mitic, Vitaly Mansky and Salome Jashi are among the projects being pitched at this year’s East Doc Platform in Prague (March 2-8).
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NewsFilm and TV "not doing enough" to combat climate change
One day’s shoot on flagship BBC nature doc Planet Earth can generate 28 tonnes of carbon.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
New films on Screenbase this week include Jamie Adams’ Black Mountain Poets, Valérie Donzelli’s romance Marguerite and Julien, and Julie Delpy’s France-set romcom Lolo.