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NewsMurdoch, Dneg back UK animation studio
Former Aardman Features exec Sarah Smith, has launched a UK animation studio with backing from Elisabeth Murdoch and Double Negative.
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NewsParticipant to co-finance Image Nation's Malala doc
Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth making the film about the Pakistani teenager who survived a brutal assassination attempt by the Taliban.
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NewsScreen Int'l winner wins fresh funding
EXCLUSIVE: Screen award-winner among seven features funded by Lithuanian Film Centre (LFC).
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NewsDailyMotion in scripted first
Video-sharing site DailyMotion has commissioned a ‘sci-fi hipster’ drama as its first piece of original scripted content, which will also receive a theatrical release.
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NewsTFI unveils Sloan fund winners
Top brass at Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) have announced (9) the 2014 grantees of the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund. Separately,the 2014 SFFS Documentary Film Fund recipients have been unveiled.
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NewsJustin Lin to direct Radiant Doors
Another high-profile film director is jumping into TV as LA-based Gaumont International Television announced it has set up the hour-long drama Radiant Doors at WGN with Perfect Storm Entertainment.
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NewsTerra Mater launches theatrical label
First projects under CineMater label include thriller DXM from Gallowwalkers director Andrew Goth and previously announced The Way of the Eagle, starring Jean Reno.
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NewsSummit exec joins Pulse Films
Ashley Schlaifer, who worked on Red and Now You See Me while at Summit, to head Pulse’s US development and production.
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NewsSorrentino to direct first TV series
The Oscar-winning director of The Great Beauty signs deal with Sky Italia and Wildside.
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NewsProduction begins on Marco Polo
The Weinstein Company hierarchy announced (8) that production is underway on the Netflix original series based on the epic adventures of the legendary explorer.
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NewsBaltasar Kormakur to direct Trapped
LA and Paris-based Dynamic Television heads to MIPTV with a 10-part crime series to be directed by the Icelandic filmmaker.
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NewsTimothy Spall joins Sucker
LevelK to handle international distribution on feature adapted from con artist stage show.
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NewsWOWOW boards Scorsese 'Review' doc
Japanese pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW is to partnering on Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s documentary The New York Review of Books: A 50 Year Argument.
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NewsCate Blanchett, Susanne Bier circle Sutton Hoo drama
EXCLUSIVE: Cate Blanchett is in talks to star in The Dig, a drama about one of Britain’s most famous archaeological finds - the Sutton Hoo burial grounds.
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NewsBunny Game director prepares Western
Adam Rehmeier, director of controversial feature The Bunny Game, is preparing to shoot a “hardcore” Western with the exec producer of Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep.
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NewsR&C boards 'explicit sex' project
Berlin-based sales outfit Raspberry&Cream (R&C) is partnering with Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion to co-produce Like Cattle Towards Glow, which aims to achieve a new way of portraying sex on screen.
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NewsThe Dark Stranger begins shoot
Katie Findlay has joined the psychothriller that recently commenced principal photography in Toronto. LA-based Moonstone Entertainment handles international sales.
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NewsMonaghan, Dinklage join Sony's Pixels
Michelle Monaghan and Peter Dinklage have joined Adam Sandler, Kevin James, and Josh Gad in the cast of Sony’s Pixels. Separately, Lionsgate has announced a cast change on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2.
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NewsGary Kurtz execs Centurion Resurrection
Short marks first production from GBK Hybrid and the first live action film from former Disney animator Richard Bazley.