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NewsOrb Media launches Ironpond
Orb Media Group has launched a Chinese-language and China-based production and financing entity and announced a multi-pronged collaboration with fantasy martial arts writer Shiao Yi.
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NewsThe Exchange finds Accident
Brian O’Shea’s Los Angeles-based sales and financing company has added the 3D thriller to its slate in the lead-in to AFM.
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NewseOne AFM-bound with Mommy
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography is underway in Montreal on French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan’s follow-up to Tom At The Farm.
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NewsLotus to sell Candy Store
Worldview Entertainment has come on to finance and produce crime thriller Candy Store starring Robert De Niro, Jason Clarke and Omar Sy. Lotus Entertainment will kick off sales at the AFM.
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NewsSleeping Room using equity crowdfunding
EXCLUSIVE: Movie Mogul’s supernatural thriller to become the first UK film to use fundraising method provides backers with an actual return on their investment.
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NewsDaniel Radcliffe to play Seb Coe
EXCLUSIVE: Radcliffe to star as Olympic champion in Gold. Simon Beaufoy’s script to be directed by James Watkins, Embankment to handle sales.
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NewsNew Susanne Bier project revealed
Oscar-winning Danish director will next make A Second Chance, starring Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
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NewsLee joins Dreams Of The Dragon
Chinese production and investment company Dreams of the Dragon Pictures (DDP) has hired Christopher DeHau Lee as president of its film division.
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NewsCretton drops Glass Castle hints
Short Term 12 director discusses adapting the bestselling memoir for a film set to star Jennifer Lawrence.
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News108 Media boards He Never Died
Toronto-based 108 Media has licensed the AFM-bound drama He Never Died starring Henry Rollins to Take One for Scandinavia and Benelux.
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Kramer to direct Myriad's Caught Stealing
Wayne Kramer has signed on to direct Caught Stealing for Myriad Pictures, who will bring the project to the AFM next week. In separate production news, Gnosis and Whisper Pictures are moving ahead on Tusk: Hannibal’s Favorite Elephant.
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NewsVisit Films boards It Follows
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kampe will commence sales at AFM next week on David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to The Myth Of The American Sleepover.
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NewsLondon Has Fallen heads to AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Nu Image will kick off talks on what is likely to become one of the must-haves of the market as Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman prepare to reprise their roles from the original action smash.
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NewsSFFS/Hearst grant goes to Alistair Banks Griffin
Snow The Jones looks at a girl who discovers the dark world of door-to-door sales crews.
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NewsMcAlpine, Vaines, Siller launch outfit
Veteran producers announce new slate with supernatural thriller and Bhopal doc.
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NewsBenedict Cumberbatch launches production company
Cumberbatch and fellow producers at SunnyMarch talk to Screen about their first film and upcoming slate.
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NewsDiane Keaton buys BBC drama rights
Actor Diane Keaton has bought the rights to Last Tango in Halifax with a view to remaking the series for HBO in the US.
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NewsPixar answers Ken Loach appeal
Animation studio behind Toy Story and Monsters University answers appeal from veteran director for editing supplies.
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NewsEmile Hirsch to play John Belushi
Emjag’s Alexandra Milchan, Bonnie Timmermann, Film 360’s Scott Lambert and Judy Belushi Pisano are serving as producers. Dan Aykroyd serves as executive producer.