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NewsMockert to produce Anthony Minghella's brother's directorial debut
Veteran German producer Rainer Mockert is returning to feature production with Dominic Minghella’s directorial debut Doria and Austrian Walter Bannert’s drama Kolyma set in the postwar Soviet Union.
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NewsIFTA announces schedule for five-day AFM Conference
Topics for the second annual conference include finance, pitches, marketing, VoD and micro-budget. The AFM is set to take place in Santa Monica from Oct 31-Nov 7.
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NewsBVA report: video still "the single biggest revenue source" for UK film and TV production
BVA report indicates that UK consumers spent £2.3bn on video last year, more than that spent on cinema and music combined; online spend growing but still only a fraction of total spend, which is declining.
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NewsThierry Potok has big plans for Germany's Hürth studios
Former Studio Babelsberg chief Thierry Potok returns to managing a German studio, set sights on bigger MMC studios and von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.
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NewsDaniel Sánchez Arévalo plans new comedy, The Big Spanish Family
Shoot will begin next August 20, Atipica and Mod will produce.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
New films on Screenbase include Amour Et Turbulences starring Ludivine Sagnier as well as Francois Ozon’s latest production Jeune Et Jolie.
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NewsSPT poised to snap up £40m Left Bank
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is on the brink of acquiring Wallander producer Left Bank Pictures in a deal thought to be worth in excess of £40m.
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NewsPsykou's Antonis wins Karlovy Vary Works In Progress award
Karlovy Vary’s Works In Progress jury has given a new €10,000 prize to the most promising project, Elina Psykou’s The Eternal Return of Antonis P.
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Responses published to EC Consultation on State Aid for film
Producers and film agencies have rejected the idea that there is “a subsidy race” going on across Europe.
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NewsFrench CDP takes The Fourth Direction at Paris Project
Indian film one of 26 projects presented at Paris co-production market aimed at connecting international filmmakers with French professionals.
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Revenue from shoots in Thailand surpasses 2011 total
The Thailand Film Office (TFO) has reported that revenue from all foreign productions shooting in Thailand has reached $46.5m in the first five months of 2012, which is a 17.5% increase over revenues for the whole of last year
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NewsPrincess Diana biopic Caught In Flight renamed Diana
Shooting has begun on Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Princess Diana biopic, starring Naomi Watts.
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NewsKevin McKidd, Ashley Jensen attached to star in Ward's Indian Summer
Michael Hamlyn’s Specific Films (the outfit behind Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert) is planning to begin production early next year on its new $4 million feature Indian Summer.
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NewsLatvian project Hybrid Vigor seeks Kickstarter support
US filmmaker Brandon Fowler directs the horror film which began principal photography in March and has already completed major sequences on Lake Peipus in Estonia and several locations in Latvia.
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Doha's new script development programme adds mentors including Routh, Doueiri
The Doha Film Institute is launching its new nationwide screenwriting development programme entitled Hezayah.
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NewsDe Niro checks in to Tin Res’ action thriller Motel
John Cusack and Rebecca Da Costa are also on board the project to be set in the New Orleans area. Red Granite International is handling selling territories.
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NewsMueller rings changes for Rome Film Festival 2012
Rome Film Festival (November 9 – 17) to feature “around sixty” world premieres and two new competition strands; Sandra Hebron joins selection committee; Business Street and New Cinema Network to continue.
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NewsDogme director Kragh-Jacobsen to shoot thriller starring The Killing's Sofie Grabol
The Hunt and Submarino writer Tobias Lindholm has written thriller with Jonas T Bengtsson; principal photography on $3.7m project to get underway in late summer; The Match Factory handles sales.
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NewsUPI checks in for French transatlantic flight romcom Amour et Turbulences
Alexandre Castagnetti’s Amour et Turbulences is among three French productions boarded by Universal Pictures International for 2013 slate.
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NewsDocu Talents presenting in Karlovy Vary include homeless, Eugenics projects
Today in Karlovy Vary, the Docu Talents from the East presentation will include nine documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe in production or post-production.