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NewsRoyo, Eigenberg, Press star in Calloused Hands
Writer/director Jesse Quinones’ debut about a promising baseball player from a tough background is executive produced by Effie Brown.
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NewsPenny Woolcock amongst Bertha Britdoc grantees
Fourteen grants totaling £230,000 have been awarded through The Bertha Foundation and BRITDOC’s new Connect Fund and Documentary Journalism Fund.
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NewsScreen Australia’s letters of interest to be more useful as a financing tool
If proposed changes to Screen Australia’s guidelines go ahead, there will be fewer hoops to jump through in order to be eligible for a letter of interest.
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NewsCroatian Audiovisual Centre supports Grlic, Juric, Ogresta
The Croatian Audiovisual Centre has announced it latest fundings, with a total of 62 projects receiving $6.8m, out of which eight feature films will share $5.2m.
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NewsChadwick, Harris circle Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom
EXCLUSIVE: Anant Singh’s long-gestating Nelson Mandela biopic heats up with Justin Chadwick in advanced talks to direct and Skyfall actress Naomie Harris in talks to star as Winnie Mandela opposite Idris Elba.
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NewsThe Blind Side producer Molly Smith launches Belle Pictures
Smith, who will remain Hilary Swank’s partner at 2S Films, will make features and TV in association with Alcon Entertainment in a four-year discretionary first-look deal.
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San Francisco Film Society announces SFFS/KRF grants
The Society in association with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have selected 11 narrative feature projects for the seventh round of grants up to $300,000.
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Horrible Bosses writer to script Tradition Studios feature
Mike Markowitz will get to work on the untitled project from Digital Domain Media Group’s new animated division.
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NewsNational Youth Film Academy launches apprenticeship scheme
20 budding young film-makers from the UK will take part in the scheme which runs for 9 months.
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NewsNew Zealand film-makers Albiston, Sutherland go Shopping
Their feature deubt is being produced by Warp Films Australia.
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NewsTom Tagholm leaves Channel 4 to develop film, commercial projects
Been with channel for 11 years.
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NewsOrigin develops scripts with Greenhalgh, Towhidi, Graham
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Origin Pictures is working across an exciting slate of film and TV projects including a The Wire-style crime-drama set in Manchester from Matt Greenhalgh and an adaptation of recently optioned PD James novel Death Comes to Pemberley.
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Cranston, Kendrick among cast on CBS comedy Get A Job
The company has confirmed the cast of Bryan Cranston, Anna Kendrick, Miles Teller and Christopher Mintz-Plasse on the tentatively titled story about graduates strugging to adjust to post-college life.
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NewsCanal Plus chief Bertrand Meheut sounds alarm for French cinema
Meheut says international operators such as iTunes, Google and YouTube as well as Al Jazeera’s sporting ambitions pose threat to France’sunique film finance model.
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NewsApril shoot for I Give It A Year
Rose Byrne, Anna Faris, Rafe Spall and Simon Baker will star in Dan Mazer’s directorial debut, produced by Working Title.
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Women In Film Foundation announces annual Film Finishing Fund
Grants up to $15,000 will be given to films by, for and about women to cover post services such as online editing, sound mixing, colour correction and closed captioning.
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Classic Media acquires rights to children’s favourite Noddy
The company secured the property in a deal with Chorion on behalf of the Enid Blyton estate.
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NewsUFA moves ahead with Fatherland adaptation
EXCLUSIVE: The Wave writer-director Dennis Gansel has been working on the feature adaptation of Robert Harris’ controversial best-seller Fatherland; Gansel among candidates to direct.
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Alcon Entertainment to produce Wally Pfister’s directorial debut
The Oscar winning cinematographer recently completed work on The Dark Knight Rises and will commence principal photography in early autumn from an untitled screenplay by newcomer Jack Paglen.
