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NewsParamount, Bad Robot extend first-look deal
The key exclusive relationship between the studio and J J Abrams’ production company will now run through December 2015.
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NewsMartin Freeman, Vicky McClure to star in Root Films' Svengali
Based on Jonny Owen and Dean Cavanagh’s hit youtube comedy series, Svengali will be the first feature to come out of Martin Root and Jonny Owen’s new London based production company Root Films.
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NewsUniversal signs two-year deal with Paul Walker’s Laguna Ridge
The first project to go under the production arrangement is the action thriller Skyscraper based on an original idea by Mike Sobel.
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NewsDel Toro, Reel FX team up on Day Of The Dead
Jorge R Gutierrez will direct the Romeo And Juliet-style CG animation from a screenplay he is writing with Doug Langdale set against the Mexican folklore milieu. Guillermo De Toro is on board as creative collaborator and will also present the film.
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NewsShank co-writer starts shooting Cal in Bristol
UK independent production company Bonne Idée Productions is shooting its new feature, Cal, a follow-up to 2009 feature Shank.
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NewsSky Atlantic books Richard E Grant hotel series
Richard E Grant is to front a “luxurious” travel series for Sky Atlantic that marks the first commission for Clive Tulloh’s new indie.
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NewsPeter Greenaway plans new Death In Venice project
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Greenaway is to make a new film version of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice.
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NewsFilm's Cool launches documentary initiative
Neil Crombie of Seneca Productions is to head up a new London based course – Change One Thing – which is aimed at introducing school children to documentary film-making.
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NewsNorwegian regional film centres in development, production deal with US indie producers
An unsual collaboration to make two to three films has been created by a 12 month co-development and co-production deal between the Regional Film Centres of Norway and US independents Senza Pictures and Garnet Girl LLC.
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NewsPathe UK signs first-look deal with Damian Jones
Pathe inks first look deal with The Iron Lady producer who is currently working on period-drama Belle from writer-director Amma Asante.
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Senza Pictures, Garnet Girl sign co-production deal with Norway
An unsual collaboration to make two to three films has been created by a 12 month co-development and co-production deal between the Regional Film Centres of Norway and US independents Senza Pictures and Garnet Girl LLC.
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NewsWeekend producer Tristan Goligher appointed iFeatures executive producer
He will head up iFeatures 2 which is being launched by Creative England in March as a UK nationwide scheme.
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NewsStudioCanal boards Winterbottom's King of Soho
StudioCanal will co-finance, handle UK distribution and take on international sales for Michael Winterbottom’s Paul Raymond biopic King of Soho, to star Steve Coogan.
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NewsJérôme Salle to direct Orlando Bloom and Djimon Hounsou in Zulu
Director of Anthony Zimmer and The Burma Conspiracy adapts compatriot Caryl Férey’s crime novel Zulu set in post-Apartheid SouthAfrica.
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NewsOticons grows composer roster with Craig Gannon
Munich-based film composers’ agency Oticons has added Craig Gannon, former Smiths and Aztec Camera guitarist, to its roster.
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NewsScreen to host EIS seminar on March 12
Dave Morrison from Nyman Libson Paul to discuss EIS changes.
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NewsMarton Csokas, Hayley Atwell to star in Sky Atlantic's Falcon
The two part production is based on Robert Wilson’s bestselling detective novels and will be Sky Atlantic’s second UK original drama commission following Hit + Miss.
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NewsMichael Fassbender to star in Irish Myths
Fassbender has been developing the project based on Irish myth stories, with writer Ronan Bennett, who has been working on the project since last year.
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NewsAnna Friel joins Steve Coogan in Winterbottom's King Of Soho
Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots have joined the cast of Michael Winterbottom’s next feature, which stars Steve Coogan as infamous porn baron Paul Raymond.
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NewsBBCW teams with HBO for atomic bomb drama
Jane Tranter’s LA division of BBC Worldwide Productions is working with HBO to develop a high-profile dramatisation of Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.