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NewsStewart Till backs Daniel Battsek as head of BFI Film Fund
Till was speaking at a Skillset event held in London last night to celebrate the Skills Investment Fund reaching the £8m milestone.
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NewsCode Name Geronimo shoot gets underway in New Mexico
Filming began on Wednesday (Feb 1) on Voltage Pictures’ story about the Navy SEAL mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.
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NewsKate Hudson is Everly for Crime Scene, Anonymous Content
Sierra / Affinity will commence sales at the EFM next week on Hudson’s first action vechicle based on Yale Hannon’s Black List screenplay.
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NewsNetherlands Film Fund overhauls model in wake of funding cuts
The Netherlands Film Fund today published its proposals for a new streamlined film policy for 2013 to 2016, introducing three funds.
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NewsFilmEngine to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan
Los Angeles-based FilmEngine is to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan, with Taiwan’s Hsu Po-yun, founding partner of New Aspect Cultural Foundation and executive board for Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP).
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NewsMia Wasikowska joins cast of Richard Ayoade's The Double
Protagonist Pictures is handling sales on the follow up to Ayoade’s debut feature Submarine.
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NewsAhmed's Fineline gets funding for development slate in South Africa
Durban-based director/producer Junaid Ahmed plans to use state funding to developing new creative talents from black-filmmakers in South Africa.
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NewsDaisy Lowe, Alfie Allen to star in London thriller Confine
The film has been written and will be directed by Tobias Tobbell.
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NewsDenis Villeneuve to direct adaptation of Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza
Paris-based Tu Vas Voir developing adaptation of Sacco’s graphic novel on 1956 Gaza massacre; company also confirms new Walter Salles film to start shooting at end of 2012.
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NewsSierra / Affinity sets April start in Romania for Wer
The company has revealed the title of its new EFM-bound horror project from the producers behind shock US chart-topper The Devil Inside.
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NewsK5 strikes output and development deal with Knudsen and Van Hoy
New York-based independent producers Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy of Parts & Labor, who recently produced Oscar-nominated Beginners, have struck an output and development deal with K5 Media Group.
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NewsColumbia, Hasbro, Adam Sandler go to Candy Land
The companies are teaming up with Sandler’s Happy Madison to adapt Hasbro’s 1949 fantasy board game.
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NewsEndgame to finance Steven Soderbergh’s Bitter Pill
Jim Stern’s LA-based financing and production company has boarded the project, until recently known as Side Effects, and is in talks with 1984 Private Defense Contractors to co-finance. FilmNation handles international rights and will introduce to buyers at EFM next week.
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Strategic Partners co-production spotlight on UK and US
The co-production market is scheduled to take place from Sept 13-16 in Halifax, Canada.
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Swedish Film Institute backs new films from Andersson, Hallstrom, Odell
Andersson (pictured) continues his Living trilogy with A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.
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NewsUK domestic productions down, co-productions up in 2011
Inward investment reached a record high in 2011, whilst the number of films shooting in the UK fell slightly in 2011; independent British films recorded best ever year at the UK box office.
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NewsDeluxe expands UK digital cinema operation
The company is building a new £4m purpose built facility in Soho.
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NewsVera Farmiga to play Fleetwood Mac singer in The Drummer
The Oscar nominated actress joins Aaron Eckhart in the Beach Boys film and will play singer-songwriter Christine McVie. W2 is co-financing the project and represents international sales.
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NewsNala Films plans festival run for Decoding Deepak
The financier and producer has unveiled its latest project, a documentary that chronicles one year in the life of the spiritualist Deepak Chopra.
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NewsLikely Story sets writers for Too Cool graphic novel adaptation
Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko will adapt the Top Shelf Productions graphic novel about a family man who reverts to his 15-year-old body after a hypnosis course to stop smoking.