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Vamps cast adds Kristen Johnston as Michigan shoot starts
Kristen Johnston has joined the cast of Amy Heckerling’s Vamps, which is about to start shooting this week in Detroit, Michigan.
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Virgin Produced launches in LA, partners with Relativity
Richard Branson’s brand new film and television company Virgin Produced has entered into a joint venture with Relativity Media’s Rogue Pictures.
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This week's hot projects on Screenbase
Tony Ten, Tous les Soleils and Forevermore (Für Immer Und Ewig - Grete Und Georg Trakl) are among the new additions to Screenbase.
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Columbia hires Wiseman to re-imagine sci-fi classic Total Recall
Len Wiseman is in final negotiations to direct a remake of the classic sci-fi action film Total Recall for Columbia Pictures after the studio secured the rights from Miramax.
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Ipso Facto gets slate funding from North East Creative Content Fund
Newcastle-based UK production company Ipso Facto Films has gotten $234,000 (£150,000) backing for its slate of films.
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Mandeville, Top Cow have thriller Crosshair in their sights
Mandeville Films partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman announced today that the company has joined forces with Top Cow Productions to adapt Top Cow’s comic book Crosshair.
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Wolkoff named development chief at LA-based Bekmambetov Projects
Michele Wolkoff has joined Timur Bekmambetov’s Los Angeles-based Bekmambetov Projects (BPL) as president of development.
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NewsEd Vaizey on UKFC: 'People in the film industry are spreading scare stories'
Speaking on BBC 4’s The Media Show today, Vaizey said: “My message to the film industry is, while I understand you have concerns, the government is committed to supporting film and my commitment is to sit down and work with you.”
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Jenna Cato Bass wins top prize at first Durban FilmMart
The inaugural Durban FilmMart gave its Hubart Bals Fund Award, with Euros 5,000, to Jenna Cato Bass for her project Tok Tokkie.
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NewsFacebook campaign, independent petition set up to ‘Save The UK Film Council’
The UK film community is starting to rally around grassroots efforts to save the UK Film Council, a day after the Department of Culture Media and Sport announced its surprising decision to abolish the UKFC.
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NewsLars von Trier starts Melancholia shoot with Dunst, Gainsbourg, Sutherland
The cast for the ‘psychological disaster movie’ includes Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård, Jesper Christensen, Udo Kier, Brady Corbet and Cameron Spurr.
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NewsScreen Opinion: Black day for UK film
Screen editor Mike Goodridge argues that the British government’s proposed abolition of the UK Film Council is a major betrayal to film-makers, the industry and the medium of film.
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UK industry reacts with shock to UKFC closure plans
Members of the UK film industry have reacted with anger, bafflement and dismay at today’s shock DCMS decision to abolish the UK Film Council.
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NewsUKFC: Biggest box-office hits and other stats
A look at the top 10 performing films backed by the UKFC; and stats on UKFC funding.
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Production wraps on Atlas Shrugged - Part One
Production has wrapped on Strike Productions’ Atlas Shrugged – Part One based on Ayn Rand’s rousing 1957 novel about the collapse of American society after leading thinkers and creators go on strike.
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NewsUKFC: Hunt says he 'wants to hear everyone's opinions' on planned closure
Jeremy Hunt cites UKFC’s £3m budget on overheads as one reason to abolish the organisation.
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NewsUKFC: A snapshot of the organisation
Since its creation in 2000, the UK Film Council has invested over $248m (£160m) of Lottery funding into more than 900 films, helping to generate over $1.1bn (£700m) at the box office worldwide.
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NewsUKFC: John Woodward says target is to close down by April 2012
Woodward tells industry that today’s move by DCMS “is short-sighted and potentially very damaging, especially as there is at present no roadmap setting out where the UK Film Council’s responsibilities and funding will be placed in the future.”
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Group rallies to save UK's Bray Film Studios
A campaign has been launched to oppose the potential demolition of the Bray Film Studios, which were set up in 1951 by British horror label Hammer Films.
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Watchmen producer pounces on film rights to comic book The Untamed
Watchmen and Hellboy producer Lloyd Levin has acquired film rights to Stranger Comics’ The Untamed ahead of the comic’s publication.