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DIFF partners with Lincoln Center for Arab showcase
The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) is partnering with the Film Society of New York’s Lincoln Center to showcase Arab cinema in a special DIFF Focus (August 24-30).
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Millennium, West Coast announce $100m fund
Millennium Films is jointly financing and producing the Gerard Butler thriller White House Taken with West Coast Film Partners as the parties announced a $100m production venture on Saturday.
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Dogwoof's Jason Becker doc goes to Canada
Dogwoof Global Sales has sold documentary Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet to KinoSmith for Canada.
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Distrify teams with Creative Scotland for new Scottish film service
Film promotion and distribution service Distrify is teaming with Creative Scotland on a website dedicated to Scottish films.
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Gens planning Monet art heist caper
EXCLUSIVE: French genre director Xavier Gens is set to direct a comedy crime caper inspired by the real-life robbery of Claude Monet’s Impression, Soleil Levant from a Paris museum in 1986.
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BFC gets new backing from BFI
The UK’s promotional agency for film The British Film Commission is to get an additional £100,000 from the BFI.
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Special offer on Cannes streaming talks and debates
Screen International is partnering with Cannes Eco, a TV show being filmed during this year’s Cannes Film Festival, to make available to subscribers online live streaming for a series of interviews, roundtables and media content.
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The Solution acquires sales on Simon Pegg comedy Hector
Solution Entertainment Group has been touting the Simon Pegg comedy Hector And The Search For Happiness to international buyers here.
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Radiant Films Int'l in talks on all-star comedy Lullaby
Garrett Hedlund, here in competition in On The Road, will star alongside fellow competition star Richard Jenkins from Killing Them Softly in Avenue Pictures and Ananta Productions’ comedy Lullaby, which Radiant Films International is selling here.
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Senator plans German-language adaptation of Sparks' The Rescue
Germany’s Senator Film has acquired the rights to Nicholas Sparks’ novel The Rescue to make as a German language film set and shot in Germany.
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Mike Gunter named COO of Stereo D
Stereo D, the subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group specializing in 2D to 3D conversions of theatrical films, has named Mike Gunter as chief operating officer.
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Colin Firth to play Noel Coward for BiteSize
Colin Firth will play Noel Coward in newly announced BiteSize Entertainment’s dramedy Mad Dogs And Englishmen.
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Metrodome picks up thriller St George's Day
Metrodome picks up UK rights to crime-thriller starring Frank Harper, Craig Fairbrass, Vincent Regan and Charles Dance.
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Tony Grisoni's Kingsland amongst new Microwave projects
Three new features have been greenlit through Film London’s microbudget Microwave scheme, which is run in partnership with BBC Films and Skillset.
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Strategic Film Partners acquires sales rights to lacrosse drama
Alex Barder’s Strategic Film Partners has acquired international sales rights to Crooked Arrows starring Brandon Routh.
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Wachsberger: business as usual at post-merger Lionsgate
EXCLUSIVE: Despite his entry into corporate America in the wake of the Lionsgate-Summit merger, Patrick Wachsberger has been ensconced in his office on the Croisette, in the thick of the market as usual.
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Duncan Jones shoots for K5’s Ian Fleming film
Moon and Source Code director Duncan Jones will direct a new film about James Bond author Ian Fleming.
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Image takes US rights to Ray Liotta thriller Details
Image Entertainment has acquired all US rights to action-thriller The Devil’s In The Details starring Ray Liotta. Epic Pictures handles international sales here in Cannes.
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Marsan, Froggatt liven up with Pasolini's Still Life
Eddie Marsan [pictured] and Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey’s Anna) will star in Still Life, which starts shooting tomorrow in London and Southeast England.
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Abu Dhabi launches 30% production rebate
EXCLUSIVE: Abu Dhabi’s twofour54 and the Abu Dhabi Film Commission are launching a production rebate from September 1, marking the first major incentive scheme in the Middle East.