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Bedlam Productions pick up rights to rugby story The Grudge
The King’s Speech producers option rights to acclaimed account of the England-Scotland rugby rivalry.
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FrightFest Halloween event to host world premiere of Bad Meat
Acclaimed UK genre festival Film4 FrightFest is launching a new Halloween event (on Oct 29) at London’s Vue West End, with screenings from 6 pm until dawn.The films will include the world premiere of Lulu Jarmen’s splatter film Bad Meat, about a camp for troubled teens where fascists used spoiled ...
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Hot projects on Screenbase this week
Noémie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Yolande Moreau, Soko and Vincent Lindon star in new French dramas added this week to Screen’s European online film index, Screenbase.
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Spain's Freak to sell features, picks up Between Night And Day
Spanish shorts distributor and sales outfit Freak is expanding into international feature sales.
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London's Creativity Media to offer completion guarantees
London based post-production and finance company Creativity Media is to start providing completion guarantees for films under £1.5m, which it is already doing the post production work on.
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Crossover Labs, Sheffield plan Skillset-backed training scheme
Crossover Labs and Sheffield Doc/Fest have received funding from the Skillset Film Skills Fund to launch Devise to Deliver, a si-month, UK-wide training scheme.
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Hot-selling thriller Last Passenger starts UK shoot today at Shepperton
BFI-Pinewood backed thriller starring Dougray Scott, described as “a micro-budget Tony Scott film”, gets underway today.
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LFF industry innovations include Festival Scope partnership
Research and policymaking symposium to be held Oct 26.
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Sony's Smurfs bid to stay top for eighth weekend
The family smash has ruled the roost outside North America for seven weekends through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) and will face a stiff examination from Fox’s What’s Your Number? (pictured).
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Screen Star Vanessa Kirby among cast of thriller Labyrinth
Recent Screen International Star of Tomorrow Vanessa Kirby [pictured] is set to play Alice Tanner in the epic thriller Labyrinth, adapted from Kate Mosse’s bestseller.
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IMG Media to handle international sales of Dorsey's Airmen
IMG Media will handle the international rights to Mike Dorsey’s Lost Airmen of Buchenwald.
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Nicholl Committee unveils writing fellowship finallists
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences said on Thursday (29) that seven writers and three writing teams are finallists in the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in screenwriting.
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Self-help publisher Hay House launches film, TV units
Reid Tracy, president and CEO of the renowned publisher, will head Hay House Films and Hay House Television and serves as executive producer working alongside production chief Michael Goorjian.
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Halo Post Production ramps up film operations
TV post production company to work on sound for Arthur Christmas and The Bachelor King; moves to Noel Street.
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Protagonist to sell most int'l rights on Your Sister’s Sister
Lynn Shelton’s Humpday follow-up premiered in Toronto recently and stars Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass.
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New Zealand submits its first film for Foreign Language Oscar race
New Zealand has picked Samoan-language feature The Orator (O Le Tulafale) to represent the country, the first submission ever from New Zealand. Plus submissions from South Africa and Uruguay.
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Countries of former Yugoslavia choose Oscar candidates
Serbia goes for crowdpleaser period piece Montevideo, Slovenia opts for high-brow art with Silent Sonata, Macedonia selects Karlovy Vary prizewinner Punk’s Not Dead, Bosnia delves back into war with Belvedere, and Croatia chooses rural comedy 72 Days.
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UPDATED StudioCanal announces €150m slate financing deal
Pan-European major StudioCanal has announced a three-year, €150m slate financing deal with London-based private fund Anton Capital Entertanment [ACE], bringing its total production and acquisitions budget for the period to €500m.