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Singapore overhauls film and media funding structure
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced that it will be streamlining its funding schemes from 46 to five, effective immediately.
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UK distributor Cooltura launches with focus on Polish films
New UK distributor Cooltura — an offshoot of the London-based Polish weekly magazine of the same name — is launching to handle Polish movies in the British marketplace.
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Robert De Hoog to star in Muldowney's Love Eternal
Shooting has begun on the Irish/Luxembourg/Dutch/Japanese coproduction which is based on the Japanese novel Loving The Dead.
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Sierra/Affinity to handle key sales on Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
Nick Meyer is understood to have cut a deal with Paramount to pre-sell a handful of major territories on the live-action film starring Denzel Washington, in a development that further underscores the ability of the independent market to support prestigious commercial fare.
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Tokyo announces new jury members including Kees Kasander, Fan Bingbing
Ed Pressman already confirmed as jury president.
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SPC takes all US rights to Where Do We Go Now?
Nadine Labaki’s film recently claimed the Cadillac People’s Choice Award in Toronto and will represent Lebanon in the foreign language Academy Award race.
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GKIDS picks up US rights to Chico & Rita
Director Fernando Trueba and illustrator and designer Javier Mariscal’s film premiered at Telluride and played in official selection in Toronto.
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Universal, Cross Creek Pictures sign distribution pact
The first project to go under the three-year deal will be Rush, the in-production F1 drama co-financed by Cross Creek and Exclusive Media Group that marks the first project financed outside the studio system that Ron Howard is directing in 25 years.
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Inferno, Breaking Glass strike US deal over 5 Star Day
Danny Buday’s debut feature stars Cam Gigandet and Jena Malone and will open in theatrically through Check Entertainment on Nov 2 followed by VOD roll-out two days later and DVD in the first quarter of 2012.
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Paolo Ferrari steps down as president and MD, Warner Bros Italy
He will be replaced by Barbara Salabè, who joins Warner Bros from Stage Management.
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Former Columbia executive, Chaplin champion Mo Rothman dies
Mo Rothman, the respected international film producer and distributor whose career spanned for more than 60 years has died following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
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13 projects selected for Connecting Cottbus co-production market
East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus gets underway on Nov 3.
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Bodega takes on Policeman for France
Highly feted Israeli thriller Policeman has been picked up by Bodega Films for France.
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TIFF elects four new members to the board
Chetan Mathur, Geetu Pathak, Rod Phillips and Wayne Purboo join as Helen Burstyn, Brendan Calder, Ralph Lean and Dan Tanenbaum retire.
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Spain chooses Black Bread over Almodovar for Oscar race
The Spanish Film Academy has made the surprising decision of putting forward Agusti Villaronga’s post Spanish Civil War drama Black Bread (Pa Negre) as Spain’s entrant for the foreign-language Oscar, snubbing Pedro Almodovar’s critically acclaimed film The Skin I Live In.
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StudioCanal and LoveFilm ink exclusive content deal for UK and Germany
All StudioCanal titles to be available to subscribers of LoveFilm’s streaming service at no extra cost
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Luc Besson's The Lady to close Doha Tribeca Film Festival
The Contemporary World Cinema programme for the third edition of the DTFF includes Pawel Pawlikowski’s Woman In The Fifth and Mika Kaurismaki’s Mama Africa.
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Human Rights Festival joins forces with Dogwoof's Pop Up Cinema
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF) is teaming up with film distributor Dogwoof’s Pop Up Cinema to highlight social issue documentaries in non-traditional venues around the UK.
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Norman Jewison to be honoured at 38th Ghent Film Festival
Award-Winning director and producer Norman Jewison, renowned for such films as In The Heat Of The Night, Fiddler On The Roof and The Thomas Crown Affair, will be presented with the Joseph Plateau Award at this year’s 38th Ghent Film Festival, which takes place in the Belgian city (October 11-22).
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Terraferma chosen as Italy's foreign Oscar submission
Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma, the director’s third film about immigration which just scooped up the Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival, has been selected by the Oscar commission to represent Italy as a foreign Oscar hopeful.