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NewsIreland receives 8% tax incentive uplift for lower-budget local film production
Local films budgeted under €20m will now receive a 40% tax break.
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NewsFormer Match Factory exec joins Berlinale Talents as programme manager
Pausinger is part of a dual leadership team of the Berlinale’s talent development initiative.
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NewsHamburg Production Awards salute Red Balloon Film, Neue Bioskop Film producers
The German partners of Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays and Chiara Fleischhacker’s Vena each won cash prizes of €25,000.
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NewsEuropean Work in Progress Cologne selects 29 projects for 2024 edition
Selection includes Bulgarian filmmaker Stephan Komendarev’s seventh feature Made In EU.
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NewsBFI Network@LFF unveils 2024 cohort, partners with Doc Society (exclusive)
Participants include Screen Star of Tomorrow Elizabeth Rufai and The Ceremony producer Hollie Bryan.
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NewsKFTV to host networking event at Berlin’s Ciclope Festival
The event takes place on Wednesday, October 9.
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NewsDistribution Workshop to launch Juno Mak’s ‘Sons Of The Neon Night’ at ACFM
The cop action thriller will star Taiwanese-Japanese superstar Takeshi Kaneshiro.
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NewsSony Pictures head Tony Vinciquerra to step down from CEO role; Ravi Ahuja named successor
Ahuja assumes role on January 2, 2025. Vinciquerra to remain in advisory role as non-executive chairman until end of December 2025.
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NewsGuadaLAjara Film Festival to open with Mexican Oscar submission ‘Sujo’
Source: Sundance ‘Sujo’ The 14th GuadaLAjara Film Festival (GLAFF) in Los Angeles running November 1-3 will open with Mexican Oscar submission Sujo. The Forge holds North American rights to the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner from Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez about a youngster growing up under ...
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News‘The Outrun’ opens in UK-Ireland box office top five; ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ hits £21m
‘Megalopolis’ starts in sixth place, as ‘The Substance’ holds well for Mubi.
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NewsLionsgate offering voluntary severance to US employees
CEO cites ”challenging operating environment”.
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NewsIFC Films, Sapan Studio buy US rights to TIFF selection ‘The Luckiest Man In America’
IFC Films planning 2025 theatrical release on true-life drama starring Paul Walter Hauser.
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NewsJapanese director Hitoshi One signs five-year Netflix deal
The filmmaker behind ‘Bakuman’ and series ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ will make features and series for the streamer.
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News‘Peaky Blinders’ film starring Cillian Murphy begins production
Further cast include Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan, and Tim Roth.
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News‘Heimat’ director Edgar Reitz starts shooting portrait of Enlightenment thinker ‘Leibniz’ (exclusive)
91-year-old German director’s latest is produced by Ingo Fliess, who produced the Oscar-nominated The Teachers’ Lounge, and Christian Reitz.
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NewsAcademy announces 2024 Nicholl screenwriting fellows
Organisation does not acquire rights to the works of Nicholl fellows.
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News‘Train To Busan’ director Yeon Sang-ho readies ‘The Ugly’, Plus M to launch at ACFM (exclusive)
Marks the filmmaker’s return to theatres following hit Netflix series ‘Hellbound’ and ‘Parasyte: The Grey’.
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NewsUK production company behind ‘Sebastian’ expands into Finland (exclusive)
Bêtes Sauvages is opening a Finnish arm for Finnish and international projects.
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News‘Baby Reindeer’ lawsuit can go ahead, rules judge
Source: Netflix ‘Baby Reindeer’ A US-based judge has ruled that Fiona Harvey’s £132m case against Netflix drama Baby Reindeer can be pursued on the grounds of defamation after the show was wrongly billed as a “true story.” Judge Gary Klausner noted that the show’s opening episode begins ...
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News‘A Star Is Born’ lead and country singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson dies aged 88
Country singer and actor Kris Kristofferson won a Golden Globe for his role in 1976 version of A Star Is Born.