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NewsStephen Frears to receive BFI Fellowship
Director of The Queen, Philomena and the upcoming Lance Armstrong biopic to receive honour at BFI London Film Festival.
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NewseOne restructures London TV sales arm
The Walking Dead distributor Entertainment One (eOne) has restructured its London-based sales division to merge its TV and film arms.
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NewsAntonio Banderas begins Altamira shoot
First image released of period drama from Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson.
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NewsUniversal exec to give Event Cinema keynote
Universal’s screenings of Billy Elliot the Musical - Live became event cinema’s first number one at the UK box office last month.
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NewsAFPF mulls Asian cinema portal
Policy-makers, film commissioners and producers at this year’s Asian Film Policy Forum (Oct 6-7) discussed plans to launch an Asian cinema portal, possibly as an educational initiative to widen the audience for Asian films.
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NewsHeadline Pictures reveals TV slate
London-based Headline Pictures, the outfit behind Quartet and The Invisible Woman, has revealed further details of its slate of high end TV dramas.
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NewsDNA Films hires head of TV development
Bentley Productions head of development Tom Winchester has joined the TV arm of 28 Days Later film producer DNA.
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NewsSokurov aiming for Cannes with Louvre film
Russian Ark director hopes to take Francofonia, Louvre Under German Occupation to the next Cannes Film Festival.
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NewsSANAD backs nine projects
Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s development and post-production fund awards $500,000 per year.
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NewsNew HBF+Europe fund launches
EXCLUSIVE: IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund expands funding programme with HBF+Europe.
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NewsAgile launches new development initiative
Screenwriters will write micro-budget ideas for director Max Myers.
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NewsWhite Light, VS launch regional film fund
Thai production service and equipment company VS Service and post-production house White Light are launching Open SEA Fund, Southeast Asia’s first regional film fund.
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NewsSummit sets Deepwater Horizon release
Summit Entertainment has set a wide September 30 2016 release for J C Chandor’s oil spill disaster film starring Mark Wahlberg.
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NewsBleiberg boards Club Life
EXCLUSIVE: In the run-up to AFM Bleiberg Entertainment has acquired international rights to the drama starring Jerry Ferrara from Entourage and Gossip Girl’s Jessica Szohr.
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NewsFoxcatcher to close AFI FEST 2014
Bennett Miller’s psychological drama starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo will finally get its close-up at the festival after it was pulled from last year’s edition.
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NewsPicturehouse to release Gloria
The distributor has acquired all US rights to Gloria, the biopic based on the true story of Latin American pop icon Gloria Trevi. Universal will distribute in Latin America.
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NewsTake Me To the River wins at Raindance
Other winners include Poland’s Kebab & Horoscope, British film Luna, Japanese feature The Lights Shines Only There and illegal immigrant doc Days of Hope.
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NewsSundance unveils New Frontier Story Lab Fellows
The Sundance Institute has announced six projects selected for the New Frontier Story Lab in Utah.
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NewsLegendary hires Deborah Kaufmann
Legendary Entertainment has appointed the publishing and literary executive as vice president, literary affairs.
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NewsGone Girl tops UK chart
Fox’s adaptation records $6.6m (£4.1m) opening, including previews; Universal’s Dracula Untold bites into $2.7m (£1.7m) on debut.