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NewsCreativity Capital cash-flows croc horror
London investment firm Creativity Capital has made its first production commitment since teaming with venture capital fund SMI, cash-flowing the tax credit on The Hatching.
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NewsNumbers up at Singapore market
The second combined ScreenSingapore/Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) event wrapped with organisners at Reed Exhibitions saying attendance numbers were up by the second day of the three-day event.
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NewsMedwyn Jones moves to Wiggin
Bafta trustee Medwyn Jones is leaving Harbottle & Lewis after more than 20 years to join media law firm Wiggin’s film and TV group.
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NewsJoan Collins, Pauline Collins to lead comedy road-movie
EXCLUSIVE: Franco Nero, lyricist Tim Rice, designer Eve Stewart also attached to Roger Goldby project.
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NewsFilmi financing Martyr, Dolphins
Dubai-based film funding initiative Filmi is financing Emirati animated feature Martyr Of The Flag and Waleed Al Shehhi’s IWC Filmmaker Award winner Dolphins.
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NewsAARC teases Lakhdar-Hamina’s Crepuscule
Algerian cultural agency AARC is showing first images of Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina’s Crépuscule des Ombres at the Dubai Film Market.
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NewsDayDream developing docs slate
Mohamed Samir’s DayDream Art Production is developing a slate of documentaries and short films to follow its debut feature, Mohamed Khan’s Factory Girl, which premiered at DIFF last night.
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NewsMetro Manila wins top BIFA
Other winners included actors James McAvoy and Lindsay Duncan, For Those In Peril director Paul Wright and Blue is the Warmest Colour.
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NewsFrozen skates to top on $32m
Heading into the holidays Buena Vista’s animation climbed one place to the pinnacle of the North American charts on an estimated $31.6m for $134.3m. Inside Llewyn Davis arrived on a superb limited debut.
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NewsCatching Fire adds $43m int'l
UPDATED DEC 10: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire generated a confirmed $42.9m through 83 Lionsgate international markets in its third weekend to push the running total to $340.6m. The global tally has reached $673.4m.
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NewsDIFF winners take short cut to Oscars
Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has been granted status as a qualifying film festival in the eligibility criteria for the short film category of the Academy Awards.
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NewsLAFCA honours Gravity, Her
Warner Bros duo share top prize from Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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NewsRemstar picks up Drones
The Canadian distributor brokered the deal with Voltage Pictures, which produced the Andrew Niccol film and handles international sales.
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NewsEC's Vassiliou sets out 2014 agenda
Androulla Vassiliou, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, and Youth, has outlined key elements of her agenda for the European audiovisual industry in 2014.
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NewsBorg exits Abu Dhabi’s twofour54
Wayne Borg, chief commercial officer of Abu Dhabi’s twofour54, is leaving the government-backed organisation to relocate to his native Australia.
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NewsThe Great Beauty wins top EFA
Other winners included Love Is All You Need, The Act of Killing, The Congress and The Broken Circle Breakdown.
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NewsSBIFF names Virtuoso honourees
Seven actors will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s annual Virtuosos Award.
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NewsEgypt’s Zad set to let Cat out of the bag
EXCLUSIVE: Egypt’s burgeoning independent film scene will be the subject of a new documentary being produced by Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication.
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NewsBushra, Badreya headline trafficking drama
EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian star Bushra has signed up to play opposite compatriot actor Sayed Badreya in English-language thriller Bride Of The Nile, about the trafficking of young girls in the region, which Badreya will also direct.
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NewsMAD Solutions unwraps DFM slate
Cairo-based MAD Solutions is presenting a slate of ten high-profile Arabic-language pictures at this year’s Dubai Film Market (DFM).