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NewsCannes Directors’ Fortnight line-up
After a poor showing for the UK in Official Selection, Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant and Ruari Robinson’s sci-fi adventure Last Days on Mars make it into parallel Cannes section.
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NewsParis cinema, TV jobs takes dip
Employment in film, television and advertising production in the Paris region jumped a record 8% in 2011 but dipped in 2012, according to an Ile de France Film Commission report released on Monday.
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NewsDouble Dutch take Winter of Discontent
Canadian sales outfit Double Dutch international (DDI) to screen controversial picture at Cannes market.
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NewsWoo’s Flying Tigers set for takeoff
Netherlands-based Cyrte Investments and China Film Group are backing John Woo’s long-gestating Flying Tigers, which is set to shoot next year as two-part feature film and six-hour television series.
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NewsTall begins shoot for SPWA, AFFIRM
Principal photography started on Monday [22] in New Orleans on the high school football film When The Game Stands Tall, produced by Mandalay for Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) and its AFFIRM Films division.
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NewsSalem to handle Millennium sale
Millennium Entertainment’s management team has retained Los Angeles-based investment bank and wealth management firm Salem Partners to sell the company.
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NewsMagnolia takes Freda, GoDigital gets Motivation
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Ryan White’s documentary about The Beatles’ lifelong secretary Freda Kelly, while separately GoDigital has swooped on Tribeca selection The Motivation.
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NewsSuzanne to open Cannes Critics’ Week
Director Katell Quillévéré won prestigious Prix Jean Vigo for her debut feature Love Like Poison.
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NewsLetters to Jackie to open AFI Docs
Letters To Jackie will open AFI Docs (formerly Silverdocs) while Documented will be the centerpiece screening. The festival is set to run in Washington DC from Jun 19-23.
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NewsKim Novak named Cannes guest of honour
Star of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has been named the guest of honour at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
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NewsDouble Negative launches TV unit
Soho-based VFX firm Double Negative (Dneg) has launched a TV division.
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NewsNBR sets 2014 gala for Jan 7
Leadership at the National Board Of Review announced the date of their awards gala on Monday [22].
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NewsLouisiana Fest hands out Golden Boots
The inaugural Louisiana International Film Festival and Mentorship Program wrapped on Sunday [21] with a Golden Boot awards ceremony.
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NewsThe Attack prospers at COLCOA
Ziad Doueiri’s drama was the big winner as the 17th City Of Lights, City Of Angels French film festival concluded, earning the audience award, the Critics Special Prize and the Coming Soon Award.
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NewsCannes Critics' Week 2013 line-up
Films selected for the 52nd Critics’ Week in Cannes have been announced, including British film For Those in Peril and a special screening of David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara.
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NewsBBC1 drama set for first tax credit
Tony Jordan’s BBC1 drama By Any Means has become the first production to pass the cultural test to qualify for high-end TV tax breaks in the UK.
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NewsFilm Education to close after 26 years
Film resource for UK schools to close; redundancy for 15 staff; National Schools Film Week to cease.
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NewsHiddleston, Atwell join Close Enough
Romantic drama about two war photographers will be directed by Song for Marion’s Paul Andrew Williams.
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NewsGE, Cinelan cut new partnerships
GE and Cinelan have announced partnership deals with Cinedigm, Virgin America, Gathr and LodgeNet to further distribute the Global Film series.
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NewsSalon Pictures commissions scripts
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Taussig’s outfit commissions Churchill biopic script from Alex Von Tunzelmann and a comedy from a NFTS graduate.