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NewsSerkis and Cavendish's Imaginarium takes on The Bone Season, Animal Farm
The Imaginarium, the new London-based performance capture studio founded by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish, has secured film rights to the book series The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon as well as the rights to George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm; Serkis will direct and star in the latter.
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NewsGibney’s Catholic Church abuse doc finds brave suitors in Italy, Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Italian distributor Feltrinelli takes aim with LFF-winning documentary about paedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church and plans live debates with clergy.
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NewsUPDATED: LFF boasts highest attendance, winners include Rust And Bone, My Brother The Devil, Beasts, Mea Maxima Culpa
UPDATED: BFI boasts a 12% increase in festival attendance with the highest ever audience turn-out with 149,000 across London venues.
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NewsFonteyne's Tango Libre wins Warsaw Grand Prix
Festival director Stefan Laudyn also announced that the CentEast Market will “hopefully” expand next year to include films from Chinese independent filmmakers.
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NewsTinker, Tailor’s Iglesias named Film Composer of the Year
Alberto Iglesias picked up the main prize at the World Soundtrack Awards for his work on The Monk, The Skin I Live In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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NewsVIDEO: 56th BFI London Film Festival
View the latest videos from the 56th BFI London Film Festival.
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NewsMountain Road strikes German deal for The Rotterdam Blitz
As it becomes more aggressive in handling Dutch feature films in the international market, Hilversum-based sales and production outfit Mountain Road Entertainment has closed an all rights German deal on Ate De Jong’s wartime drama The Rotterdam Blitz (formerly titled Bombardment) with distributor KSM Film.
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NewsVince Vaughn to receive Starz Film Festival’s John Cassavetes Award
The honour is presented annually “to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the world of filmmaking.”
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NewsMasquerade hits 10m admissions at Korean box office
CJ Entertainment’s historical drama Masquerade [pictured] has clocked up over 10 million admissions, becoming the seventh Korean film to pass that benchmark at the local box office.
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NewsPremiere Entertainment Group lines up The Police doc for AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Bob Yari, Norman Golightly and Brett Morgen are the producers on Can’t Stand Losing You, which is based on the memoirs of the British rock band’s guitarist Andy Summers.
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Johnny Lin partners with Ted Field, Stan Lee on The Guardian Project
Taiwanese businessman and head of Studio Solutions Group Lin is partnering with veteran producer Field and comic book icon and POW! Entertainment head Lee on NHL enterprise and Lin also announced he is teaming up with Field and others on Trauma Records 2.
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NewsParanormal 4 rules US box office with $30.2m debut
Horror returned to the top of the North American charts over the weekend as the prevailing genre franchise stormed to the top through Paramount. Overall box office for the top 12 releases climbed approximately 12% against the same period last year when Paranormal Activity 3 opened top on $52.6m.
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NewsBollywood icon Yash Chopra dies aged 80
Indian director, producer and studio head Yash Chopra died today in Mumbai where he was being treated for dengue fever. He was 80 years old.
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NewsParanormal 4 edges out Taken 2 to rule international arena
UPDATED: Paramount Pictures International (PPI) reported on Sunday (21) that Paranormal Activity 4 launched day-and-date with the number one North American weekend on a confirmed $26.2m, narrowly beating EuropaCorp’s thriller on $25.4m through Fox International. Meanwhile The Impossible has become the biggest release of the year-do-date in Spain on $25.5m ...
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Tokyo International Film Festival gets underway
The 25th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) opened on Saturday night (Oct 20) with the world premiere of 3D extravaganza Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away, executive produced by James Cameron.
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NewsBFI chair Greg Dyke says education shouldn't be too traditional, should use moving image
Greg Dyke, chairman of the BFI, spoke at the BFI London Film Festival awards tonight and reiterated the organisation’s call for film education to be essential in schools.
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NewsAraf, Hidden Beauties among winners at Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Araf/Somewhere in Between, directed by Turkey’s Yesim Ustaglu, won the Black Pearl Award for best narrative film at the close of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 11-20). Nouri Bouzid took best director from the Arab world for Hidden Beauties, about two Tunisian women demanding their rights during the revolution.
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Sparrows Dance, Informant win at Austin Film Festival
Noah Buschel’s Sparrows Dance claimed the narrative feature prize while Jamie Meltzer’s Informant won top documentary feature honours.
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Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures moves ahead
Award-winning architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali have designed the first major US museum dedicated to the history and ongoing development of motion pictures.
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Fort Lauderdale to screen The Sapphires, Quartet
Stefan Ruzowitzky and actors Dabney Coleman and Garret Dillahunt are set to attend this year’s Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.