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Premature begins shooting in Atlanta for FilmNation, Icon
Icon has come aboard to co-finance the teen comedy with Filmnation. Alan Tudyk, Craig Roberts, Adam Riegler and Carlson Young have joined previously announced Katie Findlay and John Karna.
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Ingenious says it plans legal action against The Times and HMRC over tax avoidance story
As the controversy over the tax arrangements behind various UK film finance schemes continues, leading UK film financier Ingenious has confirmed today that it is beginning legal action against both The Times and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
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StudioCanal acquires RoboCop for select territories
The company has picked up the UK, Germany and France to MGM and Sony’s sci-fi reboot. José Padilha (pictured) directs.
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BBFC to adopt tougher line on unclassified video content, Black Swan most complained about film in cinemas last year
British film censor also commissions new research into sexual violence in film, partly due to controversial horror films The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) and The Bunny Game.
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16 film-making teams selected for iFeatures 2
Teams include Jonathan Entwistle, Dominic Buchanan, Samm Haillay, Simon Ellis, and Martin Radich.
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Scola, Tavernier, Loach and Costa Gavras join Cinecittà protests
Filmmakers support studio worker demonstrations over plans to ‘dismantle’ historic studios where Ben-Hur, La Dolce Vita, Gangs of New York were shot.
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Locarno to premiere The Sweeney, new films from Cohen, Kawase, Brisseau
International competition includes 13 world premieres; Piazza Grande to include Ruby Sparks from Little Miss Sunshine team.
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CARTOON announces five nominees for Cartoon d'Or 2012
Winner to be announced on September 13, during the 23rd Cartoon Forum in Toulouse, France.
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Sweden's Avalon big winner at third edition of Russia's VOICES film festival
Also announced, Odessa International Film Festival, which runs July 13-21, will open with the screening of Matteo Garrone’s Reality.
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SSFS to be lead investor in The Last Empress
Seven Stars Film Studios chairman Bruno Wu has lined up Jake Eberts to produce and Jeremy Thomas to act as consultant on the English-language China-US production.
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Lionsgate to split The Hunger Games finale into two
The studio confirmed on Tuesday (10) that it will turn The Hunger Games: Mockingjay into a two-parter, setting up a November 2015 series finale.
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Cinematographer John Harris dies, aged 87
Career spanned 53 years, working on the likes of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Superman and The Running Man.
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Leopardrama to develop Danny La Rue feature
UK production outfit Leopardrama has secured BFI funding to develop the screenplay about the British female impersonator, which will be written by Martyn Hesford.
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The Film Arcade takes US rights to Simon & The Oaks
The recently launched distributor has added the Swedish hit to its initial slate and plans an Oct 12 platform release in New York and Los Angeles.
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JK Simmons among wave of new cast on jOBS
Kevin Dunn, Elden Henson, Lenny Jacobson, Giles Matthey, Ahna O’Reilly and Victor Rasuk have also joined the biopic. Shooting is underway in the Los Angeles area.
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Alexis Alexanian voted as NYWFT president
The New York Women in Film & Television have elected Alexis Alexanian to serve as president and voted in five new board members.
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Sundance Institute awards $490,000 in tenth anniversary year
Twenty-seven documentaries have received the grants through the Institute’s documentary film programme.
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Tomb of the Dragon continues shoot in Beijing starring Dolph Lundgren
GFM, Midsummer, Beijing Zhongshida working on $12m 3D family adventure.
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Vue goes pan-European with takeover of CinemaxX
Combined group would run 119 multiplexes with nearly 1,100 screens.