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Lord Puttnam calls for bigger UK P&A Fund as part of Audience Development Fund
Puttnam also calls for BFI to create special events and media promotions to stimulate audiences.
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British Council adds six new overseas posts to arts team
New jobs will be based in Colombia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Egypt, South Africa and France/Romania.
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Thessaloniki's Crossroads Co-Production Forum selects 17 projects
The Greek festival will offer 10 films as works in progress and there will be 250 international titles in Film Market.
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LA-based Waterman Entertainment acquires film rights to Until Tuesday
The New York Times bestseller is based on a true wartime story about the healing powers of a deep bond between a man and a dog.
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Magnolia picks up US rights to Michael Cuesta drama Roadie
Michael Cuesta’s new drama stars Ron Eldard as a Blue Oyster Cult roadie who visit his mother after he gets fired and experiences a wild encounter with two old high school friends.
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Academy announces seven Nicholl screenwriting fellows
Each writer or writing team receives a $30,000 prize and will collect the first instalment at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov 3.
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Shame, Coriolanus to screen at Wales' Soundtrack Festival
Guests attending the festival include award winning film-maker/musician Don Letts and comedian Adam Buxton.
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Air Entertainment Group launches post equity service
AEG is the latest post production company to offer equity stakes in selected projects, with its first investment set to be Trevor Miller’s Riot On Redchurch Street.
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Barry Ackroyd at LFF: 'Camera is there to convince the audience'
Acclaimed cinematographer Barry Ackroyd said his documentary background informs the ‘verisimilitude’ in the way he shoots narrative films today.
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Pixel Pitch Prize goes to Aho, Hristov's Love & Engineering
Also at Power To The Pixel’s Cross-Media Forum in London, the Pixel Lab prizes go to Turning Point from Tobias Buchne and The Elders Project from Marc Boothe.
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EFA unveils documentary award shortlist
Three documentaries have been shortlisted for the European Film Academy Prix Arte Award.
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Canal Plus to launch SVOD service in November
French legislation imposing a 36-month delay between a film’s theatrical release and its availability on a SVOD service seen as obstacle to growth in the market.
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Nicolas Cage to headline first film project from Bavariapool International Coproductions
Nicolas Cage is to headline Brian Goodman’s psychological thriller Black Butterfly (working title) which will be the first project for the cinema from Bavariapool International Coproductions, a joint venture between Bavaria Film and Telepool.
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Johnny English lives on at top of UK box office
The Three Musketeers swashbuckle their way to third, while Real Steel fails to land a knockout blow.
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Redgrave, Ganz, Laurent join cast of Bille August's Night Train To Lisbon
An all-star cast has come aboard Night Train To Lisbon, the new Bille August film which is being sold by K5 International with PalmStar Media Capital and EFish Entertainment who are co-financing.
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Magnolia acquires US rights to Take This Waltz
Sarah Polley’s drama premiered recently in Toronto and stars Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby and Sarah Silverman.
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Lionsgate announces start of production on The Last Stand
Kim Jee-Woon’s thriller is shooting in New Mexico and Nevada and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing the project, which has been a strong pre-sale title for Lionsgate.
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Rocket, Big Air Studios take North American rights to 11-11-11
The US-based distributors will partner on the release of Darren Bousman’s apocalyptic tale and appropriately enough have set the launch date for Nov 11 this year.
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Aaron Eckhart to play Dennis Wilson in The Drummer
Unclaimed Freight’s Randall Miller and Jody Savin, the filmmaking team behind Bottle Shock, return with a biography about the Beach Boy who drowned in Los Angeles in 1983.
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Retrace, Glass Tiger 3 to open Hungarian Film Festival
Ambassador Balazs Bokor and Bunyik Entertainment president Bela Bunyik announced on Monday (17) that the Hungarian Film Festival will take place in Los Angeles from Nov 9-18.