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NewsWerc Werk Works to back Jill Sprecher's latest
Werc Werk Works, the independent production and finance outfit behind Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime, will produce and fully finance The Convincer, the latest film from Jill Sprecher (13 Conversations About One Thing)
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NewsNew Wave picks up Rivette, Dumont films for UK
UK art house distributor New Wave Films has picked up a title apiece from Venice and Toronto.
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NewsDogwoof takes UK rights to Mettler's Petropolis
Austria-based Autlook Filmsales has sold UK rights to Dogwoof for Peter Mettler’s documentary Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives On The Alberta Tar Sand.
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NewsOdd Lot Int'l sells B-Girl to Screen Media in North America
Odd Lot International has sold North American rights to its drama B-Girl to Screen Media Films and closed a raft of key international sales.
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NewsMiddle East Int'l Film Festival unveils 33 narrative, doc Black Pearl contenders
The Middle East International Film Festival’s (MEIFF) new executive director Peter Scarlet has hailed a “stong slate” of films at next month’s event that draws from established and emerging Middle Eastern and North African talent.
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NewsAlliance signs Canadian output deal with Apparition
Alliance Films has signed a Canadian output deal with Bob Berney and Bill Pohlad’s new distribution outfit Apparition, which opened its doors in August.
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NewsContentFilm sells French rights to Doors doc to MK2
ContentFilm has sold French rights to When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors to MK2.
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NewsRegional agency EM Media receives $800,000 boost
EM Media, the screen agency for the East Midlands, has received an $829,696 (£500,000) boost from the East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA) to invest in film and media.
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NewsVenice award winners close deals as 66th edition wraps
Coproduction Office has closed deals in ten territories for Shirin Neshat’s Venice Silver Lion winner Women Without Men, including in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (Gussi), Belgium (Lumiere), Brazil, Italy (BIM), Colombia, The Netherlands (Filmmuseum), Russia and Ukraine (Sota Cinema), Germany ( TV- ZDF/ Arte).
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NewsMK2 acquires Pedro Gonzalez Rubio's To The Sea
MK2 has acquired rights to Pedro Gonzalez Rubio’s To The Sea, which will premiere in the Toronto Vision section later this week.
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NewsChristoph Waltz to play villain opposite Seth Rogen's Green Hornet
Christoph Waltz, in the running for Oscar consideration for his star turn in Inglourious Basterds, will play the villain in The Green Hornet.
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News120dB Films, Tax Credit Finance merge
Leading independent financers 120dB Films and Tax Credit Finance have merged to form 120dB Films Tax Finance.
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NewsAn Education, Broken Embraces bookend 15th Athens Film Festival
Lone Scherfig’s An Education and Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces will bookend the 15th Athens International Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday (September 16).
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NewsRevolver appoints Lucy Savage as head of TV and new media
Revolver Entertainment has appointed Lucy Savage to the new role of head of TV and new media. It is part of the distributor’s ongoing expansion.
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NewsFish takes Grade Five to Sienna
Toronto-based production company Sienna Films, producers of hip-hop title How She Move, are putting together two pictures with two Canadian screenwriters.
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NewsFilm Farm joins Wellington’s Journey
Toronto production shop The Film Farm is setting up a February shoot for Canadian filmmaker Peter Wellington’s next project, Journey To The Surface Of The Earth.
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NewsCarmody sets up Dowse’s Goon
It’s All Gone Pete Tong director Michael Dowse is setting up his next project, hockey comedy Goon, with Toronto-based super producer Don Carmody.
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NewsPuerto Rico extends 40% tax credit to 2019
Puerto Rico has extended its 40% film tax credit until 2019 in a move that the territory’s Governor said confirmed its status as “the Mecca of film production on the Caribbean.”Announcing the extension of Law 362, Governor Luis G Fortuno said investors could also look forward to less red tape ...
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NewsAbu Dhabi Film Commission reveals 2009 conference line-up
Fox International Productions chief Sanford Panitch, producer Walter Parkes, UK industry stalwart Stewart Till and UTA’s Rich Klubeck will be among the keynote speakers and attendees at the Abu Dhabi Film Commission’s 2009 Circle Conference.
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NewsTyler Perry scores second North American number one debut of 2009
Tyler Perry pulled of his second number one launch of the year as Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself opened top through Lionsgate on an estimated $24m.