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NewsVirtual Marché unveils full Cannes Docs programme
Ten exhibitors to be featured as part of platform.
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'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' director Ol Parker boards earthquake disaster film for Concordia
Saga based on book This Is Chance!: The Shaking Of An All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together.
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NewsPierce Brosnan to star in Cannes virtual market thriller ‘Youth’ for Highland Film Group
Project based on writer/director Brett Marty’s 2016 short film.
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NewsMagnolia Pictures acquires doc of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan
Source: Andrew Catlin Shane MacGowan on stage in 1985 Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights from HanWay Films to Julien Temple’s documentary about Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan. Crock Of Gold – A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan is still in production and chronicles the life ...
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NewsWomen In Film Los Angeles launches Hire Her Back initiative
“We call on leaders to join us in building a new normal that prioritises equity and career sustainability for women, especially women of colour, in the screen industries.”
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NewsIFC Films acquires SXSW grand jury prize winner ‘Shithouse’
Arianna Bocco hails writer-director-star Cooper Raiff as “extraordinary new voice”.
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NewsCornerstone adds ‘The Changeling’ remake to virtual Cannes slate
‘Taboo’ and ‘Hanna’ director Anders Engström has joined the project.
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NewsAltitude, Screen Media close North American deal on croc horror ‘Black Water: Abyss’
Altitude anticipates business with international buyers at Cannes virtual market.
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NewsWild Bunch secures €35m loan from Germany’s Commerzbank
The company said the loan was an important part of the financial strategy of the European filmed entertainment group.
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NewsTwickenham Studios' Andrew Boswell returns to UK's LipSync (exclusive)
Commercial director returns to post-production house after four years at UK studio.
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NewsIreland’s WRAP Fund backs BBC Films' ‘God’s Creatures’, horror title ‘The Ten Steps’
The regional fund is for projects that shoot in the west of Ireland.
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NewsBona Film Group vice president dies in apparent suicide
Huang Wei is understood to have died by suicide by jumping from the studio’s corporate headquarters in Beijing.
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NewsUK’s Devilworks signs North America deals for ‘Criminal Audition’, ‘The Living Dead’ (exclusive)
Gravitas Ventures has picked up both films.
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NewsLocarno unveils Southeast Asia-focused 2020 Open Doors selection
This year’s edition will welcome eight projects for its Open Door Hub component and nine emerging producers for its Lab event.
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NewsUniversal signs five-film deal for Timur Bekmambetov’s Screenlife projects
The US studio first worked with the director on Angelina Jolie action feature ‘Wanted’.
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NewsFront Row to offer free MENA screenings of ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
The move is out of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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NewsStudiocanal UK hires former eOne executive to head acquisitions (exclusive)
Ashanti McIntosh will take part in the upcoming virtual Marche.
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NewsScreen Talks: Experts to discuss restarting indie film production in the UK
The speakers are Adrian Wootton, Gareth Ellis-Unwin, Sara Putt and Kate Norrish.
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NewsHong Kong International Film Festival sets new August dates
HKIFF, postponed from March/April due to Covid-19, will take place as a physical event August 18-31.
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NewsHBO Max pulls ‘Gone With The Wind’, issues statement
’These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.’