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NewsChristian Baute joins Headline as company confirms Ridley Scott project
Scott will produce and direct Reykjavik
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NewsPressman signs Noyce for Bloodsport; lands Venice slot for Moth Diaries
EXCLUSIVE: Phillip Noyce to direct and Robert Mark Kamen to script a reinvention of iconic Jean Claude Van Damme actioner Bloodsport.
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NewsThe Works takes UK rights to Spurlock's Greatest Movie Ever Sold
The Works Distribution has picked up all UK rights on Morgan Spurlock’s Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.
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NewsIndependent goes to Hell And Back Again
EXCLUSIVE: Independent distribution takes docs and comedy Tiny Furniture for UK
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NewsAV Pictures thrills buyers with Sket
Buyers are swarming over girl gang movie Sket, on the AV Pictures slate.
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NewsWinding Refn partnering to produce Black's Game
EXCLUSIVE: Winding Refn and production company Zik Zak (Volcano) are partnering on thriller Black’s Game.
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Buyers take HanWay's Expectations, Psychopaths
UK sales outfit HanWay Films has been doing a roaring trade on its Cannes slate.
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NewsTom Hooper joins BFI board
At a reception tonight in Cannes, BFI Chair Greg Dyke announced that The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper has been appointed to the BFI’s Board of Governors.
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NewsFilm London’s PFM sets dates for Oct 19-20
Production finance event aims to set up over 800 meetings
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NewsRoeg's Independent lines up films with Michael Mann, Saul Dibb
UK production/finance/sales company Independent - riding high in Cannes with We Need To Talk About Kevin - has confirmed that Michael Mann will direct its adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s Agincourt.
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NewsSwinton, Fassbender and Wasikowska line up for Jarmusch's vampire story
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Thomas and Reinhard Brundig producing; HanWay to handle sales.
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NewsRavensbourne, Skillset, WFTV to host Cannes panel on 3D storytelling
London-based Ravensbourne, Skillset and the UK’s Women in Film and TV are hosting a 3D panel here in Cannes today (at 10:30 at the UK Film Centre).
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NewsBankside's Kelliher elected as chair of Film Export UK
EXCLUSIVE: New directors are Clare Crean and Andrew Orr.
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NewsCillian Murphy is a 'Broken' man as part of busy BBC Films slate
BBC Films, which is in Cannes as one of the backers of Lynne Ramsay’s Competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, has a full slate of new projects including several debut features, family films and some with marquee names.
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NewsNumber 9's slate includes new Neil Jordan vampire film
Number 9 Films, the production company run by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen, is set to have three films in production by the end of the year including a Dickens adaptation, a new Neil Jordan vampire picture, and a British gangster movie.
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Neil La Bute checks into UK's Crooked House
Neil La Bute (In The Company of Men) is to direct an adaptation of a novel by British crime writer, Agatha Christie.
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NewsEaling Metro takes on five music docs from Julien Temple
Slate includes Rio and London films shooting this year.
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NewsICO-ICA join forces in UK
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Independent Cinema Office (ICO) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) have struck a three-year partnership that will start in July.
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Kumar’s Monsoon set to hit India
EXCLUSIVE: Amit Kumar, director of award-winning short The Bypass, is gearing up to shoot his debut feature, The Monsoon Shootout, as a co-production between the UK, India, Netherlands and France.