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CDP joins Sengupta’s 'Memories And My Mother'
EXCLUSIVE: French producer Catherine Dussart, who co-produced Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction, has boarded Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Memories And My Mother, which is selected for the Co-Production Market at Film Bazaar this year.
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'Bombairiya' to resume shoot in December
EXCLUSIVE: Caper comedy by Pia Sukanya is scheduled for release in first half of 2016.
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Film Tourism Workshop readies India for its 'Hobbit' moment
As part of Film Bazaar’s initiative to promote India as a filming destination, a film tourism workshop was conducted for the first time with local and international experts sharing their insight on various aspects of film tourism.
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SA backers move into Blecher's Paradise
EXCLUSIVE: NFDC’s Co-Production Market project On the Way to Paradise has received funding from three separate government bodies in South Africa: the Department of Trade and Industry, the National Film and Video Foundation and KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission.
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Changing times for Bollywood’s women
Some women are seeing more empowering roles in Bollywood in the past few years, but is this “a small wave or a tsunami in the years to come?,” asked the Film Bazaar Knowledge Series panel ‘Female Protagonists in Bollywood Today.’
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India's new FFO to act as one-stop shop for Indian shoots
Foreign and local producers who want to shoot in India now have a central agency they can contact, the Film Facilitation Office (FFO), to help with obtaining shooting permissions and sourcing locations and crew.
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Ambre, Oddjoint punch for 'Boxers' feature
EXCLUSIVE: French producer Sylvain Bursztejn’s Ambre Films is joining forces with Celine Loop and Q’s Kolkata-based Oddjoint to produce a feature version of Alka Raghuram’s documentary Burqa Boxers.
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Film Bazaar's WIP explores changing India
Projects exploring the role of women in Indian society and the country’s rapid economic development feature heavily in the line-up for this year’s Work-in-Progress Lab at Film Bazaar, which includes six fiction and five documentary features.
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GSP takes UK rights to 'Unromantic Woman'
EXCLUSIVE: Film Bazaar’s Co-Production Market project Joan Carr-Wiggin’s An Unromantic Woman has presold to the UK, with GSP Studios picking up the film from Toronto-based production company Paragraph Pictures.
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Study: Amazon trails rivals in original content race
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon’s five most popular original shows in the US, UK and Australia are struggling to keep pace with the best offerings from HBO and Netflix, according to research by Parrot Analytics.
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Oasis documentary rolls with buyers
Independent finalises AFM deals in key markets for music documentary, executive produced by Amy director Asif Kapadia.
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China box office: 'Spectre' breaks records for Sony
The latest instalment of the James Bond franchise debuted with an impressive $48.55m over its three-day opening weekend.
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Fox confirms 'Prometheus' sequel title
Fox tweeted on Monday that the new title for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus follow-up formerly known as Alien: Paradise Lost would be Alien: Covenant and that the film would open on October 6, 2017.
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Australia's Screen Forever conference set to kick off
The Australian conference will host industry professionals and government officials this year from Nov 17-19.
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Pathe reveals AFM sales of 'Viceroy’s House'
Period drama stars Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville and The X Files’ Gillian Anderson as Lord and Lady Mountbatten.
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'Spectre' breaks records in China
Sony, MGM, EON Productions’ James Bond thriller has set several new benchmarks in the wake of its release in the world’s second biggest market.
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Netflix, Brad Pitt's Plan B back Bong Joon Ho's 'Okja'
Netflix is to invest in Bong Joon Ho’s new film Okja, it has been announced through local production company Okja SPC.
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'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' tops China box office on $21.5m
Three Hollywood and two local new releases entered the weekly chart, with Fox’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials raced to the top with $21.54m from its first five days.
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Industry lynchpins address market malaise at AFM
Participant CEO David Linde among those to address challenges during AFM finance conference.