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NewsBeta sells Berlinale winner Child's Pose
German sales powerhouse Beta has reported a roaring start to the market. Distribution rights for Berlinale-winner Child’s Pose [pictured] and German box-office hit Oh Boy are almost sold out.
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NewsBallpark takes UK rights to No Fixed Abode
Ballpark has taken UK rights to 104 Films’ drama No Fixed Abode [pictured].
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NewsFilm4 team talks about Cannes slate
Tessa Ross [pictured] tells Screen that Film4’s Cannes selections — Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant in Directors’ Fortnight, Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril in Critics’ Week — are indicative of the kind of author-driven work that Film4 is championing across its busy slate.
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Attraction drawn to Dragon Girls
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian sales outfit Attraction Distribution (formerly Delphis Films) has gobbled up world sales rights to much hyped doc Dragon Girls [pictured], winner of the Best International Feature Documentary at Hot Docs in Toronto earlier this month.
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NewsPeter Greenaway returning to UK
Director’s adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice to shoot in early 2014.
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NewsWiley launches film finance application
London-based former Woody Allen producer Gareth Wiley [pictured] (Match Point, Scoop) is in Cannes this week to launch Screen Advantage, the new online tool for financiers and producers.
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NewsTWC sets start date for Crouching Tiger sequel
The Weinstein Company said on Thursday [16] that Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon II – The Green Destiny will commence production in March 2014.
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NewsVoltage, Muccino spark to Fathers
Gabriele Muccino has come on to direct the 2012 Blacklist screenplay Fathers And Daughters, which Voltage Pictures has introduced to buyers.
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NewsUma Thurman to star in Anita
Uma Thurman will play the controversial anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in Anita, which Sex And The City creator Darren Star will produce with Howard Rosenman, Jeffrey Schwarz and Dennis Erdman.
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Glacier launches with Heist
Hayden Christensen is one of several partners on board the new production company Glacier Films, which launches with an 11-film slate led by American Heist.
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NewsMonahan's Mojave to star Hedlund, Isaac
EXCLUSIVE: The second film in the deal between Atlas Independent and Relativity International has emerged as Mojave, a crime thriller from William Monahan to star Garrett Hedlund and Oscar Isaac.
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NewsUK deals for Venus & Serena
K5 International has served up tennis documentary Venus & Serena to UK distributor Kaleidoscope and the BBC.
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NewsSilver Reel pacts with Firth's Raindog
EXCLUSIVE: Increasingly ambitious Zurich-based film financier and producer Silver Reel Partners is to join forces with Raindog Films, the new production company set up by Oscar winning actor Colin Firth and former Sony UK Chairman Ged Doherty.
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NewsRiseborough, Lewis in WestEnd’s Storm
EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson to exec-produce love story starring Andrea Riseborough and Damian Lewis, due to get underway this summer.
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NewsBruce Willis to star in Expiration
Bruce Willis will star in the $60m thriller Expiration from financier-producer Emmett / Furla Films.
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Anchor Bay gets Possession
Anchor Bay Films has taken North American rights to supernatural thriller The Possession Of Michael King starring Shane Johnson.
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NewsBarnard joins Cannes' UK Film Centre
Topics up for discussion will include microbudget filmmaking, the crossover between film and television and Indian co-productions.
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NewsJohansson to direct lost Capote novel
Scarlett Johansson is to make her directorial debut on the Truman Capote adaptation Summer Crossing. Aldamisa will produce and launch international sales on the Croisette while CAA represents US sales.