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FeaturesArab talent in bloom
As political change and renewal sweeps across the Middle East, the film industry in the Arab world is also undergoing a transformation. In step with this week’s Doha Tribeca Film Festival, Screen profiles some of the region’s rising film-making and acting talent now stepping onto the international stage.
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CommentQueue sera sera
Screen’s chief film critic tries to develop the peace of mind needed to wait in endless lines for screenings surrounded by queue jumpers and film bores.
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NewsTim Roth, Talulah Riley to star in The Liability
The road trip comic thriller will be directed by Craig Viveiros and produced by Corona Pictures.
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NewsWild Bunch's VOD platform FilmoTV adds five new channels
Service boasts more than 1,000 movies per year.
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NewsA Separation, Anatolia lead Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominations
Best film nominees are Let The Bullets Fly, Once Upon a Time In Anatolia, Wedding Planners, A Separation and Goodbye.
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NewsJohnny English reborn at UK box office on $7.8m (£5m)
Universal comedy towers over Lion King 3D and Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark.
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NewsAndrew Haigh in development on Simon Is Waiting
The Los Angeles-set drama has picked up development funding from Film4 and EM Media; Haigh’s second feature Weekend opens in the UK on November 4 following its LFF UK premiere.
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NewsSoda picks Strawberry Fields for UK
Soda takes UK rights ahead of world premiere at BFI London Film Festival.
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Film Asia launches Zombie, 3D Hunter at Busan market
Start-up Hong Kong production and sales outfit, Film Asia Entertainment, is unveiling a slate of new product at the Asian Film Market, headed by Malaysian 3D thriller The Hunter and Joe Chien’s zombie movie Zombie 108.
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Magnet drawn to horror Playback starring Christian Slater
Magnet Releasing has acquired US rights to Michael Nickles’ horror film starring Christian Slater and will release through its Ultra VOD platform in February 2012.
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NewsParamount names David Stainton president of in-house animation division.
Stainton joins Paramount’s new division after a 17-year run at Disney, where he served as president of Walt Disney Feature Animation.
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NewsNetflix announces U-turn over Qwikster
In a bizarre reversal, Netflix said on Monday it would return the business of DVD rentals and streaming under one roof.
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Production to commence next month on Lleju’s Stars
Bill Perkins’ financing and production company will finance the redemption drama and is producing with Derrick Borte’s Storyland Pictures.
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NewsMargate House signs Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz to Java Heat
Margate House Films’ father-and-son team of Conor Allyn and Rob Allyn are financing the $21.5m tale of political intrigue set in Indonesia.
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NewsRio Market: top Brazil producer demands joint action on piracy
Brazil’s soft anti-piracy laws and lack of coordinated policy on content theft need to be redressed urgently in light of chronic abuses, Total Entertainment CEO and Festival do Rio executive Walkiria Barbosa told delegates at a piracy panel on Monday (10).
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NewsEFA announces Discovery Award nominations
Two Austrian directors have made the nominations for the EFA discovery award for a first time feature director.
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NewsNew Zealand lowers spend threshold for film fund
The threshold has been lowered from $3.13m to $1.96m for New Zealand films wanting to make a claim under the Screen Production Expenditure Fund.
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NewsSummit plans English-language remake of Norwegian thriller Headhunters
Swedish film and TV production outfit Yellow Bird has sold the English-language film rights for Norwegian director Morten Tyldum’s thriller Headhunters (Hodejegerne) to US company Summit Entertainment.
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CommentPower To the Pixel: Jeff Gomez's Story Time
I’ve spent the morning at the first day of Power To The Pixel’s Cross Media Forum, surrounded by more iPads per square meter than you’d find in the Apple Store.
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I Don’t Want To Go Back Alone scoops Cardiff's Iris Prize
The short film prize was awarded as part of the Cardiff Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.