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NewsEpic among 12 to win Irish backing
EXCLUSIVE: Latest Irish Film Board funding round includes $1.23m (€900,000) for 13th century epic.
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NewsNorio Tsurata lines up Cursed Diary
EXCLUSIVE: Premonition director’s next project stars Death Note’s Erika Toda [pictured].
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NewsMatch Factory acquires Remainder
EXCLUSIVE: Thriller directed by Omer Fast acquired for international sales by The Match Factory.
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NewsFortissimo back with Borgman director
EXCLUSIVE: Fortissimo takes world rights to survival thriller that pits a writer against a hitman who gets more than he bargained for.
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NewsOliviers mini-series in works
EXCLUSIVE: Mini-series about famed film couple to be executive produced by Olivier’s son.
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NewsFilms Boutique aces sales
EXCLUSIVE: Difret, Macondo, Ping Pong Summer among sellers for German outfit.
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NewsUK thriller Containment readies
Neil West’s debut feature is based on a story he co-wrote with David Lemon [pictured].
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NewsSenior debt fund hits EFM
First project to receive backing will be Ami Canaan Mann’s Your Right Mind, starring Katherine Heigl [pictured] and Ben Barnes.
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NewsPGA sets 2015 show date
The Producers Guild Of America hierarchy has announced their 2015 awards show following its recent historic tie for best film between 12 Years A Slave and Gravity.
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NewsWrekin Hill flies with Yellowbird
The distributor is understood to have paid seven figures for North American rights to TeamTO and Haut et Court’s 3D animated feature. SC Films International represents sales.
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NewsRAM ramps up with first slate
Film Movement’s genre division’s inaugural selections include Moebius and Hide And Seek.
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NewsIFT closes Japan sale on Cell
International Film Trust (IFT) has licensed Japanese rights to the Stephen King adaptation Cell to Presidio at the EFM.
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NewsCourson, Bauer to deliver MIPTV keynote
Chairman and CEO of StudioCanal and president/partner of Tandem Communications to present joint keynote address.
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NewsCannes awards brought forward
European elections will see the winners of the 67th Cannes Film Festival announced a day earlier.
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NewsDrafthouse takes 20,000 Days On Earth
Drafthouse Films has acquired North American rights from HanWay Films to Berlinale European premiere 20,000 Days On Earth.
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NewsPeabody tops UK chart
Fox’s 3D animation records $6.4m (£3.9m) debut, including previews, to dethrone The Wolf of Wall Street; StudioCanal’s RoboCop arrives with strong $4m (£2.41m) bow in second.
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NewsDogwoof takes UK for Punk Singer
Sini Anderson’s documentary [pictured] about front woman Kathleen Hanna to be released in May.
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NewsDIFF announces 2014 dates
Festival to run Dec 10-17; tenth edition saw a 150% growth in attendance since its inaugural edition in 2004.
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NewsSwiss membership of Creative Europe in doubt
Switzerland’s future membership of the European Union’s Creative Europe framework programme has been thrown into doubt after yesterday’s vote in favour of new immigration curbs.