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NewsQ's Overdose Joint lines up treble
Bengali director Q is producing three new projects through his production house Overdose Joint, including Kolkata-set horror film Ludo.
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NewsDresden to produce live action Grave of the Fireflies
Dresden Pictures has acquired the UK rights to Japanese war story Grave of the Fireflies for a live action adaptation.
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NewsAmbitious Film Clinic slate shows Egypt's new face
Cairo-based Film Clinic has solidified its status as one of the Arab world’s top production companies with a new slate of internationally oriented films, including a co-production with Fox International Pictures.
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NewsWFTV to honour Ruth Caleb
Veteran drama producer Ruth Caleb will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 Sky WFTV Awards for her 40-year contribution to the industry.
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NewsMentors named for Film Agency Wales’ Film Junction
The Film Agency for Wales and Creative Skillset announced today the 12 successful applicants from across the UK selected for the Film Junction: Market Mentors scheme.
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NewsTony Hall named new BBC director general
Royal Opera House chief executive Tony Hall has been appointed the new BBC director general.
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NewsEuropa Cinemas secures two years of MEDIA funding
The Europa Cinemas (EC) network has secured a further two years of funding from the European Union’s MEDIA Programme.
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NewsUK on course for record box office in 2012
UK cinema box office receipts crossed the £1bn threshold this week and are running 1% ahead of the same point in 2011.
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NewsPinewood and Shepperton fitted with Dolby Atmos
Mixing theatres at the two studios are the very first facilities in the UK to be fitted with Dolby’s end-to-end audio platform.
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NewsMarrakech to fete Yimou, Huppert, Demme, Chopra
Festival also to focus on Hindi cinema, with attendees including Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra.
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NewsKen Loach rejects Turin award over worker dispute
Director Ken Loach has declined a lifetime achievement award from the Turin Film Festival and cancelled plans to attend the event in protest of an alleged labour dispute.
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NewsEurimages to lower funding cap
Pan-European co-production fund Eurimages has unveiled a number of changes to its guidelines that will come into effect from January 2013.
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NewsBliss, Film Base Berlin board Nair's Umrika
Jim Birmant of Paris-based Bliss and Mathias Schwerbrock of Film Base Berlin have boarded Indian-born director Prashant Nair’s new project Umrika as co-producers.
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NewsFox to produce Hindi remake of Knight And Day
Fox Star Studios India CEO Vijay Singh has confirmed the studio will produce a Hindi remake of Fox’s 2010 action comedy Knight And Day, with Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif heading the cast.
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NewsMomentary Lapse Of Reason to start shooting in January
Aditya Bhattacharya will start shooting A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, an English-language remake of his 1988 cult classic Raakh, in Hyderabad in January.
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NewsTwilight on course to cross $350m in second session
Lionsgate International top brass expect The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 to dominate the arena yet again as they look to build on the running total, now well over $200m. Separately, Pixar’s Brave has crossed $300m.
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NewsComisky, Hays and Neuman to deliver keynotes at 3D Stereo MEDIA
Fourth European Forum for stereoscopic 3D will take place in Liège, Belgium in December.
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NewsScarlet Johansson narrates award winning doc for BBC3
A BBC3 documentary narrated by Scarlet Johansson has picked up the Best TV Feature/Documentary at the Foreign Press Association’s Awards.
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NewsJames Corden signs for Working Title comedy School for Santas
Working Title and Kris Thykier to produce script from One Man, Two Guvnors writer Richard Bean.
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