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NewsSky Atlantic lines up top directors for Footprint docs
Bafta and Academy Award-winning directors Beeban Kidron and Errol Morris [pictured] have been commissioned to produce feature-length films for Sky Atlantic’s Footprint strand.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Ewan McGregor will star in thriller Son Of A Gun, and Clio Barnard finished shooting The Selfish Giant.
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NewsDamian Jones to produce viral video director's debut feature
EXCLUSIVE: Newport State of Mind’s MJ Delaney will make her feature debut with adaptation of hit Edinburgh Fringe play.
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TIFFCOM closes with mixed reactions to new venue
The 9th TIFFCOM market in Tokyo closed yesterday (Oct 25) at its new venue in Odaiba with buyer registration up 120% year-on-year to 983. Organisers announced a total of 12,863 participants with a record 229 exhibitors including 113 first-time exhibitors.
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NewsEmperor to unleash Dante Lam's Demon Within
Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) will be launching sales on That Demon Within, a cop thriller from leading action director Dante Lam, at the upcoming AFM.
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NewsEaling Metro boards Falklands War thriller Destroyer with Paul Bettany, Matthew Goode attached
EXCLUSIVE: Warp and Crab Apple produce the emotional story surrounding warship HMS Coventry, which was sunk during The Falklands War; Transmission pre-buys Australia-New Zealand.
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Any Day Now, Quartet, Central Park Five triumph in Chicago audience awards
The 48th Chicago International Film Festival announced the Audience Choice Awards on Friday (26).
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NewsBond is back to challenge Paranormal Activity 4
The 23rd James Bond film Skyfall bursts on to the screen in the UK, Russia, France, South Korea, Brazil and Belgium this weekend through Sony Pictures Releasing International.
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NewsMacKinnon, Rahimi projects among Film Bazaar line-up
UK director Gillies MacKinnon and French-Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi are among the 26 filmmakers who have had projects selected for the co-production market of this year’s Film Bazaar in Goa, India.
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NewsAqui Y Alla, Miss Lovely win top prizes at Mumbai fest
Aqui Y Alla, directed by Spain’s Antonio Mendez Esparza, scooped both best film and best director in the international competition for first features at the close of the Mumbai film festival last night (Oct 25).
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NewsInaugural Baja International Film Festival unveils slate
Eighty films including Pablo Larrain’s Chilean Oscar submission No and Peter Ramsay’s Rise Of The Guardians will screen from Nov 14-17 at the first Los Cabos event founded by Corona Beer heir and Mexican property developer Eduardo Sanchez Navarro.
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NewsHorowitz, Rhodes, Ronson among speakers at Nov 5 conference in LA
Magnet Media Group, Forrest Equity Management and the Film Finance Awards are planning a top-level International Film Finance, Production and Distribution Conference to be held in Los Angeles on Nov 5, during the American Film Market.
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NewsRowley's Molly Moon starts shooting in London
Cast includes Raffey Cassidy, Dominic Monaghan [pictured], Emily Watson, Lesley Manville and Joan Collins.
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Gravitas Ventures bulks up Halloween slate
The digital distributor has announced its upcoming VoD horror acquisitions for October and November.
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Eli Roth cements The Green Inferno cast ahead of Peru shoot
Worldview Entertainment’s eco-horror film is on the runway for a Nov 5 start. Exclusive Media will commence sales at the AFM and Roth will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Aftershock co-writer Guillermo Amoedo.
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NewsNegri defends Cornelius Cinema in Kasander financial controversy
Livio Negri, the Italian-based executive producer of Ben Sombogaart’s To Be King, has responded to remarks made about financial problems on the production by the film’s Dutch producer Kees Kasander [pictured].
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The Exchange nabs international rights to Rob The Mob
Brian O’Shea and Nat McCormick will attend the AFM with the real-life Bonnie And Clyde thriller to star Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda.
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NewsFilmNation heads to AFM with Hold On To Me
Carey Mulligan and Robert Pattinson will star in James Marsh’s thriller in the vein of To Die For. CAA represents US rights.
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NewsDark Corners, Jet Black among Solar Pictures maiden slate
Co-CEOs Kearie Peak [pictured] and Christopher Taylor said the LA-based finance and production company has lined up Dark Corners, Jonestown, Jet Black and The Girl Who Knew Too Much for the first half of 2013.
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NewsPlus Camerimage unveils debut competition line-up
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Electrick Children are among the selection of debut films up for awards at the Plus Cameriage festival.