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NewsBlancanieves, Trueba, Ozon, Ghobadi light up San Sebastian
More industry activity and new projects announced in Spain including a Fernando Trueba-Penélope Cruz reunion.
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NewsLeading figures from European film industry meet with EC Commissioners for cinema roundtable
Studio Babelsberg CEO Carl Woebcken, BFI Director Amanda Nevill, and European Film Promotion’s president Christian Lemche were among the key movers and shakers invited to a high-level roundtable meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss how the EU should support the European film industry.
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NewsLatest Oscar submissions: The Deep for Iceland, Mushrooming for Estonia; Made In Ash for Slovakia
Iceland has selected Baltasar Kormakur’s real-life adventure drama The Deep to represent the country in the Oscar race.
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NewsZentropa, TV2 gear up for series of Adler-Oslen adaptations
Production to start next week on The Woman in the Cage, AKA Mercy, to be directed by Mikkel Nørgaard [pictured] and starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Carl Mørck.
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NewsGlobal Screen picks up action-adventure Heroes
Munich-based Global Screen adds action-adventure TV film Heroes from director Hansjörg Thurn.
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NewsJackie Ryan announced as JDIFF interim general manager
Next edition of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival to run Feb 14-24.
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NewsArrow finds Cherchez Hortense
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor Arrow Films picks up Pascal Bonitzer’s comedy starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
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NewsFilm Music competition launches in Zurich
Five finalists’ work to be performed in a concert on Thursday.
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NewsTokyo fest screening of Yim Ho's Floating City cancelled
Hong Kong-China production appears to have been withdrawn due to escalating political tensions between China and Japan.
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NewsDigital distribution tool PUMit launches
French technology firm UbicMedia’s platform will make its way to the North American market on Oct 21. The technology helps filmmakers to screen and monetise their work online.
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NewsTom Rothman to produce Robopocalypse for DreamWorks, Fox
The outgoing co-head of Twentieth Century Fox said: “If you are in politics, you dream of a call from the White House, in baseball, from the Yankees, in movies, from Steven Spielberg.”
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NewsExclusive Media invests in Millennium Entertainment
Screendaily broke the story in Cannes that Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s ambitious company was circling Millennium Entertainment and the principals joined Nu Image founders Avi Lerner and Trevor Short on Tuesday (25) to announce they had acquired a minority stake.
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NewsUniversal Pictures heralds record box office haul
The studio, celebrating its 100th anniversary, announced on Tuesday (25) that its films had amassed $1.128bn for the year-to-date, setting a new company record.
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NewsA24 acquires Ginger & Rosa, Kino Lorber buys Resnais
Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa premiered in Telluride and will get a 2012 qualifying run before opening in theatres in early 2013. Alain Resnais’ You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet will open early next year.
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NewsAbu Dhabi lineup includes 81 features, 8 world premieres
Narrative feature competition includes Everyday, Ginger and Rosa; festival to host 8 world premieres, 3 international premieres.
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NewsStep Into The Dark with the Barbican
Barbican Centre announce opening programme for its new cinemas.
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NewsNew York's Maven Pictures revs up Rollin’ Thunder
Following the sale in Toronto of their comedy Imogene to Roadside Attractions / Lionsgate, Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray said on Tuesday (25) they will produce the bowling comedy.
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NewsEmma Sullivan, Steven Shiel among writers up for Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize
Winner to be announced at an awards event at Wellcome Collection on Oct 8.
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NewsA Most Wanted Man begins shooting
Russian actor Grigory Dobrygin [pictured] among new cast to join Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of John le Carré’s bestseller.
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NewsFilm Agency for Wales launches mentoring programme
Programme will allow 12 producers or company managers to be mentored by distribution executives to develop content for UK and international markets.