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NewsMetrodome picks up thriller St George's Day
Metrodome picks up UK rights to crime-thriller starring Frank Harper, Craig Fairbrass, Vincent Regan and Charles Dance.
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NewsTony Grisoni's Kingsland amongst new Microwave projects
Three new features have been greenlit through Film London’s microbudget Microwave scheme, which is run in partnership with BBC Films and Skillset.
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Strategic Film Partners acquires sales rights to lacrosse drama
Alex Barder’s Strategic Film Partners has acquired international sales rights to Crooked Arrows starring Brandon Routh.
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NewsWachsberger: business as usual at post-merger Lionsgate
EXCLUSIVE: Despite his entry into corporate America in the wake of the Lionsgate-Summit merger, Patrick Wachsberger has been ensconced in his office on the Croisette, in the thick of the market as usual.
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NewsDuncan Jones shoots for K5’s Ian Fleming film
Moon and Source Code director Duncan Jones will direct a new film about James Bond author Ian Fleming.
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Image takes US rights to Ray Liotta thriller Details
Image Entertainment has acquired all US rights to action-thriller The Devil’s In The Details starring Ray Liotta. Epic Pictures handles international sales here in Cannes.
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NewsMarsan, Froggatt liven up with Pasolini's Still Life
Eddie Marsan [pictured] and Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey’s Anna) will star in Still Life, which starts shooting tomorrow in London and Southeast England.
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Lightning closes deals on Jungle, 25th Reich
EXCLUSIVE: Lightning Entertainment has closed a raft of pre-sales on Andrew Traucki’s thriller The Jungle and licensed German and Japanese rights on Australian sci-fi The 25th Reich.
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NewsAbu Dhabi launches 30% production rebate
EXCLUSIVE: Abu Dhabi’s twofour54 and the Abu Dhabi Film Commission are launching a production rebate from September 1, marking the first major incentive scheme in the Middle East.
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Bona Film Group boosts credit facility to $80m
China’s Bona Film Group has increased its revolving credit facility with Bank of Beijing from $15.8m (RMB100m) to $79m (RMB500m), which it will use over the next two years for content production.
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Metrodome, AB slayed by Guillotines
Hong Kong-based We Distribution has sealed further deals on Andrew Lau’s action thriller The Guillotines, which has gone to the UK (Metrodome), French-speaking Europe (AB Droits Audiovisuels), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and India (WEG).
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Now, Forager sells for New Europe; company adds Distance
EXCLUSIVE: Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has sold Rotterdam selection Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi
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Lumiere animates sales on Phantom Boy
Benelux distributor Lumiere’s new sales arm, Lumiere International Sales, is at its first Cannes Market with a promo of its first major project.
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Pictures Dept picks up Aoyama project
Japanese production and sales outfit Pictures Dept has picked up worldwide rights to Shinji Aoyama’s upcoming adaptation of Shinya Tanaka’s award-winning novel Dog Eat Dog (Tomogui).
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Atlas bears Stephen King thriller A Good Marriage
EXCLUSIVE: Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation A Good Marriage to its Cannes slate.
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NewsDupieux and Bernard unveil footage from Wrong Cops
Quentin Dupieux and producer Gregory Bernard of Réalitism Films are in Cannes drumming up finance for the director’s third film Wrong Cops starring Marilyn Manson and Marc Burnham.
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NewsSebastian Silva, Daniel Radcliffe boost Killer Films slate
EXCLUSIVE: Killer Films principals Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler are in the midst of their busiest ever production cycle and have funnelled a number of prestige titles into the market this week.
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NewsBuska crowned by Kaurismaki
EXCLUSIVE: Rising Swedish actress Malin Buska has been crowned as the lead in Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki’s Kristina of Sweden, stepping into the shoes of Swedish screen legend Greta Garbo, who played the part in US director Ruben Mamoulian’s 1933 Queen Christina.
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NewsMuyl heads to China for Butterfly remake
French director Philippe Muyl is heading to China for a Mandarin-language feature inspired by his 2002 film The Butterfly (Le Papillon), which was a huge hit with Chinese audiences