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NewsBartkowiak in talks to direct Legends of Hercules
$20m project led by Russian star Alexander Nevsky.
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NewsDixons launches TVOD service
Service has partnerships with Disney, Warner Bros and Momentum with more deals to be announced soon.
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Deals round-up: GoDigital goes to Circus, TLA champions Spork
GoDigital has picked up North American VoD and digital rights to You, Me & The Circus produced by Omar Epps.
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NewsIFP announces programming for Script To Screen Conference
Moneyball director Bennett Miller will take part in an on-stage conversation in the Mar 17 event, presented in partnership with WGA East, the New York Television Festival and BookExpo America.
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NewsFilm Movement takes The Day I Saw Your Heart
The French comedy stars Melanie Laurent and played in official selection at Canada’s Cinerama Film Festival and in various US festivals.
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NewsNina Jacobson recruits Brad Simpson to Color Force
Simpson produced the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid with Jacobson and has been drafted in to expand the pipeline. His appointment begins on Mar 1.
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NewsColumbia Pictures to adapt Dutch thriller Taped
Red Wagon’s Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce the English-language feature.
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Strand Releasing takes US rights to Crazy Eyes
Adam Sherman’s contemporary noir starring Lukas Haas and Madeline Zima is due to receive its world premiere at SXSW in March.
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Filmclub extends into Northern Ireland
The education charity, set up by Beeban Kidron, already operates in 7000 schools in the UK and aims to reach 338 schools in Northern Ireland, rolling out in April 2012.
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NewsNew LatAm fest kicks off in Argentina
A week after Argentina’s Un cuento chino (A Chinese Tale) directed by Sebastián Borensztein picked up a Goya for Best Latin American film, the region is set to host a film festival which launches its first edition this September, in San Juan, Argentina.
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NewsFilm improves literacy claims UK report
Film in education is improving literacy and motivation to learn claims report from BFI and other UK film bodies.
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NewsMichael Fassbender joins jury of YouTube's Your Film Festival
He will help to judge the global competition, run by Youtube and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, as well as acting as a co-executive producer on the winner’s next project.
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NewsEFM announces 15% attendance boost
EFM claims 15% increase in 2012 attendance; first-time initiatives well-received.
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NewsThe Raid is double winner at Dublin International Film Festival
Welsh director Gareth Evans’ martial arts film The Raid was the big winner at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, picking up the Audience Award and the Dublin Film Critics Circle Best Film prize.
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NewsTerence Davies, Leopardrama developing Mothers of Sorrows
Davies developing adaptation of Richard McCann memoir about a US family in post-WWII Washington; Leopardrama also closes distribution deal on Swan Lake 3D.
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NewsTribeca Film picks up US rights to comedic drama Collaborator
Martin Donovan’s directorial debut stars Donovan, David Morse and Olivia Williams and will go out this summer in a multi-platform launch. eOne will handle select US home video distribution rights.
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NewsShortsHD hosts second annual award ceremony
The invitation-only event held in West Hollywood at the weekend recognised this year’s Oscar nominated short filmmakers for live action, animation and documentary categories. The lifetime achievement award was presented to Nick Park.
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NewsEnders Game shoot begins in Louisiana
Production is underway in New Orleans on Enders Game, the children’s sci-fi adventure that stars Harrison Ford, Oscar nominee Viola Davis, Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield from Hugo in the lead role.
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NewsThe Woman In Black continues to chill UK box office
Hammer’s adaptation records hat-trick at the top of the UK box office and is now the most successful British horror film of the last 20 years.