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NewsLocarno's Golden Leopard awarded to Argentina's Back To Stay
The international jury headed by Portuguese producer Paolo Branco presented the festival’s top honour to Argentinian-born Milagros Mumenthaler for her debut feature Back To Stay (Abrir Puertas Y Ventanas).
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NewsRachid Bouchareb lines up Forest Whitaker for trilogy finale
The Oscar winning actor will play a Muslim parolee released from prison into a small city bristling with Muslim-Arabic paranoia. The untitled project is scheduled to begin in 2013 and will be the final entry in Bouchareb’s English-language trilogy.
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NewsAnchor Bay pounces on Wicker Man follow-up
The distributor has taken all rights in the US, Canada and the UK to The Wicker Tree from Robin Hardy, whose 1973 horror film remains one of the great cult films of British cinema.
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NewsLee Jang-ho to head new umbrella Film Korea
South Korean regional film commissions and entertainment industry groups have organised to launch Film Korea today (Aug 12) at the Jecheon International Music Film Festival.
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NewsThe King's Speech producer Unwin lines up Spitfire Girls TV drama
The indie behind Oscar-winning The King’s Speech has started work on a TV drama about a group of female Spitfire pilots.
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NewsArts Alliance in digital cinema pact with Spain's A Contracorriente
Live satellite delivery of El Caso Farewell already successful.
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NewsJeff and Michael Zimbalist to direct Rio set MMA documentary Bushido 3D
Two Escobars directors (and brothers) Jeff and Michael Zimbalist are about to start shooting their latest feature documentary set in the world of Mixed Martial Arts and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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NewsGlenn Close to receive lifetime achievement award in San Sebastian
Close will receive Donostia Award at festival’s 59th edition where she is presenting latest feature Albert Nobbs
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NewsVertigo picks up football drama Will for UK
Oct 21 release for Will, starring Damian Lewis and Bob Hoskins
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NewsNew Wave confirms two Cannes acquisitions
UK distributor takes on Once Upon a Time In Anatolia and Hors Satan.
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NewsJenkins, Sarandon, Christie keep Company with Redford
Richard Jenkins, Susan Sarandon and Julie Christie are the latest additions to the cast of political action thriller The Company You Keep from Voltage Pictures and Robert Redford’s Wildwood Enterprises.
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NewsHarry Potter battles The Apes for international crown
Warner Bros’ behemoth could have another big weekend in it but faces a strong challenge from Sony’s The Smurfs and Fox’s Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
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News10 artists shortlisted for Film London's Jarman award
This year’s shortlist has been extended from 4 to 10 artists film-makers including The Arbor director Clio Barnard.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Paul Knight is currently shooting A Landscape Of Lies in London, while Christian Duguay prepares the autumn shoot for his latest project Jappeloup in Mallorca.
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NewsRutger Hauer joins Scherson's The Future
Alicia Scherson’s international co-production is an adaptation of novelist and poet Roberto Bolano’s book Una Novelita Lumpen
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NewsIFP Project Forum to showcase 150 new projects
Laura Oaksmith’s The Buck Decision, Hunter Adams’ Dig Two Graves and Jeremy Engle’s Half-Life are among the projects set to take part in the 33rd edition in New York from Sept 18-22.
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NewsToronto unveils Talent Lab, Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finalist and Rising Stars
Twenty-four filmmakers are set to take part in the Talent Lab, the artistic development programme that runs from Sept 7-10, while Pitch This! offers six teams the chance to present their projects to a jury and live audience.
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NewsAmi Canaan Mann's Texas Killing Fields to open retrospective at San Sebastian
The retrospective will feature 40 films from directors including David Fincher and Ami Canaan’s famous director father Michael Mann.
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NewsMetrodome acquires Hollywood Classics; Peter Urie returns to company
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired Hollywood Classsics Ltd in a deal worth $2.6m (£1.6m).
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NewsLondon riots: Sony remanufacturing 1.5m discs following warehouse fire
The company has released a statement saying it is working closely with film distributors to mitigate the loss suffered as a result of the fire at its Enfield Warehouse on monday night; the warehouse housed 25 million discs at the time of the fire.