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NewsDerek Morgan of PEC Video dies at age 53
Derek Morgan, the managing director of London-based PEC Video, has died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident at the age of 53.
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NewsHoney, Somewhere bookend Greece's Panorama of European Cinema
Semih Kaplanoglu’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Honey and Sofia Coppola’s Venice Golden Lion awarded Somewhere bookend the 23rdPanorama of European Cinema which opens in Athens today.
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NewsScreen International to launch Global Guide To Soft Money 2011
The annual PDF report, available to buy online, is a territory-by-territory guide to the most lucrative international production incentives.
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NewsNon-Lottery, non-BFI film funding to be chopped in half as part of UK's budget cuts
After yesterday’s sweeping cuts across the board by the UK government, it has emerged that film-sector funding outside Lottery funds and the British Film Institute (BFI) has been slashed by over 50%.
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NewsBernard Rose to reunite with Huston on Boxing Day; plans Will Self adaptation
Bernard Rose’s Boxing Day, starring Danny Huston and writer/actor Mathew Jacobs, is set to shoot in the mountains of Colorado in early December.
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NewsMeaney, Huston, Redknapp join cast of Hot Potato
Louise Redknapp will star opposite Ray Winstone in Tim Lewiston’s British comedy caper Hot Potato
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NewsUK domestic production budgets declining, inward investment still strong
UK Film Council research for the first nine months of 2010 reveals a drop in the number of features produced in the UK and a year-on-year decrease in overall UK spend.
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Production designer Peter M. Jamison dies
US production designer Peter M. Jamison has died aged 66, of heart disease.
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NewsWarner Bros to decide on Hobbit location
Uncertainty continues to hover over the saga of The Hobbit despite a move by SAG to defuse a tense situation that has been mounting between the unions and the film’s producers.
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NewsFilm Bridge to tempt AFM buyers with Lives Of The Saints ensemble
Meg Ryan, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, John Lithgow, Joe Anderson and Kat Dennings will star in BCDF Pictures’ ensemble drama Lives Of The Saints.
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NewsKorea’s Lotte plans expansion into Russian exhibition market
South Korea’s Lotte Cinema is planning to invest up to $30m in construction of six cinemas, designed for 30 digital cinema screens, in Russia’sFar East region by 2013.
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NewsBusy Magnet acquires US rights to Black Death
Magnet Releasing has acquired US rights from HanWay Films to Christopher Smith’s medieval thriller Black Death starring Sean Bean.
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NewsUS-China summit set for Los Angeles on eve of AFM
A special Chinese delegation will explore opportunities with Hollywood professionals at a US-China Film Summit on November 2 in Los Angeles, one day before the AFM kicks off across town in Santa Monica.
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NewsBFI budget to be cut by 15% over four years
The British Film Institute’s budget is to be cut by 15% over four years, it was announced today (Oct 20) as part of the UK Government’s Spending Review.
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NewsSecond Ventana Sur market to welcome 300 buyers and sellers
The second edition of Ventana Sur is being planned for Dec 3-6 in Buenos Aires.
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NewsWhen We Live takes Ghent prize
Feo Aladag’s When We Leave (Die Fremde), has scooped the best film award at the 37th Ghent Film Festival, which runs Oct 12-23.
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NewsJeremy Thomas at PFM Keynote: UK should re-enter Eurimages
Oscar-winner Thomas also says producers should get enhanced recoupment positions so they aren’t paupers; he says festival heads are more crucial contacts than studio heads.
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NewsSpain’s Alta Films pick up Canada’s Incendies
Alta Films has taken Spanish theatrical rights to Denis Villeneuve’s multi-award winning drama Incendies, which has been selected as Canada’s entrant for the foreign-language Oscar.
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NewsGuido Coen, producer and former Twickenham Studios head, dies at age 95
Italy-born Coen came to England in 1929.
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NewsAFM Finance Conference expands to two days
Speakers will include Harvey Weinstein, Stewart Till, Graham Taylor.