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Stealth plans TV shows based on Dead Man Running, Jack Falls
London and LA-based Stealth Media Group heads to MIPCOM with plans to adapt some of its independent films into TV series.
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Piers Hampton joins Prime Focus in London
Prime Focus has appointed Piers Hampton as executive producer, working in the Broadcast VFX and post-production business in the company’s London office.
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NewsNon Stop finds I’m Still Here in Toronto deal
NonStop Entertainment has taken Scandinavian and Baltic rights to Casey Affleck’s Joaquin Phoenix documentary I’mStillHere from Magnolia Pictures.
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Oslo's Films From The South festival to honour World Cinema Foundation
The 20th Films From The South Festival will host a special event on Oct 10 in Oslo to honour The World Cinema Foundation.
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Shine Pictures launches £25,000 screenplay competition
Shine Pictures has started a new UK screenwriting competition that will award the winner a £25,000 feature film development deal.
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Bonham Carter, Garfield among Hollywood Film Festival honorees
Helena Bonham Carter and Sam Rockwell will receive the 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s supporting actress and actor awards at a gala in Beverly Hills on October 25.
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NewsNational Geographic takes US rights to The First Grader
National Geographic Entertainment (NGE) has acquired US theatrical rights to Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader following its recent world premiere in Toronto.
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Taipei Golden Horse fest unveils project market line-up
Filmmakers include Wang Tung, Arvin Chen, Yu-hang Ho and Kong Lingchen.
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Finland selects Steam Of Life as foreign Oscar submission
It is the first time the country has selected a documentary as its foreign Oscar contender
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Slovakia selects The Border as Oscar submission
Jaro Vajtek’s documentary has been chosen as Slovakia’s foreign oscar selection.
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SGR and IFCIC likely to share EC guarantee fund
Spain’s mutual guarantee funding body Audiovisual SGR and France’s lending institute IFCIC are expected to split 50-50 the new European Commission (EC) film fund worth $10.5m (€8m), which guarantees bank loans to producers.
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NewsIndia’s Sahara joins bidding for MGM
India’s Sahara India Pariwar Group is believed to be making a power play for MGM and has offered “north of $2bn” for the beleaguered studio, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
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NewsActress Molly Parker set for directorial debut
The Canadian actress’s first feature, The Ballad Of Maura MacKenzie, will shoot in Newfoundland and Toronto late summer 2011.
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NewsBelgium picks Illegal as foreign Oscar contender
Oliver Masset-Depasse’s film premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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NewsSoda Pictures takes Norwegian Wood
The UK distributor has also confirmed a number of other recent acquisitions.
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NewsEvil stays top overseas with $39m weekend haul
Resident Evil: Afterlife has become the biggest film in the horror franchise overseas as it plundered a further $38.7m to boost the tally to $103.2m
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NewsKing's Speech, Incendies big winners as Toronto ends
The curtain closed on TIFF’s 35th edition with eight awards and $60,000 in prizes handed out during an awards brunch on Sunday [19].
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NewsAffleck's The Town opens top in North America on $24m
Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures’ crime drama The Town directed by and starring Ben Affleck opened top on an estimated $23.8m.
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NewsBeginners leads final rush of deals at Toronto
As a remarkably productive Toronto wound down [19] Focus Features closed a deal for worldwide rights excluding several territories to Mike Mills’ drama Beginners.
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IFCO bans DVD re-release of I Spit On Your Grave
The Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) has banned the DVD re-release of controversial 1978 horror I Spit On Your Grave.The IFCO refused to grant a supply certificate to the film on the grounds that it “depicts acts of gross violence and cruelty towards humans”, and contravenes of Ireland’s Video Recordings ...