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NewsIndie generation plans to make Alexandria great
Cairo may be the traditional hub for the cinema industry in Egypt but an independent scene is also growing in the country’s second city of Alexandria.
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NewsAlfons joins Mostafa’s A To B
EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian comedian Shadi Alfons will join Saudi stand-up comic Fahad Albutairi in the cast of Emirati filmmaker Ali F Mostafa’s road film A To B, which starts shooting in February.
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NewsMarking doc to probe Tamim murder
EXCLUSIVE: UK filmmaker Havana Marking is developing a new documentary about the brutal murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim in Dubai in 2008.
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NewsCoote, Tan launch Dragonslate
Former Village Roadshow Pictures CEO Greg Coote and Malaysian producer Leon Tan have launched DragonSlate Media.
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NewsC Plus casts The Confines
Production has wrapped in New York on C Plus Pictures’ psychological thriller starring Louisa Krause, Jason Patric and Mark Margolis. Arclight handles international sales.
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Selling Isobel casts up
Matthew Marsden and Alyson Stoner have joined the thriller Selling Isobel.
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NewsNew Century plans Décor with Abdalla
EXCLUSIVE: Cairo-based New Century Production is putting together an ambitious six-picture slate featuring some of Egypt’s leading veteran and independent filmmakers, including the next project from Rags And Tatters director Ahmad Abdalla.
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NewsDabis to make Arabic debut with Mother-in-Law
EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian American filmmaker Cherien Dabis is set to adapt Suad Amiry’s Sharon And My Mother-in-Law, a humorous account of life in Ramallah during the Second Intifada. It will be her first feature set in the West Bank and in Arabic.
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NewsGreenlight Films planning genre trio
EXCLUSIVE: Emirati director-actor Abdullah Aljunaibi’s Greenlight Films is planning a slate of three genre films, kicking off with action thriller Run, which is scheduled to start shooting in March, 2014.
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Parkes/MacDonald options Denial
Parkes/MacDonald Productions has acquired feature film and television rights to League Of Denial: The NFL, Concussions And The Battle For Truth.
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Latido picks up Seed
Latido Films has acquired international rights at Ventana Sur to Colombian director Felipe Cano Ibañez’s upcoming debut La Semila Del Silencio (The Seed Of Silence).
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NewsXYZ acquires The Dead Lands
XYZ Films has picked up world rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to the upcoming New Zealand-set action thriller featuring traditional Maori hand-to-hand combat.
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NewsWolfe boards Mankind's Anna
George C Wolfe has come on to direct Mankind Entertainment’s adaptation of playwright Nilo Cruz’s Broadway hit Anna In The Tropics.
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NewsCreativity Capital cash-flows croc horror
London investment firm Creativity Capital has made its first production commitment since teaming with venture capital fund SMI, cash-flowing the tax credit on The Hatching.
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NewsJoan Collins, Pauline Collins to lead comedy road-movie
EXCLUSIVE: Franco Nero, lyricist Tim Rice, designer Eve Stewart also attached to Roger Goldby project.
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NewsFilmi financing Martyr, Dolphins
Dubai-based film funding initiative Filmi is financing Emirati animated feature Martyr Of The Flag and Waleed Al Shehhi’s IWC Filmmaker Award winner Dolphins.
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NewsAARC teases Lakhdar-Hamina’s Crepuscule
Algerian cultural agency AARC is showing first images of Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina’s Crépuscule des Ombres at the Dubai Film Market.
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NewsDayDream developing docs slate
Mohamed Samir’s DayDream Art Production is developing a slate of documentaries and short films to follow its debut feature, Mohamed Khan’s Factory Girl, which premiered at DIFF last night.
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NewsBushra, Badreya headline trafficking drama
EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian star Bushra has signed up to play opposite compatriot actor Sayed Badreya in English-language thriller Bride Of The Nile, about the trafficking of young girls in the region, which Badreya will also direct.
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NewsEgypt’s Zad set to let Cat out of the bag
EXCLUSIVE: Egypt’s burgeoning independent film scene will be the subject of a new documentary being produced by Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication.