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All Production articles – Page 508
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NewsWild Bunch adds Miss Julie
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch has picked up international sales on Liv Ullmann’s upcoming $5m battle-of-the-sexes drama Miss Julie starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton.
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NewsGaga, Wild Bunch adopt Kore-eda's Father
EXCLUSIVE: Japan’s Gaga Corporation and Wild Bunch are jointly handling sales on Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father, Like Son, marking the second time they’ve collaborated on one of the director’s films.
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NewsBob Berney's Picturehouse, WestEnd board The Great Gilly Hopkins
EXCLUSIVE: Bridge to Terabithia writers reunite on young-adult novel; Kathy Bates and Danny Glover among cast; Stephen Herek to direct.
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Shochiku unwraps Kinoshita biopic
Japanese studio Shochiku is launching a biopic of Keisuke Kinoshita, written and directed by Crayon Shin-chan director Keiichi Hara, at EFM.
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NewsGaumont boards Larrieu Bros noir
EXCLUSIVE: Picture starring Mathieu Amalric, Maïwenn, Sara Forestier, Denis Podalydes and Karine Viard due to start shooting on Feb 12 in Alps.
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NewsUlrich Seidl talks up horror title
EXCLUSIVE: Seidl producing his wife’s horror film Ich seh/Ich seh.
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NewsMads Mikkelsen saddles up for Zentropa Western
EXCLUSIVE: Zentropa is again saddling up with Mads Mikkelsen. The Danish powerhouse production company is hatching its first Western, which sales company TrustNordisk is launching at the EFM.
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NewsAmour Fou readies Hausner shoot
Shooting starts Monday (Feb 11) in Luxembourg on Jessica Hausner’s new feature film Amour Fou, which will be the first project to go into production for the Amour Fou label.
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NewsKon-Tiki star cast in Viking saga
Oscar-nominated Norwegian drama Kon-Tiki’s star Tobias Santelmann has been cast as the lead in Elite Film Produktion’s English-language historical action adventure Northmen - A Viking Saga.
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NewsKristen Stewart slips into The Big Shoe
Jim Sturgess is also attached to Steve Shainberg’s feature, being sold by HanWay at EFM.
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NewsLaika, Focus unveil third partnership on Boxtrolls
Laika has begun production on its third feature The Boxtrolls. Focus Features holds worldwide rights while Universal Pictures International will distribute outside North America and eOne will release in Canada.
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NewsFocus, Random House snap up films rights to Longbourn
Random House Studio and Focus Features have moved on film rights to Longbourn, a revisionist take on Pride And Prejudice that tells Jane Austen’s story from the point of view of the Bennet family estate servants.
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NewsFilming begins on Alan Partridge
Principal photography has begun on The Alan Partridge Movie (working title).
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NewsIM Global's Anthem unveils Tom Hardy thriller Locke
IM Global’s specialty label will fully finance the Tom Hardy star vehicle and is introducing to buyers at EFM. Paul Webster, Joe Wright and Guy Heeley’s Shoebox Films are producing and Steven Knight will direct from his original screenplay.
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NewsParticipant PanAmerica to fund LatAm features
Participant Media has launched a development and co-financing initiative with Mexico’s Canana, Chile’s Fabula and Colombia’s Dynamo.
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NewsExclusive Media confirm Charlize Theron Dark Places project
The late tumble of US sale product continued as Exclusive Media said it would produce and finance the Gillian Flynn adaptation alongside Theron’s Denver And Delilah Productions, Stephane Marsil’s Hugo Productions and Mandalay Vision.
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NewsSheridan Smith dances with Debbie Isitt comedy
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand UK actress to star in belly dancing comedy set to shoot in June; producers are Marc Samuelson and Nick Jones; Bankside sells.
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NewsFiennes, Mikkelsen close in on Our Kind of Traitor
EXCLUSIVE: Schedules permitting, Ralph Fiennes and Mads Mikkelsen will join $35m-budgeted John Le Carre thriller due to shoot this summer; Smiley’s People being readied for 2014.
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NewsWestEnd rises to Midnight Sun
EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Kruger and Emile Hirsch to star in 1940s drama due to shoot this summer.
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NewsRupert Friend, Ben Mendelsohn locked into prison drama
EXCLUSIVE: Actors join David Mackenzie’s prison drama starring Jack O’Connell; shoot begins Feb 11.