All Production articles – Page 526
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Universal, Focus set Fifty Shades screenwriter
Kelly Marcel will adapt E L James’ erotic bestseller Fifty Shades Of Grey.
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      NewsMatch Factory strikes co-production deal in Greece
Match Factory head Michael Weber is to be co-producer and world sales agent on Greek auteur Yannis Economides’ as-yet-untitled next feature, which is set to start shooting early next year.
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      NewsWasteland producers eye new projects
The producers behind Rowan Athale’s acclaimed heist thriller Wasteland (sold by Bankside in Toronto to Momentum for the UK and a host of other distributors) have revealed details of their future projects.
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      NewsDistribution Workshop drives round Bends
Distribution Workshop is co-financing and has picked up international rights to Flora Lau’s Bends, starring Carina Lau and Chen Kun.
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      NewsDavid Mackenzie, Jack O’Connell Starred Up with Sigma, Independent
EXCLUSIVE: Prison-based father-son drama from Sigma Films has development backing from Film4, Creative Scotland.
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Lotte, Happinet to co-produce Kim Sung-soo's Nameless
Korea’s Lotte Entertainment has announced a Korea-Japan co-production titled Nameless, based on award-winning Japanese sci-fi mystery novel Genome Hazard, written by Tsukasaki Shiro and published by Shogakukan Inc.
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      NewsBreillat shooting adaptation of her novel Abus De Faiblesse
Catherine Breillat is now shooting her fourteenth feature, Abus De Faiblesse.
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      NewsChristian Bale reunites with David O Russell on untitled project
The Oscar winning star of The Fighter will join Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams on the ensemble drama.
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      NewsMarjane Satrapi plans to shoot The Voices in Babelsberg starting in April
Paranormal Activity’s Michael Perry wrote the script.
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      NewsStillking Films board Haas Silver Levene Film Studios' $120m slate
London-based film group’s seven-film slate will shoot in Czech Republic over the next two years and are all set from the 1920s through to World War Two.
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      NewsSpain’s Telecinco Cinema reveals 10 new projects
New films by Monzón, Urbizu, Colomo and Tadeo Jones sequel on Telecinco Cinema slate
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      NewsLassie heads to Canada in new feature-length film
EXCLUSIVE: Charles Sturridge writing Lassie Leaves Home.
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      NewsShooting begins on Joanna Hogg's third feature
Hogg’s as-yet-untitled “London Project” will shoot for six weeks in and around west London.
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      NewsProducers set Nov 19 Canada shoot for Reasonable Doubt
Samuel Jackson and Dominic Cooper will star in the thriller, formerly known as The Good Samaritan. Voltage Pictures represents international rights.
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      NewsBrenton Thwaites signs on to Intrepid Pictures’ Oculus
The Australian actor [pictured] has been cast as the male lead alongside Karen Gillan, with Rory Cochrane also in the cast. Film District acquired US rights on the eve of Cannes and Focus Features International handles sales for the rest of the world.
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      NewsDemian Bichir, Emilia Clarke join RPC’s Dom Hemingway
Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke, Jumayn Hunter and Madalina Ghenea join Jude Law and Richard E. Grant in Richard Shepard’s black comedy.
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      NewsGary Barber becomes sole MGM chairman and CEO
Roger Birnbaum announced on Wednesday (Oct 3) that he is stepping down from the joint leadership role at the studio to focus on producing.
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Focus Features unveils Africa First filmmakers
For the fifth consecutive year five directors have been selected for the initiative targeted at emerging filmmakers of African nationality and residence. Each will receive $10,000.
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      NewsParties drop Wolf Of Wall Street lawsuits
Red Granite Pictures and Alexandra Milchan have settled their legal dispute over the upcoming memoir adaptation and dismissed their respective lawsuits against each other.
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Production underway in Lake Tahoe on Last Weekend
Patricia Clarkson stars in the feature directorial debut from Tom Dolby and Tom Williams.
 








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