All Production articles – Page 527
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Sundance Institute announces six projects for New Frontier Story Lab
The session will take place from Oct 21-16 at the Sundance Resort in Utah and will support projects that “use technology to deepen story and engage audiences.”
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Academy announces 2012 Nicholl Fellowship finallists
Nine individual screenwriters and one writing team have been selected for the competition. The Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee will now read and judge the screenplays and may award up to five of the $35,000 fellowships.
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Amazon Studios options horror novel Seed
Amazon’s original content arm has added Ania Ahlborn’s gothic tale to its development slate.
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      FeaturesLooper: how an international independent came together
Screen’s US editor Jeremy Kay talks to director Rian Johnson, his producer Ram Bergman and producer/financier Jim Stern about how they packaged the film and how China’s DMG came on board.
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      NewsBedlam adds Olwyn Silvester, Stella Nwimo
Bedlam Productions appoints Olwyn Silvester as director of production, Stella Nwimo to production and development role.
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      NewsFinland heats up international appeal with first Finnish Film Affair
Works in progress presented to international buyers and sellers include new films from Honkasalo and Louhimies, plus the animated family sequel Niko 2.
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      NewsHere And There director Lungulov starts work on Monument
Originally titled Monument To Michael Jackson, the black comedy will shoot for six weeks on location in Serbia and Macedonia.
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DCMS opens tax relief consultation for high-end TV drama
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is nailing down the criteria used to decide which programmes are eligible for the proposed drama tax relief for high-end TV.
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      NewsBFI Future Plan to invest £500m over next five years
Three areas of concentration are education and audiences, filmmaking and film heritage; Film Fund will rise to £24m annually by 2017.
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      NewsEuropaCorp, Relativity sign Kevin Costner for McG thriller
The untitled project centres on a dying secret serviceman who undertakes a volatile drug trial that could extend his life and allow him to reconnect with his estranged family in exchange for one final mission.
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Unified Pictures, Savage Bunny, Bron Studios get Trust Me
William H Macy, Felicity Huffman, Sam Rockwell and Amanda Peet to star in dark comedy alongside writer-director Clark Gregg. UTA Independent Film Group represents domestic rights and Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International is handling foreign sales.
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      NewsJake Gyllenhaal joins Alcon Entertainment’s Prisoners
Hot on the heels of the promising box office debut of End Of Watch, the actor is set to reunite with his An Enemy director Denis Villeneuve.
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      NewsBullhead's Roskam talks Buda Bridge, The Tiger, The Faithful
The Belgian director discusses forthcoming projects at Binger-Screen interview in Utrecht.
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      NewsShooting begins on John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary
McDonagh’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Guard stars Brendan Gleeson [pictured], Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly and Aidan Gillen, among others.
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      NewsCargo to commence sales at AFM on The Late Bloomer
Elijah Wood to star in comedy for Dignity Film Finance (DFF).
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      NewsDavid Thewlis, Tilda Swinton join The Zero Theorem
Lucas Hedges and Melanie Thierry are also on board Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi project. Voltage Pictures handles worldwide sales.
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Martin Radich, Alex Taylor, Jonathan Entwistle, Rachel Tunnard among directors selected for iFeatures2
Creative England, BFI Film Fund and BBC Films have selected eight projects for the full development stage of iFeatures2.
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Entertainment And Media In Asia to host US-China Film Summit
The Asia Society Southern California’s Entertainment And Media In Asia (EMASIA) will present the event in Los Angeles on Oct 30.
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Elijah Wood launches production company The Woodshed
The actor-producer teams up with Daniel Noah and Josh C Waller for a stable of projects that will explore the horror genre and include Curse The Darkness.
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      NewsWinner of BFI-Nintendo competition revealed
Senna director Asif Kapadia [pictured] to mentor winner of competition.
 








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