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NewsBekmambetov options UK action script
EXCLUSIVE: UK writer-director Faisal A Qureshi wins $10,000 pitching prize at third Astana International Action Film Festival in Kazakhstan.
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NewsSPWA gets into Agatha Christie business with Crooked House
Neil LaBute will direct from a screenplay he co-authored with Julian Fellowes (pictured) and Tim Rose Price. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired all North America and select territories from Ealing Metro International.
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NewsPhilip Seymour Hoffman cast in Catching Fire
The Oscar winner will play Plutarch Heavensbee, the enigmatic Head Gamemaker in the remaining episodes of Lionsgate’s dystopian young adult franchise The Hunger Games.
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NewsMichael De Luca, Dana Brunetti to produce Fifty Shades Of Grey
Rights holders Universal Pictures and Focus Features made the announcement n Monday (9).
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NewsLacote, Lapid win pitching awards in Jerusalem
Phillipe Lacote and Nadav Lapid win $80,000 between them at Jerusalem Film Festival Lab; Ehud Bleiberg to produce Lacote’s Run.
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NewsCast including Jennifer Morrison starts shoot for Event 15 in Los Angeles
Matthew Thompson is directing for Ipso Facto Films.
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NewsConstantin launches new label for low-budget productions and creative filmmakers
Alpenrot to work on films with budgets of €1m or under.
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NewsMockert to produce Anthony Minghella's brother's directorial debut
Veteran German producer Rainer Mockert is returning to feature production with Dominic Minghella’s directorial debut Doria and Austrian Walter Bannert’s drama Kolyma set in the postwar Soviet Union.
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NewsIFTA announces schedule for five-day AFM Conference
Topics for the second annual conference include finance, pitches, marketing, VoD and micro-budget. The AFM is set to take place in Santa Monica from Oct 31-Nov 7.
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NewsBVA report: video still "the single biggest revenue source" for UK film and TV production
BVA report indicates that UK consumers spent £2.3bn on video last year, more than that spent on cinema and music combined; online spend growing but still only a fraction of total spend, which is declining.
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NewsThierry Potok has big plans for Germany's Hürth studios
Former Studio Babelsberg chief Thierry Potok returns to managing a German studio, set sights on bigger MMC studios and von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.
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NewsDaniel Sánchez Arévalo plans new comedy, The Big Spanish Family
Shoot will begin next August 20, Atipica and Mod will produce.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
New films on Screenbase include Amour Et Turbulences starring Ludivine Sagnier as well as Francois Ozon’s latest production Jeune Et Jolie.
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NewsSPT poised to snap up £40m Left Bank
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is on the brink of acquiring Wallander producer Left Bank Pictures in a deal thought to be worth in excess of £40m.
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NewsPsykou's Antonis wins Karlovy Vary Works In Progress award
Karlovy Vary’s Works In Progress jury has given a new €10,000 prize to the most promising project, Elina Psykou’s The Eternal Return of Antonis P.
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Responses published to EC Consultation on State Aid for film
Producers and film agencies have rejected the idea that there is “a subsidy race” going on across Europe.
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NewsFrench CDP takes The Fourth Direction at Paris Project
Indian film one of 26 projects presented at Paris co-production market aimed at connecting international filmmakers with French professionals.
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Revenue from shoots in Thailand surpasses 2011 total
The Thailand Film Office (TFO) has reported that revenue from all foreign productions shooting in Thailand has reached $46.5m in the first five months of 2012, which is a 17.5% increase over revenues for the whole of last year
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NewsPrincess Diana biopic Caught In Flight renamed Diana
Shooting has begun on Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Princess Diana biopic, starring Naomi Watts.
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NewsKevin McKidd, Ashley Jensen attached to star in Ward's Indian Summer
Michael Hamlyn’s Specific Films (the outfit behind Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert) is planning to begin production early next year on its new $4 million feature Indian Summer.