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NewsQuebec producer Roger Frappier to remake his own The Grand Seduction in English
Ken Scott to direct the $11m project.
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NewsCharlotte Rampling to curate Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award
She aims to award a young film-maker from the Arab world.
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NewsSuarez to chase Tequila with English-language thriller
Sergio Sanchez Suarez will follow up his debut feature — the $4.5m Mexican historical melodrama Tequila — with a thriller called The Guardian.
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News50 Cent in talks to start production company with Antoine Fuqua
Curtis Jackson also talks about slate of 10 films being made by his Cheetah Vision banner.
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NewsWorld War Z to shoot in Glasgow in late August
Marc Forster’s Brad Pitt thriller will shoot in locations including George Square [pictured].
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EU commissioner: we won't cut MEDIA Programme
The funding source’s budget is to be kept at its current level and could possibly be increased in the European Union’s budget period for 2014-2010, EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski told a delegation of filmmakers in Warsaw on Friday [17].
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NewsChina Film Group teams with Sohu and Nokia on film production
Top Chinese actors involved include Huang Bo [pictured].
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NewsUK industry ponders state of film nation at Screen's Edinburgh conference
Hot topics included cinematic TV, Britain and Hollywood, and the importance of co-productions.
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NewsThe Flying Guillotine gets new director and start date
The Flying Guillotine, a film produced by Peter Ho-sun Chan and handled by his We Distribution, has changed director from Teddy Chen (Bodyguards and Assassin) to Andrew Lau Wai-keung (Infernal Affairs).
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NewsKaasan Mom’s Life wins Shanghai’s Asian New Talent Award
Syoutarou Kobayasi’s Japanese film tells the story of a cartoonist’s wife; other winners include Return Ticket and Birth Right
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NewsHolliday Grainger cast in Mike Newell’s Great Expectations
Number 9 Films production also stars Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter; starts shooting in the UK on October 10
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NewsJapan launches co-production subsidy scheme
Japan’s first subsidy aimed at boosting foreign co-productions is worth up to $625,000 to overseas projects with Japanese financial and creative involvement
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
France’s Holly Motors, Italy’s Il Rosso E Il Blu and German production Was Weg Is, Is Weg (What’s Gone Is Gone) are among the new projects making it onto Screenbase this week
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NewsBill Duke joins Freaky Deaky for director Charles Matthau
The Elmore Leonard crime caper also stars Sienna Miller, William H Macy, Brendan Fraser and Matt Dillon. Duke will play the role of homicide detective Wendell Robinson.
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FeaturesTaking a risk on doc success
The profile of feature documentaries is higher than ever. But with public funding drying up and broadcasters under commercial pressure, financing them has never been so challenging
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NewsEuropean Commissioner proposes guarantee fund for cultural and creative industries
Androulla Vassiliou wants to work with the European Investment Bank to provide guarantees to banks for loans to cultural and creative industries
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Comment2011: A Golden Awards Season
Who said prestige film-making was dead in Hollywood? After The King’s Speech and Black Swan, studios are racing back into the business of serious stories and ambitious talent. Thank heavens.
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NewsDebra Hayward to launch Monumental Pictures
Working Title’s President of UK Production will officially step down in September; new outfit will have first-look deal with the company
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NewsScreen Directors Guild of Ireland, Irish Film Institute launch Directors in Dialogue
Participants include director Costa Gavras
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NewsTarsem commences shoot on Relativity’s Snow White
FilmNation handled international sales on the film in Cannes, where it was one of a handful of must-have $100m projects in a resurgent marketplace.