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MDA unveils Cannes slate of 25 Singapore productions
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) will be promoting a slate of 25 new locally-produced films at the upcoming Cannes market, a 25% increase on last year’s slate, highlighting the growing production volume of the city state.
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FeaturesGoldcrest’s Adam Kulick and Penny Wolf
Goldcrest Capital’s Adam Kulick talks about the company’s success with US slate deals and its new focus on backing UK indies; new head of sales Penny Wolf talks about why producers can benefit from Goldcrest’s one-stop shop.
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NewsQuentin Tarantino to lead 2010 Venice jury
Marco Mueller says Tarantino is “perhaps the only American auteur to be adored worldwide like a rock star.”
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ContentFilm barks for Dog Squad 3D
Principal photography is due to start in late summer 2010 in Canada.
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WIDE takes on Black Diamond
Pascale Lamche’s French-Belgium production is about young African footballers.
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Stockholm festival to give Visionary Award to Gus Van Sant
He will attend the November festival to receive the award, and he’ll also meet with audiences and host a masterclass.
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NewsNew UK distributor launches to concentrate on Italian films
Chris Johnson’s VITA strikes a multi-film deal with Fandango.
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Skillset launches third Guiding Lights mentoring programme
Alison Thompson, president of international sales and distribution at Focus Features, chairs the steering committee this year, taking over from Working Title’s Tim Bevan.
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FeaturesWeekly International Box Office - April 30-May 2
ScreenDaily brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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BFI searching for architect for new film centre
The BFI has launched a search for an architect to design its new $271m (£166m) film centre on London’s South Bank.Architects are being invited to submit “expressions of interest”, which the BFI will use to create an initial long list. The potential designers will then be interviewed and a short ...
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Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg backs new projects by Cronenberg, Wright, Gansel and von Garnier
Latest funding round backs 20 projects backed with over $7.4m (€ 5.8m).
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DMK plans June shoot for UK feature The Veteran
The story is about a young soldier who returns from Afghanistan and becomes involved with surveillance of suspected terrorists in the UK.
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Ascent names Walters, Denna to SVP posts
Ascent Media has appointed David Walters to senior vice president of global technical operations and infrastructure and Eric Denna to senior vice president of global process design.
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European box office reached new high in 2009
Gross box office in the EU member states reached a record high of $7.97bn (Euro6.27bn) in 2009, according to provisional data published today by European Audiovisual Observatory.
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Wild Bunch sees Enchantment from Microcosmos team
Wild Bunch has added The Field Of Enchantment, blending nature documentry and fiction love story, to its Cannes lineup.
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Fifth Unifrance Rendez-vous planned for London in June
The six films in this fifth edition will receive special gala screenings open to the public, ahead of their release by UK distributors.
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FeaturesThe foreign fallout
A decade after Crouching Tiger rewrote the rules for foreign-language films in the US, the situation is looking more difficult than ever for sellers and producers trying to infiltrate the domestic market. Anthony D’Alessandro takes the temperature in the US foreign-language distribution arena
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NewsReliance Big acquires majority stake in IM Global
The Indian giant has confirmed it has acquired an undisclosed majority shareholding of Stuart Ford’s LA and London-based sales and financing powerhouse heading into Cannes.