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Johnny Depp in talks to star in Alcon’s Transcendence
Wally Pfister’s feature directorial debut is set to commence shooting early next year and will go through the company’s output deal with Warner Bros.
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FilmNation heads to AFM with Hold On To Me
Carey Mulligan and Robert Pattinson will star in James Marsh’s thriller in the vein of To Die For. CAA represents US rights.
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Breakthrough Entertainment to show Cas & Dylan footage at AFM
Jason Priestley makes his feature directorial debut on the caper to star Richard Dreyfuss and Tatiana Maslany.
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Academy unveils five Nicholl Fellows for screenwriting
Each writer will receive a $35,000 prize, the first instalment of which will be distributed at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov 8.
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Lionsgate targets Globes for Stand Up Guys
The Sidney Kimmel and Lakeshore Entertainment comedy will screen for one week in New York at Lincoln Center and in Los Angeles at Arclight Hollywood and The Landmark starting on Dec 14.
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Film Independent unveils 12th Producing Lab participants
The intensive five-week course offers producers support and advice on their feature projects.
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Miami Fest to stage 29-day retrospective countdown
Organisers of next year’s 30th anniversary of the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will count down with a 29-day retrospective commencing on Jan 26 2013 with a screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s Dark Habits (Entre Tinieblas).
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Panorama to commence sales at AFM on The Voices
EXCLUSIVE: Marjane Satrapi will direct Ryan Reynolds in the psychological thriller for producers Mandalay Vision and Vertigo Entertainment. Panorama sales chief Kim Fox will introduce the project in Santa Monica next week.
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Marc Evans to direct Birthright
Israeli-Palestinian comedy was presented at last week’s Pixel Pitch at PttP’s Cross-Media Forum.
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Protagonist hits AFM with Yann Demange’s '71, Monsters sequel
EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has pre-bought UK rights to ‘71; Protagonist’s slate also includes Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant.
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New projects from Riklis, Norgaard, Farhadi to receive Eurimages support
Eurimages grants €5.4m of support to 18 European co-productions.
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Jaws dropped at budget of Bali opening night film
Indonesian producer Lavesh M Samtani [pictured] reveals budget of Jakarti Hati as it opened Balinale Film Festival.
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TIDE Experiment plans four “day-and-date” releases in 2013
France’s cinema industry guild L’ARP has joined forces with European sales agents Fandango, Goldcrest, Urban Distribution and WIDE and more than 30 members of Europa Distribution.
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Rules of attraction
China has been emerging as an exciting international partner. But with its government putting co-productions under scrutiny, could that be about to change? Liz Shackleton reports
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Straughan: 'I know that I don’t know anything'
BAFTA-winning screenwriter [pictured] spoke at the BFI Southbank last night as part of the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriter Lecture Series.
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Queen visits BFI; Royal Collection to be digitised
The Queen, alongside an invited audience of members from the British film industry, watched a screening of rare works from the BFI National Archive, which has looked after the Royal Collection since the late 1960s.
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Growing up fast
Local films are losing ground to Hollywood imports at the Chinese box office. Liz Shackleton explores how China’s production sector, still in a relatively early stage of development, is approaching the marketplace
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A change of image
As a growing part of the global visual-effects industry, China offers more than low costs and outsourcing. Liz Shackleton reports