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Bona Film Group boosts credit facility to $80m
China’s Bona Film Group has increased its revolving credit facility with Bank of Beijing from $15.8m (RMB100m) to $79m (RMB500m), which it will use over the next two years for content production.
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Pictures Dept picks up Aoyama project
Japanese production and sales outfit Pictures Dept has picked up worldwide rights to Shinji Aoyama’s upcoming adaptation of Shinya Tanaka’s award-winning novel Dog Eat Dog (Tomogui).
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NewsAbu Dhabi launches 30% production rebate
EXCLUSIVE: Abu Dhabi’s twofour54 and the Abu Dhabi Film Commission are launching a production rebate from September 1, marking the first major incentive scheme in the Middle East.
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Lionsgate, Nordisk Film unveil output deal
The multiyear Scandinavian output deal extends Nordisk’s existing output deal with Summit to encompass the entire Lionsgate slate.
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Exclusive Media commences Cannes talks on Still Of Night
Michelle Monaghan will star for Jonathan Mostow in the thriller, which Exclusive Media has added to its sales slate.
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NewsDuncan Jones shoots for K5’s Ian Fleming film
Moon and Source Code director Duncan Jones will direct a new film about James Bond author Ian Fleming.
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NewsThe Avengers reaches $400m at North American box office
Marvel Studios’ superhero mash-up has crossed the threshold in a record 14 days after adding $6.2m on Thursday to reach $402m. It is now Disney’s biggest worldwide release of all time and the industry’s sixth biggest in history.
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NewsMarsan, Froggatt liven up with Pasolini's Still Life
Eddie Marsan [pictured] and Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey’s Anna) will star in Still Life, which starts shooting tomorrow in London and Southeast England.
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NewsMuyl heads to China for Butterfly remake
French director Philippe Muyl is heading to China for a Mandarin-language feature inspired by his 2002 film The Butterfly (Le Papillon), which was a huge hit with Chinese audiences
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UPI Australia, Screen Corporation seal first-look deal
Universal Pictures International Australia has signed a first-look distribution deal with James M Vernon’s Screen Corporation for Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsBuska crowned by Kaurismaki
EXCLUSIVE: Rising Swedish actress Malin Buska has been crowned as the lead in Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki’s Kristina of Sweden, stepping into the shoes of Swedish screen legend Greta Garbo, who played the part in US director Ruben Mamoulian’s 1933 Queen Christina.
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NewsMatthias Schoenaerts cops to Wasteland
Rust And Bone actor Matthias Schoenaerts is confirmed to star as a tormented Brussels cop in Wasteland, the new feature from young Flemish director Pieter Van Hees.
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NewsDupieux and Bernard unveil footage from Wrong Cops
Quentin Dupieux and producer Gregory Bernard of Réalitism Films are in Cannes drumming up finance for the director’s third film Wrong Cops starring Marilyn Manson and Marc Burnham.
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Independent Distribution picks up Life Just Is
EXCLUSIVE: writer-director Alex Barrett’s drama Life Just Is stars Screen International Star of Tomorrow Jack Gordon.
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Atlas bears Stephen King thriller A Good Marriage
EXCLUSIVE: Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation A Good Marriage to its Cannes slate.
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Film4 launches short film competition
Film 4 is launching Scene Stealers, a creative talent search under its innovation banner Film4.0.