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NewsIrvine Welsh adaptation Filth starts shoot with cast led by James McAvoy
Steel Mill Pictures and Logie Pictures will start principal photography Monday on Jon S Baird’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Filth.
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NewsGreek box office down 7% in 2011; distributors try new measures during financial crisis
Greek acquisitions at EFM could be impacted by financial woes in the country.
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NewsUrban Distribution picks up Berlin Panorama entry The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
French sales agent picks up Teona Strugar Mitevska’s drama starring Victoria Abril.
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FeaturesMichelle Williams
The actress tells Jeremy Kay how she avoided Marilyn Monroe’s “wiggles and winks” to focus on the character at the heart of the blonde bombshell in My Week With Marilyn.
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FeaturesGrégory Bernard, producer of Wrong
Grégory Bernard, the Paris-based producer of Quentin Dupieux’s Sundance contender Wrong, tells Screen about their new brand of English-language, French-style cinema.
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Comedy Cool Water underway in Amman
Ali Samadi Ahadi directs the black-comedy set against the Mideast conflict.
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NewsContent Film, Preferred Content strike genre deal
The partners will produce a slate of six “elevated” genre, formalising an existing sales relationship on current Sundance entry The Pact and Content’s long-running collaboration with producer and Preferred Content partner Ross Dinerstein.
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NewsFriedman, Wachsberger to lead Lionsgate motion picture group
The contracts have been signed and Summit chiefs Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger have been named co-chairs of Lionsgate Motion Pictures Group in the wake of last week’s merger.
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NewsLionsgate, Wrekin Hill, Row 1 swim with Dark Tide
Lionsgate and Wrekin Hill in association with Row 1 Productions have acquired US rights to the Halle Berry shark thriller from IM Global.
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NewsIsland President wins Hilton Worldwide LightStay Sustainability Award
The award was launched by Hilton Worldwide and Sundance Institute and includes $25,000 to the winner to be handed out at the Sundance awards ceremony.
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NewsAnchor Bay picks up Slasher Films’ Nothing To Fear
Content is handling international sales and introduced the film to buyers at the recent AFM.
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NewsJan De Bont to remake crime drama Five Minutes To Live
The director has teamed up with Joseph and Jack Nasser, executive producers on the Sundance Premieres entry For A Good Time, Call…, to remake the 1961 Johnny Cash film Five Minutes To Live.
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NewsFrancisco Barreiro to star in Here Comes The Devil
The rising Mexican star will play the lead in MPI Media Group and Mexico City-based Salto de Fe Films’ supernatural thriller to be directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano.
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Joel Cox, Doug Ibold to receive ACE lifetime recognition
The veteran editors will be honoured with the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Lifetime Career Achievement Award at the Eddie Awards Feb 18 in Beverly Hills.
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NewsFIP Berlin slate includes Mortensen thriller Plan
Shebnem Askin-Schreger and her Fox International Productions sales team will be at the EFM with a slate led by the Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan.
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