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NewsGrant Scicluna's The Wilding wins 2012 Iris Prize
Scicluna receives £25,000 for the prize to make a new short film in the UK.
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NewsThird film in Easy Money trilogy under way
Life Deluxe, starring Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dejan Cukic and Madeleine Martin, is under way in Sweden.
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NewsSky picks up Harry Potter films
All eight Harry Potter films have been added to Sky’s portfolio for three months over the crucial Christmas period.
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NewsNew York Film Critics Circle to vote on Dec 3
The group has moved back its decision day after last year’s vote took place on Nov 28 as members jockeyed to be the first to announce winners and in the process excluded Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (pictured) from consideration.
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NewsFortissimo shops its way into Bergdorf documentary
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside of North America to Matthew Miele’s feature documentary Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s.
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NewsFactory 25 acquires worldwide rights to New Jerusalem
Rick Alverson’s film has screened at Rotterdam, SXSW, and Sarasota and stars Will Oldham and Colm O’Leary.
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NewsSony, Discovery and IMAX launch 3net
The global television production and distribution division will be led by president and CEO Tom Cosgrove and currently has 15-20 projects in active development.
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NewsElizabeth Banks to star in Lakeshore, SKE’s Walk Of Shame
EXCLUSIVE: FilmDistrict will distribute the comedy in the US and Lakeshore International and Sierra/Affinity will jointly handle pre-sales when they introduce the project at the AFM.
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NewsParamount takes North America on Wolf Of Wall Street
After several rounds with the US majors, financier Red Granite has found a domestic distributor for its upcoming Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio reunion, teeing up what is expected to be a deluge of interest from international buyers at AFM.
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NewsDustin Hoffman breaks down at Bafta talk
Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman broke down twice during an on-stage interview at Bafta as he discussed highlights of his career in cinema.
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NewsMark Strong, Brian Cox, Taissa Farmiga confirmed on Collet-Serra-produced Mindscape
EXCLUSIVE: First film under the StudioCanal-Ombra Films banner gets under way; Oscar Faura to DoP; production to shoot in France, Barcelona and Canada.
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NewsAi Weiwei, Henkel world premieres to screen at BIFFDOCS
Ai Weiwei’s Ping’an Yueqing and Show Me The Magic [pictured], Cathy Henkel’s homegrown film about cinematographer Don McAlpine, are the two world premiere’s among the 15 films in the running to win BIFFDOCS, Australia’s richest documentary prize.
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CommentCostumes come to life
The V&A’s new Hollywood Costume exhibition wows with its selections and staging.
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NewsWhat Richard Did sells to UK, France, Australia, Scandinavia
EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist has done good business on Lenny Abrahamson’s Toronto and London drama, which has opened strongly in Ireland.
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NewsBBFC appoints Patrick Swaffer president, wants wider classification of film downloads
Swaffer succeeds Sir Quentin Thomas who stepped down after ten years.
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FeaturesMostofa S. Farooki
Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa S. Farooki’s Television received a warm response when it screened as the closing film of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) last week.
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NewsWillem Dafoe, Udo Kier join von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Jean-Marc Barr, Caroline Goodall, Kate Ashfield, Saskia Reeves, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Michaël Pas and Omar Shargawi also on board.
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NewsAdrien Brody, Maria Bello join Corsan's Third Person
Paul Haggis will direct the ensemble drama which as previously announced also stars Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Olivia Wilde, James Franco and Kim Basinger.