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NewsFinns pact for US alliance
Helsinki-based Bronson Club and New York-based Uncorked Productions have started a new collaboration, Start To Finnish, to develop English-language international projects for six top Finnish directors.
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NewsPatel to star as genius Ramanujan
Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel is set to star in The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of The Genius Ramanujan, which is being produced by Edward R Pressman of the Edward R Pressman Film Corporation and Prashita Chaudhary’s Cinemorphic Entertainment Company.
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NewsCineplus to handle post on EPIC
EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Cineplus Filmproduktion has come on board as co-producers of EPIC, an international co-production between the UK, Germany, Russian and Georgia.
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NewsMacfadyen joins A Miracle
EXCLUSIVE: Brit actor Matthew Macfadyen is to play the lead in Ben Hopkins’ A Miracle, the new German-Turkish-French-British coproduction being put together by Paul Raphael’s Starfield Productions.
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NewsMetrodome takes Siberian Education, Citadel
EXCLUSIVE: Metrodome nabs Gabriele Salvatores’ Siberian Education in Cannes and Ciaran Foy’s Citadel.
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NewsVinterberg toasts drinking culture
EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Vinterberg, here serving on the Un Certain Regard jury, is planning a new film based on the joys of alcohol, with the working title Drinking.
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NewsColt 45 writer options Stark
EXCLUSIVE: Colt 45 writer Fathi Beddiar to direct Edward Bunker crime-thriller.
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NewsBackup signs up Lorna Tee
EXCLUSIVE: Hong Kong-based Tee is a well-known figure in the Asian film industry.
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NewsRezo selects SVoD for President
EXCLUSIVE: Deal indicates growing importance of digital players in the market.
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NewsPinewood backs thriller Take Down
EXCLUSIVE: Pinewood’s first US production commitment is on Radiant’s Jim Gillespie thriller from Ransom writer Alexander Ignon.
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NewsMajor travels to France, Greece
EXCLUSIVE: German M-Appeal has sold Russian Yury Bykov’s Critics’ Week title The Major to French distributors Zootrope and Greek firm Ama Films for theatrical release.
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NewsZellweger debut heads to France
EXCLUSIVE: K5 International has closed a major French deal for Renée Zellweger’s directorial debut 4 ½ Minutes.
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NewsRADiUS-TWC acquires Blue Ruin
RADiUS-TWC concluded an on-site buy of a festival film on Saturday night [18] as it acquired North American rights to Blue Ruin.
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Cinemavault boards Johnny Christ
The Toronto-based sales company has acquired worldwide rights to Mark Maggiori’s thriller Johnny Christ.
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NewsMongrel acquires The Great Beauty
The buyer has acquired all Canadian rights to Paolo Sorrentino’s latest offering, set to premiere in competition here tomorrow [21].
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NewsCohen Media Group buys Tycoon
Cohen Media Group chairman and CEO Charles S Cohen announced in Cannes that the company has acquired National Book Award winner Edward Ball’s recently published The Inventor And The Tycoon.
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NewsFIP Germany readies Doctor, Rico
Fox International Productions (Germany) has lined up two films on the back of Matthias Schweighofer’s box office smash Break-Up Man, the top German release of the year so far on more than $24m.
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NewsDreamWorks inks Euro output deals
DreamWorks, through their licensing collaboration with David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment, has inked multiple distribution output deals at Cannes, including with Samuel and Victor Hadida’s Metropolitan FilmExport in France.