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CommentKicking around for a Dreams cast
Some lucky kid will get a big break with Theatre of Dreams.
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NewsKnifer wins big at Hellenic Film Academy awards
Greek industry body supports Attenberg for next Oscar race.
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FeaturesShekhar Kapur
The director of Elizabeth: The Golden Age talks about producing documentary, Bollywood, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, which is screening in official selection at Cannes.
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NewsFilmmakers have Niki Lauda’s near fatal crash of 1976 in their sights
Former Formula One racing champion Niki Lauda’s near fatal crash on the Nürburgring in August 1976 is at the heart of two rival film projects.
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CommentFertile Ground
This year’s Guiding Lights mentoring programme produced more than just films, as Sarah Cooper discovered at the wrap party.
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NewsKevin Macdonald to direct How I Live Now
Protagonist to handle sales, Alliance and Momentum already on board for Canada and UK. Film 4 has co-developed and co-financed.
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NewsFDA Cinema Showcase previews 13 titles, hosts talent
Attack The Block, Bridesmaids, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid 2, Jack Goes Boating among films screening at Film Distributors Association event in London
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NewsParis Cite du Cinema on track for 2012 opening
A decade after Luc Besson first mooted the idea, construction of France’s state-of-the-art film studio complex the Cité du Cinema is on schedule and will be completed in time for a grand opening ahead of Cannes 2012, EuropaCorp project chief Paul Kistner has confirmed.
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NewsEuropaCorp to shift focus to TV and international sales
After a turbulent 12 months, Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp came out fighting on Wednesday [May 4] with the announcement of a four-year strategic action plan it hopes will return it to profit in 2011/12 and puts the accent on increased TV production and international sales.
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Frans J Afman, pioneer of indie financing, dies at 77
Afman, the executive credited with revolutionising independent film financing during his time as an executive at Credit Lyonnais Bank in Holland in the 1980s, has died after a long illness. He was 77.
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NewsFocus signs two-film deal with Coraline producers Laika
The first title is comedy thriller ParaNorman and will be released on Aug 17, 2012, with the untitled second project to follow in 2014.
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NewsAbel Ferrara wraps shoot for 4:44 starring Willem Dafoe
Partners on film are Fabula, Funny Balloons and Wild Bunch.
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NewsWarner Bros Home Entertainment Group buys Flixster
The acquisition of the film discovery app includes the reviews website Rotten Tomatoes.
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Fox lines up 3D Glee concert film for summer
Glee Live! 3D will screen for two weeks in theatres commencing Aug 12 and is a collaboration between Twentieth Century Fox Television, Twentieth Century Fox Film and Glee creator Ryan Murphy.
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NewsShooting wraps on Brad Pitt crime tale Cogan's Trade
Principal photography has ended in New Orleans on the crime tale Cogan’s Trade, which reunites Pitt with The Assassination Of Jesse James director Andrew Dominik.
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Jennifer Garnick returns to IFTA as vp communications
The publicity executive previously handled IFTA’s publicity mandate as a client during her time as vp of The Lippin Group.
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NewsSPWA swoops on North American rights to Magnet thriller Retreat
Thandie Newton stars opposite Cillian Murphy as a frail married couple in an isolated island cottage who encounter a wounded, armed stranger bearing news of an airborne pandemic. Jamie Bell rounds out the key cast.
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NewsDixie Theatrical Coporation launches, backed by oilman Greg Hall
Filmmaker PJ Pettiette and Claudie Viguerie have partnered with Louisiana Oil magnate Greg Hall to form Dixie Theatrical Corporation.
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NewsMagnolia takes worldwide rights to Jack And Diane
Magnolia International head Laird Adamson will commence sales in Cannes next week on the “twisted tale of young love” starring Juno Temple, Riley Keough [pictured], Cara Seymour and pop icon Kylie Minogue.
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NewsLightning heads to Croisette with comedy-horror The Revenant
Kerry Prior’s festival hit follows horror comedy about two slackers who become zombies and use their newfound powers to become vigilante crime fighters. David Anders, Chris Wylde star.