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All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 103
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NewsWasteland producers eye new projects
The producers behind Rowan Athale’s acclaimed heist thriller Wasteland (sold by Bankside in Toronto to Momentum for the UK and a host of other distributors) have revealed details of their future projects.
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NewsMarjane Satrapi plans to shoot The Voices in Babelsberg starting in April
Paranormal Activity’s Michael Perry wrote the script.
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NewsLassie heads to Canada in new feature-length film
EXCLUSIVE: Charles Sturridge writing Lassie Leaves Home.
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NewsDinard director calls for more British support
Dinard festival artistic director Hussam Hindi has made an impassioned plea for the British to resume their support of the event (which showcases British films to French audiences).
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NewsBFI Future Plan to invest £500m over next five years
Three areas of concentration are education and audiences, filmmaking and film heritage; Film Fund will rise to £24m annually by 2017.
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NewsBullhead's Roskam talks Buda Bridge, The Tiger, The Faithful
The Belgian director discusses forthcoming projects at Binger-Screen interview in Utrecht.
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NewsRiver Phoenix's last film Dark Blood could see mainstream release
Director George Sluizer has revealed that he expects the legal issues surrounding Dark Blood to be resolved within the next “four weeks.”
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NewsStewart Mackinnon's Headline grows with busy slate, new Edelman partnership
Stewart Mackinnon’s London and Newcastle-based film and TV production outfit Headline Pictures (the outfit behind Quartet and The Invisible Woman) has confirmed details of a groundbreaking new strategic partnership
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NewsHolland Film Meeting, NPP launch with upbeat mood despite film funding questions
Sister event Netherlands Film Festival opened with Nono, The Zig Zag Kid [pictured]; River Phoenix’s last film finally unveiled.
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NewsStevan Riley talks about James Bond doc Everything or Nothing
Director talks how he found out Bill Clinton was a Bond fan, and how Skyfall director Sam Mendes questioned Daniel Craig as 007.
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FeaturesAndrew Macdonald
DNA Films co-founder Andrew Macdonald has just completed one of his most ambitious films yet, Dredd 3D.
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NewsDNA talks future of Dredd trilogy
DNA Films boss Andrew Macdonald has given further details about the screenwriting plans for the next installments in the Dredd trilogy.
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NewsAmr Waked ramps up Zad slate
Company in talks with Egyptian distributor for Winter Of Discontent; hoping to put Ahmed Maher’s In Which Land You Die into production next summer.
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NewsTakeshi Kitano considers making a third Outrage movie
Takeshi Kitano, the Japanese director/star of hardboiled yakuza thriller Outrage Beyond (sold in Toronto by Celluloid Dreams), is contemplating a third Outrage movie.
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NewsGFM Films board Australian animation Stonerunner
EXCLUSIVE: British company working for the second time with FG Film Productions.
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Bela Tarr: Hungarian Film Fund 'unacceptable and illegitimate'
Hungarian director [pictured] responds to confirmation that the Film Fund - run by Andy Vajna - was to take over the property of the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary.
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NewsExperts welcome new Venice market but suggest some improvements
Pascal Diot to expand digital video library in 2013.
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CommentSusanne Bier on 'the beauty of romantic comedy'
Cancer-themed movies tend to be grueling and very heavy affairs. Oscar winning Danish director Susanne Bier’s crowdpleaser Love Is All You Need is surely one of the only forays into the genre that can be labeled a romantic comedy.
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NewsSwipe takes UK rights to Tu Seras Mons Fils
EXCLUSIVE: During the Venice market, Frank Mannion’s production, sales and distribution outfit Swipe has confirmed it will handle the UK release of Gilles Legrand’s French wine-themed drama Tu Seras Mons Fils, which is about a family running a vineyard in Bordeaux.
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Wadjda director vows to keep working in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s first female film director Haifaa Al Mansour, whose debut feature Wadjda was enthusiastically received in Venice, has made an outspoken plea for women’s rights in her homeland.