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All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 74
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NewsDoc specialist Autlook moves into narrative features
Documentary specialists launches new label with Fly Away Home [pictured].
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NewsEx-con Francois Troukens to co-direct 'Above The Law'
EXCLUSIVE: Former gangster Francois Troukens will co-direct the $7m crime thriller.
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NewsMatch Factory orders Jim Jarmusch’s 'Coffee And Cigarettes'
EXCLUSIVE: Film becomes the seventh Jarmusch title in the company’s classic collection.
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NewsRussian Revolution feature to mark centenary
EXCLUSIVE: Portmanteau film will feature segments from young Russian directors.
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News'Handmaiden' heads to Benelux with Cineart
EXCLUSIVE: Distribution outfit has picked up Park Chan-Wook’s latest, which is in Competition at Cannes.
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NewsAdam Driver set to star in Terry Gilliam’s 'Don Quixote'
The Force Awakens actor is circling the passion project alongside Monty Python’s Michael Palin.
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NewsSPC swoops on Paul Verhoeven's 'Elle'
Early in the market, in one of the first major deals for a competition title, Sony Pictures Classics has swooped to acquire Paul Verhoeven’s Elle.
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NewsPaul Verhoeven, 'Elle' producer runite for French resistance movie
EXCLUSIVE: Verohoeven’s next film will be a Second World War French resistance movie.
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NewsWizart's 'Sheep And Wolves' secures China release
Flame Node to handle Chinese release of animation.
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FeaturesPaul Verhoeven talks returning to Cannes with 'Elle'
The Dutch director, whose Basic Instinct opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1992, discusses his Competition title Elle.
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NewsBeta launches Ruzowitzky, Holland, Dresen, Netzer films
EXCLUSIVE: Titles on Beta’s slate include films from Agnieszka Holland and Stefan Ruzowitzky.
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NewsFX drama 'Snowfall' signs Belgian directors of 'Black'
EXCLUSIVE: Hard-hitting TV drama will recount the crack cocaine epidemic of 1980s LA.
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NewsNetflix acquires four from Dutch Features
EXCLUSIVE: Acquisitions by SVOD giant include Ivona Juka’s You Carry Me.
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NewsSplendid opens Benelux distribution arm
Former A-Fim exec Erik Engelen will head the new company.
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FeaturesUK Private Financiers: Adventure Capital
Investor confidence in the UK film industry is growing thanks to the country’s embedded tax credit and the efforts of an increasing number of dynamic private financers. Geoffrey Macnab reports
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NewsM-Appeal picks up duo for Cannes Marché
EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based sales outfit scores films from Home Sick director and Lav Diaz protégé.
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NewsSpielberg fund backs Warsaw Ghetto documentary
May shoot for Who Will Write Our History about the Oyneg Shabes archive; Nancy Spielberg produces with support from Steven Spielberg-chaired fund.
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NewsLord Puttnam calls for greater VPF transparency and new BFI distribution fund
The Labour Lord and former producer has addressed VPFs, Brexit and the potential for a new specialised BFI distribution fund in a wide-ranging speech to industry.
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NewsIndustry reaction: Daniel Battsek to head Film4
Room producer Ed Guiney and Number 9 Films’ Stephen Woolley among those to voice reaction to the appointment of David Kosse’s successor at Film4.
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News'Broken Circle Breakdown' star Veerle Baetens to direct 'The Melting'
Award-winning Belgian star to make directorial debut on novel adaptation.