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NewsBedlam Productions pick up rights to rugby story The Grudge
The King’s Speech producers option rights to acclaimed account of the England-Scotland rugby rivalry.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase this week
Noémie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Yolande Moreau, Soko and Vincent Lindon star in new French dramas added this week to Screen’s European online film index, Screenbase.
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NewsLondon's Creativity Media to offer completion guarantees
London based post-production and finance company Creativity Media is to start providing completion guarantees for films under £1.5m, which it is already doing the post production work on.
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NewsHot-selling thriller Last Passenger starts UK shoot today at Shepperton
BFI-Pinewood backed thriller starring Dougray Scott, described as “a micro-budget Tony Scott film”, gets underway today.
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NewsScreen Star Vanessa Kirby among cast of thriller Labyrinth
Recent Screen International Star of Tomorrow Vanessa Kirby [pictured] is set to play Alice Tanner in the epic thriller Labyrinth, adapted from Kate Mosse’s bestseller.
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NewsIMG Media to handle international sales of Dorsey's Airmen
IMG Media will handle the international rights to Mike Dorsey’s Lost Airmen of Buchenwald.
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Nicholl Committee unveils writing fellowship finallists
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences said on Thursday (29) that seven writers and three writing teams are finallists in the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in screenwriting.
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Self-help publisher Hay House launches film, TV units
Reid Tracy, president and CEO of the renowned publisher, will head Hay House Films and Hay House Television and serves as executive producer working alongside production chief Michael Goorjian.
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NewsHalo Post Production ramps up film operations
TV post production company to work on sound for Arthur Christmas and The Bachelor King; moves to Noel Street.
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NewsUPDATED StudioCanal announces €150m slate financing deal
Pan-European major StudioCanal has announced a three-year, €150m slate financing deal with London-based private fund Anton Capital Entertanment [ACE], bringing its total production and acquisitions budget for the period to €500m.
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NewsRobert De Hoog to star in Muldowney's Love Eternal
Shooting has begun on the Irish/Luxembourg/Dutch/Japanese coproduction which is based on the Japanese novel Loving The Dead.
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NewsSierra/Affinity to handle key sales on Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
Nick Meyer is understood to have cut a deal with Paramount to pre-sell a handful of major territories on the live-action film starring Denzel Washington, in a development that further underscores the ability of the independent market to support prestigious commercial fare.
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NewsUniversal, Cross Creek Pictures sign distribution pact
The first project to go under the three-year deal will be Rush, the in-production F1 drama co-financed by Cross Creek and Exclusive Media Group that marks the first project financed outside the studio system that Ron Howard is directing in 25 years.
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News13 projects selected for Connecting Cottbus co-production market
East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus gets underway on Nov 3.
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NewsSimon Rumley to direct thriller chase movie Stranger
The Living And The Dead director Simon Rumley has also written the script for the China-set thriller, which is inspired by Steven Spielberg’s 1971 film Duel.
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NewsSomeday This Pain set for Rome premiere
Italian director Roberto Faenza’s English language project Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You will have its world premiere at the upcoming edition of the International Rome Film Festival (Oct 27-Nov 4).
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NewsDirector Yann Samuell ahead in first week of the war of The War of the Buttons
Rival adaptations of French literary classic The War of the Buttons battle it out at the box office in France on more than 500 prints each. Version directed by Yann Samuell some 130,000 entries ahead in first week.
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NewsKormakur dives into post for The Deep for end-of-year release
Baltasar Kormakur’s The Deep is one of a number of hot Icelandic titles, also including thriller Black’s Game, that are in post production now.
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WIFF Finishing Fund announces grant recipients
Women In Film’s Finishing Fund co-chairs Betsy Pollock and Nancy Rae Stone have announced the recipients for the annual fund grant programme.
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NewsKalliope Films to produce Van Gogh biopic feature
The English language feature will focus on the artist’s entire life story.