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NewsBFI new governors include Berger, Kidron, Justice
As the UKFC handover comes into effect, the BFI also notes that UK production funding will rise from £15m to £18m
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Vanguard, Aurelius, Maloof partner on $20m fund
The alliance creates a p&a pool for animated films and the parties have named Simon Crowe’s SC Films International as sales agent.
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NewsSony Pictures Animation acquires rights to Muncle Trogg
The preemptive deal is the first since Michelle Raimo-Kouyate arrived from DreamWorks Animation last November to become president of production.
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NewsAir Studios eyes move into film and TV production
Paul Woolf and former HandMade Films head David Ravden join the company.
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NewsLionsgate launches microbudget initiative, names first three films
The programme will focus on films under $2m and the first three are post-apocalyptic comedy Rapture-Palooza, comedy Gay Dude and supernatural thriller 6 Miranda Drive, to be directed by Wolf Creek creator Greg McLean.
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NewsIain Smith to head advisory board for new British Film Commission under Film London
Office of the British Film Commissioner moves from the UKFC to Film London tomorrow as part of restructuring; advisory board to have about 20 members.
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California's Dodge College launches pioneering Chapman Entertainment
Chapman University’s Dodge College Of Film And Media Arts has formed a production and distribution venture, becoming what is believed to be the first film school in the US to do so.
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News104 Films to produce homeless awareness thriller NFA
The £100,000 feature tackles the issue of homelessness and will shoot in Birmingham this May.
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NewsAV takes on sales for Kieron Walsh's Jump
UK-based AV Pictures has taken on worldwide sales for comedy thriller Jump.
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NewsAsia Film Group seeks partners for Asian remakes of RKO classics
Los Angeles-based Asia Film Group is now meeting with production and distribution partners to finance its Asian-language remakes of RKO Pictures’ classics.
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NewsRussian government could tax foreign film releases
The Russian government is considering introducing a new system for collecting of charges on income from distribution and exhibition of every certified film, with further investment of these funds for the needs of the domestic film industry.
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Paramount options futuristic young adult novel Earthseed
Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg will adapt the story and will produce through her Tall Girls Productions.
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Sharni Vinson joins Snoot’s You’re Next
The rising Australian star of Step Up 3D comes on board as the home invasion thriller commenced shooting on Tuesday [29] in Missouri.
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NewsCinemaCon: Arab Spring forces Disney to put brakes on Jordan project
Disney top brass are revising the release strategy for an “inspirational” local language football drama following the wave of unrest across the Arab world.
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NewsNorth Carolina shoot on Hick gets underway
Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne star in the story of a precocious youngster who travels across the US with a glamorous young woman.
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NewsAWP completes principal photography on Sand Sharks
LA-based American World Pictures’ sci-fi feature is directed by Mark Atkins and stars Corin Nemec and Brooke Hogan.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
This week a werewolf invades Galicia in Juan Martínez Moreno’s horror comedy and two teenagers kidnap their teacher in Safy Nebbou’s new feature set in France.
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NewsZbanic receives $593,580 from Croatia for Love Island
Jasmila Zbanic’s new project Love Island has received $593,580 at the Croatian Audiovisual Centre’s competition for funding of film productions.
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NewsLars von Trier considers Nymphomaniac project
The film could be his most controversial to date, about a woman who discovers her eroticism.
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Lionsgate sets director for What To Expect When You're Expecting
The studio has hired Kirk Jones of Nanny McPhee and Waking Ned Devine fame to direct the ensemble rom-com based on Heidi Murkoff’s bestselling maternity manual.