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Paul Smith named head of comms at Pact
UK producers body Pact has appointed Paul Smith as its new head of communications.
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NewsParminder Vir joins Al Ruwaini's Pyramedia
Producer Parminder Vir has joined Pyramedia as a development consultant.
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NewsJapanese director Yoji Yamada celebrates 50th year as director with Ozu homage
Shochiku Studios has announced details of director Yoji Yamada’s latest film, Tokyo Kazoku (literal translation: “Tokyo Family”), being produced to celebrate Yamada’s 50-year directing career.
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NewsIvan Mactaggart joins Parfitt's Trademark
Film financier Ivan Mactaggart has joined UK production company Trademark Films as a partner.
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NewsSony joins Sergi Vizcaino's horror Scars
Sony will finance and co-produce alongside Spanish outfit Roday Y Rodar, which has revealed details of its new slate.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase this week
No Tengas Miedo, The Comedian and Flying Blind are just a few of the newly added and updated films on ScreenBase this week.
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NewsBold lines up Swaim, Metkina for Trouble in 2011
The company is teaming up with Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum on the project, which co-president Gary Michael Walters described last night [9] as being like a throwback to Fatal Attraction.
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Worldview joins Voltage as co-financier on dark comedy Killer Joe
New York City-based finance and production company Worldview Entertainment has come aboard the dark comedy Killer Joe.
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NewsCosta gears up for Cabral's feature debut to shoot in Canada, Asia
Costa Films is now setting up Juan Cabral’s feature directorial debut Two/One as an English-language project to shoot in Canada and an Asian location such as Hong Kong or Thailand.
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NewsSpain’s Molinare and Infinia to merge their post production companies
Imagina’s post production outfit Molinare and competitor Infinia, part-owned by Filmax, are in advanced negotiations to merge their two companies.
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NewsBlanchett returns to Middle Earth for Hobbit films
Cate Blanchett is returning to the fantasy realm and has joined the cast of New Line, Warner Bros and MGM’s The Hobbit.
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NewsAmericine developing Argentina-set Camino a New Orleans
Americine’s CEO Javier Krause confirmed during Ventana Sur that the company has two new films in development.
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NewsThessaloniki hands out more than $133,000 in industry prizes
Cash awards go to Israeli, Croatian, Serbian, Turkish and Greek projects at the script development, co-production and works in progress sections of the Thessaloniki’s Agora/Market.
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NewsWestEnd heats up with deals on Garcia's Albert Nobbs
Joining Glenn Close in the cast will be Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Brendan Gleeson and Brenda Fricker.
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Punch, Odenkirk, Sommer join The Giant Mechanical Man
Lucy Punch, Bob Odenkirk and Rich Sommer have joined the cast of The Giant Mechanical Man which began shooting in Detroit recently.
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Pact re-elects Debbie Manners as chair of council
Members of UK production group Pact have re-elected Debbie Manners as Pact chair in the elections for Pact council. She is the fomer COO of Hat Trick Productions and now serves as director of Manned Media. Manners said: “Pact’s work has undoubtedly contributed to the strong growth of the independent ...
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NewsCelestial starts shoot for first production My Kingdom
Celestial Pictures is co-producing with Beijing-based Skyland Films and production company DW Films Limited.
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NewsFilm Agency For Wales launches producer development scheme
The four-month programme is being lead by Angus Finney; mentors include Paul Trijbits and Andrea Calderwood.
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Sony strikes UK deal for Jon Wright's Grabbers
Sony Pictures Releasing has come on board for UK rights to comedy-horror Grabbers, which is shooting now. Principal photography is underway in Belfast and Donegal, Ireland, on director Jon Wright’s comedy-horror.Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley and Russell Tovey head the cast in screenwriter Kevin Lehane’s story of a rural Irish fishing ...
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NewsHogg, Ballard to star in The Comedian
Edward Hogg and Jamie Ballard have signed on to star in Tom Schkolnik’s debut feature, The Comedian, which is due to start shooting in London next year.