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NewsScreen International to launch Global Guide To Soft Money 2011
The annual PDF report, available to buy online, is a territory-by-territory guide to the most lucrative international production incentives.
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NewsBernard Rose to reunite with Huston on Boxing Day; plans Will Self adaptation
Bernard Rose’s Boxing Day, starring Danny Huston and writer/actor Mathew Jacobs, is set to shoot in the mountains of Colorado in early December.
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NewsMeaney, Huston, Redknapp join cast of Hot Potato
Louise Redknapp will star opposite Ray Winstone in Tim Lewiston’s British comedy caper Hot Potato
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NewsUK domestic production budgets declining, inward investment still strong
UK Film Council research for the first nine months of 2010 reveals a drop in the number of features produced in the UK and a year-on-year decrease in overall UK spend.
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NewsWarner Bros to decide on Hobbit location
Uncertainty continues to hover over the saga of The Hobbit despite a move by SAG to defuse a tense situation that has been mounting between the unions and the film’s producers.
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NewsFilm Bridge to tempt AFM buyers with Lives Of The Saints ensemble
Meg Ryan, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, John Lithgow, Joe Anderson and Kat Dennings will star in BCDF Pictures’ ensemble drama Lives Of The Saints.
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NewsJeremy Thomas at PFM Keynote: UK should re-enter Eurimages
Oscar-winner Thomas also says producers should get enhanced recoupment positions so they aren’t paupers; he says festival heads are more crucial contacts than studio heads.
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EM Media starts new intern initiative
EM Media, the regional screen agency for the UK’s East Midlands, has launched a new initiative – Kickstart –offering production companies up to $3100 (£2000) in exchange for mentoring an intern on their next shoot.
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Alberto Marini leaves production director post at Filmax
Italian born film executive and producer Alberto Marini is leaving his position as director of international productions at leading Spanish film studio Filmax from November to work on his own “more personal” productions.
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NewsRourke, Ho join cast of Hany Abu-Assad’s The Courier
Mickey Rourke and Josie Ho have joined Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Til Schweiger in the cast of Arclight Films’ action thriller The Courier which started shooting in Louisiana this week.
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Fawcett and Hollier's Atlantic Screen Music launches score production company
Atlantic Screen Music has launched Atlantic Screen Composers to produce music scores for film and TV productions. The company’s £2m launch budget comes from an EIS supported by Octopus Investments.
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Spier launches new fund for productions shooting in South Africa
London- and South Africa-based production outfit Spier Films is launching a new film fund available for international productions shooting in South Africa from January 2011.
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NewsJack Gordon to star in Barrett's debut Life Just Is
Shooting has begun on UK film-maker Alex Barrett’s debut feature Life Just Is, featuring Screen International Star of Tomorrow Jack Gordon.
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Eurimages to present Development Award worth $42,000 in Rome
The second Eurimages Co-production Development Award, worth $42,000 (€30,000), will go to the best project presented in New Cinema Network, the co-production market of the International Rome Film Festival.
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NewsAbbie Cornish replaces Emily Blunt in The Girl
Australian actress Abbie Cornish has stepped in to take the leading role in The Girl, which Goldcrest will be pre-selling at the AFM nextmonth.
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South West Screen greenlights three features to be made in Bristol
UK regional screen agency South West Screen has announced the three films to be greenlit through its iFeatures digital filmmaking scheme.
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NewsDonna Gigliotti joins The Weinstein Company
Donna Gigliotti has been appointed president of production at The Weinstein Company.
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Thessaloniki selects 10 projects for Balkan Script Development Fund
Dimitris Eipides, the new director of the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival-TIFF (December 3-12) has decided to go ahead with the Balkan Script Development Fund, one of the most eagerly awaited industry related strands of the event.
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NewsUK's Salt launches film-maker co-op to encourage commercial projects
UK sales and finance outfit The Salt Company has kicked off a new filmmakers cooperative to support new British talent who want to make commercial films.
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NewsJaume Collet Serra sets up LA-based Ombra Films
Barcelona born director Jaume Collet Serra who has made a name for himself in the US is setting up a new production company in LA called Ombra Films, which will tie relations between Hollywood and Spain.