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NewsMedusa signs Fausto Brizzi to four-film deal
Italian box office wunderkind Fausto Brizzi has signed a four-film deal with Medusa, the production-distribution giant confirmed to ScreenDaily today.
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NewsHong Kong’s Media Asia set to produce Bruce Lee biopic
Media Asia Films has announced that it is producing a $4.5m (HK$35m) film about martial arts legend Bruce Lee, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the late star’s birthday.
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NewsLA-based fund accesses $ 50m Russian investment for slate of international co-productions
Projects include Simon West’s Dali biopic and Patricia Riggen’s Vivaldi.
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Major European producers unite for sea drama Wave
Maria Ripoll’s tragic sea adventure film Wave is finally set to go ahead after four years in gestation with several leading European producers attached, including Belgium’s Banana Films, Spain’s Kanzaman Films and Ireland’s Samson Films.
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WFC. International Capital Group extends its portfolio to include first film fund
WFC. International Capital Group has extended its portfolio of financial services to the field of media funds with the setting up of its Motion Picture Fund 1.
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Writer Simon Lewis lands deal with Cloud Eight, Film4, Pathe
Christian Colson’s Cloud Eight Films, Film4 and Pathe are offering a script deal to Simon Lewis.
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Bornedal on board for Slaughterhouse Dybbol
Danish director Ole Bornedal, of Nightwatch (Nattevagten) fame, will direct Slaughterhouse Dybbøl (Slagtebænk Dybbøl), a DKK 90m ($14.9m) double feature based on Danish author Tom Buk-Swienty’s award-winning book.
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NewsEcosse plans adaptation of Faulks' On Green Dolphin Street
London-based production company Ecosse films is developing the screen adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ Cold War love story novel On Green Dolphin Street.
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This week’s hot projects on Screenbase
This week’s new projects on Screenbase include two cross-continental co-productions between Germany and the US, a romantic comedy by Jean Luc Perréard, as well as a horror film by Richard Driscoll.
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NewsScreen Australia injects some flexibility into its co-production rules
Screen Australia has proposed several changes aimed at getting more films through the gate as official co-productions but by chief executive Ruth Harley’s own admission, she doesn’t expect it to “change the world”.
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BackUp backs Emilie Jolie, Pinocchio
French financing outfit BackUp Films is investing in several new productions through its Cofanim fund for animated projects.
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Shooting underway in Australia on sports drama The Cup
Production has begun in Melbourne, Australia, on sports drama The Cup starring Brendan Gleeson.
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Turin Commission buys Endgame's stake in film fund
The Turin Piedmont Film Commission has bought out LA based Endgame Entertainment’s 18 percent share in an ambitious film fund the two groups launched in tandem in 2007 under the name of Film Investment Piedmont (FIP).
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Norwegian Film Institute backs projects by Sorensen, Poppe, Johnsen
Swedish leading stand-up comedian (and novelist, playwright, screenwriter) Jonas Gardell will star in People in the Sun (Mennesker i solen), a Norwegian production of his own doomsday comedy, which will start principal photography on August 9.
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Shanghai's winning projects include Lost In Touch, Last Valentine's Day
Quan Ling’s Lost In Touch and Sheng Zhimin’s Last Valentine’s Day took the top two prizes at China Film Pitch and Catch (CFPC) and Co-production Pitch and Catch (Co-FPC), the project market of Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF).
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NewsFilmax pick up sales rights to Vaca Films’ thriller Kidnapped
Spanish mini studio Filmax has taken international sales rights outside Spain and France to award winning director Miguel Angel Vivas’ new project Kidnapped, starring leading Spanish actor Fernando Cayo.
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Chace Crawford joins Beresford's Peace, Love & Misnderstanding
Gossip Girl actor Chace Crawford has joined Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener on the cast on Bruce Beresford’s Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding.
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Von Trotta, Hallstrom and Riggen backed by Filmstiftung NRW
New feature films by Margarethe von Trotta, Lasse Hallström and Patricia Riggen are among 11 projects awarded around €5.7m production funding by the Düsseldorf-based Filmstiftung NRW at its latest session.
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Spain's Cell 211 producers to make detective thriller Nowhere
Leading Spanish production outfit Vaca Films will follow the huge success of their prison drama Cell 211 with the $5m thriller Nowhere, to be written and directed by Manuel Sanabria.
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Sundance Institute readies first East Africa theatre lab
Sundance Institute is preparing for its inaugural Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in East Africa, set to take place from July 9-29 on the island of Manda off Kenya.