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NewsYouth production company seeks funding for first feature
A group of unemployed London youngsters have launched a film production company and are seeking funding from local people and businesses to fund their first project.
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NewsEminem returns to big screen in Shady Talez for John Davis, Dallas Jackson
Eminem will star in the 3D film Shady Talez, his first feature for seven years. The film will be produced by D.J. Classicz/Davis Entertainment, a genre partnership between I, Robot producer John Davis and writer-producer Dallas Jackson.
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NewsKevin Bacon joins British ensemble on Essential's Whole Lotta Sole
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Kevin Bacon, Sophie Okonedo and James Nesbitt will star in the comedy Whole LottaSole, which Essential Entertainment is selling here.
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NewsHarvey Keitel cast as patriarch in A Beginner's Guide To Endings
Harvey Keitel has joined J K Simmons on the dark comedy A Beginner’s Guide To Endings, which began principal photography in Niagara Falls on November 4.
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NewsRupert Friend heads cast on Renny Harlin's Georgia
Shooting is underway in the former Soviet state of Georgia on Renny Harlin’s contemporary drama Georgia starring Rupert Friend, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Andy Garcia and Val Kilmer.
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NewsFormer ICA chair Ivan Massow to direct Joan Collins in Banksy comedy
Producers’ representative Circus Road Films has acquired worldwide rights from August 8 to Banksy’s Coming To Dinner starring Joan Collins.
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NewsHyde Park, Imagenation, MDA partner with Dave Stewart on Street Dancing
Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Imagenation Abu Dhabi have unveiled the first project under their strategic alliance with Singapore-based MDA, teaming up with songwriter Dave Stewart’s Weapons Of Mass Entertainment on Street Dancing.
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NewsIstvan Szabo’s The Door lands at Bankside
London-based Bankside Films has taken worldwide rights to The Door, the new feature from Academy Award-winning director Istvan Szabo. It will star Helen Mirren.
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NewsStars align for Abe Sylvia's Dirty Girl
Juno Temple, Sally Hawkins and Lisa Kudrow are joining William H Macy and newcomer Jeremy Dozier in Abe Sylvia’s debut feature Dirty Girl, which is being sold at AFM by Salt.
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NewsJulien Temple to direct F&ME’s Fake!
British director Julien Temple has joined forces with Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME), the London-based production company run by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, to direct the company’s long-gestating $15 million art heist movie Fake!
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NewsBollywood star Mallika Sherawat signs to Nuclear Mango's Love, Barack
Govind Menon and William Keenan’s US-India consultancy and production company Nuclear Mango has bought in New Jack City producer Doug McHenry to direct the romantic comedy Love, Barack. The company has cast Bollywood siren Mallika Sherawat.
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NewsWalden acquires rights to family film Berenstain Bears
Walden Media has acquired film rights to the bestselling book series The Berenstain Bears.
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NewsHMR Film and Reach Up High board zombie flick Devil's Playground
HMR Film and Reach Up High Entertainment have boarded Black & Blue Film’s forthcoming zombie film, Devil’s Playground. It will begin shooting at Elstree Studios on November 30.
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NewsGabriela Tagliavini boards Town Of Widows adaptation
Producer Anthony Moody has hired Gabriela Tagliavini to adapt and direct a film adaptation of Colombian novelist James Canon’s novel TalesFrom The Town Of Widows And Chronicles From The Land Of Men.
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Petzel launches production and sales entity Aura Film Partnership
Entrepreneur and former investment banker Christopher Petzel has launched production, distribution and worldwide sales venture The Aura Film Partnership backed by a $50m fund
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Sony boads classic Hasbro strategy game Risk
Sony hascquired film rights from Hasbro to the classic wartime strategy game Risk, which Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment’s James Lassiter will develop and produce.
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NewsLA's Artist View agrees three-picture deal with producer Todd Slater
LA-based sales company Artist View Entertainment has struck a three-picture deal with producer Todd Slater and will be screening the trio of projects here.
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NewsWarner Bros Japan announce Chushingura as first local language production
A big budget adaptation of classic samurai tale Chushingura has been announced as Warner Brothers Japan’s first local language production.
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Japan’s Nikkatsu to unleash Sushi Typhoon
Japanese studio Nikkatsu is launching an extreme gore label, Sushi Typhoon, to produce films from Japan’s leading cult directors including Takashi Miike (Yatterman) and Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police).
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NewsCelluloid Dreams boards films from Gansel, Wiseman
Celluloid Dreams is entering the AFM with a pair of sexy new films. We Are The Night comes from The Wave director Dennis Gansel and Rat Pack Filmproduktion. The Berlin-based female vampire drama stars Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer and Max Riemelt.