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NewsFocus starts production in Italy on Clooney thriller The American
Filming got underway in Italy this week on Focus Features’ thriller The American starring George Clooney.
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NewsNordisk Film quits family films as it shuts Norwegian arm
Danish production company Nordisk Film is closing its Norwegian division due to changes in the country’s film financing structure.
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NewsGFI announces six summer grant cycle recipients
The Global Film Initiative (GFI) has announced the six recipients of its summer granting cycle, selected from a pool of 71 applications from 32 countries.
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NewsConvergence signs up Singapore’s Chai Yee-wei
Los Angeles-based Convergence Entertainment has signed a deal with Singaporean filmmaker Chai Yee-wei to represent him as a director outside Singapore under the company’s management division.
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NewsRioMarket 2009 kicks off with 30% year-on-year rise in participants
More than 300 companies are expected to attend RioMarket 2009, which opened on September 25 and continues until October 6.
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NewsChow Yun Fat to star in Zip Film's Dancing With Strangers
Barcelona based producers Zip Films are set to make the $15m Dancing With Strangers, which will be a co-production with the US, Germany and China and is set to star Chow Yun Fat.
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NewsUMedia and Brazil's Dezenove sign three year, multi-picture deal
Brazilian production company Dezenove and UMedia, the French independent production and distribution company, have signed a three-year, multi-picture deal.
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NewsLionsgate unites with Stephen Gaghan on action thriller
Lionsgate has taken worldwide rights to an untitled action thriller that Stephen Gaghan will direct and produce.
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NewsSummit hires Justin Lin to direct and Neal Moritz to produce Highlander
Summit Entertainment has hired Fast & Furious director Justin Lin and producer Neal H Moritz to the reimagining of Highlander.
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NewsCaviar lines up first English-language feature Missoura
Belgium, LA and Amsterdam-based production company Caviar Films, whose My Queen Karo recently received its world premiere in Toronto, has lined up its first English-language feature Missoura.
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NewsIFP and UK's Shooting People enter one year partnership
Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) has entered into an exclusive year-long partnership with UK-based film-maker support group Shooting People that provides complementary membership to each other’s organisations.
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NewsFocus Features International, 02 reunite on Brazilian conman thriller VIPs
Focus Features International and Brazilian production company 02 Filmes are collaborating on the thriller VIPs in their first joint venture since Adrift.
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NewsAronofsky eyes Securitas heist thriller for XYZ, Time Inc Studios and Protozoa
XYZ Films and partner Time Inc Studios have joined Protozoa Pictures on a heist project about the 2006 Securitas robbery in the UK that Darren Aronofsky is eyeing to direct.
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NewsProtagonist signs “manufacture on demand” deal
UK-based sales agent Protagonist Pictures has signed a pioneering “manufacture on demand” DVD deal with Amazon.com-subsidiary Createspace for the US.
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NewsCinereach names 12 latest grant recipients
Cinereach, the non-profit dedicated to supporting film-makers, has awarded grants totalling $250,000 to 12 films from a pool of 636 submissions.
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NewsUkraine Film Office launches co-production fund
The Ukraine Film Office this week launched a private equity support program for co-productions. The program will award up to three feature projects a year with up to $100,000 each.
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NewsNoel Clarke, The Works, Universal team up on 4.3.2.1
Noel Clarke has commenced principal photography on the heist thriller 4.3.2.1 for The Works UK Distribution and Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE).
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NewsMelbourne fest announces support for two films
The Melbourne International Film Festival’s production fund has announced support for two projects – Michael Henry’s revenge-gone-wrong thriller Blame and Mark Hartley’s feature documentary Machete Maidens Unleashed.
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NewsSimon Brooks to bring medal-winning Labrador to the big screen
Producer Simon Brooks is to turn bestselling book Endal: How One Extraordinary Dog Brought A Family Back From The Brink into a film.
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NewsStephen Rollins and Todd Allen launch Identity Entertainment
Producers Stephen Rollins and Todd Allen have formed a new venture called Identity Entertainment, which has signed a multi-picture deal with New York-based trading company, Ginepri Capital.