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NewsDominic Cooper heads cast of Summer in February
Dominic Cooper, Ophelia Lovibond (Mr Popper’s Penguins) and Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) have lined up to star in Summer in February for CrossDay and Apart Films.
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NewsBFI creates new combined post as Director of Film Fund
Job will combine roles of Tanya Seghatchian (development production funding) and Pete Buckingham (distribution and exhibition), who have recently left their posts at the BFI.
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NewsIM Global snatches rights to spec script Kidnap
Knate Gwaltney’s story centres on a woman who pursues her son’s abductors following a shopping mall kidnapping.
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NewsHarrison Ford on board Jackie Robinson project for Legendary Pictures
Ford will play baseball executive Branch Rickey while Chadwick Boseman has been cast as the iconic sportsman Robinson.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Among the new productions on Screenbase are horror film Ward 8, and romantic comedy Sparks And Embers.
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NewsJessica Brown Findlay to star in Not Another Happy Ending
John McKay’s Scottish indie comedy is due to start shooting in February.
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NewsAgile, Archer's Mark finish shoot for feature doc about Samoan football team
Project was backed by Agile’s Development Fund which invests in emerging talent.
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Myriad boards Marisa Tomei thriller Inescapable
Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico will handle worldwide sales and serves as executive producer alongside Christine Vachon and Mark Sloane of Alliance Films, which will distribute in Canada.
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NewsNat Geo, Smithsonian on board for Bedlam's Titanic doc
The feature drama documentary about the sinking of the Titanic will be broadcast in April 2012.
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NewsWilliams shooting hospital horror Ward 8
Alexander Williams (Jack Falls) is directing the new horror film that is being likened in style to Paranormal Activity.
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NewsTyldum to direct Vendome’s What Happened To Monday?
Morten Tyldum, the Norwegian filmmaker behind his country’s all-time box office smash Headhunters (pictured), will direct the futuristic thriller about identical septuplet brothers in a society where siblings are outlawed.
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NewsSharon Stone, Juno Temple, Wes Bentley join Lovelace
The trio join previously announced Amanda Seyfried in the title role and Peter Sarsgaard on the biopic of porn star Linda Boreman set to begin shooting in LA this month.
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NewsBychkova, Quabeck and Mindadze films among 12 projects submitted to German-Russian Co-Development Fund
Also, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg launches another two artist in residence initiatives with Mumbai and Hong Kong.
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NewsEIS boost for UK industry coming closer as draft legislation published
Barriers to film investment dropped from plans, yet EU State Aid approval still needed.
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NewsBattsek, Chinn to produce The Green Prince
Two years after John Battsek and Simon Chinn joined forces with their companies Passion Pictures and Red Box Films, they have a healthy development slate and two feature docs, The Imposter and Searching For Sugar Man in the upcoming Sundance line-up.
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NewsSparks fly for Kris Marshall, Annelise Hesme
Directed by Gavin Boyter, Christmas-themed romantic comedy Sparks And Embers has started shooting in London.
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Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink to create content for Microsoft
The filmmaker’s transmedia production company will make original interactive content for worldwide distribution and includes video games.
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NewsBedlam, Far gearing up for first UK-Israel co-production, Zaytoun
Gareth Unwin’s Bedlam Productions and Fred Ritzenberg’s Far Films are in pre-production on Zaytoun, the first UK-Israel co-production following the newly ratified co-production treaty.
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NewsMEDIA head calls for more lobbying; working paper suggests possible MEDIA financial breakdown
Commission Staff Working Paper says bigger countries could see more slate funding; Europa Cinemas could get almost €100m.
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NewsScreen Australia backs projects including drugs comedy The Mule; thriller These Final Hours
Screen Australia also backs The Grandmothers, 2:22, Patrick and skateboarding documentary.