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NewsRange's Altered Image plans slate including African civil war story, contemporary noir
British film-maker and producer Gabriel Range has unveiled details of his new slate for production company Altered Image, which is also launching a £2m production and development fund.
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NewsTwo new Australian features stir early transmedia buzz
Jennifer Kent plans psychological horror The Babadook and Zak HIlditch plans sci-fi thriller These Final Hours.
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NewsMorena, Vaca now shooting Calparsoro's Invader
Daniel Calparsoro (The Absent) returns to the big screen with Invader, a thriller that sees a new collaboration between Morena Films and Vaca Films after their great success with Cell 211.
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NewsSolid AFM deal-flow despite lack of new high-end fare
AFM trade appeared to be solid at the half-way mark despite a dearth of new high-end packages that in light of an extraordinary Cannes market was perceived more as a foible of the production and financing cycle than any harbinger of doom.
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NewsMagnet Media attracts Joe Dante to direct O2
Joe Dante will direct the $50m sci-fi thriller O2, the first of three projects set up by Jeanette Buerling’s Magnet Media Group and effects house Prime Focus.
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NewsMichael Clarke Duncan, Rebecca Black join US voice cast for Legend of a Rabbit
Producers confirm voice cast and close pre-sales on Legend of a Rabbit 2.
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NewsPerpetual pacts with Prescience to create Bridgeworks Capital
Perpetual has merged its bridge lending operations with UK financier Prescience. Perpetual MD Alastair Burlingham will join Prescience to head its bridge and tactical funding operations via a new specialist lending arm, Bridgeworks Capital.
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NewsKiarostami begins The End shoot in Japan
Film marks director’s second production shot outside his native Iran, after award-winning Certified Copy.
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NewsRed Bull's Terra Mater plans 10 theatrical features
Terra Mater Factual Studios, the independent production company allied with the Red Bull Media House, plans to produce 10 cinema features in the next five years.
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NewsSamantha Morton joins thriller The Mulo, sold by Intandem
Samantha Morton on board for UK thriller set in gypsy community.
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NewsMike Newell to direct On Chesil Beach
Newell takes over from Sam Mendes on Ian McEwan adaptation.
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NewsGary Oldman to executive produce Max Mannix drama Clickers
Gary Oldman is attached to executive produce Max Mannix’s Australian drama Clickers.
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CBS Films announces further casting on 7500
Jamie Chung, Christian Serratos and Scout Taylor-Compton have joined the cast of 7500, which CBS Films will release in the US and Lionsgate is selling internationally.
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W2 to back The Theatre Bizarre 2
W2 Media will co-finance and distribute The Theatre Bizarre 2, the sequel to Severin Films and Mataluna Productions’ horror anthology.
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IM Global, Vertigo in step on Walking On Sunshine
Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini, the duo behind StreetDance 3D, will direct 3D musical Walking On Sunshine for Vertigo Films. IM Global is handling international sales and Vertigo will release in the UK.
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NewsZDF comes on board Mythic's The Killing House
ZDF Enterprises — the commercial arm of German Broadcaster ZDF — has boarded Mythic International Entertainment’s action/thriller The Killing House.
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NewsGreen Isle Entertainment launches with $60m backing
LA-based production company Green Isle Entertainment (GIE) led by industry veterans Edwin Larson And Scott Vandiver has launched with a $60m multi-title financing deal with investment bank Allegiance Capital Corporation.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Ben Jagger’s The Paddy Lincoln Gang and Alvaro Longoria‘s documentary Sons Of The Clouds: The Last Colony are among the many new additions to Screenbase this week.
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NewsRonan Bennett writing bomb squad thriller for Unanimous/Stylopik
Ronan Bennett (Public Enemies) is writing a new London-set action thriller for Chris Coen’s UK-based Unanimous Entertainment and Los Angeles-based Stylopik, which is funding the development.