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NewsMargate House signs Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz to Java Heat
Margate House Films’ father-and-son team of Conor Allyn and Rob Allyn are financing the $21.5m tale of political intrigue set in Indonesia.
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Film Asia launches Zombie, 3D Hunter at Busan market
Start-up Hong Kong production and sales outfit, Film Asia Entertainment, is unveiling a slate of new product at the Asian Film Market, headed by Malaysian 3D thriller The Hunter and Joe Chien’s zombie movie Zombie 108.
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Production to commence next month on Lleju’s Stars
Bill Perkins’ financing and production company will finance the redemption drama and is producing with Derrick Borte’s Storyland Pictures.
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NewsTim Roth, Talulah Riley to star in The Liability
The road trip comic thriller will be directed by Craig Viveiros and produced by Corona Pictures.
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NewsLondon riots inspire new Stuart Urban film
UK production company Cyclops Vision will produce Stuart Urban’s new film, May I Kill U?, a black comedy set against the recent London riots.
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NewsBertolucci starts shoot for Io E Te for Fiction-Wildside
HanWay to handle international sales; Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Tea Falco star.
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Hong Kong’s Edko, Irresistible launch action duo
Hong Kong-based Edko Films and Irresistible Films have unveiled two new productions for release in 2012 – crime thriller Nightfall, starring Nick Cheung and Simon Yam, and police action film Cold War.
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NewsRufus Norris' Broken to start shooting Oct 17
Cast for the Cuba Pictures project, backed by BBC Films, includes Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, and Rory Kinnear.
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NewsBBC Films safe from yesterday's BBC job cuts
BBC Films, which employs 13 staff, won’t be impacted by the BBC job cuts announced yesterday.
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NewsKotting shooting waterways experimental doc Swandown
Andrew Kotting is now shooting Swandown, an experimental feature documentary and travelogue.
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Aaron Eckhart to star in I, Frankenstein for Lakeshore
Eckhart will portray Adam Frankenstein in the upcoming production. Principal photography is set to commence in Australia in January.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Kill List director Ben Wheatley’s latest venture and a German drama about a Guantanamo detainee are among the new productions on Screenbase this week.
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Africa First Awards five emerging filmmakers $10,000 apiece
Focus Features’ Africa First programme has awarded five emerging filmmakers $10,000 each to finance pre-production, production and/or post-production on their short films.
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NewsSPAAmart reveals seven projects to be pitched
A film that could become Australian special effects house Fuel’s first in-house feature, and a comedy of manners about four middle-class 40-something men in a self-help group, are two of the seven films chosen for SPAAmart, an annual feature film market this year being held in November in Sydney.
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NewsUTA to handle global sales on Paul Walker vehicle Hours
Hot off the $600m-plus global success of Fast Five, Walker will star as a father desperate to keep his newborn alive in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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Blacklight Transmedia, Random House Worlds strike partnership
Zak Kadison’s Los Angeles-based company has signed a direct-to-publisher development partnership with Random House Publishing Group’s intellectual property creation and development division.
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NewsBBC ties with Ridley Scott on crowdsourced doc
The BBC is working with director Ridley Scott to capture a snapshot of a day in Britain using footage submitted by people from across the country.
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NewsFrench producers head to Tunisia for first ever co-production forum
Ten months after Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power, a delegation of French producers headed to the country last weekend to forge new links with its fledgling, post-dictatorship film industry.
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NewsSally Hawkins, Ewen Bremner join cast of Great Expectations
Shooting will begin on Mike Newell’s Great Expectations on Oct 10 in the UK.
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NewsDoha Film Institute comes on board for Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Riz Ahmed stars in the Mirabai-Cine Mosaic production, which starts shooting this week.