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NewsBaz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic to resume as Tom Hanks returns to Australia
Production was halted in March due to the virus crisis, which saw Hanks contract Covid-19.
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NewsMarrakech cancels festival, moves industry-focused Atlas Workshops online
Physical festival had been due to take place in Marrakech with new new artistic director Remi Bonhomme at the helm.
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NewsStudiocanal launches world sales on Tomas Alfredson’s ‘The Jonsson Gang’
SF Studios will release the comedy in Sweden in December.
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NewsCautious industry heads into TIFF with eyes wide open
“The finished film market is hot,” says one sales executive.
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NewsSaban Films, Altitude strike UK-Ireland distribution pact (exclusive)
Partners will release 10 to 12 films a year in UK and Ireland.
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NewsFrance’s Pulsar, XYZ Films board hot Russian serial killer thriller ‘The Execution’ (exclusive)
Feature is produced by long-time Kirill Serebrennikov collaborator Hype Film in Moscow.
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NewsFilm Seekers boards Australian documentary ‘Envoy: Shark Cull’ (exclusive)
The film spotlights the archaic methods used in Australian shark control programmes.
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NewsTokyo film festival to open with 'Underdog', close with 'Hokusai'
Boxing drama Underdog is directed by Masaharu Take, while Hokusai is a biopic directed by Hajime Hashimoto.
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NewsNeon acquires autumn festival selection ‘Night Of The Kings’
Memento Films International handles worldwide sales.
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NewsAnthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn join Holocaust drama ‘One Life’
Drama based on life of Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis.
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NewsAGC International launches TIFF sales on Donnie Yen thriller ‘The Father’
Tommy Wirkola to direct; production set for early 2021.
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NewsSean Penn’s CORE offers private Covid-19 testing on LA movie, TV sets
All proceeds go towards funding organisation’s free testing programme for vulnerable communities.
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NewsHighland Film Group launches US theatrical distribution arm
Division to release six to eight films a year starting in November with Jiu Jitsu starring Nicolas Cage, Frank Grillo.
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NewsSundance Institute unveils new Documentary Film Program head
Carrie Lozano stars on October 1 and succeeds interim director Kristin Feeley
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NewsSaban Films picks up Mel Gibson dark comedy 'Fatman'
Fortitude International handles international sales.
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NewsParticipant, Bong Joon Ho to produce human trafficking film ‘Sea Fog’
Matt Palmer to write and direct.
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NewsNeon, Fathom partner on release of Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Memories Of Murder’
”The film is an uncanny, yet natural, mixture of horror and comedy because we were truly living in such times…”
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NewsBest Friend Forever boards sales on Egyptian Cannes 2020 title ‘Souad’
Egyptian drama follows two teenage sisters who escape conversative reality via the social networks.
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NewsDominic Buchanan, Bennett McGhee launch film and TV outfit Home Team
The firm will focus on under-represented creatives.
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NewsInternational box office: ‘Tenet’ adds $58m; ‘After We Collided’ makes strong start (update)
In holdover markets, the overall decline for ‘Tenet’ was 36%, a decent hold for blockbuster fare.