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NewsRotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund awards €333,000 in latest round
Recipients include Chile’s Dominga Sotomayor [pictured].
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NewsMortensen to produce/star in Alonso drama
Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen has signed on to produce and star in Lisandro Alonso’s upcoming untitled drama.
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NewsVMI sells major territories on Blood Of Redemption
VMI Worldwide has licensed its upcoming production to star Dolph Lundgren and Vinnie Jones in multiple territories, including eOne Films North America for North America, Anchor Bay for the UK, KSM for Germany and Klockworx for Japan.
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NewsFocus World acquires US rights to The Deep
Baltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic foreign language Oscar submission and survival story premiered in Toronto and will open through Focus Features’ alternative distribution label in the first half of 2013.
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NewsMaria Bello to star in James Wan thriller for Dimension
The studio made the announcement on Tuesday morning (13) and said shooting on The Untitled ‘James Wan Presents’ Thriller was scheduled to commence in January in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Shooting on family drama Sequoia underway
Andy Landen directs from a screenplay by Andrew Rothschild about a chance encounter with a boy in Sequoia National Park that disrupts a patient’s suicide plans.
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NewsDistribution: Cohen takes Son, Cinema Guild to play Viola
Cohen Media Group has acquired US distribution rights and English language remake rights from Epithete Films to Gilles Legrand’s family drama YWBMS (Tu Sera Mon Filles) starring Niels Arestrup, Lorant Deutsch and Patrick Chesnais.
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NewsSimon Beaufoy to adapt Billy Lynn for Ink Factory, Film4
The Ink Factory has optioned Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain and has lined up Oscar winner Simon Beaufoy [pictured] to adapt the screenplay.
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Russian Cinema Fund partners on Generation P release
The Federal Fund For Social And Economic Support To National Cinematography (Russian Cinema Fund) has teamed up on the release with New World Distribution and producers Jim Steele and Victor Ginzburg.
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Industry moves: Panavision, Kodak announce senior hires
Kimberly Snyder has been named CEO and board member of Panavision and is replaced by Andrew R Evenski in her previous role as president and general manager of Eastman Kodak Company’s entertainment Imaging division.
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Kid Cannabis, Monica wrap for producers
Gordon Bijelonic and Datari Turner Films have completed principal photography on Kid Cannabis in Victoria, Canada, and on Monica in Houston, Texas.
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Eight Rawi Screenwriters Lab participants named
The Royal Film Commission-Jordan and Sundance Institute announced on Tuesday (13) the screenwriting fellows for the eighth Rawi Screenwriters Lab.
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NewsScott Free readies fan footage doc on Bruce Springsteen
Producers call for fans’ filmed footage submissions for new documentary on The Boss.
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NewsC More, Miramax ink Nordic pact
There Will Be Blood, Chicago, The Hours coming to C More’s linear channels and streaming service C More Play.
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NewsCinedigm acquires Violet & Daisy, Arthur Newman
The Los Angeles-based alternative content and distributor announced on Monday (12) it had taken North American rights to Oscar-winning Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher’s feature directorial debut.
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NewsBen Affleck to receive Santa Barbara honour
The director and star of awards season frontrunner Argo will collect the Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Jan 26.
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Wolfe Releasing picks up James Dean film
Matthew Mishory’s A Portrait Of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951 (AKA Joshua Tree: 1951, A Portrait Of James Dean) stars James Preston, Dan Glenn, newcomer Dalilah Rain, Edward Singletary Jr and Erin Daniels.
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NewsSkyfall notches record debut in the US
Eon, Sony and MGM’s Skyfall pulled off the biggest debut of the franchise on an estimated $87.8m through Sony and powered a 31% climb for the top 12 box office against the same session last year.
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NewsSundance’s Film Forward reveals line-up
Touring festival Film Forward has unveiled the titles that will be taken to communities throughout the US and around the world in 2013.