Small MPU – Page 886
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NewsRachid Bouchareb lines up Forest Whitaker for trilogy finale
The Oscar winning actor will play a Muslim parolee released from prison into a small city bristling with Muslim-Arabic paranoia. The untitled project is scheduled to begin in 2013 and will be the final entry in Bouchareb’s English-language trilogy.
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NewsRelativity scores Chinese coup with Huaxia, SkyLand deals
The LA-based company has gained a gilt-edged foothold in China’s notoriously inaccessible release calendar after investing in the first China-US distributor and striking a strategic alliance with state-run distributor Huaxia Film.
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NewsCreative England seeks board members
New regional umbrella body Creative England has announced that it is now recruiting for members for its national board.
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Features(UPDATED) Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland
Winners and attendees at the 64th Locarno Film Festival (August 3 - 13)
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NewsVoice cast including Twisted Sister's Dee Snider sign up for Ronal
The voice cast for the English-language dub of Ronal The Barbarian will include Pierce Cravens, Ben Bledsoe (Glee), Ashley Acarino (The Devils Own), Louis Lombardi (The Sopranos) and Twisted Sister vocalist Dee Snider.
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NewsBollywood star Shammi Kapoor dies at age 70
Bollywood actor Shamser Raj Kapoor, known as Shammi Kapoor, died Sunday in a Mumbai hospital after suffering from kidney disease for several years.
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NewsBangladeshi director Tareque Masud killed in car crash
Four other people were killed in the crash including the CEO of local TV station ATN Ashfaque Munier Mishuk; Masud’s wife, producer Catherin Masud is in a serious condition in hospital.
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NewsLFS relaunches London Film Society
London Film School to host masterclasses and workshops for society dormant since 1939.
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NewsCameron Crowe Pearl Jam doc to reach 75 sites in UK
75 sites in the UK and Ireland to simultaneously screen rockumentary in September
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NewsRevolver plans feature film about Lenny 'The Guv'nor' McLean
Revolver Entertainment’s Gunslinger production arm is planning a film based on the life story of bare-knuckle fighter Lenny McLean.
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NewsSalzgeber & Co takes North Sea Texas for Germany
UK-based sales agent Wavelength Pictures closes deal on Montreal Film Festival drama.
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NewsVicky Jewson plans October shoot for action thriller Born of War
Film will shoot in UK and Morocco.
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NewsApes climb to the top in the UK
Fox’s Apes beats out Smurfs and Harry Potter for UK box-office crown.
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NewsCronenberg, Almodovar added to New York Film Festival
David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method and Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In have been added as special galas to the festival, which runs from Sept 30-Oct 16.
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NewsPaladin plots awards run for Boy
The distributor has picked up US rights and will release Taika Waititi’s drama theatrically towards the end of the fourth quarter with Unison Films in association with Radius Films.
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CMG to commence sales in Toronto on horror title Creature
Ed Noeltner’s Beverly Hills-based international sales company Cinema Management Group will introduce the project to buyers in Canada following the deal with Sid, Bill and Jon Sheinberg’s Bubble Factory.
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NewsNick Hamm joins Momentum Entertainment Group
The Bafta-winner and director of Killing Bono will head the newly formed scripted entertainment division.
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NewsUK government commits £363m to broadband roll-out
Counties in England are set to get £294.8m, and Scotland £68.8m, in a move that has significant implications for the film industry.
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FeaturesHeather Stewart, BFI
The new creative director of public programme at the BFI talks to Screen about the changing role of the BFI and her long term plans for the organisation.
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NewsNetflix to launch in Spain in January 2012
Major film streaming and DVD rental site Netflix will arrive in Spain in January 2012, following its success in the US and Canada, but will face a tough challenge in a country ravaged by piracy.