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FeaturesToronto 2011: Matthew Goode
Matthew Goode stars in Jonathan Teplitzky’s Burning Man, playing a father dealing with tragedy who is struggling to put his life back in order.
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NewsNwimo's Northpoint lines up Drops, Necropolis
Stella Nwimo, the London-based producer attending the Producers Lab Toronto organised by EFP (with participation from the British Council), is here presenting new thriller 18 Drops, written by Steve Lewis and Tony Owen.
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FeaturesToronto 2011: Simon Davidson
After presenting three short films at TIFF, Canadian director Simon Davidson returns to the festival after a six-year hiatus with his first feature film, The Odds.
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NewsCoriolanus producer cranks up Ferrari film with Senna writer
Julia Taylor-Stanley’s slate also includes an adaptation of Henry James’ The Ambassadors.
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NewsMartha Marcy producers ready drifter tale The Low Road
Maybach Cunningham, the California-based production company behind with Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, is preparing its third feature to shoot this year.
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NewsCBS leaps for Salmon Fishing; buyers hot on Next, Oranges
Lasse Hallstrom’s well received Toronto premiere Salmon Fishing In The Yemen appeared bound for CBS Films on Sunday night after the distributor reportedly put an MG of around $4m on the table and not more than $5m as originally believed.
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NewsUniversal, Morgan Creek to co-finance The Thing
Universal Pictures and Morgan Creek Productions are to co-finance The Thing and will split duties on international distribution.
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NewsMountain of evidence grows for UK Film Policy Review
Film trade bodies and organisations were scrambling Friday to complete their submissions to the UK Government’s Film Policy Review consultation.
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NewsOccupant sets UK director Alex Holmes to survival thriller Quiver
LA-based Occupant Entertainment has boarded rights to the survival thriller Quiver and hired hot British director Alex Holmes, the BAFTA winning filmmaker of BBC mini-series Dunkirk.
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NewsSmurfs rule lacklustre international weekend on $15m
The Smurfs grossed a further $14.9m from 7,610 screens in 73 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) as the tally climbed to $321.2m.
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Baxter Brothers, Cinemad Presents launch distribution partnership
The micro independent distributors will distribute features and documentaries in theatres, museums, universities festivals “and any other venue that can project images on a screen.”
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The Day collaborators to adapt Afraid for Gold Circle
Producer Guy Danella and writer Luke Passmore, whose Midnight Madness entry The Day screens for press and industry on Monday at 10am, are adapting Jack Kilborn’s action horror novel Afraid for Gold Circle Films.
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NewsActor Eddie Marsan plans debut feature
British actor Eddie Marsan (who stars in TIFF title Tyrannosaur) will direct his first feature Pell Mell, for Warp Films.