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NewsEastern Promises writer Steve Knight to make directing debut with Hummingbird
Casting underway on thriller produced by Shine, New Regency, Paul Webster and Tracey Seaward.
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NewsBFI announces £2m fund to support UK specialised audience development
Temporary fund will provide financial support to “specialised” film sector for one year.
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NewsArts Alliance Media to roll out digital cinemas across Netherlands
AAM has signed a deal with Cinema Digitaal to expand across 500 screens.
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NewsNimbus plans English-language adaptations of The Pact, Worms of Carmine Street
One project is about a younger man’s stormy relationship with writer Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen).
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NewsKeisha Castle-Hughes to star in Greener Grass
The Light & Dark Films production is an adaptation of Hagen Engler’s novel about post-Apartheid South Africa.
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NewsMike Medavoy to get honour in Locarno
Veteran US producer Mike Medavoy to receive Locarno Film Festival’s Raimondo Rezzonico Prize
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FeaturesRio injects a little samba into listless UK box office
Fox’s animation grosses $2.5m (£1.5m) to lead the pack in one of the year’s weakest frames
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NewsLife In A Day gets UK release through Vue, HanWay books international sales
Exhibitor Vue teams with Scott Free and HanWay for UK theatrical release of YouTube-inspired film.
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NewsBleiberg Entertainment picks up sales title There Be Dragons
The sales agency is preparing to commence business at the Cannes market on Roland Joffe’s sweeping drama produced by Ignacio Gomez Sancha, Ignacio Nunez and Joffe.
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NewsCohen Media Group to release Oranges And Sunshine in US
The distributor will handle the US release of Jim Loach’s true story about social worker Margaret Humphreys who in the late 80s uncovered a secret UK government programme to deport children from the UK to Australia.
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NewsO-Scope takes US rights to If A Tree Falls
Marshall Curry’s follow-up to Racing Dreams and Street Fight recently earned a special mention at the Miami International Film Festival.
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NewsQuartet joins Fantastic Films’ Bollywood animation Delhi Safari
Vanessa Williams, Brad Garrett, Jane Lynch and Christopher Lloyd have joined the stereoscopic 3D project, set to screen in the Cannes market.
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NewsScott Cooper to direct Out Of The Furnace for Relativity
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free are producing with Relativity and Energy Entertainment.
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NewsLarry Crowne to screen at closing night gala of ScreenSingapore
Larry Crowne, directed by and starring Tom Hanks, will screen at the closing night gala of ScreenSingapore on June 11.
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NewsSpurlock's Greatest Movie Ever Sold to open Sheffield Doc/Fest
Morgan Spurlock is expected to attend the opening night of the festival, which will take place in June for the first time this year.
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NewsHagen, Skarsgard set to star in big UK-Danish production Kon-Tiki
Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning will direct the film for Denmark’s Nordisk and the UK’s Recorded Picture Company.
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NewsArrow strikes UK deal for Mackenzie's Perfect Sense
TrustNordisk handled the sale — IFC previously bought US rights after Sundance premiere.
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CommentLocation, Location, Location
Screen gets the low down on the life of a location manager, at a special event hosted at BAFTA.
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CommentNew BFI 'open for business'
Industry gathers at BFI Southbank to toast the week-old ‘new era for film.’