Film News

EXCLUSIVE: Deal indicates growing importance of digital players in the market.

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Intandem boss Gary Smith has revealed details of his new production and financing company Blue Ocean Media.

EXCLUSIVE: Colt 45 writer Fathi Beddiar to direct Edward Bunker crime-thriller.

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Kong-based Tee is a well-known figure in the Asian film industry.

EXCLUSIVE: Pinewood’s first US production commitment is on Radiant’s Jim Gillespie thriller from Ransom writer Alexander Ignon.

Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel is set to star in The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of The Genius Ramanujan, which is being produced by Edward R Pressman of the Edward R Pressman Film Corporation and Prashita Chaudhary’s Cinemorphic Entertainment Company.

EXCLUSIVE: Brit actor Matthew Macfadyen is to play the lead in Ben Hopkins’ A Miracle, the new German-Turkish-French-British coproduction being put together by Paul Raphael’s Starfield Productions.

EXCLUSIVE: Metrodome nabs Gabriele Salvatores’ Siberian Education in Cannes and Ciaran Foy’s Citadel.

Deal is one of the first official accords to come together since France and China signed a co-production treaty last year.

EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales outfit launches production slate.

Swedish film production outfit Sonet Film has launched a new production arm, Sonet Television, complete with a slate of crime dramas.

Paris-based film financier Backup Media’s new content and rights management software Movie Chainer is proving a hit in the market.

The Russian Federations’ Ministry of Culture and film promotion body Roskino has showcased nine new and completed Russian films to the international media, distributors, and festival directors.

Helsinki-based Bronson Club and New York-based Uncorked Productions have started a new collaboration, Start To Finnish, to develop English-language international projects for six top Finnish directors.

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Cineplus Filmproduktion has come on board as co-producers of EPIC, an international co-production between the UK, Germany, Russian and Georgia.

One year after Relativity Media and EuropaCorp announced their coproduction and co-financing deal the parties are they will look to extend the relationship with a new slate of product.

Film festival attendees continue to be drenched by rain, and movie starring older actors thrive at the market.

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The Cannes veteran discusses his most difficult acquisition, avoiding the fest craziness and why he won’t be calling Michael Lynton at 4 a.m.

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The movie is being directed by Frank Gladstone and boasts Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez and Craig Ferguson in its voice cast.

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Jeremy Saulnier’s revenge tale is eyeing a fall theatrical release.

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