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Long before the lack of minority nominees for this year's Oscars led to a controversy that motivated the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to examine ways it can [...]

Mia Wasikowska is set to star in the indie drama 'Tracks,' produced by 'The King's Speech' duo Emile Sherman and Iain Canning. John Curran ('The Painted Veil') directs the pic, [...]

With the worldwide success of 'The Hunger Games' still ringing as a clarion to the viability of independently financed films, Lionsgate's $412.5 million deal to buy Summit Entertainment is echoing [...]

With the cancellation of two pivotal events in the Arab film festival calendar in November--the Cairo Film Festival and Syria's Damascus Film Festival--due to political turmoil that has grown out [...]

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has snapped up North American rights to period Parisian drama 'Bel Ami,' toplined by Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman. Pic, which is being shopped at AFM [...]

Terrence Malick will shoot his next two pics back-to-back--with Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett to star in both. 'Lawless,' will topline Ryan Gosling, Bale, Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Haley Bennett [...]

The U.K. pay-TV market is getting a shake-up and, according to many independent distributors, it couldn't come soon enough. The imminent arrival of Netftix has pressured Amazon-owned competitor Lovefilm to [...]

Robert Redford and Shia LaBeouf are set to star in Voltage Pictures and Wildwood Enterprises' political action thriller 'The Company You Keep.' Redford will direct from a script by Lem [...]

Having experienced the newfound confidence of the independent film market, the willingness to make deals that break borders and the flexible thinking needed to overcome setbacks, U.K.-based Future Films is [...]

After a nearly three-year slumber, the international market is waking up again. Sales agents' lineups are looking heftier. There's newfound confidence among those gathering for Cannes--so much so that some [...]

Bradley Cooper has signed on to star in drama 'The Words,' which Lisa Wilson's Parlay Films, an affiliate of GK Films, is preselling at Berlin's European Film Market. Jeremy Irons [...]

In an era when companies are diversifying and seeking alternative ways to tap into different sectors of the film and television biz, London's Soho-based vfx house Framestore is no exception. [...]

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's untitled follow-up to 'The Hurt Locker' will be fully financed by Annapurna Pictures, the Los Angeles-based shingle headed by Megan Ellison, daughter of software billionaire [...]

Warp Films has taken some canny risks in the past 16 months. Its comedy 'Sub marine' was one of the hottest properties at the Toronto fest and sold to the [...]

Olivia Thirlby has been cast as Cassandra Anderson in DNA Films' 3D adaptation of 'Judge Dredd.' Thirlby, best known for playing the best friend of Ellen Page's preggo character in [...]

More than a month after Blighty's new coalition government shuttered the U.K. Film Council, officials are closing in on a new plan of action for the biz. Inside sources have [...]

Brit pics are waving the Union Jack high this year in Toronto as the fest program is bursting with solid U.K. fare. Tom Hooper's King George VI biopic, 'The King's [...]

As at last year's Cannes film fest, 3D pics have been the talk of the Croisette, with the advent of 3D TV providing added value for library titles this year. [...]

FilmNation's teen comedy 'Premature,' which began lensing in Atlanta on Wednesday, has added Craig Roberts ('Submarine') and Alan Tudyk ('I, Robot') to its cast. The two thesps join Katie Findlay, [...]

Leopardrama, the fiction arm of London and New York-based Argonon, is bolstering its film slate with a new title about Brit female impersonator and entertainer Danny La Rue. Pic, which [...]

The Dubai Film Festival has joined forces with the Center for New Cinema and conference org Naseba to launch the Cinematic Innovation Summit, to take place in Dubai on Dec. [...]

LONDON Blighty's Pinewood Shepperton Group is plowing forward with its proposal to cancel its listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and move to the Alternative Investment [...]

LONDON U.K. and U.S.-based Content Media is set to delist from London's Alternative Investment Market stock exchange and go private amid a shareholding restructure. The entertainment company, which holds the [...]

Angel World Entertainment, which launched its $150 million equity fund for indie pics Saturday in Cannes, is set to finance and produce dramedy 'The Big Shoe,' starring Jim Sturgess and [...]

Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska are to star in 'Carol,' an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 'The Price of Salt.' The pic will be directed by John Crowley. Phyllis Nagy pens [...]

Pierce Brosnan's production company Irish DreamTime has entered into a multipicture financing and distribution deal with the Solution Entertainment Group, with 'November Man' set as the launch title and potential [...]

Michelle Monaghan is set to star alongside Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan in John Erick Dowdle's thriller 'The Coup.' Pic, which Sierra/Affinity will be shopping to foreign buyers at the [...]

U.K.-based Prescience Film Finance has a variety of funds under management that have been raised and developed since it launched in 2005, including debt, equity and short term lending. Headed [...]

U.K. indie docu distributor Dogwoof is setting up shop in Gotham with plans to expand to L.A. Following preem of 'Town of Runners' last week at Tribeca, Dogwoof U.S.A. plans [...]

It's going to be a crowded few months for the film biz in London this summer, with Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in June, followed by the Olympic Games beginning [...]

LONDON Joni Sighvatsson's Palomar Pictures ('Killer Elite') has optioned the rights to upcoming vampire book series 'Blood of Eden,' penned by young-adult scribe Julie Kagawa. The first installment of the [...]

Brit thesps Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots are set to star alongside Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's 'King of Soho.' Pic, penned by Matt Greenhalgh, is about the [...]

Evan Rachel Wood and Danish thesp Mads Mikkelsen have joined the cast of 'The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,' in which they'll co-star alongside Shia LaBeouf. Wood will play a [...]

Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd and Sally Hawkins are set to star in 'Junebug' helmer Phil Morrison's 'Lucky Dog.' HanWay Films is handling international sales on 'Dog,' which begins lensing next [...]

Lionsgate has picked up U.S. rights to Robert Redford starrer 'All Is Lost,' directed by 'Margin Call' writer-helmer J.C. Chandor. The man-versus-nature drama stars Redford as a man lost at [...]

German helmer Daniel Stamm ('The Last Exorcism') is set to helm psychological thriller 'The Darkness,' which HanWay Films will unveil to buyers at the Berlinale this week. Project will topline [...]

Jason Statham will topline a remake of 1986 Butt Reynolds starrer 'Heat,' which will be helmed by Brian De Palma. Nick Meyer's Sierra/Affinity is selling to foreign buyers at EFM [...]

Philip Seymour Hoffman is in final negotiations to star in Anton Corbijn's modern-day thriller 'A Most Wanted Man,' which Glen Basner's FilmNation Entertainment will be shopping to buyers in Berlin [...]

Juno Temple has joined Alexandra Roach in the cast of 'Girls' Night Out,' which HanWay Films is shopping to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next week. The [...]

Mark Ruffalo has joined Scarlett Johansson in the pic 'Can a Song Save Your Life?,' which Exclusive Media is shopping in Berlin. Pic, which is helmed and penned by John [...]

Mia Wasikowska has joined Jesse Eisenberg to star in Richard Ayoade's second feature, 'The Double.' Pic, inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's book, is co-penned by Ayoade and Avi Korine, and follows [...]

Kate Hudson is,set to star in Joe Lynch s actioner 'Everly,' the new project from Adam Ripp and Rob Paris' Crime Scene Pictures. Hudson will star as a dow-non-her-luck woman, [...]

Stephen Dorff has been tapped for the lead in U.K.-Israeli co-production 'Zaytoun,' directed by Eran Riklis ('Lemon Tree'). Dorff will play an Israeli fighter pilot shot down over Beirut in [...]

Just nine days after U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron visited Blighty's Pinewood Shepperton Studios, the government has rejected the studio's Project Pinewood expansion plan.The 200 million [pounds sterling] ($309 million) [...]

Bedlam Prods., one of the shingles behind 'The King's Speech,' has produced feature-length TV drama-docu 'Titanic: Case Closed,' which has been snapped up by Smithsonian in the U.S. and National [...]

Brit Amma Asante is set to direct 'Belle' with 'The Iron Lady' producer Damian Jones' DJ Films. Story, set in the 1780s, follows a mixed-race girl, adopted into an aristocratic [...]

The BBC's docu strand 'Storyville' and the Irish Film Board have inked a partnership under which they will co-produce up to five documentaries in the U.K. and Ireland in the [...]

The eighth edition of the Dubai Film Festival unveiled its lineup of 171 pics from 56 territories on Monday, including Alexander Payne's 'The Descendants' and British drama 'My Week With [...]

LONDON -- European Film Promotion has unveiled the jury for its Shooting Stars talent event at the Berlin Film Festival. Jury members are Danish thesp Thure Lindhardt ('Flame & Citron'), [...]

SAM MENDES AND THE KEY CAST of 'Skyfall,' the official title of the 23rd James Bond pic, descended upon London's Corinthia Hotel on Thursday for a press conference to launch [...]