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1745 articles available in total starting from 12/09/2017. Last article published on 07/05/2024.

Public funding remains paramount to finance fiction films, but production incentives are on the rise

Public funding remains paramount to finance fiction films, but production incentives are on the rise

A new European Audiovisual Observatory study finds that the share of direct public funding in financing decreases with increasing market size and budget volume  

07/05 | Production | Funding | Europe

Shokir Kholkiov's sophomore feature Leg heading to Cannes

Shokir Kholkiov's sophomore feature Leg heading to Cannes

The dark, grotesque comedy, now in development, will be presented at the Central Asian Coproduction Workshop organised by the CNC  

07/05 | Production | Funding | Kazakhstan/Italy/Germany/France/Norway/Taiwan

Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar to star in Sky series Iris

Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar to star in Sky series Iris

The brand-new “sun-drenched thriller,” set to enter production this month in Sardinia and created by Luther’s Neil Cross, follows a rootless and enigmatic genius  

07/05 | Production | Funding | UK/Italy

Hernán Rosselli's Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed sets sail for Cannes

Hernán Rosselli's Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed sets sail for Cannes

The Directors’ Fortnight-selected picture, sold by MPM Premium, is a drama set in the criminal underworld of bookmakers and blends found footage with fiction  

07/05 | Production | Funding | Argentina/Spain/Portugal

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas topline John Carney’s musical comedy Power Ballad

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas topline John Carney’s musical comedy Power Ballad

The feature charting the story of a wedding singer, a rock star and the song that comes between them is now filming in Dublin and will be sold at the upcoming Marché du Film  

06/05 | Production | Funding | USA/Ireland

Jahfar Muataz’s revenge thriller Crossing Lines in the works

Jahfar Muataz’s revenge thriller Crossing Lines in the works

Boarded by Playtime, the picture revolves around a reformed criminal who enjoys his new life as a gang exit counsellor  

03/05 | Production | Funding | Denmark

Gints Zilbalodis’s sophomore feature, Flow, set to world-premiere in Cannes' Un Certain Regard

Gints Zilbalodis’s sophomore feature, Flow, set to world-premiere in Cannes' Un Certain Regard

The new animated film follows a stubborn cat who is forced to share a small boat with a group of other animals after a terrible flood wreaks havoc on the world  

03/05 | Production | Funding | Latvia/Belgium/France

Stefano Finesi and Gianluca Buttari • Distributors, Teodora Film

Interview: Stefano Finesi and Gianluca Buttari • Distributors, Teodora Film

“To promote Anatomy of a Fall, we purchased a lot of advertising space at the beginning of the major national true crime podcasts”

The two representatives of the Roman outfit talked to us about their arthouse distribution work, as well as their commercial and marketing strategies  

02/05 | Distributor of the Month

Annabel Jankel to helm World War II-set thriller Desperate Journey

Annabel Jankel to helm World War II-set thriller Desperate Journey

Penned by Michael Radford, the feature stars Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Clara Rugaard and Til Schweiger, and is about a young man forced to flee Vienna as Nazi hysteria takes hold  

02/05 | Production | Funding | UK

Tilda Swinton joins Colin Farrell in Edward Berger’s The Ballad of a Small Player

Tilda Swinton joins Colin Farrell in Edward Berger’s The Ballad of a Small Player

The picture, produced for Netflix, follows a high-stakes gambler who lays low in Macau and encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation  

02/05 | Production | Funding | UK/Germany

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