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Lightdox Boards Rotterdam Tiger Competition Entry ‘Fiume O Morte!’

Sales company Lightdox has boarded Igor Bezinović‘s hybrid documentary “Fiume o morte!,” which premieres in the Tiger Competition section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The Croatian-Italian-Slovenian coproduction takes the audience back to 1919, when the Italian nationalist poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. “Today, the citizens of […]

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‘Mafia Wars’ Star Sidhartha Mallya Boards ‘Thrill Ride’

Film Bridge International has added Sidhartha Mallya (“Mafia Wars”) to the cast of “Thrill Ride,” with production scheduled to commence in the U.K. during the first quarter of 2025. The thriller, helmed by Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura from a script by Chad Law (“Lights Out”) and Christopher Jolley (“Granny Krampus”), follows a group of passengers […]

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Anurag Kashyap Boards Venice Title ‘Pooja, Sir,’ Channel 4 Takes U.K.

Indian auteur Anurag Kashyap has boarded Deepak Rauniyar‘s “Pooja, Sir” as an executive producer, while Channel 4 has snapped up the film for the U.K. and Ireland. The film debuted in the Venice Film Festival‘s Horizons strand competition earlier this year, and has subsequently played Hamburg and Busan, with the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival up next. It […]