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Film about the iconic football captain will coincide with the 50th anniversary of England’s 1966 World Cup triumph; eOne to distribute in UK.

Production is set to begin next month on a feature-length documentary celebrating the life of the golden boy of English football, Bobby Moore, who captained the national side to a historic victory in the 1966 World Cup Final.

Timeless Films will make the untitled film, in which archive footage of Moore’s life and times will blend with interviews, old and new, and the real stories behind Moore’s footballing glory; his battles with two bouts of cancer; the facts that led to false accusations about a stolen bracelet; and the failure to give a homegrown hero anything like the respect he deserved in later life.

Written and produced by football journalist and TV presenter Matt Lorenzo, it will be directed by Finn McGough, who will also co-write with Lorenzo.

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Austria has selected Andreas Prochaska’s The Dark Valley as its official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. Sam Riley stars in the German-language revenge Western based on the bestseller by Thomas Willman. In the film, a stranger arrives in a remote high mountain valley toward the end of the 19th century and asks the clannish village community if he can take shelter for the winter. But he knows the villagers’ gloomy secret, and a mysterious series of deaths ensues. Produced by Stefan Arndt of Xfilme, the pic won the German Film Prize and seven Lolas after premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Watch the subtitled trailer above.

Former Sony Pictures Television execs Ed Louwerse and Julian Curtis have launched independent distribution company Lineup Industries. The firm will focus on repping international sales of formats and derived IP. News comes just ahead of the Mipcom TV market,...