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Anne Hathaway to play Judy Garland in TWC's Get Happy
Anne Hathaway, nominated for a lead actress Oscar last season for Rachel Getting Married, is attached to star for The Weinstein Company as Judy Garland in film and stage versions of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life Of Judy Garland.Get Happy is based on hundreds of interviews and Garland’s ...
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Raintree, Wayne Wang prepare Singapore historical thriller
MediaCorp Raintree Pictures has announced much-anticipated further details on its historical film 1965 - currently in development with Wayne Wang lined up to direct.Based on the turbulent title year that Singapore broke away from Malaysia to become independent, 1965 will be a mainstream political thriller with a projected budget of ...
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Hit Singapore director Jack Neo plans ghost story triptych
Record-breaking Singaporean hit director Jack Neo (I Not Stupid)has announced a new projectGot Ghost Meh(working title) in development.Neo plans to make a 90-minute feature film made up of three parts - each a 30-minute-long ghost story filled with horror and comedy elements.Known for his poignant low-budget comedy hits, the director ...
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Dayyan Eng enlists Daniel Wu, Gong Beibi for Inseparable
Chinese American filmmaker Dayyan Eng (Waiting Alone) is to produce and direct a black-comedy from his own script titledInseparable. Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu (Shinjuku Incident) and Chinese actress Gong Beibi (Call For Love, Waiting Alone) are heading the cast.The project is being planned as a mid-budget film under Chinese ...
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Film Agency For Wales awards $470,000 to three projects
The Film Agency For Wales has awarded $217,000 to Hattie Dalton’s Barafundle Bay. Dalton’s credits include Stoned and Layer Cake.The film was produced by Margaret Matheson, Vaughan Sivell and Kelly Broad and was written by Welsh born writer/producer Vaughan Sivell of Western Edge. Independent is on board as sales agents.BarafundleBay ...
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France bangs the drum for new tax incentive in Hong Kong
The French consul general for Hong Kong and Macau declared on Monday that the future ‘belonged to co-production between Europe and Asia’ and urged Asian producers to look at shooting films in France. He made the comments at an information session outlining the new 20% tax rebate for international productions ...
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Tribeca All Access selects 27 projects from US, UK, Australia, Canada
The Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute have selected 27 projects for the 2009 Tribeca All Access programme, which encourages industry support of filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities.TAA, supported by Bloomberg, is now in its sixth year, and will run during April 20-25 during the TFF.Participating directors and screenwriters ...
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Cinema Popular unveils $23m historical epic Bodyguards & Assassins
Start-up production and financing outfit Cinema Popular is unveiling its debut production today at Filmart - $23m historical epic Bodyguards And Assassins - to be directed by Teddy Chen.The film, which starts shooting in early April, features a host of Hong Kong and Chinese stars including Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, ...
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Hong Kong's 852 Films begins production on first feature Dream Home
New Hong Kong production and financing outfit 852 Films has started production on award-winning director Pang Ho Cheung’s latest film,Dream Home, starring Josie Ho, Anthony Wong and Eason Chan.The film, in which Ho plays a woman who will stop of nothing to own her dream home, is Pang’s first foray ...
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Painted Skin, Ip Man, Pleasant Goat to get new instalments
New instalments of three Chinese-language blockbusters in 2008 - Painted Skin, Ip Man and Pleasant Goat - will go into production later in 2009, according to backers of the three films.Two investors in 2008 hit Painted Skin will reteam to produce the second film adapted from the 18th century book ...
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Zhang Yimou lines up black comedy with Zhao Bensan
The Olympic Games now behind him, Zhang Yimou is preparing to shoot a black comedy with comedians Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang.Zhang has just returned from visiting Zhao and his theater troupe in Shenyang City of Northeastern China. Chinese media reported that it was a casting trip for his new ...
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Millennium trilogy goes theatrical after Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Following the recent success of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, all three films from Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy will now be released theatrically. The decision was announced by the project's main financier, Swedish public broadcaster SVT. Danish director Niels Arden Oplev's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ...
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Producer Paul Mezey looks outward from NYC
Paul Mezey does not have the insular New York mind-set of some independent producers based in the Big Apple. One of his next two productions, Joshua Marston's Blood Feud (working title), will shoot in Northern Albania while David Riker's The Girl will shoot in Texas and Mexico.He has also gone ...
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HAF: high-profile directors and Philippines focus
The seventh edition of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) will present 27 Asian projects over three days from March 23-25.High-profile directors in the line-up include China's Lu Chuan and Ning Hao, who participated in HAF 2005 with their now completed films Nanking! Nanking! and Crazy Racer respectively; ...
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Kent Smith: Australia's newest mini-mogul
Although he began producing features only three years ago, Kent Smith can bring more to a co-production deal than most Australian producers. He and his colleagues own the Adelaide-based Kojo Group, which includes post-production and other film services as well as a theatrical distribution division. Smith signed on as a ...
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Can other festivals learn from Adelaide'sinnovative funding strategy'
The world premieres of a selection of new Australian films put this year's Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) firmly on the international map. Six of these features were part-funded by the festival itself, and four of these in particular were responsible for much of the buzz.These were Sarah Watt's My Year ...
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Catherine Hardwicke returns to Summit for If I Stay
Catherine Hardwicke may not be returning to direct the Twilight follow-up New Moon for Summit but director and studio will work together again on the drama If I Stay.Based on Gayle Forman's book of the same name that will be published this spring by Penguin Young Readers Group imprint Dutton ...
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Babelsberg boards Boxhagener Platz and Jerry Cotton
Studio Babelsberg will co-produce two German feature productions Matti Geschonneck's Boxhagener Platz and Cyrill Boss and Phillip Stennert's Jerry Cotton. The announcement follows Studio Babelsberg's recent partnership on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Roman Polanski's The Ghost. Tragicomedy Boxhagener Platz which has just started principal photography, is a $4.8m (Euros ...
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France has record year for production and investment
France had a record year for production and production investment in 2008, according to figures released by France's Centre National du Cinema which warned that the industry still needs to be prudent in the current financial climate and pointed to the growing importance of online distribution. Overall, big and small ...
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Korea's Barunson acquires majority stake in Sio
Barunson, the investor/producer of Korean hit The Good, The Bad, The Weird, has acquired a majority stake in Sio Films, producer of hits such as Park Chan-wook's Old Boy. Barunson acquired 700,000 shares equalling a 51.8% stake, in Sio Films for $492,800. Head of Sio Films Syd Lim will now ...