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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 ...
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Beijing-based ACE lines up thriller, Japan co-production
Beijing-based distributor-turned-producer ACE Film Studio has announced that it is lining up thriller Midnight Taxi and China-Japan co-production Dream Wall (working title). Adapted from Xu Zi's hit online novel of the same name, Midnight Taxi tells the true story of a Beijing-based taxi driver's encounter with a mysterious woman. Scriptwriter ...
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Examining Pathe UK's newpath
Last week, Pathe UK announced its decision to focus on developing and producing its own films rather than acquiring third-party titles. Its move to create all of its own product supply and to team up with Warner Entertainment UK (WEUK) for the distribution of its films has met a mixed ...
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USAID invites international film productions to Serbia
A new website to promote Serbia as a location for international co-productions has been launched by Film In Serbia, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) project set up to promote Serbia to the international filmmaking community. Michael Harvey, chief of the USAID mission in Serbia told Screendaily that he ...
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Film 4's Tessa Ross concerned for channel's future in face of cuts
Tessa Ross, controller of film and drama at Film 4, which is currently riding high on the success of Slumdog Millionaire, has told a UK House of Lords select committee that the channel could be in danger in the face of Channel 4 cut-backs. 'We would be foolish not to ...
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Matt Birch leaves Endgame and joins Montana Artists Agency
LA-based production services outfit Montana Artists Agency has hired studio and production veteran Matt Birch as senior vice president of features.The move bolsters both the domestic and global reach of the company, which services the film, commercial, television, music video and multimedia industries worldwide.Through his experience and network of relationships, ...
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James Marsh reunites with UK production company Wall to Wall
Director James Marsh and UK production company Wall to Wall are working on a documentary that focuses on the world of dreams. Dream Diaries (working title) is based on a Canadian man's dreams that were written down over the course of his lifetime. In conversation with ScreenDaily.com Marsh said 'The ...
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Leap Year jumps on Ireland's new tax deal
The US feature Leap Year staring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode has been green lit for an Irish shoot at the end of this month.The news was confirmed after improvements to the Irish tax incentive, Section 481, were ratified by the European Commission this week. The amendments increase the cap ...
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Sakamoto starts production on Zatoichi The Last
Japanese director Junji Sakamoto has started shooting Zatoichi The Last, starring SMAP member Shingo Katori in the lead role of the famed blind swordsman, for Japan's Sedic International and Toho Studios. Toho has announced a 2010 release for the film which has secured investment from Celluloid Dreams. The French sales ...
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Renny Harlin's Finnish biopic Mannerheim delayed due to financing
Finnish Hollywood director Renny Harlin's comeback to local filmmaking, the $12.6m (Euros 10m) Mannerheim, which was scheduled to have its world première in Helsinki on Jan 15 next year, has been delayed and is now expected to open during the autumn 2010.The biopic of Finnish historical legend Carl Gustaf Emil ...
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Jude, Komanderev win best pitch prizes at Sofia Meetings
At the Sofia International Film Festival's sixth Sofia Meetings, atotal of 22 projects werepresented in the Second Films Pitching lineup, the Plus Minus One selection of debut and third features, and the new Sofia Cinelinks Sarajevo programme.At the end of the two days of pitches and one-to-one meetings with potential ...