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Cast assembles for UA's The Cabin In The Woods
Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz and Jesse Williams will join previously announced Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford in UA's horror project The Cabin In The Woods.Drew Goddard is directing from a screenplay by Goddard and Joss Whedon, who is also producing. Details of the plot ...
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Chow Yun-fat to star in Dadi Century's Confucius biopic
Beijing-based Dadi Century Film has confirmed that Chow Yun-fat will star in its upcoming biopic Confucius, in which he will portray the great Chinese philosopher and sage. Chen Daoming (Hero) will portray Lao Zi, another Chinese philosopher and the founder of Taoism, who gave Confucius advice on history and the ...
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Colson's Cloud Nine Films signs five-year deal with Pathe UK
Christian Colson, has formed his own company, Cloud Nine Films and struck a five-year development, production, sales and distribution deal with Pathe UK. Colson, who left Celador Films on March 1 2009, remains a shareholder in Celador, while Celador chairman Paul Smith was made a director of Cloud Nine Films. ...
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UK's Potboiler Productions and Slate Films join forces
Simon Channing Williams and Gail Egan of Potboiler Productions are teaming up with Andrea Calderwood of Slate Films.They will work together across a range of upcoming projects including John Le Carre’s The Mission Song, adapted by Neal Purvis and Rob Wade; classic Victorian drama Effie; Jeremy Brock’s Slave, to be ...
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Romanian CNC awards $4.4m in funding
The Romanian National Film Centre (CNC) has announced approximately $4.4m in funding for film projects and productions, including $3.3m for feature film production.The single largest grant was $405,000 for Tuesday After Christmas by Radu Muntean (Boogie, The Paper Will Be Blue). Producer Multimedia Est presented the project at Rotterdam's CineMart ...
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Back to the mainland: China opens up to co-productions
Shooting permits are being issued again in China after a difficult 2008. Between October 2008 and January 2009, the Film Bureau approved 17 projects to shoot in China. Only eight received permits between June and September last year.Among the Asian projects are Cinema Popular's Dark October, which will start shooting ...
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Guy Maddin to shoot short for NFB's 70th anniversary
The National Film Board of Canada has commissioned idiosyncratic auteur Guy Maddin to create a short film to commemorate the NFB's 70th anniversary.The project, Night Mayor, goes before camera on March 9 on location in the filmmaker's hometown of Winnipeg, the city memorialized in Maddin's critical hit My Winnipeg. Maddin ...
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Lionsgate furthers Tyler Perry relationship by acquiring next two films
Lionsgate has wasted little time extending its lucrative relationship with Tyler Perry, whose number one US release Madea Goes To Jail scored a record launch recently for both studio and film-maker and stands at $65.5m after less than two weeks.The company has acquired rights to the prolific film-maker's next twoprojects ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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CBS Films takes feature rights to The Christmas Cookie Club
CBS Films and its corporate sibling under the CBS Corporation banner Simon & Schuster have acquired feature rights to the publisher's upcoming release The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman.Said to be in the vein of The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants andSteel Magnolias, The Christmas Cookie Club centres on ...
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Nigel Wooll to produce The Brigadier with UK's Turn of the Century
Nigel Wooll, executive producer on Miss Potter and co-producer on GI Jane, is to produce The Brigadier alongside Turn of the Century Productions.The UK production company optioned the international thriller The Brigadier by Josh Rosenberg. Keith Sweitzer brought the script to Turn of the Century and will produce for the ...
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Telefilm backs seven feature projects from Quebec
Telefilm Canada has announced it will invest in seven Quebecois feature projects, including the true-life story of airline pilot Robert Piche, who glided his powerless jetliner to a safe landing across hundreds of miles of open ocean. Piche will be directed by Erik Canuel from a screenplay by Chantal Cadieux ...
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Cannes announces participants for upcoming Cinefondation Residence
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the six participants participating in the 18th session of the Cinefondation Residence.The filmmakers are from Israel, Poland, Slovenia, Germany, Guatemala and Chile. There are four first-time and two sophomore directors in the bunch.The six filmmakers will spend four and a half months honing their ...
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German Federal Film Board's finances in question after court ruling
Future financing of the German Federal Film Board (FFA) was potentially put into question after the German Administrative Court ruled this week that the national funding institution's cinema levy is unconstitutional.According to the German Film Law (FFG) cinema owners are required to pay a levy of between 1.8% and 3% ...
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Nordisk hopes for pan-Scandinavian blockbuster with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Men Who Hate Women or Män som hatar kvinnor at home) - part one of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium thriller trilogy - could set box-office records with its hotly anticipated opening today in Sweden and Denmark.Danish major Nordisk ...
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Juraj Herz to begin shooting Habermann in March
Slovak auteur Juraj Herz will begin filming March 17 on his new film, Habermann.The $10m production is a co-production between Art Oko Film of Germany, KN Filmcompany of the Czech Republic, and Wega Film of Austria.Atlas Film International is handling international sales. Art Oko producer Karel Dirka expects to have ...
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Zentropa gives birth to new animation outfit
Denmark's Zentropa has launched a new animation company, Rambuk, to be headed by director Stefan Fjeldmark.Most recently Fjeldmark has been working with Denmark's Fine and Mellow Productions in a non-animation role. Commenting on the appointment, Zentropa CEO, Peter Aalbaek Jensen described Fjeldmark as having 'a rare ability to combine his ...
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Public funding for cinema in Italy cut by 23% for 2009
Arts funding in Italy for 2009 has been drastically reduced, with cinema hit by a reduction of $26.7m (Euros 20.9m), sparking a move by the arts community to change Italy's laws governing funding for cinema and the arts. The budget for Italy's single arts fund, the FUS, has been reduced ...
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Ning Hao gears up to shoot Chinese road movie
Chinese filmmaker Ning Hao will start shooting road movie Wu Ren Qu in China's north-west Xinjiang province on March 10, Ning's Stoneman Films has confirmed. China Film Group Corporation and Beijing Guoli Changsheng Film and TV Productions - which backed Ning's last film Crazy Racer - are both investing in ...