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Co-production report reopens debate over UK tax credit
A report prepared by Oxford Economics and commissioned by the UK Film Council (UKFC) has warned that the tax credit system makes co-productions unattractive to film-makers. The report's completion coincided with an event run by the Festival of German Film earlier this week. The event focussed on strategies and business ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y. lead Marc-Andre Grondin stars in 5150 Elm's Way
C.R.A.Z.Y. star Marc-Andre Grondin is before the camera as the lead of Eric Tessier's psychological thriller, 5150 Rues Des Ormes (5150 Elm's Way), for Montreal-based Cirrus Communications. The film is produced by Cirrus principal Pierre Even, who produced the 2005 Quebecois smash - it grossed C$6m and was released in ...
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Australia records a boom in numbers of productions
A record-breaking 41 films went into production in Australia in the 12 months up to June 30, according to statistics released today by Screen Australia. This wasmore productionsthan in any other annual period for at least 20 years.Cameras rolled on five international co-productions, 29 wholly Australianproductionsand seven foreign films.- Five ...
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First Australia-Iran film My Tehran For Sale will premiere in Adelaide
With the participation of Bahman Ghobadi (A Time For Drunken Horses), the first collaboration between Australia and Iran My Tehran For Sale will make its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) in February.The film is also the first feature produced by Julie Ryan since collaborating with director Rolf ...
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First ever Norway-Spain co-production The Frost completes filming
Co-produced by Spanish Alta Realitat and Norwegian Frost Media, The Frost, is a mystical drama inspired by Henrik Ibsen's play Little Eyof. The first feature by Spain's, Ferran Audi, The Frost has an international cast with Sweden's Lars Noren as a screen writer (Details), and Spain's David Omedes as the ...
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Highlight, Rosem team for Indo-French co-production
India's Highlight Films is joining forces with France's Rosem Films to co-produce The Conqueror, written and to be directed by female Indian filmmaker Alka Raghuram. Highlight's Mahesh Mathai and Rosem's Sylvain Bursztejn are jointly producing the Hindi-language film which has secured backing from Fonds Sud Cinema and is currently looking ...
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Board members at Japan's Picnic Pictures branch out
Board members at Japan's Picnic Pictures Inc have formed partnerships with two established film companies to set up separate production entities. Picnic president Tadaatsu Shundo has partnered with Tokyo Theatres Inc to establish Parade Inc. Shundo will serve as CEO and Toshikazu Nishigaya will serve as board member and head ...
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Sundance Documentary Film Program banks on 20 projects
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program has announced the 20 projects awarded financial and creative support from the Sundance Documentary Fund.Nearly 800 film-makers working in more than 70 countries submitted projects in what amounted to twice as many entries as there were last year.The grant recipients include six first-time feature ...
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Canada's Sook-Yin Lee starts shoot of Year Of The Carnivore
Canadian actress Sook-Yin Lee has begun principal photography on her directorial debut Year Of The Carnivore. The film, which is shooting outside of Vancouver, is co-produced by Vancouver-based Screen Siren Pictures and Toronto-based The Film Farm, producers of Atom Egoyan's Adoration. Screen Siren's Trish Dolman is producer with Kryssta Mills ...
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Paul Gross in the saddle for William Phillips' Gunless
Fresh from the success of his WWI epic Passchendaele, Canadian actor Paul Gross has signed for the lead in writer-director William Phillips' Gunless, a fish-out-of-water tale of a US gunslinger in the distinctly unwild Canadian West. The project will be coproduced by Toronto's Rhombus Media and Vancouver's Brightlight Pictures. Rhombus ...
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Lea Pool begins shooting Une Belle Mort in Luxembourg
Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Lea Pool has begun principal photography on Une Belle Mort for Montreal-based Equinoxe Pictures and Luxembourg's Iris Productions. At a budget of $4.3m (C$5.4m), it is the first-ever official Canada-Luxembourg coproduction.The screenplay is co-written by Pool and Quebecois novelist Gil Courtemanche, based on his 2005 novel of the ...
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Hallyday, Testud to star in To's HK-French Vengeance
French actors Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Testud have been cast in Johnnie To's upcoming thriller Vengeance which is being made as a co-production between France's ARP, To's Milkway Image and Hong Kong-based Media Asia Group. Scripted by regular To collaborator Wai Ka-fai, the story follows a former assassin, now a ...
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Summit greenlights New Moon after spectacular Twilight opening
Buoyed by spectacular opening day results for Twilight, Summit Entertainment has taken the widely anticipated step of greenlighting the sequel New Moon. The vampire romance is estimated to have grossed $35.7m on Friday, an astonishing amount driven by record pre-sales. Approximately $7m of that amount comes from Thursday midnight screenings. ...
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Mila Kunis joins Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman in The Book Of Eli
Mila Kunis has joined Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman on Alcon Entertainment and Silver Pictures’ $85m action thriller The Book Of Eli.Albert and Allen Hughes, whose last feature From Hell was released in 2001, will commence principal photography in New Mexico in February and Warner Bros has earmarked the North ...
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Columbia acquires comedy pitch by Perez for Happy Madison
Columbia Pictures has acquired a comedy pitch by Mark Perez that Happy Madison Productions will develop at the studio.The story centres on a man in a troubled marriage who discovers a new way to create the perfect wife.Doug Belgrad, who is president of Columbia Pictures along with Matt Tolmach, will ...
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Columbia signs Mullens to adapt Moore's novel The Swap
Columbia Pictures has signed the writing team of Tim and Tom Mullen to adapt Antony Moore's comedy novel The Swap.The story centres on an out-of-shape comic book dealer who loses a priceless part of his collection and follows that up by getting involved in romance and murder at his high ...
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Shooting of Wide Open Spaces begins in Ireland
Principal photography of coming of age comedy Wide Open Spaces has started in Ireland. The film was written by Arthur Mathews, co-writer of TV series Father Ted, is directed by Tom Hall and shot by Tim Fleming (Once).The film is a co-production between Irish company Grand Pictures (Spin the Bottle) ...
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Alexandra Stone leaves Recorded to set up CMP Film
Alexandra Stone, who has spent the last 14 years in senior production roles at Jeremy Thomas' Recorded Picture Company (RPC), has left Recorded to head up a new film division for Creative Management And Productions (CMP) called CMP Film Ltd.Based in London, she will be charged with developing and producing ...
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NZ award-winning producers to partner with Bavaria Film
New Zealand producers Rachel Gardner and Philip Smith of Great Southern Film and Television have been crowned New Zealand's Independent Producers of the Year. The duo are developing a slate of eight features with the most advanced being Scott Reynolds' Falling Angels and writer/director Anthony McCarten's Death Of A Superhero, ...
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Perez, Ferguson, Hall join Ricci in voice cast of Hero Of Color City
Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson and Arsenio Hall have joined Christina Ricci on the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG animated feature The Hero Of Color City.Exodus Film Group founder and CEO John D Eraklis and president Max Howard are producing the story of a pack of crayons who save ...