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    Screen opinion: Balancing finance, talent and distribution

    2008-09-25T22:02:00Z

    In film, we have buckets of creative talent but scarcely any business capacity,' Patrick McKenna, chairman of Ingenious Media Group, told a meeting at Bafta in London this week. This relatively brief aside, specifically about the UK, came during a generally upbeat talk about the prospects for the British creative ...

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    Haruki Kadokawa returns to directing with Laughing Policeman

    2008-09-24T17:29:00Z

    Famed Japanese film producer Haruki Kadokawa has returned to the director's chair after an 11-year absence. Kadokawa is currently shooting suspense drama Laughing Policeman, based on the first of Jo Sasaki's series of novels released by Kadokawa's publishing arm. The story depicts the internecine struggles of a corrupt police department. ...

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    Media Rights Capital scores $350m revolving credit facility

    2008-09-22T22:04:00Z

    Media Rights Capital (MRC) co-CEOs Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk announced today [September 22] a three-year $350m revolving credit facility for the company's feature, television and digital content business.The arrangement, which comes in the midst of one of the most severe systemic collapses in US financial history, was provided by ...

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    TwentyTwenty Vision to co-produce Rafi Pitts' The Hunter

    2008-09-22T19:40:00Z

    Berlin-based production house TwentyTwenty Vision will be the German co-producer on Iranian-British director Rafi Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter.Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com, Pitts explained that the drama will be produced by AMA Media Productions - which co-produced his 2006 Berlinale competition film It's Winter (Zemestan) - and Aftab Negaran Productions, ...

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    Award winning director McPherson starts shoot for The Eclipse

    2008-09-22T18:32:00Z

    Shooting has started on the latest feature-length drama from Tony-award winning Irish playwright and director Conor McPherson.Based on a supernatural love story by Wexford writer Billy Roche, the film stars Aidan Quinn, Ciaran Hinds and Iben Hjejle. Rob Walpole of Treasure Entertainment is producing.Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning costume designer Consolata ...

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    Hammer resurrection as production of The Wake Wood begins

    2008-09-22T12:24:00Z

    The long-awaited resurrection of British horror label Hammer Films has finally happened. Production has just begun on The Wake Wood. This is Hammer's first horror movie since To the Devil a Daughter starring Christopher Lee in 1976 and its first feature of any sort since The Lady Vanishes in 1979.The ...

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    F&ME kicks off shoots for three new UK co-productions

    2008-09-19T15:43:00Z

    Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's UK production company Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) pushes its busy slate forward with the start of principal photography on three new features: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Donkey and Beneath The Surface.All three are co-productions, shooting - respectively - in Iceland, Croatia/Herzegovina and China/Sudan. All ...

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    Studio Babelsberg to co-produce Inglorious Bastards

    2008-09-18T14:53:00Z

    Studio Babelsberg has now confirmed that it will be serving as the German co-producer on Quentin Tarantino's Second World War drama Inglorious Bastards.The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Universal Pictures are co-financing and co-presenting the feature, while Harvey and Bob Weinstein are serving as executive producers.Tarantino's film will begin shooting at ...

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    Evolutions invests $1.8m in new post equipment

    2008-09-18T13:07:00Z

    Evolutions, Soho, the London-based post-production facility, has invested $1.8m (£1m) in new technology from Avid, FilmLight and Digidesign.The upgrade and installation of new equipment comes as part of Evolutions' expansion with its new Great Pulteney Street building. The company's machine room is now centralised at that site and connected via ...

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    Cartoon expands with EU MEDIA International support

    2008-09-17T12:21:00Z

    Cartoon Connection is one of 18 projects involving partners from Canada, Latin America, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Bosnia, Turkey and Georgia, which have been provided with almost $2.88m (Euros 2m) by the EU to develop closer cooperation between European and third country film professionals. 11 of the selected ...

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    Fact Not Fiction moves political thriller shoot from UK to Jordan

    2008-09-17T10:25:00Z

    UK outfit Fact Not Fiction Films has finished the six-week UK portion of the shoot for new feature 31 North 62 East.The shoot now moves to Jordan later this month.The $2m project is independently financed.Producer/director Tristan Loraine is working with DoP Sue Gibson.The political thriller is about a British Prime ...

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    Fantastic Films takes on sales for animated Fox's Tale

    2008-09-17T10:17:00Z

    Los Angeles-based Fantastic Films International has taken on international sales and distribution rights to A Fox's Tale.The animated feature from Hungarian director George Gat was co-written with Peter Doka.Gat's Dyn Entertainment is producing with Bill Chamberlain's Pinewood-based UK outfit Parallel Pictures.The voice cast will include Freddie Highmore, Bill Nighy, Miranda ...

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    HighRoad Entertainment options Cheech Marin original script

    2008-09-17T01:53:00Z

    Los Angeles-based HighRoad Entertainment has optioned the rights to the script Angel Of Oxnard from Cheech Marin, one half of the celebrated stoner duo Cheech And Chong.Marin will direct and star in the story of a local broadcaster who finds himself at the centre of a global media storm when ...

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    Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline

    2008-09-16T19:00:00Z

    The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).The deadline for submissions is Oct. 30, 2008. Projects must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...

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    Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline

    2008-09-16T19:00:00Z

    The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).The deadline for submissions is Oct. 30, 2008. Projects must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...

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    Berlinale Co-Production Market announces deadline

    2008-09-16T19:00:00Z

    The 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market has announced that submissions are now open for new film projects for the 2009 market (Feb. 8-10).Film projects must be submitttedby Oct. 30, 2008. They must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The ...

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    Dark Sky strikes alliance with Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix

    2008-09-16T04:29:00Z

    Dark Sky Films has struck an alliance with Larry Fessenden's New York-based production company Glass Eye Pix, whose drama Wendy And Lucy starring Michelle Williams played at Toronto last week.The partners will make films that Fessenden described as 'little bit pulpy, a little bit high-brow' and kick off with the ...

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    Rockwell, Roberts to star in The Winning Season for Gigi, Plum

    2008-09-15T22:18:00Z

    New York-based Gigi Productions and Plum Pictures have attached Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts and Rob Corddry to star in the comedy The Winning Season, set to begin shooting in October in the New York region.James Strouse will direct The Winning Season from his original screenplay about a washed-up divorcee basketball ...

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    Screen Australia considers industry support package

    2008-09-15T17:10:00Z

    Screen Australia is considering giving bonuses to producers of small to medium budget features that perform well at the box office. No details are available on the budget levels of eligible films, the criteria for success or the extent of the reward. However, the proposal clearly indicates that the new ...

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    Russia's Central Partnership partners with Paramount

    2008-09-15T16:09:00Z

    In a groundbreaking deal that highlights the increasing lure of Russia for the US majors, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) is to partner with Russian major, Central Partnership.The exclusive agreement, which comes into force on January 1st 2009, will see Central Partnership releasing Paramount titles theatrically in the former USSR, excluding ...