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Bona Group set toraise $30m in second funding round
Beijing-based producer-distributor Bona International Film Group is set to raise $30m in its second funding round from venture capital groups Sequoia Capital China and SIG Asia Investments. The funding comes ahead of a planned overseas listing for Bona Group, which is the holding company of distributor Polybona, talent management company ...
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Paul Hogan keen to make Charlie & Boots for Instinct
Two of Australia's leading film comics, Paul Hogan from the 1986 worldwide hit Crocodile Dundee fame, and Shane Jacobson from the 2006 local Kenny are the likely leads in Charlie & Boots, which secured a promise of investment today from Screen Australia.Although not signed, producer David Redman said they are ...
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Northern Soul feature Souled Out starts five-week shoot
Northern Soul-era coming-of-age story Souled Out starts shooting today for five weeks.The cast features Martin Compston, Alfie Allen, Craig Parkinson, Nichola Burley, Felicity Jones, Brian McCardie, Jo Hartley, Pat Shortt and Huey Morgan.Shimmy Marcus is directing for Ipso Facto Films and Dreamfinder. The project is shooting on location in Stoke-on-Trent, ...
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Taiwan's NDF to back Hou Hsiao-hsien's Assassin
Hou Hsiao-hsien's long-awaited martial arts fantasy The Assassin has become the first film to secure direct investment from Taiwan's National Development Fund. The script is based on a fantastical Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.) short story about female assassin Nie Yinniang who can conjure horses out of folded paper and transform ...
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Fox Japan ramps up local production with Gunjo
20th Century Fox Japan has unveiled details of its latest foray into local feature film production with drama Gunjo (Ultramarine), starring Masami Nagasawa.Based on a popular serialised novel by Ayako Miyagi, the story depicts the spiritual recovery of a woman who returns to her father's home in Okinawa after her ...
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Noel Clarke teams with Lionsgate UK for sci-fi project 83
Adulthood writer/director/star Noel Clarke is working with Lionsgate UK to develop his next project, 83.Lionsgate UK announced earlier this year that it planned to co-produce and co-finance two to three British features per year; there are three other previously announced films in development but 83 could be the first to ...
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Alcon acquires film rights to graphic novel Cryptozoo Crew
Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment has acquired rights to Jerry Carr and Allan Gross' graphic novel Cryptozoo Crew and the script adaptation from Joe Gazzam.Cryptozoo centres on a member of a secret organisation charged with protecting the identity of rare animals classified as cryptids who teams up with a beautiful doctor ...
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Davis, Harris, Fox attached to star in The Cellar
London and Los Angeles-based Cool Hand International has optioned the psychological horror script The Cellar from writer-director John Gary and has attached Lucy Davis, Jared Harris and Emilia Fox to star.Brian Cox is also confirmed for a cameo role in the tale of a group of wedding guests who get ...
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Irvine Welsh to shoot darts mockumentary feature
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is gearing up for production of his directorial debut feature, Good Arrows.The mockumentary-style comedy was written by Welsh and his frequent collaborator Dean Cavanagh.The original screenplay is about a darts player who falls from grace in the in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The old coal mining ...
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Danny Huston, Novakovic, Roberts join Edge Of Darkness
Danny Huston, newcomer Bojana Novakovic and Shawn Roberts have joined Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro in GK Films' thriller Edge Of Darkness, which is due to begin filming in Massachusetts later this month.Based on the BBC mini-series of the same name, Edge Of Darkness will be directed by Martin ...
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Canadian festivals - Telefilm plays the Canada card
In July, Telefilm Canada introduced a new regime for its festival funding. In essence, eligible Canadian film festivals will be required to increase the number of Canadian films they screen in order to qualify for funding.The issue came up at the opening press conference of Montreal's World Film Festival (Wff). ...
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In Focus: Britta Knoller and Hans-Christian Schmid's Storm
Hans-Christian Schmid could not have wished for better timing to start shooting his latest feature project, the English-language political thriller Storm, about the aftermath of the Balkan war.Just a week earlier, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had been apprehended after 13 years on the run.Storm (working title), which began ...
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Andrzej Wajda begins work on new film Tatarak
Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda began filming this week on a new feature, Tatarak.Producers told ScreenDaily.com that filming began on location in Grudziadz in northern Poland and will continue until the end of September.Wajda and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk have adapted the script from a novel by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and from ...
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Oberli's The Murder Farm to star Jentsch, Bleibtreu
German actress Julia Jentsch, the star of Malgoska Szumowska's Locarno competition film 33 Scenes From Life, is to appear with Monica Bleibtreu in Swiss director Bettina Oberli's next feature The Murder Farm (Tannöd), which begins shooting in the Sauerland and Eifel regions of Germany from September.The $5.6m (Euros 3.8m) co-production ...
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Max & Co producers declare bankruptcy after megaflop
A dark cloud descended on Swiss cinema at this week's Locarno Film Festival with the news that Lausanne-based producers MAX-LeFilm and Cinemagination have been forced to declare bankruptcy after the flop of their $27.5m (CHF 30m) animation feature Max & Co. Billed as the most expensive Swiss film of all ...
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IFP No Borders selects 37 projects for co-production market
IFP has unveiled the 37 projects selected for the No Borders International Co-Production Market that will take place during the 30th Annual Independent Film Week, set to run in New York from September 14-19. Now in its 14th year, No Borders is designed to connect US and international narrative ...
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Seven projects get $80,000 from Gucci Tribeca Doc Fund
Seven projects have been selected to receive grants from the Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci's new Gucci Tribeca Documentary Finishing Fund. The selected film-makers and their projects stand to receive a total of $80,000 in grants. They are: Andrew Berends (Delta Boys), Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman (If A ...
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Chile, Dominican Republic/Mexico take awards at Locarno Open Doors
Filmmakers from Chile, Dominican Republic/Mexico and Guatemala were the recipients of the awards presented on Wednesday at the end of the Open Doors Factory organised by the Locarno International Film Festival with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).Two grants for development and production worth $46,000 ...
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Panov's War Is Over is first production out of Europe's Babylon
Macedonian-born Mitko Panov's The War Is Over has become the first project to go into production after being developed at the Babylon programme promoting cultural diversity in Europe.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com at this week's Locarno International Film Festival, Panov explained that the co-production between Switzerland's Kamera 300 and Macedonia's Pirej ...
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Sky Movies co-finances Rocky Horror Picture Show remake
The UK's Sky Movies is co-financing a remake of musical hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show.The original film's executive producer, Lou Adler, is working with BermanBraun and Fox TV to remake the cult classic for MTV in the US and SkyMovies in the UK.Cast and director will be announced later. ...