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The Very Best Film 2 wraps production in Moscow
In Moscow, Russian director Oleg Fomin has concluded production on The Very Best Film 2, the sequel to the No. 2 box-office hit in Russia this year. Buena Vista Sony Pictures Releasing (BVSPR) will release the film Jan 22, according to Russian Film Business Today.The Very Best Film, directed by ...
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Scottish Screen increases slate funding to $2m over 2 years
Scottish Screen has selected five production companies to receive substantial finance through the organisation's Slate Fund. Launched in March 2008, the Slate Fund was originally intend to offer a share of $741,325 (£400,000) to a maximum of four companies. The quantity and quality of the applications has led to the ...
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Haugesund's Co-Production Forum welcomes 18 projects
The third Nordic Co-Production Forum will host 18 feature film projects with budgets between Euros 1.6m-10m. The event opens today at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.Total costs of the film which will be discussed by German, Canadian and Nordic producers amount to Euros 65m.110 participants have registered for ...
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Binder's Greentree Films boards sci-fi actioner Gaea
Producer Jack Binder, whose credits include The Upside Of Anger and Reign Over Me, has boarded the sci-fi action title Gaea: Beyond The Son via his Greentrees Films label.The story centres on a father and son who seek to reunite despite being apart for more than 30 years across two ...
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Haugesund's New Nordic Films kicks off with record 325 attendees
Opening on today with a record number of 325 participants, New Nordic Films - the three-day market section of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund - will this year present 23 recent Nordic features and 11 works-in-progress, adding 18 projectsat the Nordic Co-Production Forum.'The showcase is intended support Nordic ...
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Toronto's Filmport officially open for business
Toronto's long-awaited mega-studio, Filmport Studios, was officially opened today. Filmmaker David Cronenberg was on hand for the event alongside Toronto mayor David Miller and Filmport president Ken Ferguson.The facility is the largest studio complex outside of Los Angeles and lays claim to the continent's largest purpose-built sound stage: 45,900 sq. ...
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Screen Australia hands out funding to four projects
Australian director Simon Wincer, who made the iconic US miniseries Lonesome Dove, is saddling up for a new feature that will carry his trademark: plenty of horses. The Cup, an against-all-odds true story featuring Australia's most famous horse race, was one of four films that won investment from Screen Australia ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan reveals line-up of 30 projects
The 11th Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) has announcedthe official line-up for this year's projects market - 30 projects from 17 countries selected from 200 submissions. The line-up includes work from China's Zhang Yuan, Japan's Sabu and Chinese-Korean filmmaker Zhang Lu. Of note, Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine) will not only be ...
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Thomas Turgoose takes lead role in Tom Harper's Scouting Book
Rising UK actor Thomas Turgoose has signed on for the lead role in Tom Harper's feature debut The Scouting Book For Boys.Turgoose, who has drawn rave reviews in This Is England, Somers Town and Eden Lake, will play a troubled teenager who helps a young girl run away from home.Jack ...
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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). ...