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Sharman MacDonald to adapt Vincenzi's Windfall for PiVotal
Playwright and The Edge Of Love screenwriter Sharman MacDonald will adapt Penny Vincenzi's novel Windfall for a feature filmto be produced by PiVotal Pictures.Windfall is the first in PiVotal's planned series of films based on Vincenzi's works. The story is about a woman who trains as a doctor in the ...
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Brizzi to shoot third feature Ex later this month
Director Fausto Brizzi will begin shooting his third feature, Ex, on July 15, his producer Federica Lucisano of Italian International Film (IIF) confirmed.A successful screenwriter-turned director, Brizzi became a local phenomenon when his debut feature Night Before Finals (Notte prima degli esami) earned $16m and became the top-grossing Italian debut ...
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Thai government plans tax incentives for foreign shoots
Thailand's Ministry of Tourism and Sports is planning to introduce tax incentives for foreign film productions, in a bid to increase the country's appeal as an international shooting location. According to local media, the cabinet has approved a proposal for the ministry to work with the Investment and Finance Ministry ...
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New Polish partners board Agnieszka Holland's 15.7m War My Love!
Polish Television and Polish Telecommunications have boarded SPI Film Studio's upcoming production War My Love!, directed by Agnieszka Holland.The project was pitched at last year's Mannheim Meetings as Christine, a drama based on the life of Krystyna Skarbek, a woman Winston Churchill described as the most outstanding British spy of ...
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Alex Cox plans Repo Man sequel Repo Chick
Maverick British writer-director Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy, Walker) is plotting a follow-up to his 1984 cult hit, Repo Man.Cox has already completed the screenplay for the project, Repo Chick, and is looking for studio backing. The original Repo Man was distributed domestically by Universal.The new film comes billed as ...
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Zbanic, Belvaux, Radford films backed by Eurimages
At its 111th meeting (June 29-July 1), the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund has announced its latest funding round of $6.7m (Euros 4.275m) to 12 feature co-productions.The backed films are:The Flowers of Kirkuk - Fariborz Kamkari (Italy, France, Switzerland) Na Putu - Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia ...
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Germany's DFFF extended from 2010 to 2012
The German Government has agreed to extend the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) for another three years from 2010 to 2012 with an annual budget of $94.2m (Euros 60m).The DFFF's incentive scheme was launched at the beginning of last year with an annual budget of $ 94.2m (Euros 60m) for ...
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Cracks sells to StudioCanal for France, UK, Benelux
StudioCanal has taken all rights for the UK, France and Benelux for Jordan Scott's debut feature Cracks. (StudioCanal's Optimum Releasing will handle the UK release.)Also, Alain Goldman's Legende Enterprises (La Vie En Rose) has joined the project, which is backed by Scott Free, Future Films and HandMade Films International.The Irish ...
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Armand Assante, Christina Vidal join Nevsky in Magic Man
Armand Assante and Christina Vidal have joined Russian star Alexander Nevsky, Billy Zane and Bai Ling on the US-Russian mystery Magic Man that started filming in Las Vegas last week.The story revolves around a famous magician played by Zane who is suspected of being a serial killer. Nevsky plays the ...
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Berlinale WCF backsfive new projects with $315,770
Five new feature film projects from Lebanon, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey and Columbia have been selected by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) from 110 projects submitted from a total of 36 countries for production funding totalling $315,770 (Euros 200,000).The projects supported including co-productions with the Berlin-based production house Niko Film, ...
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Lionsgate, CJ Entertainment join forces for Korean Wedding
South Korea's CJ Entertainment has partnered with Lionsgate and Vertigo Entertainment, best known for re-making Asian films, on original cross-cultural comedy Korean Wedding. The project is based on the real-life experiences of scriptwriter Jason Filardi's cousin who married into a Korean family. The story, which will be predominantly shot in ...
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Screenwriter Hazeldine to make directorial debut with Exam
Stuart Hazeldine, a UK-based screenwriter who has worked on studio films including Knowing and The Day The Earth Stood Still, is making his feature directorial debut on a project titled Exam.The low-budget UK feature, also written by Hazeldine, is a psychological thriller set in one room. Hazeldine describes it as ...
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Korea's Marine Boy splashes down in Cebu
Korean production Marine Boy has wrapped a five-day shoot at Bigfoot Studios' recently completed underwater shooting tank in Cebu, the Philippines. The film about drug trafficking on the open seas, is directed by Yoon Jong-suk and stars Kim Gang-woo (Le Grand Chef) and Park Shi-yeon. It is also shooting in ...
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Koelmel unveils expanded production slate for renamed company
Following StudioCanal's takeover of Germany's Kinowelt Group earlier this year, Rainer Koelmel has now renamed his Munich-based production company Kinowelt Filmproduktion as Starhaus Filmproduktion as part of an expanded production slate.Kinowelt Filmproduktion had not been part of the StudioCanal deal and remains in the hands of Koelmel who will have ...
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Beijing New Film Association expands into production
Beijing-based cinema management company, New Film Association, is stepping into film production and investment via a new outfit Shengshi Huarui Film Investment and Management Ltd. The company's first project is a $500,000 (RMB3m) satirical comedy The Debt Of 105,000 by first-time feature filmmaker Ji Yu, about a farmer coming to ...
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Winding Refn starts Scottish shoot for Valhalla Rising
Nicolas Winding Refn has started the Scotland-based shoot for his next film, Valhalla Rising.Alongside Mads Mikkelsen, the film will star Jamie Sives and Gary Lewis from Billy Elliot fame. The budget is about $7m.The famed Danish director is taking with him the organic working method from his Pusher films shooting ...
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Rennen Schorr to head new $2m Jerusalem Film Fund
The State Treasury and the Jerusalem Foundation are backing a $2m fund to promote film-making in Jerusalem, as part of the general effort the refresh the image of Israel's capital city.Rennen Schorr, the head of the Sam Spiegel School for Cinema and Television in Jerusalem, one of the more active ...
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Rose McGowan to play Red Sonja for Nu Image/Millenium Films
Rose McGowan will star as Red Sonja in Nu Image/Millennium Films' bid to revive the character last seen on the big screen in the 1985 action picture that starred Brigitte Nielsen.Robert Rodriguez will present the picture and is producing with Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and George Furla.Douglas Aarniokoski ...
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Reliance Big Entertainment signs five-picture deal with Puja
In yet another announcement of an affiliation, Reliance Big Entertainment's (RBE) Big Pictures has joined hands with Indian producer Vashu Bhagnani's Puja Films for a five-picture slate to be completed over the next two years. Shooting has already begun on the first two projects. David Dhawan is directing Do Knot ...
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Francis Ford Coppola finishes 63-day shoot of Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola has wrapped on his latest feature Tetro after 63 days of principal photography in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. A spring 2009 release is anticipated.Additional shooting of a ballet by Ana Maria Stekelman will still take place in Madrid but the main leg of the shoot is complete. ...