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    Screenwriter Hazeldine to make directorial debut with Exam

    2008-07-02T06:00:00Z

    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

    2008-07-02T04:51:00Z

    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

    2008-07-01T12:30:00Z

    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

    2008-07-01T04:03:00Z

    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

    2008-06-30T11:56:00Z

    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

    2008-06-30T11:50:00Z

    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

    2008-06-30T02:18:00Z

    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

    2008-06-29T13:53:00Z

    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

    2008-06-26T23:13:00Z

    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. ...

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    Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburghands out$8.7m

    2008-06-26T14:27:00Z

    Feature films by veteran US actor Dennis Hopper, German comedy star Mario Barth and the Cannes/Sochi prize-winning production house Rohfilm are among 26 German and international projects awarded over $8.7m (Euros 5.6m) by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) in its latest funding session.Hopper received backing for the project River Movie about a ...

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    Davaa's new documentary project begins shooting in Mongolia

    2008-06-26T12:16:00Z

    Principal photography on the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Byambasuren Davaa's new feature documentary project Two Horses Of Genghis KhanstartedMonday(June 23) in the Mongolian city of Ulaanbaatar.Shooting on the musical and mystical journey by the internationally renowned singer Urna will continue in Khentii Aimag, the birthplace of Genghis Khan, on the holy mountain ...

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    Warp X to kick off shoot for fifth film, Bunny And The Bull

    2008-06-26T11:47:00Z

    Paul King from British TV's The Mighty Boosh will start shooting his feature film debut Bunny And The Bull on June 30 (Monday). Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby and Veronic Echegui will star. And the Boosh's Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade will appear.The Warp X production will be produced ...

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    Matthew Rhys takes a trip with Marc Evans' Patagonia

    2008-06-26T11:35:00Z

    Matthew Rhys, currently starring with Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller in The Edge Of Love, has come on board to star in Patagonia with Nia Roberts.Marc Evans (Snow Cake) will direct and Rebekah Gilbertson (The Edge Of Love) will produce with Argentina's Oscar Kramer.Laurence Coriat (Wonderland, A Mighty Heart) wrote ...

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    Balibo to start shooting in Australia on Monday

    2008-06-26T11:25:00Z

    Political thriller Balibo will start principal photography in Darwin, Australia and East Timor on June 30 (Monday).The cast features Anthony LaPaglia and Oscar Isaac.Robert Connolly directs from a script co-written with David Williamson. The story is based on true events during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975.LaPaglia plays ...

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    Krabbe and Hershey to star in Albert Schweitzer biopic

    2008-06-26T06:28:00Z

    Jeroen Krabbe and Barbara Hershey are headlining the cast of UK director Gavin Millar's biopic Schweitzer (working title) on the life of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer.Set in 1949 in the early years of the Cold War, the film follows Schweitzer (played by Krabbe) as he arrives in ...

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    Korea's Chungeorahm announces Chinese sequel to The Host

    2008-06-25T08:58:00Z

    Korea's Chungeorahm Film, producer of Bong Joon-ho's The Host, has announced it will be co-producing a China-based sequel to the mutanthit with Chinese director Ning Hao's newly-established Stoneman Films. Choi Yong-bae, CEO of Chungeorahm, and Daniel Yu, producer of Ning's sleeper hit Crazy Stone, will take producer credits on the ...

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    Justin Long, Fred Willard join Cera in Youth In Revolt

    2008-06-23T22:47:00Z

    Justin Long and Fred Willard have joined Michael Cera and newcomer Portia Doubleday on the cast of Dimension Film's tale Youth In Revolt.Zach Galifinakis, Ari Graynor, Erik Knudsen, Adhir Kalyan, Jonny Wright, Tricia Mara and Mary Kay Place have also come aboard.The Permut Presentations and Shangri-La Entertainment project is based ...

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    Chapa to star in Gangster for his own Amadeus Pictures

    2008-06-23T22:28:00Z

    Amadeus Pictures is lining up a July start in Los Angeles for its action adventure Mexican Gangster starring company founder and president Damian Chapa.Mexican Gangster is based on the true story of Johnny Sun, an ex-con who struggles to break free from his former life of crime.Christine Manoukian, Romanian newcomer ...

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    Feng to shoot romantic comedy for Chinese New Year

    2008-06-23T03:43:00Z

    Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has confirmed that Chinese director Feng Xiaogang is to make a romantic comedy tentatively titled Don't Bother Me (Fei Cheng Wu Rao), rather than his originally planned satire The Nobles. Huayi Brothers will produce the $7.3m (RMB 50m) film that is set to star long-time Feng collaborator ...

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    Graham, McDonald take key footballer roles in The Damned United

    2008-06-21T06:00:00Z

    As the shoot continues for Tom Hooper's Brian Clough story The Damned United, Stephen Graham and Peter McDonald have taken the roles of legendary 1970s footballers Billy Bremner and Johnny Giles, respectively. Bremner was the Leeds Captain and Giles was a midfielder.Other actors taking on footballing roles are Mark Cameron ...