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Reelscape kicks off with development of Wise's Small Inclusions
New UK production company Reelscape Films will make its debut with Herbert Wise's Small Inclusions, now in development. Wise has previously directed TV projects include Inspector Morse, Rumpole of the Bailey and I Claudius. Michael Gambon, Bob Hoskins and Greta Scacchi are in talks to star.Peter Sushitzky, who has worked ...
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Katie Melua writes original song for Faintheart
SingerKatie Melua will be the lead artist on the soundtrack to Faintheart, the MySpace community-driven feature film.Her new song Toy Collection was written especially for the film. Mike Batt (Watership Down) will serve as composer for the movie.MySpace users will be able to vote for a track by an unsigned ...
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Rinko Kikuchi, Ryo Kase to voice Sky Crawlers
Oscar-nominated actress Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) and Letters From Iwo Jima star Ryo Kase will voice the two main characters in Mamoru Oshii's The Sky Crawlers, distributor Warner Brothers Japan announced today. Actress Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill) and Shosuke Tanimura will provide voices for supporting characters.The announcement was made ahead of ...
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Hungary's Inforg to co-produce The Photograph, Womb
Hungarian production house Inforg Studio is to co-produce Polish filmmaker Maciej Adamek's feature debut The Photograph and Benedek Fliegauf's next project Womb, which will be his first feature to be shot in the English language.Inforg's Andras Muhi confirmed to ScreenDaily.com at this week's goEast Film Festival that he will be ...
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Revamped Baker Street partners with Darkside on Kitchen Games
UK producer and film financier Baker Street Entertainment is partnering with London based animation studio Darkside Entertainment on ambitious new $8m (£4m)CGI animated feature, The Kitchen Games. The film comes billed as 'a tale of cutlery from opposite sides of the table, which compete once a year to decide who ...
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EFP selects 22 producers for Cannes Producers on the Move
The Hamburg-based, pan-European promotional organisation European Film Promotion (EFP) has selected 22 aspiring European producers for its Producers On The Move networking initiative to take place during the Cannes Film Festival next month.Since being launched in 2000, Producers On The Move has enabled over 140 up-and-coming European producers to meet ...
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Latest UK film production listings
To see other production listings click hereUK PRODUCTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTIvan and MariaGenre: Historical DramaSynopsis: Tormented by a cacophony of voices in his head, Tsar Ivan fights to build a Russian empire as court conspirators try to poison his wife and heirs in order to seize power for themselves.Origin: UKLanguage: EnglishContact: ...
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Bartha stars opposite Zeta-Jones in Freundlich's The Rebound
Justin Bartha has joined Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Film Department's upcoming romantic comedy The Rebound, written and to be directed by Bart Freundlich.The Film Department is financing and producing the film, which is set to start production on April 21 in New York.Tim Perell, Freundlich, Mark Gill and Robert Katz ...
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Heymann starts shoot for third Digital Departures film, Starstruck
Director Lindy Heymann and producer Andy Stebbing have started principal photography on Starstruck, shooting on location in Liverpool.Leigh Campbell wrote the script about two teenage girls obsessed by a celebrity footballer.The cast features newcomers Kerry Hayes, Nichola Burley and Jamie Doyle.The project is the third and final film to be ...
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Adrien Brody replaces Liotta in Dario Argento's Giallo
Oscar winner Adrien Brody will replace Ray Liotta as the detective character in cult horror-master Dario Argento's up-coming English language film Giallo, which starts shooting in Turin as of mid-May.The casting update was confirmed by Giallo producer Rafael Primorac of LA-based Arramis Films, who told ScreenDaily.com the film had to ...
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Natalie Portman lines up for Ecosse's Wuthering Heights
Natalie Portman has signed up to play Cathy Earnshaw in John Maybury's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae's UK-based Ecosse Films is producing. HanWay Films is handling sales.Bernstein said: 'I'm delighted that we have attracted an actress of Natalie Portman's calibre to Wuthering Heights, she will bring ...
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IFP Market recasts itself as Independent Film Week
With its 30th anniversary coming up in September the IFP has renamed its annual IFP Market to Independent Film Week.The event is also on the move from from Soho's Angelika Film Center and Puck Building to new digs at Chelsea's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.) and nearby venues.Organisers have also ...
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Italy winning race for Hollywood shoots
Inhabitants of the Tuscan city of Siena are being treated to the sight of Daniel Craig leaping over their Renaissance-era rooftops this spring.The actor is in Tuscany for six weeks with Marc Forster's $230m Quantum Of Solace to shoot the latest international location sequence in the new James Bond production.Top ...
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Island In The Mainstream: bringing Nim's Island to the big screen
Paula Mazur found the book Nim's Island, by Wendy Orr, in her local Santa Monica library and took it out to read to her seven-year-old son.'What was compelling to me was that the characters were so rich and that's the beginning of a great movie for me,' she says. 'There ...
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Canadian producers seek Criminal Code reference in tax amendment
Canada's film production representatives are calling for the federal government to amend controversial tax legislation by making reference to the nation's Criminal Code. In a presentation to the Canadian Senate today, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the Association des producteurs de films et de television du ...
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Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Leejoin Tanovic'sTriage
Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Lee will star in Danis Tanovic's upcoming project Triage.The film is produced by ASAP Films and Parallel Films in co-production with Aramid Entertainment, Tornasol Films/Freeform and the Irish Film Board and Hanway Films.Hanway Films have world sales rights and will start selling the film ...
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HBO turns to Naegle to recapture creative mojo
Looking outside the company in a bid to reinvigourate its creative juices, HBO has turned to former UTA partner and co-head of the television department, Sue Naegle, to become its new president of entertainment.Naegle, who will oversee all series programming and specials and will commence work later this month, replaces ...
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Haneke, Gorris backed by German incentive scheme
New features by Michael Haneke, Marleen Gorris and Jaco van Dormael are among seven international co-productions awarded over $8.5m (Euros 5.4m) by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme in the first quarter of 2008.Another $3.6m (Euros 2.3m) in incentives was paid out to nine German films, including Anno ...
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Row erupts in Australia over production offset
Two Australian film agencies are trading insults over the financing arrangements behind comedy drama Subdivision, which Japanese Story director Sue Brooks starts filming April 14. Both are investors.Once completed, Subdivision will be applying for 40% of its costs back under the new producer offset. It has always been assumed that ...
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UK Film Council to invest $35.4m in film in regions
The UK Film Council will be investing a total of $35.4m (£18m) over the next two years in the English regions to help them boost their local film industries and open up access for the public to British film heritage.This support comes from two sources of funding: $30.3m (£15.4m) from ...