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Croatia joins EU's MEDIA Programme
Croatia has become the first candidate country to join the European Union's (EU) MEDIA 2007 programme - the support programme for the region's audiovisual industry.European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding that allows Croatia to participate in the programme with Ambassador ...
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Cool Hand picks up film rights to vampire thriller The Vines
Cool Hand International, an LA- and London-based production outfit run by Matthew Wolf, Simon Kelton and Luke G-Jones, has acquired the option to Barbara Ankrum's novel The Vines, a vampire thriller set in the vineyards of northern California.Brian Austin Green, who is currently starring in US TV hit Terminator: The ...
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Negativ wins record Czech government backing for Alois Nebel
A new project from producer Pavel Strnad (Something Like Happiness, Year Of The Devil) has received a record $946,000 (CZK 15m) in financing from the Czech state film fund for a new project, comic book adaptation Alois Nebel.The move may signal a change in the way the state funding body ...
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Dominic Cooper replaces Orlando Bloom in Scherfig's Education
Orlando Bloom has pulled out of the cast of Lone Scherfig's new film An Education, which starts shooting today. Dominic Cooper now takes the role after Bloom had scheduling clashes. Cara Seymour has also joined the cast for An Education, shooting now in London, is based on a screenplay by ...
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New production venture sets up in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Anapa
Russian holding company AFK Sistema and Russian World Studios (RWS) have announced a joint venture for film production with facilities in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Anapa.'The establishment of two RWS film studios in St. Petersburg and Anapa and the growth of the Moscow film studio will enlarge the release of ...
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UK financiers don't see disaster with closed tax loophole
UK film financiers have been striking a philosophical note about yesterday's Budget 2008 government announcement that 'sole traders' who spend fewer than 10 hours a week on film-related activities will no longer be able to offset predicted losses on film investment.Previous UKGovernment clampdowns, whether last year's sudden closure of so-called ...
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UK Culture Minister defends Creative Industries strategy
Criticism that there are no funds to support the UK government's recently released strategy for the creative industries has been shrugged off by the UK's new Minister for Culture, Creative industries and Tourism, Margaret Hodge.In an interview with film producer David Puttnam that was made public, Hodge was asked whether ...
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Film4 budget holds steady as Channel 4 unveils future vision
Channel 4's film production arm Film4 was held up as a central part of the company's public service contribution during the broadcaster's 'Next On 4' future vision presentation earlier today.In London, Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson, chief executive Andy Duncan and director of TV/content Kevin Lygo unveiled strategic plans for ...
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UK Finance: Life After Loopholes
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget has been watched with trepidation by the film industry in recent years. The biggest change was the dramatic overhaul of the tax system that ended the sale-and-leaseback era in 2006.But in hindsight Gordon Brown, now the prime minister, made perhaps the most ...
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Gaviria's Latinos takes RTVE award at Guadalajara meetings
At the fourth Iberoamerican Co-production Meetings at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, Colombian project Latinos, to be directed by Victor Gaviria and produced by El Baile Films, was awarded with the main prize. The award's sponsor, Spanish public TV station RTVE, will determine the amount of the prize, ranging from ...
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Spike Seldin joins LA-based Wind Dancer as svp
Spike Seldin has joined LA-based production outfit Wind Dancer Films as senior vice president, joining company principal Matt Williams and president Dete Meserve in building the slate following an influx of funding for development and production through private equity.'We look forward to tapping Spike's great eye for material in our ...
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Kari's The Good Heart beats with Paul Dano, Brian Cox
Icelandic director Dagur Kari is gearing up for a late April start of shoot for his next film The Good Heart, which has been pushed back slightly after a planned December 2007 start. The film will shoot for 10 weeks.Paul Dano and Brian Cox are now cast in the leads, ...
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Duncan Jones wraps shoot on Moon starring Sam Rockwell
Sci-fi feature Moon has just wrapped principal photography at the UK's Shepperton Studios.The film, which marks the feature directorial debut of Duncan Jones (formerly known as Zowie Bowie), stars Sam Rockwell. Moon is being made through London-based production outfit Liberty Films. The producers are Stuart Fenegan, Nicky Moss and Trudie ...
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Bac takes on sales, French rights to Pablo - The Little Red Fox
Bac Films is set to handle international sales and French theatrical distribution for the animation feature Pablo - The Little Red Fox based on the popular TV series of the same name. Pitching the $ 11.9m (Euros 7.8m) project in development at last week's Cartoon Movie co-production forum, Toons ...
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Len Wiseman reunites with Lakeshore, Sony on Shell Game
Len Wiseman is reuniting with Lakeshore and Sony on his follow-up to the Underworld franchise with the sci-fi action thriller Shell Game.Wiseman is also producing the story of a detective faced with a devastating moral dilemma while investigating the black market trade in immortality. Wiseman and Chris Morgan wrote the ...
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Rupert Evans joins cast of Amenabar's Agora
Hot English actor Rupert Evans has joined Rachel Weisz and Homayoun Ershadi in the cast of Alejandro Amenabar's English-language project Agora which goes into production this month in Malta.The film, being produced by Maxmedia, is the story of the efforts by a small group to free the slaves in Egypt. ...
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Prague to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe
Barrandov Studios has signed a contract to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe.The $170m action film would be one of the most expensive ever in the Czech studio's history, between the estimated $150m Casino Royale and the $180m Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe.Set construction for for ...
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Barbarian Princess starts UK, Hawaii shoot
UK-based Matador Pictures and Hawaii-based Island Film Group have started production today on Barbarian Princess, which director Marc Forby is shooting in Honolulu and in Norfolk, UK.As previously reporter, Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton and Shaun Evans star.The film becomes the first feature to shoot inside Honolulu's Iolani Palace.The ...
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Vancouver shoot for Parnassus resumes with Depp, Farrell, Law
Producers have announced that filming has begun again on Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which had been on hold after actor Heath Ledger's death on January 22.The $30m modern-day fantasy had finished the first third of the film's shoot in the UK and was gearing up for a ...
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Malaysia's Flower In The Pocketwins Fribourg Grand Prix
Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat's feature debut Flower In The Pocket was awarded the Grand Prix - the Regard d'Or - at this year's Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF), the first edition under the new artistic director Eduoard Waintrop.The story about two small boys growing up without their mother and ...