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High Point sets sail with Sea Change starring Anne-Marie Duff
The High Point Media Group has taken on world rights for new UK feature The Sea Change, to star Anne-Marie Duff and Tom Burke.The project, based on Jane Rogers' 1999 novel Island, will be co-directed by Elizabeth Mitchell (Argentina, Miscommunication) and Brek Taylor (The Man Who, The Kindness Of Strangers). ...
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Pathe goes deep for The Descent 2 with Celador
Pathe International is starting pre-sales here at the EFM for The Descent 2. Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Mendoza will reprise their roles.The Descent's director Neil Marshall and producer Christian Colson will produce the sequel for UK-based production outfit Celador.Jon Harris, who edited The Descent as well as Stardust and Layer ...
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Burt Reynolds starts shoot for A Bunch Of Amateurs
Shooting started February 2 on A Bunch Of Amateurs, starring Burt Reynolds, Imelda Staunton and Derek Jacobi.The UK comedy is being sold by Odyssey internationally, with Cinetic handling US rights.Director Andy Cadiff is shooting for six weeks in London and on The Isle Of Man. David Parfitt (Shakespeare In Love) ...
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Dark Sky moves into West's House Of The Devil
Dark Sky Films is working with Roger Kass of Studio Bang and Josh Braun and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix to produce new horror/thriller The House Of The Devil.Ti West wrote and will direct, with the shoot set to start in mid-March in Connecticut. It is casting now.Braun, Kass, Fessenden ...
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ContentFilm rides along with Diego Luna's Horse
ContentFilm International has acquired international rights to action thriller Horse, which is being represented in the US by CAA.Diego Luna, Luis Guzman, Adriana Barraza, and Benito Martinez star, with Annie McCarthy handling casting and more actors to be announced soon.Deals have been done for Germany & Austria (Telepool), Latin America ...
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UK's Formosa Films to follow Clubbed with Twenty8k
Formosa Films, the UK production company behind Clubbed, is planning its second feature film, Twenty8k, to shoot in autumn 2008.Formosa, founded by producer Martin Carr and director Neil Thompson, has raised half the funding for Twenty8k, which is written by Geoff Thompson.The thriller will follow a young Asian journalist who ...
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Metcalfe, Douglas, and Tamblyn line up for Reasonable Doubt
Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn and Jesse Metcalfe have lined up to star in Peter Hyams' Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.Los Angeles-based Foresight Unlimited is producing and handling international sales for the update of the RKO classic directed by Fritz Lang in 1956.Entertainment Film Distributors have already taken UK rights.Ted Hartley, Moshe ...
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Celsius to sell Freakonomics all-star documentary
UK-based Celsius Entertainment has come on board for international sales of the film adaptation of bestseller Freakonomics.The film will be comprised of six segments, each directed by documentary hotshots Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing, Eugene Jarecki & Jehane Noujaim, and Laura Poitras. Another director will be ...
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Alberto San Juan to star in David Planell's adoption drama La Verguenza
Spanish screenwriter David Planell, a nominee at last week's Goya Awards for Siete Mesas De Billar Frances, will start shooting his first feature as director, La Verguenza, from next week in Madrid.Spain's Avalon Productions is producing the drama. The cast features Alberto San Juan, fresh off the back of his ...
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Terence Davies gets greenlight through Liverpool digital scheme
Northwest Vision and Media, the Liverpool Culture Company, the UK Film Council and the BBC have announced the three winners of the Digital Departures film-making scheme: Terence Davies' Of Time And The City; Colin O'Donnell's Salvage; and Leigh Campbell's Starstruck.Each team gets $494,130 (£250,000) to make a micro-budget feature. The ...
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Warner Bros boosts post-production with Prime Focus alliance
Warner Bros has broadened the reach of its Motion Picture Imaging post-production division in a strategic alliance with India-based Prime Focus.The agreement allows the companies to work seamlessly across time zones on projects and offers film-makers access to services throughout locations on the sub-continent and London as well as New ...
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TF1 International comes on board for Veber's L'Emmerdeur
TF1 International has acquired the latest film from director Francis Veber, L'Emmerdeur, and will also serve as a co-producer.Shooting is to begin in March on the film which stars Richard Berry and Patrick Timsit. Patrice Ledoux's Pulsar Productions is producing with TFM Distribution set to release in France in December ...
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Messing joins Overture's family drama Humboldt Park
Debra Messing has joined producer Freddy Rodriguez, John Leguizamo, Alfred Molina, Jay Hernandez, Mercedes Ruehl and Luis Guzman in the cast of Overture Film's family drama Humboldt Park.Production is set to begin in Chicago on Feb 13 on the State Street Pictures and 2DS Productions project. The story revolves around ...
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Beastie Boy pioneer launches film distribution outfit
Beastie Boys founder and film-maker Adam Yauch has launched the full service distributor Oscilloscope Pictures and installed former THINKFilm International vice president David Fenkel to oversee acquisitions, domestic distribution and international sales.Oscilloscope Pictures, an extension of Yauch's music and film production company Oscilloscpoe Laboratories, will handle independent English and foreign ...
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Willson tapped to head Universal's new Berlin-based arm
Andrea Willson has been recruited by Universal Pictures to head its new Berlin-based local production arm to invest in the development and production of German language feature films.Willson had previously been the head of Sony Pictures Entertainment's German production arm Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion, where she was involved in such ...
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Malta increases possible cash rebate from 20% to 22%
The Malta Film Commission on Saturday announced its revised financial incentives for film and TV productions shooting on the island. The cash rebates are given to qualifying companies on Malta-based production spend. Up to 22% can be claimed as a rebate - that's up to 20% on the rebate as ...
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Polybona, EMP set up talent company with Jackie Chan
Beijing-based Polybona Film Distribution, Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) and international star Jackie Chan have launched a joint venture artist management company, Bona Yinglong Artist Management. Chan will be the chairman of the new Beijing-based company with EMP's Albert Yeung as vice-chairman. Chan and Yeung are already partnered through ...
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Northern Ireland Screen launches new low-budget scheme
Northern Ireland Screen has launched its new Low-Budget Fiction Production (LBFP) scheme.The fund intends to finance one TV drama or low-budget feature film between June 2008 and March 2009.Feature film projects must have distribution interest from a sales company, distributor or broadcaster and budgets must be no more than $395,435 ...
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Hoshino appointed president of Japan's Studio Ghibli
Japan 's Studio Ghibli has announced that Koji Hoshino has taken over as company president from Toshio Suzuki as of February 1. Suzuki, who had served as producer of all Ghibli productions since 1989, became president in 2005 after the studio became independent from parent company Tokuma Publishing.Suzuki stepped down ...
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THINKFilm International adds Bridgewater to Berlin slate
THINKFilm International has added another title to its slate ahead of Berlin. The company is handling international rights to Henry Alex Rubin's Bridgewater, which will star Ethan Hawke.Bridgewater will start shooting in mid-March.The film is described as 'a story of honour, courage and brotherhood.'US distribution will be handled by sister ...