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Linklater to shoot Me & Orson Welles starting Feb 24
Richard Linklater will start shooting Me & Orson Welles in England (Pinewood Studios and London locations), the Isle of Man and New York from February 24.Zac Efron and Claire Danes lead the ensemble cast for the coming-of-age romantic comedy set in the theatre world. The story follows a teenager who ...
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CineMart prizes go to new projects from Sophie Fiennes, Liew Seng Tat
At tonight's CineMart 2008 closing night party in Rotterdam, the Arte France Cinema Award for best project this year's co-production market went to The Pervert's Guide To Ideology, to be directed by UK film-maker Sophie Fiennes.The honour also comes with $14,856 (Euros 10,000) in cash. The film will continue Fiennes' ...
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Canning, Sherman launch Aus/UK production outfit See-Saw
UK-based acquisitions executive Iain Canning and Australian producer Emile Sherman have launched Australia/UK-based production outfit See-Saw Films. One of the first credits for the new company will be as producer of an English-language remake of writer/director Guillem Morale's 2004 Spanish mystery thriller The Uninvited Guests (El Habitante Incierto).Canning and Sherman ...
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Salvatores gears up for 10-week shoot for As God Commands
Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores will begin principal photography February 11 on the thriller As God Commands (Come Dio Comanda), based on the eponymous best-selling book by Niccolo Ammaniti.Maurizio Totti's Colorado Film co-produces with Rai Cinema who will distribute nationally via 01 Distribution. Totti confirmed the film's budget has risen ...
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Edgerton debut to feature in AFC's IndiVision Lab
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) has unveiled the eight low-budget projects that will take part its IndiVision Project Lab, one of which will be the directorial debut of Kinky Boots star Joel Edgerton. Edgerton's film The Professor is a thriller about a top forensic scientist investigating a family murder-suicide, who ...
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Japan's Sun Music unveils details of debut film production
Japanese talent management company Sun Music has announced details of its first feature film production, a drama entitled Yesterdays. The main character will be played by 25-year-old Takashi Tsukamoto in his first leading role. The story follows Tsukamoto's mission to find his estranged dying father's ex-lover, when he slips back ...
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Hauer joins van Houten in cast of Smoke And Ochre
Rutger Hauer and German actor Sebastian Koch have joined the cast of biopic Smoke And Ochre, to be directed by Dutch filmmaker Paula van der Oest. Dutch actress Carice van Houten plays the lead role of revolutionary South African writer Ingrid Jonker. Hauer will play her father while Koch will ...
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Invicta Entertainment sets up shop Berlin
Production and financing outfit Invicta Entertainment has set up its headquarters in Berlin to produce films in the $1m-$10m range for the international market. With an in-house development team and access to private equity for development and production, Invicta will have the ability to acquire, develop and produce projects at ...
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Wild Bunch's EFM offerings include James Gray's Two Lovers
Wild Bunch has addednew films from James Gray, Darren Aronofsky, Marco Tullio Giordana and Rintaro, among others, to its slate ahead of Berlin's European Film Market.Gray's Two Lovers reunites the director with Joaquin Phoenix and also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Vanessa Shaw and Isabella Rossellini. The romantic drama is produced by ...
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Woolliscroft joins post-production company Concrete
London-based post-production company Concrete has appointed Peter Woolliscroft as audio designer.He will run and operate Concrete's audio suite.'I am delighted to be working at Concrete and with such a professional and highly creative company - it is very exciting indeed.' Peter adds.In addition, Concrete is working with HD camera rental ...
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ScreenWest's low-budget initiative gets Wasted
Teen thriller Wasted will be the third feature supported under West Coast Visions, the low-budget initiative run by Western Australia 's film agency ScreenWest. A high school party goes dangerously off the rails in what will be the debut film of writer/director Ben C. Lucas, but one teenager finds that ...
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Bond 22 has a title: Quantum Of Solace
Bond 22, which has been shooting since November, now has a title: Quantum Of Solace.Daniel Craig is reprising his role as James Bond after successfully taking on the part of 007 in 2006's hit Casino Royale.The new film's title is taken from the name of a 1960 short story by ...
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Holroyd starts UK shoot for political thriller WMD
David Holroyd's UK micro-budget political thriller WMD started a four-week shoot on Jan 21.Simon Lenagan, Jo-Anne Knowles, Glenn Conroy, Robert Cambrinus and Burnell Tucker star.The film, inspired in part by reality, is about an MI-6 desk officer who uncovers inaccuracies in evidence about the Iraq invasion.Holroyd makes his feature film ...
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VTR adds Machine Effects to Prime Focus Group
Post-production powerhouse VTR has acquired visual effects company Machine Effects Ltd, in a deal worth just over $4m (£2m).John Lockwood and Steve Street founded UK-based Machine Effects, which as worked on films including Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Hot Fuzz and several Harry Potter films. Services provided include pre-production, pre-visualisation and ...
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Romanian Film Center awards $4.5m for new films
The Romanian Film Center (CNC) has approved just over Euros 3.1m($4.5m) in support for 11 new feature films, including projects from Radu Mihaileanu, Titus Munteanu and Razvan Radulescu. The largest sum - $626,000 (Euros 432,000) - went to Mihaileanu's film The Concert, about a Bolshoi Theater manager who loses his ...
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Shochiku adds Sakamoto, Oikawa titles to EFM line-up
Japanese major Shochiku has unveiled its line-up for the upcoming European Film Market (EFM) which includes new titles from Ataru Oikawa and Junji Sakamoto. Oikawa's recently completed rural horror film Shrill Cries Of Summer is based on a successful franchise extending from video games to manga and TV animation. Oikawa ...
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Control Room director Noujaim heads Pangea Day film project
Jehane Noujaim, director of acclaimed 2004 documentary Control Room, is heading a unique project offering a global day of film.Pangea Day, which is scheduled for May 10, 2008, will be held in eight different cities: Cairo, Dharamsala, Jerusalem, Kigali, London, New York, Ramallah and Rio de Janeiro. The venues will ...
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Mulroney, Davis to star in Driving Lessons
Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis have signed on to star in the independent feature Driving Lessons that is scheduled to shoot in Los Angeles in March.Finland's Vivi Friedman will direct from a screenplay by Mark Lisson about an unhappy wife and mother who gets a second chance to save her ...
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Vertigo to produce Rupert Wyatt's Escapist follow-up The Trail
The UK's Vertigo Films has come on board for Rupert Wyatt's next feature The Trail, after already taking the rights to his debut feature The Escapist, which is world premiering in Sundance today.Vertigo will produce and take all UK rights to Wyatt's new project, and Vertigo's new partner sales company ...
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UK production spend drops 15% whileco-productions crash 43%
Feature film production spend dropped 15% in 2007, to $1.4bn (£723m) from 2006's $1.6bn (£855m), according to new research from the UK Film Council.The UKFC tracked 112 features, down from 135 in 2006 (the UKFC only tracks projects with budgets starting at $1m). The UKFC blamed the decline on the ...