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Eurimages supports 15 European co-productions
At its Dec 16-18 meeting in Paris, the Eurimages Fund board signed on to support 15 feature films for a total amount of $7m (Euros 4.925m). The projects getting funding are: Adalet - Ali Ozgenturk (Turkey, Hungary) Desert Flower - Sherry Hormann (Germany, Austria, France) Joueuse - Caroline Bottaro (France, ...
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Telefilm backs 13 features including films by Mehta, McGowan
New films from Deepa Mehta and Michael McGowan are among 13 English-language features backed by Telefilm Canada in its latest funding round, the Canadian investment agency announced today. Several projects have already started production, including Vincenzo Natali's Splice, starring Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley, which received $2.5m (C$2.5m) in Telefilm ...
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New German fund to back Dunaway in Master Class
A new German private media fund Shalimah German Film Management is to be launched to attract investment for participation in a slate of Stateside projects and an in-house family production for the international market. The Shalimah fund will participate in Glenn M. Stewart's investment and financing company Sherezade Film Development ...
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NonStop to sell sequel to Gnomes And Trolls
NonStop sales will handle international sales for Gnomes and Trolls II, after selling the original film this year.The 3D animated fairy tale is from White Shark AB with executive producers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (Toy Story, Garfield).The first Gnomes and Trolls is in production and will be finished in ...
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Luhrmann's Australia helps double Oz production to $232m
On first glance, figures released today indicate that more money is being poured into Australian features, which are traditionally made for very low budgets, but the improvement is illusionary. The numbers in the Australian Film Commission's (AFC) annual production survey only look healthier than the previous year because they have ...
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Khoo wraps Tamil-language drama You And Me
Singapore director Eric Khoo today wrapped his latest film You And Me after a 12-day shoot. The picture features a Tamil cast and the dialogues are in the Tamil language, making it the first Indian Tamil film made in Singapore. Amateur actor Francis Bosco plays a drunkard father who redeems ...
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Tarak Ben Ammar acquires French post house Eclair
Continuing his acquisition spree, Tarak Ben Ammar has acquired the entirety of French post-production company Eclair. The entrepreneur, who in November acquired control of Italian distributor Eagle Pictures, announced Wednesday that he has bought the 57% stake in Eclair which he did not already own. Ben Ammar had taken a ...
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China Film raises capital for digital production centre
Continuing its capital-raising streak, Chinese state-owned conglomerate, China Film Group Corporation, has issued $67.7m (RMB500m) in corporate bonds to finance digital film production and cinemas. The seven-year bonds have a fixed annual coupon rate of 6.1% and are available to domestic institutional investors. China Merchants Securities is the lead underwriter. ...
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Indigenous film-makers line up To Hell And Back, Samson and Delilah
Australia 's indigenous film-makers are telling their own stories with two features being prepared. Richard Frankland's road movie To Hell and Back finished its six-week shoot in Western Australia last week. Financed by Film Finance Corporation Australia and the local state agency ScreenWest, it has been dubbed the Australian version ...
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Berlin Talent Campus expands short film competition
The Berlin Today Award (BTA), the Berlinale Talent Campus's short film competition, is being expanded for its next edition which will see the films focusing on the theme of 'My Wall' to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2009. Participants of previous Talent Campuses ...
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Lucas, Hamm to star in A2/Code's The Boy In The Box
Josh Lucas and Golden Globe TV nominee Jon Hamm will star in A2 Entertainment Group and Code Entertainment's thriller The Boy In The Box.Lucas will play the father of a boy that went missing years ago and whose case bears striking parallels to a current investigation.James Van Der Beek, Rhona ...
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Whitton launches Belfast production outfit with Attenborough, Gilbert
Robert Whitton, commercially property investment expert and CEO of aAIM Group, has launched a new production company with director Richard Attenborough and producer Jo Gilbert.The company is named Real Holywood Productions, after its Belfast neighborhood. Real Holywood intends to focus on Northern Ireland-based productions.Attenborough and Gilbert recently shot the partially ...
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FremantleMedia and RTL launch German producer-distributor Ufa
Together with the RTL Group, FremantleMedia has launched a new producer-distributor Ufa Cinema through its German subsidiary UFA to deliver feature films for the local market and possibly be the first step towards the creation of a European major studio. The new initiative already has 40 projects in the ...
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MMG takes Flemish, French remake rights to Dutch hit Love Is All
Dutch production company Motel Films has sold the remake rights to its hit romantic comedy Love Is All to Belgian film producer MMG.MMG, which previously worked on Ben X and Winky's Horse, plans two different remake versions, one each for the Flemish and French markets. COO Peter Bouckaert found the ...
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Nordisk launches new production arm Neo Film under Aaberge
Danish major Nordisk Film's Norwegian subsidiary, which has become a market leader in local film and television production during Stein-Roger Bull's reign, will launch a new production outfit, Neo Film, to be headed by current head of production Aage Aaberge. At Nordisk he will be succeeded by producer Cornelia Boysen.Aaberge ...
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European Commission approves UK Lottery funding
The European Commission has given the greenlight to 12 Lottery funded film support schemes in the UK. This allays any concerns that the funding could fall foul of EU state aid rules and the schemes have now been approved until the end of 2012.The go-ahead covers more than $45m (£22m) ...
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New German funding model generates spend of almost $588m
The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) has generated a 'German spend' of almost $588m (Euros 400m) in its first year of operations after backing 99 feature film and documentary projects with over $87.3m (Euros 59.4m). Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, DFFF project manager Christine Berg explained that the 99 films with ...
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Australia's Abacus Fund backs Geena Davis project Accidents Happen
A film fund aimed at raising $26.4m (A$30m) for the production of Australian films has been formed, with the first beneficiary being Andrew Lancaster's debut film Accidents Happen, starring American actress Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise). Accidents Happen was one of five films which yesterday won investment from the ...
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Hammer's first new film to air episodes on MySpace
Hammer Films is set to produce its first horror film in 30 years, and has created a joint venture with MySpace to broadcast episodes of the feature, entitled Beyond The Rave. MySpaceTV will co-produce the project, which will initially air as 20 'webisodes' on MySpace before being released as a ...
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Japan's Shinobu Yaguchi returns to director's chair
After a three year absence from feature films, director Shinobu Yaguchi is set to direct a new comedy set in the world of air travel entitled Happy Flight (working title). Based on research conducted by Yaguchi last year, Happy Flight's story is set on a flight bound for Honolulu, Hawaii. ...