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Vito Rocco's MySpace winner Faintheart starts shooting
Faintheart, the winning film in the MySpace MyMovieMashUp competition, is starting principal photography this week.Director Vito Rocco beat out 800 other hopefuls in the contest to get his film greenlit with a budget of $2m (£1m). The project, being billed as 'the world's first user-generated feature film,' is a romantic ...
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Handpicked lines up financing for 11 films with Ginepri
Michel Shane and Anthony Romano's Los Angeles-based Handpicked Films has secured multi-year financing for several slates backed by New York based hedge fund Ginepri Capital Partners. The initial Ginepri Motion Picture Slate of 11 films is valued at approximately $110m and Shane and Romano will act as executive directors and ...
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Capitol bolsters AFM slate with new films from Redford, Hackford
Capitol Films has announced several high-profile new projects on its slate for next week's American Film Market.Capitol will introduce buyers to Robert Redford's next directorial project, Against All Enemies, which will star Bruce Willis; as well as Taylor Hackford's next film Love Ranch, starring his wife, Oscar winner Helen Mirren ...
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Swedish Institute gives record funding to Moodysson's Mammoth
Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's first English-language feature, Mammoth (Mammut), which starts principal photography on Nov 5 in Thailand, has received a record $1.7m (Euros 1.3m) production funding from the Swedish Film Institute.Gael Garcia Bernal will star in the $10m-plus (Euros 7.4m-plus) production which will move to the Phillippines and Swedish ...
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Indian distributor-exhibitor PVR ramps up production
Indian distribution and exhibition company PVR Ltd, through its wholly-owned subsidiary PVR Pictures, plans to invest $25.2m (Rs1bn) in film production and expand its slate to three to four films in the current financial year. The company has also announced that it is teaming up with award-winning veteran filmmaker Rajkumar ...
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TIFFCOM: US talent agents advise Japan on creating demand
Find top US directors to support your talent and capitalise on US films shooting in Japan were among the nuggets of advice that Hollywood agents and casting directors offered to Japan's talent powerhouses at a TIFFCOM seminar today. Panellists including Endeavor's Adam Levine, US casting director Richard Pagano and Paris-based ...
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Hans Zimmer to score Sony's Mexican comedy Casi Divas
Sony Pictures Entertainment's (SPE) local production arm Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico has hired Hans Zimmer to score the music for its comedy Casi Divas (Road To Fame). Currently in post-production, Casi Divas is the second film to come from Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico after Ninas Mal and was written ...
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British Columbia extends 30% tax credit through 2013
British Columbia has extended until 2013 its 30% labour-based tax credit for film and television production shooting in the province.The move, announced by BC premier Gordon Campbell on Friday, comes as the Canadian dollar pushes past US$1.02.The other industry tax credits in the province, a 12.5% regional credit for productions ...
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THINKFilm International goes Under The Mountain with Jonathan King
THINKFilm International has come on board for world sales (excluding Australia and New Zealand for Under The Mountain, to be directed by Jonathan King. King's most recent film is the international hit Black Sheep. Fantasy adventure thriller Under The Mountain is based on the novel by popular New Zealand author ...
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Irish Film Board cautions against expectation of completion funding
With as many as 15 ultra low- and no-budget features being made without official funding 'below the radar' in Ireland each year the Irish Film Board held an information session at the Cork Film Festival to address producers' expectations of receiving completion funding from the agency. Calling it a 'reality ...
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Argentina's Gaggero to direct Wildlife for Point Road Films
John Moore and Peter Veverka's Point Road Films has hired Argentinean film-maker Jorge Gaggero to direct the adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning Richard Ford's coming-of-age novel Wildlife.Producers Moore and Peter Veverka are aiming for a late summer 2008 shoot in Montana on the $3m tale of a 16-year-old who learns ...
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Longoria, Biggs star in theatrical comedy for Starz Media, Ambush
Eva Longoria, Jason Biggs and Rob Corddry will star in Starz Media and Ambush Entertainment's comedy Lower Learning.Starz Media will handle the worldwide theatrical release. The film will get a domestic theatrical release through an as yet undetermined distributor, and will launch on DVD through Starz Media subsidiary Anchor Bay ...
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Summit reunites with Aronofsky on 1980s-era wrestling drama
Summit International has reunited with Darren Aronofsky and will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the drama The Wrestler starring Nicolas Cage.Aronofsky will direct and is producing alongside Cage and Norm Golightly's Saturn Films and producer Scott Franklin. Jean-Luc De Fanti and Jeff Sagansky's Winchester Capital Partners is financing the ...
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Eurimages funds new features from Haneke, Noe, Ceylan
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film fund, has come on board to support 11 feature films for a total of $6.2m (Euros 4.38m) at its last meeting which ended Oct 16. The co-productions supported are: Aeblet & Ormen by Josef Fares & Anders Morgenthaler (Denmark, Sweden) Appelsinpiken by Eva Dahr ...
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Goal! 3 starts shooting with director Andy Morahan
Milkshake Films has started principal photography this weekn on Goal! 3. Andy Morahan, veteran of commercials and music videos, direct. That marks a change since 2006, when the producers said Michael Apted would direct.Mike Jefferies, who wrote the first two films in the football franchise, wrote the script with Piers ...
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Content on board for The Daisy Chain starring Samantha Morton
ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide rights to supernatural thriller The Daisy Chain, starring Samantha Morton.Aisling Walsh (Song For A Raggy Boy) will direct based on an original screenplay by Lauren MacKenzie. The film starts shooting Oct 29 as a UK/Irish co-production. Subotica Entertainment's Tristan Orpen Lynch and Dominic Wright will ...
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Wild Bunch takes a stake in Italian distributor Bim
Confirming rumors that have been rumbling in industry circles for some time, French sales, distribution and financing outfit Wild Bunch has taken a stake in Italy 's Bim Distribuzione. Financial terms were not disclosed. The move reinforces Wild Bunch's ambition to be present in distribution over multiple European territories. Wild ...
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Inferno options Ison's romantic novel The List
Los Angeles-based Inferno Distribution has optioned Tara Ison's romantic novel The List, which was published in March and centres on a dysfunctional couple's desperate final act.The pair make a list of 10 ideal dates before they agree to part amicably. However as the dates progress they begin to see each ...
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Bassett, Wyle join all-star cast of YFG's Nothing But The Truth
Angela Bassett and Noah Wyle have joined Yari Film Group's (YFG) thriller Nothing But The Truth, which Rod Lurie is directing.Bassett and Wyle join Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, Harry Lennix and David Schwimmer on the production, which commenced shooting in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this month.Bob Yari ...
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Wind Dancer plans US, Provence shoot on Williams' Mistral
Wind Dancer Films is lining up a US and Provence, France, shoot on the romantic fable Mistral with Wind Dancer partner Matt Williams attached to directed.Josh Kesselman and Andrea Smith will produce with Wind Dancer Films based on a screenplay by Brett Hershey and Matt Tilker loosely inspired by a ...