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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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Tranter welcomes six-year stability of new BBC Films budget
'Discreetly celebratory' was how Jane Tranter, Controller BBC Fiction, described the state of mind at BBC Films, where a $4m (£2 m) increase in the current annual budget of $20m (£10m) was confirmed Thursday. There was also the added news that $2m (£1m) of the BBC's film acquisition budget would ...
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Al Shaibani and Al Muhairi take Emirates awards in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi's Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 14-19) today announced the winners of its competition for Emirati filmmakers. Hani Al Shaibani, whose second feature Jumaa and the Sea screens at the festival, and Fadel Al Muhairi, who participated in the festival's pitching programme with his Gulf-based period action-adventure project ...
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BBC Films to get extra $4m per year, for a total of $24m
As the BBC's widely reportedcuts were confirmed today, BBC Films fared better than other departments of the broadcasting giant.BBC director general Mark Thompson confirmed that BBC Films would get an extra $4m (£2m) investment annually, on top of its current $20m (£10m) annual budget. That's far less than BBC Films ...
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Eros takes on Krazzy 4 from Roshan's Film Kraft
Eros International has taken international rights to Krazzy 4 from Rakesh Roshan's Film Kraft Productions. The project is currently shooting.Jaideep Sen will direct the comedy with a social message. Juhi Chawla, Dia Mirza, Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Rajpal Yadav and Suresh Menon star. The film is based around four principal ...
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UK film minister upbeat on industry but co-productions drop
UK Minister of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism Margaret Hodge defended the industry's position during her keynote speech atthe Screen International annual UK Film Finance Summit.But she has asked the UK Film Council to undertake an evaluation of the success of the UK tax credit as figures show ...
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Love Marriage and Keep Smiling take pitch prize in Abu Dhabi
The inaugural Middle East International Film Festival's Film Financing Circle (FFC) came to an end Wednesday night with an awards ceremony for the finalists of its pitching programme, the InCircle Pearl.Audience favourite Soman Chainani's Love Marriage, a comedy about two weddings that threaten to tear apart an Indian family in ...
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Gondry casts Kase, Ito in Tokyo! segment
The cast for Michel Gondry's segment of omnibus film Tokyo ! (working title) has been announced. Letters From Iwo Jima star Ryo Kase will be joined by Ayumi Ito (Tokyo Tower: Mom And Me And Sometimes Dad), Satoshi Tsumabuki (Dororo), Ayako Fujitani (Gamera 3) and Nao Omori (Midnight Eagle). Gondry's ...
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Nicholson picks Evans' White Elephants for UK script prize
Patrick Evans has won South West Screen's Screenwriter Development Competition, judged by Oscar-winning screenwriter Bill Nicholson. His screenplay White Elephants is about a father and teenage daughter, set against the backdrop of corruption in the Nigerian oil industry. Gloucestershire-born, Cornwall-based Evans beat screenplays from 128 other budding writers from the ...
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Meaney, Crook and Staunton line up for 3 and OUT
UK indie comedy 3 and OUT, starring Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton and Gemma Arterton, will start principal photography Oct 29.Jonathan Gershfield makes his feature directorial debut after working on TV series including Big Train and Dead Ringers.Wayne Marc Godfrey is producing for new production outfit RMPC. Steve Lewis ...
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Eros and Darby set upIndia-based effects companyEyeQube
In yet another strategic expansion, India 's leading integrated media company Eros International is working with international visual effects expert Charles Darby to start a new venture called EyeQube Studios Private Ltd. Eros will make an initial investment of $5m-$7m into EyeQube and each film will bring in its own ...
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Van Dormeal's Mr Nobody ready to move to Germany
Jaco van Dormeal's Mr Nobody, which has already shot in Belgium and Canada, will continue its six-month shoot moving later this month to Germany. The English-language project stars Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, and Rhys Ifans. Van Dormeal also wrote the screenplay, about a man living ...
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Patrick Smith Kelly hired to write GK Films' Benighted
Patrick Smith Kelly has been hired to write the screenplay adaptation of GK Films' adaptation of Kit Whitfield's supernatural novel Benighted.Graham King acquired rights to the book in 2006 and will produce with Andrew Adamson for Warner Bros.Adamson is in talks to direct the story about a minority human population ...
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Weinstein keynote gives strong start to Abu Dhabi festival
Abu Dhabi 's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) got off to an extravagant start on Sunday evening with a ceremony that included an Academy Awards-style opening number choreographed by Broadway veteran Otis Sallid. A lavish party at the opulent festival centre, Emirates Palace, followed the screening of opening ...
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UTV's Spotboy unveils three-picture slate
After establishing movie production brand Spotboy in May this year, UTV Motion Pictures has unveiled a slate of three Hindi films under the new division, to be directed by Shyam Benegal, Anurag Kashyap and debut director Raj Kumar Gupta. Benegal, whose credits include Nishant which screened in competition at Cannes ...
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China's SARFT, Singapore's MDA sign slate of agreements
China 's State Administration for Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) have inked a slate of media-related MOUs to spearhead media co-operation between the two countries. Three government-to-government MOUs were signed last Friday to facilitate co-productions and encourage reciprocal participation in key media ...
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Swedish Film Institute gives $2.5m to films including Fares' Leo
The Swedish Film Institute will provide $2.5m (Euros 1.8m) production support for eight new features, including a film by Josef Fares.Separately, the Finnish Film Foundation will contribute $409,000 (Euros 310,000) to the funding of two movies, both instigated before the Finnish producers' strike effective on Sept 14.Fares, whose Zozo won ...
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Ruins allowed in Acropolis as Greece entices foreign shoots
This weekend saw the first film production in history given a permit to shoot inside the famed Acropolis in Athens. My Life In Ruins, produced by Playtone, stars Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame as a guide leading tourists through Greek archeological sites. The team shot in ...
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Rai Cinema, under D'Amico, ramps up co-productions
Rai Cinema's new chief Caterina D'Amico says the film production arm will place a special emphasis on co-productions and to illustrate the point, Rai Cinema has just signed on as 25% partner of Spike Lee's $45m project Miracle at St. Anna, which begins shooting Monday at Cinecitta studios before moving ...
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Kojo's Smith breaks ground with new Sony HD camera on Beautiful
A group of Australian filmmakers, some of whom were involved on the very successful digital feature Wolf Creek , are making their new project Beautiful as one of the first features to be shot with the new Sony F23 CineAlta HD camera. Dean O'Flaherty is directing and Adelaide-based Kojo Pictures' ...