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Chan makes English-language debut with Don't Look Up
Distant Horizon has announced that award-winning Hong Kong director Fruit Chan will direct the English-language remake of Japanese filmmaker Hideo Nakata's Don't Look Up. The company's president Anant Singh also announced that the film will be produced in association with Japan 's Action 5. One of Nakata's early films before ...
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Production uncertainty overshadows Pinewood growth
The UK's Pinewood Studios has warned film revenue may be reduced this year because of delayed studio productions.The UK studio has been performing well recently and was further boosted this year by news that it would host the next Bond movie.Current business includes Chris Weitz' His Dark Materials: The Golden ...
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Wild Bunch announces equity boost and $150m joint venture
French sales, distribution and financing outfit Wild Bunch has raised $34m (Euros 25m) in equity and announced a $150m co-production and acquisition venture with US investment group Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC). CEC is providing most of the new capital with additional support from capital risk fund Iris Capital, which is ...
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Sony Pictures returns to German-language production
Sony Pictures is making a comeback to the production of German-language feature films after acquiring the film rights to Tommy Jaud's bestselling second novel Resturlaub.The comedy about a German brewery manager's dream of beginning a new life at the other end of the world in Argentina has already sold more ...
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Crisis at Internationalmedia deepens as Schuermann suspended
The crisis at IM Internationalmedia has deepened with the announcement this morning that Martin Schuermann, CEO of the Group's US subsidiary Intermedia Film Equities USA, has been suspended with immediate effect from his 'executive employment status'. Schuermann had already stepped down from the IM board on July 25, but had ...
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UTV moves into Telugu-language film production
Mumbai-based UTV Motion Pictures (UTVM) is making a foray into Telugu-language films by signing Telugu star Mahesh Babu, one of the most bankable stars in the Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, for two movies. The company has also acquired the Andhra Pradesh distribution rights for Mahesh Babu's next film ...
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Dennehy in talks for Righteous Kill
Brian Dennehy is in negotiations to join new cast members John Leguizamo, Dan Futterman, Trilby Glover and professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek on the crime thriller Righteous Kill, which begins filming on Sept 4 in Connecticut and New York. As previously announced in Cannes, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro star ...
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Ang Lee plans safer edit of Lust, Caution for Chinese audiences
Since its Venice world premiere, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution has created whatFocus boss James Schamus is calling 'a tidal wave of interest' across Asia.The Asian response has been largely positive. Lee's steamy espionagethriller will be given a major Asian release later in the autumn. However,controversy is already dogging the film ...
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Stopping Power forced to stop $40m shoot over financing issues
Principal photography on Jan de Bont's $40m action thriller Stopping Power has had to be suspended after the default of a key equity investor in the film made it impossible for the Internationalmedia Group to close the required financing. The investor's breach has led to the IM Internationalmedia wholly-ownd subsidiary ...
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Met Film Post acquires Chris Atkins' S2S Post
UK-based Met Film Post has acquired indie post-production company S2S Post, which has worked on more than 30 features since its creation six years ago.S2S founder Chris Atkins will step down from running the company to concentrate on the feature film production side of S2S. He recently directed his first ...
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Former Sina exec launches China's first fund for docs
Former Sina.com executive Ben Chiang has launched CNEX, the first private fund for documentaries in China. The Beijing-based outfit aims to become a fully-fledged film production, sales and distribution outfit, focusing on documentaries produced in the Greater China region. The first three films on the CNEX slate are: Du Haibin's ...
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Film Sales Company takes on Argentinian drama
Andrew Herwitz' New York-based Film Sales Company is moving intoproduction with the remake of Jorge Gaggero's Argentinian dramaLive-In Maid.Herwitz picked up English-language remake rights to the portrait ofthe relationship between a grand dame and her live-in maid.Rodrigo Garcia is attached to write and direct the project, which isexpected to begin ...
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Danny Dyer to star in UK low-budgetfeature 7 Lives
Danny Dyer, Kate Ashfield and Mary Stockley are set to star in a new UK low-budget feature, 7 Lives. The plot follows a man who is attacked by 'hoodies' and then falls into a dream state where he lives out other lives and confronts his own adultery. The film will ...
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UK thriller MindFlesh finishes post-production
Post-production is wrapping up on UK indie horror title MindFlesh. The thriller stars Christopher Fairbank, Peter Bramhill, Lucy Liemann, and Carole Derrien. The story, adapted from William Scheinman's White Light, is about a taxi driver whose obsession with a ghostly goddess becomes real. MindFlesh shot on location for four weeks ...
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Film Agency For Wales backs illegal logging script
The Film Agency For Wales is backing Blind Eye, written by Penarth, Wales-based writer Anna Holmes. The film is currently in development. The story is about a freelance forestry consultant whose principles are challenged working for the UK government in Indonesia, where illegal logging is a problem. New Zealand-born Holmes ...
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Eros teams up with Dutt's White Feather Films
India's Eros International has signed a co-production, marketing and distribution deal with local production company White Feather Films (WFF). The Mumbai production house is owned by director-producer Sanjay Gupta and actor Sanjay Dutt, who was recently released from prison pending his appeal of a conviction for arms possession. Under the ...
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Lions For Lambs to open AFI FEST
Lions For Lambs, the inaugural release under Paula Wagner and TomCruise's revamped United Artists, will get its North American premierewhen it opens the AFI FEST in Los Angeles on Nov 1.The announcement suggests the film is likely to receive its worldpremiere at the 51st BFI London Film Festival that runs ...
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Red Envelope and New Line take rights to childbirth doc
Red Envelope Entertainment and New Line Home Entertainment havejointly acquired North American rights to the childbirth documentaryThe Business Of Being Born.Ricki Lake produced the film, in which director Abby Epstein capturesfootages of women giving birth and speaks to mothers, obstetriciansand experts about whether childbirth is a natural process or a ...
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Relativity on board for Contractors
Relativity Media has swooped on film rights to Bob Fisher'sspeculative script Contractors and will finance, develop and producethe project with Landscape Entertainment.Fisher, who co-wrote the 2005 hit Wedding Crashers with Steve Faber,co-wrote Contractors with David Hemingson.The story centres on two contractors who land a big assignment in theHamptons, only for ...
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Soenke Wortmann comes to the rescue of Constantin's Pope Joan
German director Soenke Wortmann has come to the rescue of Constantin Film's planned adaptation of the Donna Cross bestseller Pope Joan after the previously attached director Volker Schloendorff was fired amidst much controversy last month.Franka Potente is still expected to take the title lead role in the international project which ...