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Cause and effects
From Harry Potter to Sunshine, the UK's post houses are creating world-class effects work. But how is the sector being affected by the exchange rate and increasing competition from India' Geoffrey Macnab reports. The past 12 months has been something of a banner year for the UK post sector. From ...
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Berczeller wins Britdoc Pitching with Through A Glass, Darkly
At today's More4 Pitching Forum at the Britdoc Festival, Paul Berczeller was named top pitcher with his project Through A Glass, Darkly. He wins $2000 (£1000) in a cash prize.He presented the project, about the son of a man involved in an infamous CIA LSD experiment, with producer Nikki Parrott ...
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Critical opinion: barnacles all at sea
DIY guides to script-writing are Hollywood's parasites. But is advice on high-concept cinema or indie auteurism of any use to the budding scriptwriter, asksLee MarshallUnlike the film industry, the grey whale has been with us for 30 million years. Still, the two ungainly beasts have a few things in common. ...
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Axiom and Matador wrap shoot for UK drama There For Me
Director Sallie Aprahamian has wrapped principal photography on UK romantic drama There For Me.The film is the first collaboration between Axiom Films and Matador Pictures. Axiom developed the film in association with Matador and Regent Capital's Cinema Two. Arts Alliance Media's MetFilm is also co-financing.Douglas Cummins of Axion produces with ...
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Kelly Reilly to lead cast for Watkins' thriller Eden Lake
Kelly Reilly will star with 300's Michael Fassbender and This Is England newcomer Thomas Turgoose in Eden Lake for director James Watkins.Celador's Christian Colson (The Descent) is producing with Waking Ned producer Richard Holmes. The $4m (£2m) project will shoot July 29-Sept 8 in the London area.The thriller, which Watkins ...
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Osian's launches fund for Asian, Arab filmmakers
Indian arts organisation Osian's, organiser of the Cinefan film festival which is currently in progress in Delhi, is launching a development fund to support filmmakers from India, Asia and the Arab region. Dubbed the Film Fund: Osian's Originating Development (FOOD), thefund will provide grants ranging from $10,000-$25,000 for pre-production expenses ...
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Arcel prepares new feature about Danish royals for Zentropa
Danish director Nicolaj Arcel, whose Island of Lost Souls sold 195,000 tickets domestically, is preparing a feature film about the relationship between Danish King Christian VII, Queen Caroline Mathilde and German-born physician-in-ordinary Johann Friedrich Struensee, who was executed in 1772 - 235 years ago.Over the years several projects have been ...
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BANGKOK: Right Beyond launches first Taiwanese-Thai co-production
At the Bangkok Film Market, Right Beyond Films has launched international sales of The Fatality, billed as the first ever co-production between Thailand and Taiwan. In the horror film, an unsuccessful man in Taipei attempts suicide only to wake up in the body of a coma victim in Bangkok with ...
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BANGKOK: Thailand's Mono Film set to double production
Up-and-coming Thai producer Mono Film is set to double its production output next year to eight films from last year's four. 'We now have more confidence after spending the last three years to learn the local and international markets,' says CEO Soraj Asavaprapha who founded the company with Pete Bodharamik ...
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Malaysia's James Lee lines up Waiting, Hysteria
Malaysian pioneering independent filmmaker James Lee will shoot two new projects back-to-back - digital film Waiting For Love and his first 35mm mainstream feature film Hysteria. A six-day shoot has just begun on the digital film, the last installment of a love trilogy which also includes Before We Fall In ...
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Indian Film Company backs six new projects including Loot
The Indian Film Company, the Bollywood producer which recently started trading on the UK's Alternative Investment Market in June, has invested $24m (£12m) in six new film projects to be produced over the next year. The new projects bring Indian Film Company's slate of productions to a total of 20 ...
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Film industry said to contribute nearly $9bn to UK economy
The UK film industry contributed about $8.9bn (£4.3bn) to the UK's gross domestic product in 2006 - a 39% increase in two years, according to a new Oxford Economics report supported by The UK Film Council and Pinewood Shepperton. That figure represents direct impact from core film activities such as ...
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Bastion takes on Godley's debut Where The Treetops Glisten
New UK independent producer Bastion Pictures has optioned the rights to Where The Treetops Glisten, which will mark the debut feature of Kevin Godley, who previously worked on music videos and documentaries. Godley co-wrote the script with Adrian Deevoy. The film is about executives at a TV company specialising in ...
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Suite Dreams director Mitani set to make Magic for Toho
Toho has announced details of Suite Dreams writer-director Koki Mitani's next project. Entitled The Magic Hour, the film will star Satoshi Tsumabuki (Dororo) and Koichi Sato (Sukiyaki Western Django). The story follows a young underworld figure (Tsumabuki) who promises to track down a hit man for his boss. When he ...
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Chan to star in Tokyo-set drama Shinjuku Incident
Hong Kong's JCE Movies is set to produce Japan-set drama The Shinjuku Incident, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Derek Yee. Chan will also produce the film through JCE - his joint venture with Albert Yeung's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) - while EMP will handle international sales. The Hong Kong ...
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Wine growing comedy prepares to uncork
Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Freddy Rodriguez, Rachael Taylor from Transformers, Chris Pine, and Eliza Dushku will star in Randall Miller's wine growing comedy Bottle Shock.The IPW, Zin Haze and Unclaimed Freight Production joint enterprise will begin shooting in the Napa and Sonoma Valley regions of California on Aug 1.Jody Savin ...
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Constantin Film parts company with Schloendorff on Pope Joan
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has fired the Oscar-winning director Volker Schloendorff from the adaptation of the Donna Cross bestseller Pope Joan.In a letter to Schloendorff, Martin Moszkowicz, member of the Constantin board, wrote that 'it is unfortunately no longer possible for us to make the film together. I have ...
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Thailand's Kantana starts work on Khan Kluay sequel
Thailand's Kantana Group has started production on a sequel to 3D animated feature Khan Kluay, about the adventures of a blue elephant, which was the top local hit at the Thai box office last year. The new animation, Khan Kluay 2, has an estimated budget of $5m. 'The bulk is ...
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Film Frame unleashes Brave at Bangkok Film Market
Thailand 's Film Frame Productions is launching action comedy drama Brave at the Bangkok Film Market, which kicks off today (July 23). The $1.2m picture - high by local standards - is a co-production with Aflin Shauki's Malaysian outfit Vision Works. The picture marks the first completed project of Thanapon ...
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Universal's Wanted finishes Czech leg of shoot
Timur Bekmambetov wrapped production on Universal's Wanted in the Czech Republic on Saturday. The crew now moves on to Chicago, where they will shoot Aug 7-17. Czech press reported Bekmambetov as saying the budget of the film was $50m. The film is the first in production and distribution deal between ...