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Chen's Mei Lanfang starts shooting in Beijing
Chinese director Chen Kaige announced the start of production on his biopic of Peking opera singer Mei Lanfang in Beijing yesterday. The actual shooting started last Saturday (July 14) in Beijing Film Studio. Huayi Brothers Pictures came on board as one of the backers just last week, joining the original ...
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Soderbergh gears up for Spanish shoot for two Che features
Shooting starts Wednesday in Spain on Steven Soderbergh's two Spanish-language films about Ernesto 'Che' Guevera, El Argentino and Guerrilla. The much anticipated films will shoot consecutively for nine weeks in Spain on locations in Madrid, Castilla La Mancha and Andalusia before moving on to Puerto Rico. Benicio del Toro stars ...
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EC approves Belgian Tax Shelter system
There were sighs of relief in the Belgian production community withthe official announcement today (Thursday) that the EuropeanCommission has renewed its approval of the Belgian Tax Shelter system.Earlier this summer, the Commission had sent back proposals for therenewal, expressing concern about the lack of 'cultural' documentationin the proposals. Those concerns ...
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Telefilm backs seven low-budget features
Telefilm Canada will support the production of seven feature films, including new projects from Marc-Andre Forcier (Une Histoire Inventee, The Countess Of Baton Rouge) and filmmaker and actress Micheline Lanctot (Sonatine). The projects, six in French and one in English, will receive up to $191,000 (C$200,000) through the federal film ...
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Northwest screen agency starts lab for multi-platform content
UK regional screen agency Northwest Vision + Media is starting a new multi-platform lab for content producers. The linked training and funding initiative Alchemy, set up with consultants Olsberg SPI, will include a residential strategy workshop, a product development period and a networking event. The lab is geared to TV, ...
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Senator Film to release next Wenders' Palermo Shooting
Senator Film will release Wim Wenders' next feature film The Palermo Shooting, which begins shooting in Dusseldorf from September 17 before moving to Sicily.This is the second time Wenders and Senator have worked together after the director's internationally feted documentary Buena Vista Social Club took more than $7.5m (Euros 5.4m) ...
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Walden Media set to ride with Moriarty surf project
Walden Media has boarded an adventure project set against the renowned Mavericks surfing location in Northern California. Daniel Barnz and Ned Zeman will write the screenplay based on a treatment by Walden's executive vice president of business affairs Jim Meenaghan and writer-producer Brandon Hooper. Based on a true story, the ...
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Trust takes on sales of Szumowska's 33 Scenes Of Life
Denmark's Trust Film Sales will handle international sales of Polish director Malgosia Szumowska's 33 Scenes of Life, currently shooting at Krakow, Poland. Denmark's Zentropa Entertainments is co-producing. 'I worked with Szumowska on Visions of Europe-25 Countries 1 Film, where she delivered the Polish entry, and we agreed we would continue ...
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Tykwer eyes Babelsberg Studios for thriller The International
A day before shooting begins on the Tom Cruise World War II drama Valkyrie, local press reports have revealed that Babelsberg Studios is set to host its third Hollywood production this year with the shooting of Tom Tykwer's action thriller The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, from September.According ...
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Isaac Julien, Lucy Walker among pitchers at Britdoc Pitching Forum
Next week's Britdoc festival has selected the 13 documentary projects to be presented at the 2007 Pitching Forum. More than 130 proposals were submitted, and the 13 finalists represent newcomers as well as established documentarians including Isaac Julien and Lucy Walker. The pitchers present their ideas on July 26 to ...
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Premiere Picture gets private equity boost
UK-based film financier and production company Premiere Picture said that it has received an investment (of an undisclosed amount) from an offshore private equity fund and plans to now extend its operations. Premiere plans to expand its sales and production staff and open a new London office on the back ...
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Aardman works with Atom Films on animated shorts
From Broadcast: Aardman has teamed up with film download website Atom Films to launch a series of exclusive animated shorts. The Oscar-winning UK production company behind Wallace and Gromit has delved into its archive and created a series of Pib and Pog shorts. The series, which features two kids TV ...
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Chengtian starts production on Wang's Dangerous Game
Beijing-based Chengtian Entertainment has started shooting its first in-house production, Wang Guangli's The Dangerous Game, which cranked up yesterday (July 16) in the city of Hangzhou in South-East China. Co-financed by Hong Kong 's Mei Ah Entertainment, the contemporary black comedy follows a group of inter-connected Chinese yuppies who indulge ...
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Yerevan gives awards to War And Peace and Import/Export
Armenian documentary filmmaker Vardan Hovhannisyan was the big winner at this year's Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan, picking up four of the prizes for his film A Story Of People In War And Peace at the awards ceremony preceding the closing film The Banishment by Russia's Andrei Zviagintsev. ...
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Weinstein Co options upcoming gangster book
The Weinstein Company has optioned film and TV rights to Tom Folsom's upcoming gangster book The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe And The Revolution At The Edge Of The Underworld.The tome chronicles the Brooklyn-based Gallo brothers and their ill-fated efforts to take on the Mafia.Weinstein Books president and chief executive officer ...
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Berlin Today short competition names three finalists
The fifth year of the Berlin Today Award short film competition has selected three finalists: Pakistan's Maheen Zia with Match Factor, about a football player from Iraq who meets a policewoman when he visits Berlin; Finland's Ville Jankeri with The Last Wash, a black comedy about a laundry woman's suicide ...
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New Zealand boosts incentive for foreign producers
Significant improvements have been made to the financial incentives available to foreign producers taking advantage of New Zealand's locations and filmmaking skills, the Government announced today. Films that spend over $11.9m (NZ$15m) in New Zealand on production can now claim back 15 percent, instead of the previous ...
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New Zealand makes production grants more attractive
New Zealand's film industry got a boost today for both local andinternational film-makers as the country's economic developmentminister Trevor Mallard announced increased government incentives forfilms being made in New Zealand. The Large Budget Screen Production Grant has been increased from 12.5% to 15% ...
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Robert Carlyle to star in Justin Kerrigan's new feature
Robert Carlyle has signed on to star in Justin Kerrigan's new feature I Know You Know.The coming-of-age drama is about a boy who is fascinated by his father's espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real.. ...
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Gill and Sacker take on Chloe King's script Lorelei
Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's fledgling finance, production and international sales company The Film Department has unveiled its first acquisition since launching last month and will fast-track Chloe King's script Lorelei.The project centres on the story of a bitterly divorced New York City couple who are told they must conceive ...