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Spike Lee's Italian project St. Anna to boast $45m budget
Director Spike Lee and the Italian On My Own Production have announced new details on Lee's new Tuscany-set film project.The film will have a $45m budget, is to be produced 50% by On My Own - the new independent production company launched by ex-Mikado founders and owners Roberto Cicutto and ...
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Buena Vista partner on fifth outing of Wild Soccer Bunch
The German outpost of Buena Vista International will also distribute the fifth film of The Wild Soccer Bunch franchise which begins shooting today at locations in Saarland and Munich. With the working title of DWK5 - Die Wilden Kerle: Hinterm Horizont, the SamFilm production by Joachim Masannek sees the cast ...
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FFC to determine which films are classed as Australian
The points-based cultural test that was being developed by Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has been scrapped, and the local industry has reverted back to the less prescriptive method that has been in place for more than 20 years. The FFC had based its proposed new method of determining which ...
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Lemhagen's gay adoption story among Swedish-backed projects
Swedish director Ella Lemhagen, who had her international break with the award-winning Tsatsiki, Mum and the Policeman (1999), is readying her new project, Patrik 1,5, with $1m (Euros 800,000) production support from the Swedish Film Institute.Scripted by Lemhagen from Swedish dramatist Michael Druker's play, Patrik 1,5 is the story of ...
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UTV Motion Pictures valued at $321m as AIM trading starts
Indian film studio UTV Motion Pictures has started trading today on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The company has raised about $70m (£35m) to fund a new slate of about 30 films, both Bollywood offerings and projects made with Hollywood.Shares rose from a placement guide of $2.90 to $3.07, putting ...
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Daniel Craig project to start UK portion of shoot
Bailie Walsh's Flashbacks of A Fool had been shooting in South Africa since May 28 and will move to the UK on July 4.In addition to the previously announced starring role for Daniel Craig, the Flashbacks Of A Fool cast also includes Helen McCrory, Olivia Williams, Emilia Fox, Mark Strong, ...
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Sundance Directors Lab: a mountain of work
The Sundance Directors Lab, which took place this month at the Sundance resort in the Utah mountains, has opened its doors to a new wave of international film-makers. Mike Goodridge visited the lab and met some of the writer-directors being put through their paces. A fair amount of legend has ...
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Writers rights
Screenwriters are looking to change the way they are treated by the industry - and win more recognition. As the UK's International Screenwriters' Festival (July 3-6) opens, John Hazelton explores the writers' lot. It's in the zeitgeist that the writers' lot must be improved in order for movies to get ...
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Screenwriting: odds even.
Initiated at Sundance, screenwriters' group 1.3.9 hopes to work directly with actors and directors on film projects. So how will the arrangement work' John Hazelton reportsChristopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and Erik Jendresen (TV series Band Of Brothers) hatched the idea for 1.3.9, their recently launched writers' co-operative, after stints ...
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European screenwriters' manifesto: world in motion
Signatories from the US and Europe have backed a manifesto to give more rights to writers. John Hazelton reportsLaunched at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, the European Screenwriters' Manifesto had around 2,000 signatories as of late May.Most of them were writers, but the document has also been endorsed by ...
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Writers' co-op: singular vision
John Wells' Writers' Co-Op draws together a stable of veteran writers to generate scripts and share in a project's upside. Unveiled three months ago, John Wells' Writers' Co-Op has been in the works for several years.For Wells (writer of ER and producer of movies including White Oleander and Doom) and ...
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Ana Katz: the wandering star
The Argentinian winner of San Sebastian's Films in Progress proved a true labour of love. Diego Batlle talks to the film's director. At just 31, Argentinian film-maker Ana Katz is one of the most prolific and versatile artists of her generation. A renowned film, theatre and commercials actor-writer-producer-director, Katz's second ...
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International projects take the lead with new German fund
International co-productions shooting in Germany have received more than half of the $28m (Euros 20.9m) allocated by the new German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) in its first six months of operation. Speaking at a review of the DFFF's first six months at this week's Munich Film Festival, project manager Christine ...
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Lichtmeer moves into production with Angelopoulos project
Munich-based distributor Lichtmeer Filmverleih has relaunched itself as the Cologne/Berlin production company Lichtmeer Film, which will have Theo Angelopoulos's next feature Dust Of Time as its first project. The co-production with Italy's Classic and Albachiara and the director's own company Angelopoulos Film, will star Harvey Keitel, Bruno Ganz, Willem Dafoe ...
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Charlie Cox leads cast for Scottish feature Stone Of Destiny
Scottish feature Stone Of Destiny started principal photography this week on location in Glasgow and London. Charlie Cox, Billy Boyd, Kate Mara, Robert Carlyle and Brenda Fricker star. Charles Martin Smith wrote and directed the project, based on Ian Hamilton's book, The Taking Of the Stone Of Destiny. The film ...
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Kaneshiro to star in first Japanese film in six years
Actor Takeshi Kaneshiro is set to star in his first Japanese film in six years. Based on Kotaro Isaka's novel The Accuracy Of Death (Shinigami No Seido) the story follows an irreverent version of the Grim Reaper (Kaneshiro) who visits people with a week left to live and passes judgment ...
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Chapa to play Latin spy in thriller Fuego
Amadeus Pictures is set to start production this month in Europe on Fuego, an international spy thriller starring Amadeus founder/president Damian Chapa together with David Carradine (Kill Bill Vol 2) and Nickolai Stoilov (Lara's Rain).Chapa, who started his career as an actor in films including Blood In, Blood Out and ...
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Fulwell 73 on board for Hawkes' Breathing and Drawing Dead
UK production company Fulwell 73, who are behind recent Cannes Market hit documentary In The Hands Of The Gods, have optioned two new projects from writer/director Kieron Hawkes. The new projects are Check If I'm Still Breathing, a love story following a couple through a turbulent 10-year period. Hawkes has ...
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Local production: riding Romania's wave
Following the Cannes triumph of Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Romanian film-making is on a high. Theodore Schwinke reportsDespite the international festival success of such films as The Death Of Mr Lazarescu, 12:08 East Of Bucharest, California Dreamin' and 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, ...
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On location: Hero Wanted
Small-town America has been recreated in detail on a Bulgarian backlot. Theodore Schwinke visits the set of Hero Wanted. The traffic lights are always green and the theatre posters promote only Nu Image pictures. Otherwise Nu Boyana's Ilientzi set, on the ourtskirts of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, is a convincing replica ...