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Glover, Basset, Stiles line up to climb Gospel Hill
Danny Glover, Angela Basset, Julia Stiles, Simon Baker, Adam Baldwin and The RZA have singed on to the political drama Gospel Hill from newly launched Deco Entertainment.The Los Angeles-based company is fully financing the project, which began shooting in South Carolina last week.Giancarlo Esposito makes his directorial debut based on ...
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Bernstein promoted to senior vp, production, at Universal
Scott Bernstein has been promoted to senior vice president of production at Universal Pictures, effective immediately.Since Bernstein joined the studio in 2004 he has overseen such projects as last summer's hit The Break-Up and Accepted. He is currently supervising Hellboy 2, which recently began production in HungaryBergstein previously served at ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights six French-language projects
Telefilm Canada has greenlit six French-language feature film projects, including France-Canada coproduction Instinct De Mort, directed by Jean-Francois Richet and starring Vincent Cassel, Gerard Depardieu and Roy Dupuis; and Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Un Ange A La Mer. Instinct De Mort (Mesrine) partners French producer Thomas Langmann of Paris production house La ...
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Huayi Brothers set to shoot Zhou Xun romantic drama
Chinese producer-distributor Huayi Brothers Films is lining up a new project from up-and-coming film-maker Cao Baoping, Something About Limi, which is set to star Zhou Xun and Taiwanese TV drama idol Vic Chou. The $1.3m (RMB10m) romantic drama with suspense elements is scheduled to start shooting in July. It tells ...
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Sarah Smith promoted as Aardman unveils new feature slate
UK-based animation powerhouse Aardman Features has announced a slate of six films in development, including a Christmas project written by Borat co-writer Peter Baynham, new non-Wallace and Gromit film from Nick Park and company founder Peter Lord's return to directing. These are the first new projects to be announced since ...
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Indian Film Company makes trading debut on London's AIM
The new Guernsey-registered Indian Film Company (IFC) has started trading on London 's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) today, after raising $109m by going public. Shares rose 20% on their trading debut. IFC, a Bollywood film production and film asset management fund started by Mumbai-based giant Network 18 Group, plans to ...
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Marcel Grant starts shooting third feature Just Ines
Shipwreck Film is currently shooting its third feature, Just Ines, from director Marcel Grant. The production is shooting next week in the South of France before returning to the UK to shoot in London July 14-Aug 3. Daniel Weyman and Caroline Ducey star in the story of a London businessman ...
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Rocksavage starts Norfolk shoot for drama The Wreck
Principal photography has started near in north Norfolk, UK, for David Rocksavage's 1960s-set family drama The Wreck. Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan, Ophelia Lovibond and Toby Marlow head the cast. The screenplay, by Rocksavage and Margaret Glover, is about a widow living on the East Anglian coast who befriends ...
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Beijing Time Antaeus unveils debut three-picture slate
Chinese cinema operator Time Antaeus Group, which is entering film production, unveiled its production arm, Beijing Time Entertainment International, and its debut three-picture slate at the on-going Shanghai International Film Festival. Action comedy Playboy Cops, which was previously announced at Cannes as a co-production with Hong Kong BIG Media Group, ...
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Forbidden Kingdom set for release during Beijing Olympics
Jackie Chan and Jet Li's first on-screen collaboration, Forbidden Kingdom, is scheduled to wrap at the end of August and is aiming for a summer 2008 release, according to the film's producer Casey Silver. As the date coincides with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Silver says he hopes the film ...
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Major studio complex planned for Poland
The Polish Film Institute hasannounced plans to build a modern, 10-stage studio complex by 2009. Film City, as the project is being called, will be built on a 476-hectare military airbase in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicou, about 80 kilometers south of Warsaw. Hangars will be converted into 10 stages, the ...
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Singapore, Malaysia join forces for Neo's Ah Long Ltd
Singapore 's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and Scorpio East Pictures are collaborating with Malaysia 's Double Vision in Ah Long Ltd, the first co-production between the neighbouring countries in recent years. Jack Neo is directing the $779,000 (S$1.2m) production which is currently being filmed around the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. ...
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Norwegian government shakes up film policy
Norway 's state film bodies will see radical change in 2008 after a government decision today. 'We have clearly defined and ambitious goals for our film policy,' said Norwegian culture minister Trond Giske, as the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - passed his Pathfinder of the Norwegian Film Offensive, a ministry ...
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Dutch actress Carice Van Houten to co-star in Valkyrie
Black Book star Carice Van Houten has been cast in Bryan Singer's wartime thriller Valkyrie. The Dutch actress co-stars as the wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, played by Tom Cruise. The cast reportedly also includes Kenneth Branagh, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Daniel Bruehl. Based on actual events, Valkyrie tells ...
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Bodrov's follow-up to Mongol won't be ready until 2010
Ahead of the opening of Sergei Bodrov's historical epic Mongol in Russian cinemas on Sept 21, producer Sergei Selyanov of STV has indicated that the director's second outing into the life of Genghis Khan will be ready in around three years time ('not any earlier') and stressed that both films ...
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Sonnenfeld to produce Starz/Vanguard animated Space Chimps
Barry Sonnenfeld has come aboard as producer on Starz Media and Vanguard Animation Films' animated comedy Space Chimps.Sonnenfeld, whose directorial credits include the Men In Back films and Get Shorty, has been a creative consultant on the project since it began production last autumn.Vanguard's chief executive officer John Williams also ...
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Kamen signs to write screenplay for Imagi's CG-animated Gatchaman
Longtime Luc Besson collaborator Robert Mark Kamen will write the screenplay for Hong Kong-based Imagi Studios' upcoming CG-animated film Gatchaman.Kamen, whose credits include Leon, The Fifth Element, The Karate Kid, and the upcoming Taken starring Liam Neeson, will work closely with producer Lynne Southerland and director Kevin Munroe.Gatchaman is based ...
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Attendance up 38% at second Film Screenings Of Madrid
The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 10-12) closed on Tuesday night with a turnout that was 38 percent larger than last year.More than 138 buyers from 33 countries travelled to Madrid, where 56 recent Spanish features were screened and more than 100 tiles were available ...
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Pinewood warns of flat film revenues from delayed shoots
UK studio Pinewood Shepperton has issued a warning to investors that its full-year revenues will only show a small increase and film-related revenues will be flat. Ivan Dunleavy, chief executive of the Pinewood Studios Group, said: 'The timing of film production is always a major variable for our film services ...
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Mumbai's Yashraj pacts with Walt Disney Animation
Leading Mumbai-based movie studio, Yashraj Films, has announced a 50-50 alliance with Walt Disney Animation.'We've tied up with Walt Disney to make exclusive animation films. The first, Roadside Romeo, would be released in summer 2008 and will have its share of music, dance, songs and romance,' said producer-director Yash Chopra, ...