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Charlie Kaufman: worlds within worlds
Charlie Kaufman started production last week on his first feature as a director, Synecdoche, New York, with a cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the eve of the shoot, Kaufman and Spike Jonze, one of his producers, talked exclusively to Mike Goodridge. Oddly, I'm not scared,' Charlie Kaufman says ...
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Family business
The daughter of film-maker Luis Puenzo has emerged as an exciting international talent with Cannes favourite XXY. Diego Batlle reports. A renowned novelist and screenwriter in Argentina, Lucia Puenzo is enjoying an exciting 2007 with a new book recently published and her first feature, XXY, selected for Cannes' Critics Week. ...
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Joel Silver keen to bring future projects to Babelsberg
Producer Joel Silver is already looking at ways of bringing future projects to Germany's Babelsberg Studios even before the first scenes are shot for Larry and Andy Wachowski's action film Speed Racer Speed Racer starts its four-month shoot Monday with a cast headed by Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Christina Ricci, ...
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eQuinoxe sets up home in Evian and selects 8 projects
The 29th eQuinoxe screenwriting workshop will run June 3-9 in Evian, France. After years of a nomadic existence, this marks the beginning of a partnership with the town of Evian. eQuinoxe president Noelle Deschamps says the aim is that the workshop will now be based in Evian for the foreseeable ...
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Lithuania becomes eligible for Eurimages funding
Lithuania has become the 33rd country to join Eurimages, the Council of Europe-supported film co-production, distribution and exhibition fund. The Eurimages board had recommended the inclusion at its March 2006 meeting and Lithuanian authorities have now confirmed their membership. Now all projects involving a Lithuanian co-producer can be considered for ...
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MySpace, Film4 and Vertigo name 12 finalists for feature competition
MySpace and its partners Film4 and Vertigo Films have selected the 12-person shortlist for its MyMovie MashUp contest. One winner will get $1.97m (£1m) to direct a feature film. The finalists are: Sadik Ahmed, Sean Conway, Katy Davis, Scott Flockhart, Tom Geens, Tom Harper, Mat Kirkby, Frazer Lee, Vito Rocco, ...
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QED secures $50m credit facility from Comerica and Aramid
Los Angeles-based finance and international sales company QED International has secured a $50m revolving credit facility from senior lender Comerica Bank and the London-based Aramid Entertainment Fund. The new financing facility will allow QED to 'directly and quickly' greenlight projects, said CEO Bill Block. 'This ...
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Strategic Partners from 2006 projects could generate $168m
Projects initiated at the ninth Strategic Partners co-production market could generate $168m (C$181m) in activity, according to a new economic impact study from the Atlantic Film Festival. The three-day event, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last year, could pump $59m (C$63.2m) into the Atlantic Canadian economy over the next four ...
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Germany's Constantin Film to co-produce Faubourg 36
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has joined forces with France's Galatee Films and Pathe Renn production to produce Faubourg 36 (working title), the next feature from The Chorus director Christophe Barratier. Set in Paris in 1936, Faubourg 36 will focus on three unemployed theatre professionals - played by The Chorus ...
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Martin to direct Cadillac Records for Sony BMG Film
Sony BMG Film has chosen Darnell Martin (Their Eyes Were Watching God) to direct Cadillac Records, a feature about the world of rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, from her own script. Production is set to begin later this year on location in Chicago, with Sofia Sondervan and Andrew Lack ...
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German and UK producers to bring Catweazle to the big screen
The Red Baron producers Dan Maag and Thomas Reisser of Niama Filmproduktion are teaming up the UK's Paul Knight and Richard Carpenter of Catweazle Ltd. for a feature film based on the 1970s cult international hit TV series Catweazle. Based on Carpenter's original series about the magical adventures of the ...
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Thijs Romer to co-star in Tucci's Van Gogh remake
Young Dutch actor Thijs Romer will co-star in the forthcoming remake of Theo van Gogh's Blind Date, to be directed by Stanley Tucci. Shooting starts in two weeks in Belgium. It will be Romer's international film debut. He co-stars as a waiter, who is watching a married couple who are ...
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Kindred's Erb and Nicolo start production outfit Feverpitch
Distribution and production executives Jeffrey D. Erb and Joe Nicolo have left distribution company Kindred Media Group to form their own production operation, Feverpitch Pictures. Feverpitch plans to produce two to four films a year in the $1m-$5m range. The company says it will also set up one or two ...
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Warner's Dark Knight shooting sequences in IMAX
Director Christopher Nolan is shooting four sequences from the forthcoming Batman franchise picture The Dark Knight using IMAX cameras, according to the giant-screen company. While the reformating of conventional feature films into IMAX is commonplace, IMAX says the move is 'unprecedented' and marks 'a revolutionary integration' of 35mm and 15/70 ...
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Flashpoint acquires remake rights to Hong Kong's Phoenix
LA-based Flashpoint Entertainment has acquired the English-language remake rights to Hong Kong action comedy Enter The Phoenix from JCE Movies. Flashpoint's Andrew R. Tennenbaum, whose credits include The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, will produce the remake. The original film, produced in 2004 by JCE's Jackie Chan, Albert Yeung ...
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Belgian tax fund invests in two major co-productions
Belgian tax fund Motion Investment Group (MIG) has raised finance for two co-productions - The Possibility of an Island and Disco.The first is a futuristic drama based on the potential for human cloning and marks the directorial debut of novelist Michel Houllebecq and starring Benoit Magimel,The film is produced by ...
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Persepolis to have English-language makeover from SPC
Sony Pictures Classics is set to record an English-language version of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's warmly received Cannes competition title Persepolis, an animated project based on Satrapi's bestselling graphic novels.Catherine Deneuve, who plays the role of the mother in the French version, is re-recording her part this summer, joined ...
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Russo to run Liverpool's Digital Departures
Lisa Marie Russo has been named executive producer for Digital Departures, a North West Vision initiative to produce three feature-length films in the Northwest of England in the next 18 months.The scheme is also backed by Liverpool Culture Company, the UK Film Council and the BBC.Each film will get a ...
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De Lorenzo plans new June festival in Caserta, Italy
Italian Organisers have announced plans for a new film festival to be held in Caserta at the Royal Palace Vanvitelliana and Royal Site Belvedere of St Leucio.Francesco De Lorenzo of Darkness Production has started the Drake International Film Festival, which will run June 23-30, with 'the aim of promoting the ...
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Black Book's Carice Van Houten to play South African writer
Dutch actress Carice van Houten will play the lead role in the biopic Smoke and Ochre about revolutionary South-African writer Ingrid Jonker. Dutch company Riba Film is developing the project, which will shoot in 2008.Dutch director Paula van der Oest is directing the project, which will be her first English-language ...