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The Lives Of Others star Gedeck to play Clara Schumann
Martina Gedeck, the female lead in the Oscar-winning German film The Lives Of Others, has been cast as the pianist and composer Clara Schumann in Helma Sanders-Brahms long-gestating biopic Clara which will commence principal photography in Hungary at the end of May. The $6.4m (Euros 4.7m) German-French-Hungarian co-production by Integral ...
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UKFC allocates $11m to new funds including film festival support
The UK Film Council has allocated $11m (£5.5m) from its reserves and recoupments to go towards new funding policies through March 2010. The plans, published today in the Film in the Digital Age document, allocate the $11m of new funding to four new funds: UK Film Festivals Fund - $3m ...
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Hammer Film relaunched with European investors including Cyrte
A consortium of European investors, led by Netherlands-based Cyrte Investments, has acquired the UK's Hammer Film Producttions including its 295-title library. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the new Hammer will have shareholders equity and facilities of about $50m. Simon Oakes and Marc Schipper, formerly of Liberty ...
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India's Seven ramps up with Moser Baer backing
Mumbai-based producer Seven Entertainment is making its Cannes debut with an expanded line-up of independent pictures, just a few months after securing backing from optical disc manufacturer Moser Baer. The company is currently ramping up production after sealing a $10m deal with the industrial giant in February to produce 12 ...
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Francois Velle to direct The Narrows for Serenade
Serenade Films has signed Francois Velle to direct the drama The Narrows, which is set to begin filming in New York later this month.The Narrows stars Kevin Zegers as a 22-year-old Brooklyn man that dreams of escaping his family's criminal roots and becoming a photographer.Vincent D'Onofrio, Sophia Bush, Eddie Cahill ...
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Pellington to direct Henry Poole Is Here for Lakeshore
Los Angeles-based Lakeshore Entertainment is teaming up for the fourth time with director Mark Pellington on the drama Henry Poole Is Here starring Luke Wilson.Joint senior vice presidents of international sales Jonathan Deckter and Elisabeth Costa De Beauregard will begin sales in Cannes next week on the story of a ...
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Smart joins Malloy in swing dance romance Love N Dancing
Amy Smart will join Tom Malloy and a cast of swing dancing champions in Trick Candle Productions and Dolger Films' West Coast swing dance romance Love N' Dancing.Robert Iscove will direct from a screenplay by Malloy about a bored English teacher and her swing dancing instructor who fall in love ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest and Unexpected Media start documentary lab
The Sheffield Doc/Fest and Unexpected Media, with support from the BBC, London Development Agency and Screen Yorkshire, are starting a new initiative to support new documentary projects. The Crossover UK programme, a five-day residential lab will work with documentary makers, new media producers and video games developers form Yorkshire and ...
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Mandarin finds Tsui Hark's Missing on Cannes slate
Hong Kong 's Mandarin Films Distribution has added the latest picture from Tsui Hark, romantic thriller Missing, to its Cannes slate. The film features a hot cast of young Asian actors including Lee Sin-je, Isabella Leong, Chang Chen and rising Chinese star Guo Xiao Dong. Produced, directed and written by ...
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Wild Bunch's new titles include $47m Mr. Nobody with Sarah Polley
With six films spread throughout the official selection, Critics Week and Un Certain Regard, Wild Bunch is also presenting a packed line-up at the Cannes Market. In selection are Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days in the main competition, Abel Ferrara's out-of-competition Go Go Tales, Juan Antonio ...
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Robert Forster joins the cast of Fried's Fire Bay
Robert Forster has joined Kuno Becker on the cast of Randall Fried's Bay Of Pigs drama Fire Bay, which is set to begin shooting on Jul 16 in Mexico.Fried's Los Angeles-based DragonFire Films will produce with Structured Capital Group Inc from New York City. Hector Lopez and Tony Mark are ...
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Wind Dancer names first two thrillers from development fund
US-based Wind Dancer Films has announced the first two thrillers from its recently established development fund.Crescendo is based on a story by Wind Dancer's Matt Williams and will be written by Andrew Klavan and centres on a traumatised concert violinist plagued by visions of her late father.House Of War is ...
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Amritraj, Hyde Park set Asian ambitions
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has created an Asian division Hyde Park Asia with ambitions to produce both international and local films in the region while securing local backing from various institutions and investors.Amritraj says he already has an office opened in India and is planning to open one shortly ...
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Mandate to sell Ghost House/Vertigo horror Incident
Mandate Pictures will commence sales in Cannes on the Ghost House Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment horror tale Incident At Sans Asylum.Daniel Calparsoro is directing from a screenplay by S Craig Zahler about volunteer cooks at an insane asylum who get trapped inside the building with the cream of the criminally ...
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Intandem takes on sales to Julie Delpy's thriller The Countess
London-based Intandem Films has taken worldwide sales rights to Julie Delpy's Gothic thriller The Countess. The film is inspired by the life of the 17th-century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, whose reckless pursuit of eternal beauty transformed her into a murderous heretic. Delpy, Oscar-nominated for her screenplay for Before Sunset, not ...
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Til Schweiger takes the lead in Boll's latest Far Cry
Til Schweiger has been cast in the lead of Uwe Boll's latest video game adaptation Far Cry.Filming on the $25m Boll and Brightlight Pictures co-production is scheduled to begin on Jun 13 in Vancouver. Boll, Brightlight's Shawn Williamson and Dan Clarke are producing.Schweiger will play Jack Carver, a former Special ...
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DreamWorks wins bidding for Jackson's Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson's upcoming Alice Sebold adaptation The Lovely Bones has landed at DreamWorks, the studio announced late on Friday after it won the auction for Jackson's project in association with Film 4.Sony, Warner Bros and Universal had also pursued the New Zealander, whose ongoing legal spat with New Line meant ...
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Dutch government vows to again support Rotterdam's Bals Fund
Reversing earlier decisions, the Dutch government has announced its continued support of the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has initially rejected the fund's subsidy application for 2009-2012, but now Bert Koenders, the Minister of Development Cooperation, has asked the Fund to ...
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India's PNC, Motion Pixel Corp team for five-picture slate
Indian media and entertainment company Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) has signed a five-picture deal with Florida-based animation house Motion Pixel Corporation (MPC) and its animation studio Estudio Flex in Costa Rica. The deal covers five 3D animated full-length feature films, which will feature Indian and international actors, songs and dances ...
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Italian minister stresses importance of co-production incentives
Ahead of official festivities for Cinecitta's 70th anniversary to be celebrated in a mega party on the famed movie studio's lot on May 4, Italy's movie making politicos got together to talk about the state of Italian cinema and attracting international productions yesterday.As part of the celebrations, Culture Minister Francesco ...