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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 ...
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Rezo's Cannes slate include Sokurov's competitor Alexandra
In its third Cannes, Rezo Films' sales division is gearing up for a busy market. Three films on its line up are official selection titles along with two works in Critics' Week and new market films. In the official competition, Alexander Sokurov marks a return with Alexandra about a grandmother ...
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Warner Independent hatches two-year deal with producer Bregman
Warner Independent Pictures has signed a two-year, first-look deal with producer Anthony Bregman's New York-based production house Likely Story.Likely Story was formed in 2006 and is currently in post-production on Carriers and The Sleep Dealer in association with This Is That, and in pre-production on Synecdoche, New York. The company ...
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Paramount Vantage sales team takes shape with Walton hire
Alex Walton has left HanWay Films to join Paramount Vantage as vice president of international sales and will relocate from London to Los Angeles.The specialty division will launch its foreign sales operation in Cannes, a move that has been widely predicted since Nick Meyer joined the studio as co-president following ...
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Dreamachine handles Broomfield's improvised Iraqi war drama
Fledgling financing and sales house Dreamachine has acquired international rights to Nick Broomfield's drama Battle For Haditha, currently shooting in Jordan.The London, Paris and Toronto-based venture,created through the merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams last month, will commence pre-sales in Cannes.Battle For Haditha re-enacts the aftermath of an Iraqi ...
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GreeneStreet Films options The Contortionist's Handbook
GreeneStreet Films (GSF) has optioned Craig Clevenger's psychological thriller The Contortionist's Handbook through its development finance deal with private financier Sriram Das.Das will produce with GSF the story of a master forger who creates a string of new identities for himself as he runs from a traumatic past. When he ...
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Intermedia-backed sales-distribution company will be called IM Global
The recently launched Los Angeles and London-based international sales and distribution company backed by Intermedia will be called IM Global, it was announced last night.IM Global, headed by president Stuart Ford and Intermedia chairman Martin Schuermann, will bring a number of Intermedia titles, as well as the slate assembled by ...
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Upbeat Babelsberg steps up production plans
Germany's Babelsberg Studios aims to intensify its involvement as a co-producer on national, European and international productions. On the publication of its annual report for 2006, the publicly-listed Studio Babelsberg AG announced that it would 'invest in promising film productions and thereby use the potential of additional sources of revenue ...
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Picturehouse launches open casting calls for American Girl movie
Picturehouse will stage a series of open casting calls at American Girl Place shops in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York in the first two weeks of May for eight-12-year-old roles in its upcoming American Girl adaptation Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery.Abigail Breslin will play Kit Kettredge, a resourceful ...
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Producer Ahrenberg plans US remake of Sophie's World
Translated into 54 languages, and selling 35 million copies worldwide,Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder's novel, Sophie's World, which wasfilmed to limited success by Norwegian director Erik Gustavson in 1999,will now become a bigger-budget English-language project.Swedish producer Staffan Ahrenberg, who worked on Phillip Noyce's TheQuiet American (2002) and executive-produced Zandalee and Johnny ...
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$80m investment fund to cashflow UK tax credit
An $80m (£40m) investment fund has been set up to cashflow the new UK tax credit.The Limelight Fund is offering producers who qualify for the incentive finance on what it says is a competitive terms.UK producers David Parfitt and Christopher Figg are amongst the scheme's designers and sit on Limelight's ...