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    CR Land, Shanghai Film Group invest in Jia Zhangke's 24 City

    2007-04-02T10:18:00Z

    Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has announced that he is set to direct a film project, tentatively titled 24 City, in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province. The project, which includes a feature film and documentary, will be jointly financed by Shanghai Film Group, Jia's Xstream Pictures and real estate ...

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    Overture teams with Echo Lake on 105 Degrees And Rising

    2007-04-02T05:00:00Z

    Fledgling studio Overture Films is partnering with Echo Lake Productions on its first in-house title 105 Degrees And Rising, a drama about the fall of Saigon drama.Jon Amiel will direct the project, named after the code used by Armed Forces Radio in 1975 to alert citizens to evacuate the former ...

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    UK Film Council looks for certification manager for new tax test

    2007-04-02T04:00:00Z

    As of today, the certification unit for the new Cultural Test for British Film introduced as part of the UK 's new film tax relief will be based at the UK Film Council, moving from its previous home at the Department of Culture, Media & Sport. The UKFC is currently ...

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    Ken Kwapis to direct He's Just Not That Into You

    2007-04-02T01:58:00Z

    New Line Cinema and Flower Films have hired Ken Kwapis to direct the comedy He's Just Not That Into You.Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's bestselling novel of the same name serves as the inspiration for the project about cross-gender misunderstandings in love.Flower Films principals Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore are ...

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    Seoul unveils first foreign production incentives

    2007-03-30T17:57:00Z

    Seoul Metropolitan City Government has announced its first incentives for foreign film and television shoots to take place in the South Korean capital. The government has allocated $532,000 for incentives out of a $745,000 fund meant to promote tourism through marketing the city of Seoul in visual media. The city's ...

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    UK's Albion launches with aims to produce Christian features

    2007-03-30T04:00:00Z

    Albion Productions has launched as a UK production company dedicated to only making Christian feature films. Albion is set up as an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) company and is seeking investors for its first production, Darkness Into Light. The company said 10% of the film's profits will go to Christian ...

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    Film commissions: friends in hired places

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    What is a film commissioner' 'On one end of the spectrum, they can be basically not much more than civil servants allocated film as part of their portfolio but they can also be people who have worked in the industry and know how we think and what we need. The ...

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    Lost star Yunjin Kim joins cast of Prime's Seven Days

    2007-03-29T14:06:00Z

    Korean crossover actress Yunjin Kim is attached to star in Prime Entertainment's crime thriller Seven Days (working title). Best known for her performances in the hit TV series Lost from US network ABC, she first garnered attention with her role in the watershed 1999 hit Shiri. Seven Days will be ...

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    Potboiler to follow Gardener with Le Carre's Mission Song

    2007-03-29T13:41:00Z

    Following its successful adaptation of John Le Carre's The Constant Gardener, Simon Channing Williams and Gail Egan's London-based Potboiler Productions is preparing a new film based on Le Carre's latest book, The Mission Song. Joe Fisher, writer of acclaimed TV drama Soundproof and of 1998's The Tichborne Claimant, is scripting ...

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    UK actor cast in male lead for next Oskar Roehler project

    2007-03-29T11:08:00Z

    UK actor Ray Fearon, who appeared in the soap opera Coronation Street and Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, has been cast as the male lead for German director Oskar Roehler's next feature Lulu And Jimi, to follow his 2006 Berlinale competition film Elementary Particles (Elementarteilchen). Fearon, who is currently ...

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    Warner Bros to co-produce release new Til Schweiger project

    2007-03-29T11:00:00Z

    Warner Bros' German office is serving as co-producer and distributor on actor-director-producer Til Schweiger's new feature film Keinohrhasen which begins principal photography on location in Berlin today. Produced by Schweiger and Tom Zickler's production company Barefoot Films with Warner Bros Film and private broadcaster SAT.1, the romantic comedy was co-written ...

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    Dafoe, Gruffudd, Panettiere join Senator's Fireflies

    2007-03-29T00:43:00Z

    Willem Dafoe, Ioan Gruffudd and Hayden Panettiere have joined Julia Roberts, Carrie-Anne Moss, Ryan Reynolds and Emily Watson on Senator Entertainment's first self-financed US production, the drama Fireflies In The Garden. Shannon Lucio, and George Newbern have also boarded Dennis Lee's feature directorial debut, which is set for an Apr ...

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    Premiere Fund backs Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage

    2007-03-28T16:39:00Z

    The UK Council's Premiere Fund has come on board with Lottery funding for Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage. Williams, who became a talent to watch with his 2006 low-budget thriller London To Brighton, also wrote the script. The story follows two brothers who kidnap an underworld figure and then 'stumble ...

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    Odeon takes over Munich production company Hofmann & Voges

    2007-03-28T14:45:00Z

    The restructured film and TV group Odeon Film has taken over Munich-based production company Hofmann & Voges Entertainment, which will continue to operate as a separate entity under the new owner's roof. The purchase price (in single-digit millions) was largely paid for with shares in Odeon, thus making Mischa Hofmann ...

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    The 4th Regiment takes prize at Guadalajara co-production meetings

    2007-03-28T14:19:00Z

    The third Iberoamerican Co-production Meetings organized by the 22th Guadalajara International Film Festival wrapped here Tuesday. The Mexican project The 4th Regiment (La 4a compania) produced by Tita Lombardo's Spanda Films to be directed by newcomer Amir Galvan Cervera was awarded the main prize offered by the Spanish public TV(RTVE). ...

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    Irish fund backs Kisses, Alarm, Eden and Hunger

    2007-03-28T14:15:00Z

    The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has backed four feature projects from the third round of its Sound & Vision Fund. The four projects will share a total of $1.7m (Euros 1.285m) between them from the BCI fund's $12m (Euros 9m) allocation to independent producers of television programming to be ...

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    Hitman starts Bulgarian shoot for Fox and EuropaCorp

    2007-03-28T12:59:00Z

    Twentieth Century Fox and EuropaCorp started principal photography Tuesday on thriller Hitman directed by Xavier Gens. Timothy Olyphant stars with Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Ulrich Thomsen and Michael Offei. Skip Woods wrote the screenplay based on the video game franchise of the same name, about a professional assassin who gets ...

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    Cusack, Hayes join voice cast of TWC's Igor

    2007-03-28T01:38:00Z

    John Cusack and Sean Hayes have joined the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG-animated comedy Igor, which The Weinstein Company (TWC) is scheduled to release in North America on Oct 24, 2008.Cusack will voice the title character of Igor, a mad scientist's assistant who secretly harbours dreams of becoming ...

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    Franco-German co-productions backed with $974,850 by FFA/CNC

    2007-03-27T16:23:00Z

    New feature films by Jaco van Dormael and Martin Provost have received a total of $974,850 (Euros 730,000) backing by the German-French Funding Commission which is administered by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and France's CNC to promote co-production between the two countries. $467,393 (Euros 350,000) was awarded to ...

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    Von Trotta plans biopic of medieval visionary Hildegard von Bingen

    2007-03-27T14:07:00Z

    Hildegard von Bingen, one of the most important women of the medieval age, will be the subject of veteran German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta's next feature film. The project will go into production at locations in Hessen and Bavaria from late summer after many years of research and preparation. Hildegard ...