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Warner Bros to co-produce release new Til Schweiger project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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Pinewood Shepperton sees turnover up 22% in 2006
Pinewood Shepperton today released its preliminary results for the year ended Dec 31 2006. It was a robust year for the company, with turnover up 22% at $80m (£40.7m) and operating profit 'before exceptional items' up 70% at $17.9m (£9.1m).The company's increasing diversification into television also seems to be bearing ...
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Kadokawa returns to directing with historic love story
Genghis Khan producer Haruki Kadokawa has announced his return to the director's chair after a 10-year absence. At a press conference held in central Tokyo yesterday, Kadokawa announced he will direct a film starring 17-year-old Korean actress Ara, who made her film debut in a supporting role in the producer's ...
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Filmstreet gets rights to Beatles-signed band's story
Los Angeles-based Filmstreet Productions has taken the film rights to new book All You Need Is Luck or How I Got A Record Deal By Meeting Paul McCartney. Paul Tennant's book is about three teenage musicians in Liverpool in 1967 who became the first group signed to the Beatles' Apple ...
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Huayi's The Assembly adds new mainland China funding partners
Shanghai Film Group, Beijing New Film Group and Zhejiang Film and TV Group announced that they will partner with Huayi Brothers to invest in Feng Xiaogang's $10m war movie The Assembly. The three groups signed the partnership deal Monday in Beijing. Together with Huayi Brothers, the four mainland Chinese investors ...
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UTV and ROMP reunite for four films over three years
Indian entertainment conglomerate UTV and filmmaker Rakeysh Mehra's company Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Productions (ROMP),which teamed up for last year's hit film Rang De Basanti, have reunited. Together they will invest $64.9m (Rs2.8bn)in four films to be produced over three years. Among the films, to be directed by Mehra, are Dilli-6 ...
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Paramount nabs multiple territories on Sleuth starring Jude Law
Paramount Pictures International has acquired UK, Australia, New Zealand and South African rights to Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth. The film, recently shot at the UK's Twickenham Film Studios, stars Jude Law and Michael Caine in an updated version of Anthony Shaffer's play, with a new script by Harold Pinter. The screenplay ...
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First co-production between Israel and Australia gets underway
Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan have joined Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia as the voice cast for the animated film $9.99, the first co-production between Israel and Australia. The project has just started shooting in Sydney. New York-based director Tatia Rosenthal co-wrote the film with Israeli writer Etgar ...
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RGM to co-finance Winged Creatures starring Forest Whitaker
Singapore-based media financing company RGM Entertainment is co-funding and executive producing Winged Creatures, its third international project under the Loan Guarantee Facility (LGF) in collaboration with the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA). Directed by Rowan Woods, the ensemble drama is about survivors of a random restaurant shooting. The cast ...
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Omnilab moves into distribution and sales for Australian features
Two of the four features that have just received funding from Film Finance Corporation Australia now see the Omnilab Media Group take local distribution and international sales rights, in partnership with others. Omnilab is Australia 's largest privately owned group of service companies and has been promising to get into ...
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Latin American locations: welcome to the jungle
During the past decade Latin America has attracted more and more international production with its stunning and varied locations and cheap labour costs.Leading directors to have shot in the region include James Cameron (Titanic), Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol 2), Gus Van Sant (Gerry) and more recently Mel Gibson for ...