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Mango Films takes on Jean Charles de Menezes drama
After a recent BBC television project about Jean Charles de Menezes was abruptly scrapped after four weeks of pre-production, UK-based Mango Films has picked up the exclusive rights to the story of the innocent Brazilian electrician shot and killed by London police in a tube station in the days following ...
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Eros signs three-year deal with Bollywood producer Venus
Eros International has signed a three-year output deal with Bollywood production company Venus. All Venus films for the next three year will be co-produced with Eros.Eros will keep copyrights for distribution across all formats. Two films are already in development with directors Abbas Mastan (Humraaz) and Priyadarshan (Garam Masala).Venus was ...
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Senator boards Falorni's Heart
Germany 's Senator Film has boarded Luigi Falorni's fiction feature debut Heart Of Fire as co-producer and acquired German distribution rights. Based on Senait Mehari's bestselling autobiography Heart Of Fire, the film follows her experiences serving in the Eritrean Liberation Front and witnessing the horrors of a guerrilla war. The ...
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UK Film Council Development Fund backs BBC Films trio
The UK Film Council's Development Fund is backing several new projects with BBC Films.They include Coram Boy,adapted from the novel by Jamila Gavin, with Alison Owen and ScottRudin producing and the project out to directors now. The story isabout two orphans in 18th-century England. The funding is for $135,145(£69,291). The ...
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Grandville teams with Bender and Bartkowiak for 818
Producers Dan Shepherd and Justin Williams of UK-based Grandville Pictures are teaming with Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth, Kill Bill) and his producing partner Karen Barber for Los Angeles-set action comedy 818 (working title). Andrzej Bartkowiak, the Polish-born cinematographer on Speed and The Devil's Advocate who has directed Doom and ...
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Grandville teams with Lawrence Bender for 818
Producers Dan Shepherd and Justin Williams of UK-based Grandville Pictures are teaming with Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth, Kill Bill) and his producing partner Karen Barber for Los Angeles-set action comedy 818 (working title).Andrzej Bartkowiak, the Polish-born cinematographer on Speed and The Devil's Advocate who has directed Doom and Cradle ...
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Colin Salmon takes lead in Games Men Play
Colin Salmon has signed on to star John Akomfrah's UK drama Games Men Play.Lincia Daniel will produce the film, about the story of a basketball coach who discovers he has a son and has to grapple with a gangster to save his life.Screen West Midlands is backing and the film ...
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Prasad to direct Cohn's remake of Yellow Handkerchief
Indian-born filmmaker Udayan Prasad will direct and William Hurt and Maria Bello star in producer Arthur Cohn's remake of Japanese classic The Yellow Handkerchief, it was announced today at a press conference in Tokyo. The $15.5m remake moves the story's locale from Hokkaido to Louisiana in the late 1940s. Production ...
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Hopper set to star in King horror
Dennis Hopper is in final talks to join Film Bridge International's Stephen King adaptation Dolan's Cadillac. Hopper will play a crime boss who kills a woman to prevent her from testifying against him in a murder trial and is subsequently pursued by the woman's vengeful young husband. Production is set ...
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Faroutfilms teams with Talabani on Iraqi love story
Rome-based production outfit Faroutfilms is partnering with Iraqi politician and producer Hero Talabani, the wife of Iraq's President Jala Talabani, on Italian/Iraqi co-production, Kirkuk. The film is a love story set in Iraq during the late 1980s during the 1986-87 Anfal campaign - when chemical attacks were ordered by Saddam ...
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Mundrunczo recasts, to restart Delta in spring
Hungarian auteur Kornel Mundrunczo, the award-winning director of Pleasant Days (Szep Napok) and Johanna, is set to re-start shooting his new feature Delta in the late spring. The film is being produced by Viktoria Petranyi through Proton Cinema, the company sheco-founded with Mundrucz.. The film is a revenge drama set ...
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Joe Dante gets Sayles, Scorsese on board for Corman feature
Gremlins and The Burbs director Joe Dante is in Berlin's Co-Production Market with his next film, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes.The $7m project is being produced by Dante with Los Angeles-based Elizabeth Stanley and UK-based Mia Bays. A chunk of the budget has already been raised through a Japanese pre-sale.The ...
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Aku Louhimies back on his feet with She-Wolf
Finnish director Aku Louhimies is is pushing ahead with his next project, She-Wolf, putting controversy over his last film behind him.Produced by Aleksi Bardy of Helsinki Film, the new film begins shootingin April. Based on a novel by Leena Lander, it is a love story set inthe Finnish civil war. ...
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Lucas and Roth steal leads in Six Bullets
Production has started on Myriad Pictures' heist thriller Six BulletsFrom Now with Josh Lucas, Tim Roth and Dermot Mulroney set to star.Myriad chief Kirk D'Amico is in Berlin pre-selling the project, whichrecounts the 1972 break-in at New York's luxury Pierre Hotel in whichrobbers dressed in dinner jackets made off with ...
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Okonedo to star in Skin
The Little Film Company is commencing sales here on true-lifeSouth African saga Skin starring Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo.Shooting is set to begin in May on the co-production between the UK'sElysian Films and Bard Entertainments and South Africa's MoonlightingFilms.The project centres on the extraordinary genetic case of Sandra Laing,a black woman ...
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Friend and Barr cast for Russian gangster movie
UK actor Rupert Friend (Pride & Prejudice) and Jean-Marc Barr (Dancer In The Dark) are attached as cast for US writer-director Tony Pemberton's $ 4.5m gangster movie Buddha's Little Finger based on the novel of the same name by Victor Pelewin.The film's Berlin-based producer Rohfilm has brought Mikhail Kalatozov's Kalatozov ...
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Rock Haven finds home with TLA
TLA Releasing has acquired worldwide rights here from journalist andfirst-time film-maker David Lewis to his drama Rock Haven.The story follows a spiritual man who moves to the coast to live withhis devoutly Christian mother and falls in love with an older man.Newcomer Sean Hoagland stars with Laura Jane Coles and ...
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Lordi ready to rock for Finnish horror film
Finnish monster hard-rock group Lordi, which won last year's Eurovision Song Contest, will star in a $5m horror movie from Finnish producer Markus Selin, of Solar Films, who has for the last four years delivered the number one local top-grossers on the Finnish charts.Selin will be in Berlin to discuss ...
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Skarsgaard to star in Scandinavia's most expensive film project
Swedish Hollywood-actor Stellan Skarsgaard will star in The Knight Templar - Svensk Filmindustri's $30.3m (Euro 22.8m) adaption of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson - currently lensing on locations in Morocco.Skarsgaard will perform as Arn's uncle in Scandinavia's so far most expensive film project - two features, ...
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Wajda film throws spotlight on Polish film fund
The expected unveiling at this year's Cannes Film Festival of Andrzej Wajda's Post Mortem will also serve as the international launch party of Poland's generous but still largely unknown new film fund. Wajda, whose Man Of Iron won the top prize at Cannes in 1981, will be among the ...