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Colin Farrell heads to Belgium for In Bruges shoot
UK playwright Martin McDonagh, who won an Oscar for is short Six Shooter, will start shooting his feature debut In Bruges on Feb 5 in the Belgian city. The cast for the project -- Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Clemence Poesy, Jeremie Renier, Jordan Prentice and Thekla Reuten -- is gathering ...
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Irish industry questions impact of $188m funding announcement
There remains some confusion in Ireland concerning the Government announcement last week of a $188m (Euros 145m) contribution to the film industry under National Development Plan (NDP) spending for 2007-2013. In an election year, sceptics might conclude that the sum only amounts to what the Irish Film Board is likely ...
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KISS rock duo glam up Platinum Studios
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios has added glam rock starts to its independent library of comic book characters following a deal with KISS Catalog Ltd.The partners will create a new comic book entertainment company called the KISS Comics Group, which gives former glam rock band members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley ...
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Hand Picked duo tune into Vivaldi life-story
Hand Picked Films' Michel Shane and Anthony Romano and financier Carlos Melcer have boarded the musical biopic Vivaldi, which is set to star Joseph Fiennes.Shane and Romano, whose executive producer credits include I, Robot and Catch Me If You Can, will produce alongside Boris Damast and Andrea Kikot of Mechaniks, ...
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Hoskins joins Mitra in Doomsday cast
Bob Hoskins has joined Rhona Mitra on the cast of Rogue Pictures' action thriller Doomsday, Neil Marshall's follow-up to his horror hit The Descent.Production is set to begin on Feb 9 in South Africa. Crystal Sky Pictures' Steven Paul and Benedict Carver are producing and Intrepid Pictures principals Trevor Macy ...
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HandMade recruits Walters to write story of SAS man David Stirling
HandMade Films has signed on UK writer Rupert Walters to write a screenplay based on the life of Special Air Service (SAS) creator David Stirling. HandMade has optioned Alan Hoe's biography David Stirling - the Authorised Biography. The books gives a detailed account of the history of the multi-national SAS ...
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Thai director turns on Chinese-language Pleasure Factory
Thai writer-director Ekachai Uekrongtham has wrapped principal photography of his first Chinese-language feature, Pleasure Factory, financed by his new Singapore-based production company Spicy Apple Films. The HD feature, set in Singapore 's red-light district Geylang, stars Taiwanese Golden Horse best actress Yang Kuei Mei and up-and-coming Thai actor Ananda Everingham. ...
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DV8 plans multi-platform release for cell-phone feature
Jeremy Nathan and Joel Phiri's Johannesburg-based DV8 is planning a global, Bubble-style, multi-platform release for its new feature, SMS Sugar Man. 'We are busy putting in place all the distribution pipelines,' Nathan said of the plans to make Sugar Man available worldwide simultaneously on internet, mobile phones and DVD. 'We've ...
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Lolafilms plans $7.7m biopic of Spanish poet Gil de Biedma
Andres Vicente Gomez's Lolafilms will produce a new Spanish-language biopic about prominent 20th-century poet Jaime Gil de Biedma. Guillermo Toledo (Crimen Ferpecto) is set to star in the estimated $7.7m (Euros 6m) El Consul De Sodoma for director Agusti Villaronga. Gomez says he hopes to co-produce with France and shoot ...
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Faye Dunaway starts shoot for Flick in Wales
David Howard's Flick is now shooting in and around Cardiff and at the Barcud Derwen Studios through Feb 10. Howard wrote and is directing the project, which is produced by Rik Hall and executive produced by Cross, Linda James, Pauline Burt and Bryn Roberts. Financing is from Finance Wales' IP ...
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Iranian cinema: Staying power
Iran's film industry is unusual internationally and unique in the Middle East. Production levels - 80 features plus 36 feature documentaries and children's films in 2006 - are the highest in the region. Around 60% of films are released theatrically, and homegrown product makes up 94% of local box office. ...
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Asian locations: sets appeal
Asia has been attracting international productions for decades, but in recent years it has become a prime destination for footloose international producers in search of the cheapest and most exotic locations.In addition to low-cost labour, equipment and transport, the region offers stunning landscapes and architecture - but there are many ...
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Gaumont co-CEO Franck Chorot steps down
Gaumont co-CEO Franck Chorot will step down from his post as of February 1, the French major has announced.Chorot will continue to work with the world's oldest film company as an in-house producer as well as working on co-productions set up with other companies in France and abroad.Following a stint ...
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Banderas to direct two new projects as Death's Other Kingdom stalls
Antonio Banderas has two new projects in mind to direct in Spain following his Malaga-set drama Summer Rain, screening in both Sundance and Berlin. Banderas said he is moving forward on a long-gestating project about Boabdil, the last Caliph of the Kingdom of Granada, envisioned as a Spain-France-Morocco co-production through ...
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Laura Mana to direct La Roldana
Laura Mana has signed on to direct ambitious 17th century biopic La Roldana for Spain's Maestranza Films.Seville native Paz Vega (Spanglish, 10 Items Or Less) has expressed interest in taking the lead role of the talented sculptress in the vibrant 17th century setting of Seville who defied her family's wishes ...
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Jeanada to star in Michael Radford's La Mula
Up-and-coming Spanish actor Oscar Jaenada has been tapped for the lead in Michael Radford's new Spanish-language feature La Mula.Jaenada will star alongside Maria Valverde (Melissa P) in the Spanish Civil War-set bittersweet comedy about a soldier who discovers a mule in the middle of a battlefield and decides to keep ...
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Patrick Malone heads digital film services at Ascent Media
Ascent Media Creative Services has named Patrick Malone as its director of digital film services, a newly created position.Malone has responsibility for all elements of digital feature film production across One Post, St Anne's Post, Soho Images and Todd AO.Malone joined Ascent in 1997 from Framestore CFC. He moved to ...
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Non-profit Shelley Foundation set up in honour of Waitress director
Andy Ostroy has set up the Adrienne Shelly Foundation dedicated to the memory of his late wife, actor and director who was found dead in New York last November.The non-profit organisation will focus on women with the stated aim of helping to finance student films and independent projects, supplement film ...
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Paramount signs first-look deal with MTV Films Europe
Paramount Pictures International has signed a three-year first-look deal with London and Los Angeles-based Zilli Films, which operates MTV Films Europe. CEO and founder Jonathan Zilli and head of development and production Bobby Allen run Zilli Films, which has the license to develop MTV branded feature films in Europe. MTV ...
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CJE to invest $85m in local productions in 2007
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE) has announced its 2007 business plan which includes investing $85m in more than 20 local productions this year, while at the same time expanding its global ties. 'While our local film industry was concentrating on sharing the pie instead of growing the market, domestic ...