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New production venture to back low-budget UK films
A new joint venture between UK production outfit Matador Pictures and Regent Capital is to provide up to 30% of the budgets on a series of films qualifying for the new British tax break.The initiative - called Cinema One - will be focused on backing four to five films with ...
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France's Elia Films gets $13,200 production prize
France's Institute for the Financing of Cinema & Cultural Industry (IFCIC)has awarded its third annual "young independent production company" prize toElia Films.The award was created in2004 and comes with a $13,216 (Euros 10,000) purse, which goes to a companythat has successfully sought financing for and either prepared or produced afeature ...
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UK producers voice concerns over new tax laws
UK producers remain concerned about the scope of the new British tax laws, a panel of government representatives were told in London yesterday.The UK's new film tax breaks will come into practice on Jan 1, 2007, after a long journey of uncertainty but producers remain concerned about the qualifying criteria ...
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Nordisk on board for White Night
Nordisk has taken on salesfor drama White Night by JannikJohansen.The project is shooting nowwith a cast including Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Anne Sophie Byder, RikkeLouise Andersson, and Morten Grunwald.Birgitte Skov and Morten Kaufmann are producing for NimbusFilm in collaboration with Fine & Mellow. Backers for the $3.2m (Euros 2.4m)film include ...
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Ferrara halfway through Cinecitta shoot for Go Go Tales
Two dozen principal castmembers including Willem Dafoe, Matthew Modine, Bob Hoskins, Roy Dotrice andSylvia Miles are at Cinecitta's Studio 14 now half way through four weeks ofthe principal shooting of Go Go Tales, director Abel Ferrara's first foray into comedy which began shootingNov 27. The set - a three-floor NewYork ...
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New Barrandov facilities open with Babylon
Canal+ sci-fi thriller Babylon A.D. will be the first feature film to shoot at a new 4,000-square-meter soundstage at Barrandov Studios in Prague. Mathieu Kassovitz will direct the film, which will star Vin Diesel and Vincent Cassel.A Peugeot automobile commercial will inaugurate the new soundstage before year's end. Kassovitz's crew ...
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China halts foreign investment in production companies
A senior Chinese governmentofficial has confirmed that China has halted new foreign investment in film and TVproduction companies. The move overturns aregulation introduced in 2003 which allowed foreign companies to take stakes ofup to 49% in local production houses or Sino-foreign joint ventures.'Our policy is totemporarily not approve the creation ...
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Irish companies get slate development funding
The Irish Film Board hasannounced ten successful applicants for its Multiple Project Development (MPD)funding, a multi-project development initiative drawn up in September. Following on from the IFB'sCompany Development Initiative (CDI) which went through two three-year cycles,MPD funding provides support for producers who have an attractive slate ofprojects to develop. It ...
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Goteborg Fund backs five new features
The Goteborg InternationalFilm Festival (GIFF) in association with the Swedish International DevelopmentCooperation Agency (SIDA) has granted another $586,200 (SEK 4m) to films madein countries of transition. The five latest projects toget development support are: The First Rainy Day by Nguyen Phan Quang Binh (Vietnam) (which earlierreceive Goteborg funding at Pusan), ...
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Rickman joins Depp, Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd
Alan Rickman has been cast as the nefarious Judge Turpin in Dreamworks/WarnerBros' film of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical Sweeney Todd.Judge Turpin is a sinister creature who frames Todd andsteals his wife before meeting his untimely demise in Todd's barber's chair. TimBurton is directing the film which stars Johnny Depp as ...
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Production begins for Second World War spoof
Alan Cumming is to star asHitler and Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill in Jackboots OnWhitehall, a comedy set during the Second World War, London-basedproduction company Swipe announced today (Dec 7).Based on the idea that theGermans won the Battle Of Britain but were defeated bythe Scots, the film also includes well-known ...
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Cinemart to present 46 projects to 800 partners
The world's largestco-production market, Rotterdam'sCinemart, has announced its line-up for the 24th edition, which will run fromJan 28 to Feb 1, 2007.A total of 46 projects - upone from last year's tally of 45 - have been selected to present to an internationalaudience of up to 800 buyers, sales agents, ...
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Bergeron starts Un Monstre A Paris
Shark Tale directorEric "Bibo" Bergeron has begun work on animated feature Un Monstre A Paris,in his new 3-D animation studio in Nice. Monstre is beingdeveloped by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. with Remi Burahin to produce. The roughly $26m (Euros 20m) comedy/horror film is set to bedelivered in late 2008 or early ...
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Emma Scott joins Irish Film Board production team
Emma Scott has been named asthe new production executive the Irish Film Board (IFB). Scott has worked for morethan 15 years in the film industry, in her own company, Liquid Films, as afreelancer, as head of production with Irish Screen, and more recently with MRFilms where she commissioned feature film ...
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Almodovar hopes to get Cruz on board for next film
Spanish director PedroAlmodovar may reteam with Volver starPenelope Cruz in a new project titled LaPiel Que Habito.In an interview over theweekend with local newspaper El Paisat the European Film Awards in Warsaw, Almodovar said: "My next film will be totallydifferent from my 16 earlier films. It is called La Piel ...
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Filmauro to adapt Manfredi's The Empire of Dragons
Aurelio De Laurentiis has announcedthat his Rome-based Filmauro production company has purchased the rights to The Last Legion author Valerio MassimoManfredi's The Empire of Dragons,with principal shooting to take place in China next year.A period epic adventure, Dragon winds a historical tale thatintersects the Roman and Chinese civilizations. Currently being ...
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Chan's $40m Ci Ma starts shooting in Beijing
Andre Morgan and Peter Ho-sunChan, who together run production house Morgan Chan Films, unveiled their$40m martial arts period drama Ci Ma (working title) today in Beijing.The Hong Kong-China co-productionis directed by Chan and features a stellar cast headed by Jet Li, Andy Lau andTakeshi Kaneshiro. Principal photography has just started ...
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Austrian board backs biopic of popstar Falco
Debut features by Serbianfilmmaker Stefan Arsenijevic and the Iranian-born video artist Shirin Neshatand a biopic on the life of Rock Me Amadeus singer, the Austrian pop star Falco,are among six new projects backed with a total of $1.75m (Euros 1.31m) by thejoint funding committee of the Austrian Film Institute and ...
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Swedish Film Institute overhauls staff and productions
The Swedish Film Institute will stage a majorreshuffle of its organisation, implementing new measures to better reach thegoals of Swedish film policy, and to improve the quality of Swedish cinema.Both production volume and personnel will be radically reduced."We want to take a more active role in theSwedish film industry, where ...
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Microwave backs first two micro-budget features
Film London's new low-budget feature film scheme, Microwave, hasannounced its first two projects to go into production. They are Steven Sheil'sMum And Dad, a horror project about amurderous family living near a London airport (to be produced by Lisa Trnovski),and Eran Creevy's Shady (workingtitle), about a charismatic Muslim crack dealer ...