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Balkan Fund development grants go to four features
Four film projects comingfrom three southeastern European countries received the grants handed out todayby the Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 bythe Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF).Two of the four awardedprojects come from Romania, where cinema has become more vital in recent years.The two projects, receiving ...
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German-French funders back projects including new Denis film
Three internationalco-productions have been awarded nearly $1.28m (Euros 1m) by the German FederalFilm Board (FFA) and France's CNC at thelatest sitting of the German-French Funding Committee.The largest amount - $576,787(Euros 450,000) - was given to Peter Sehr and Marie Noelle'sGerman-French-Spanish co-production DieFrauen Des Anarchisten which will be produced by Sehr ...
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Cronenberg starts London shoot for Eastern Promises
Production startsin London this week on David Cronenberg's thriller Eastern Promises, starring ViggoMortensen and Naomi Watts.The KudosPictures and Serendipity Point Films co-production will be distributed in the US and internationally by Focus Features,while Alliance Atlantis will distribute in Canada. Steven Knightwrote the script about a ruthless man involved in organised ...
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Raoul Ruiz taps Damian Lewis for Love And Virtue
Raoul Ruiz's period epic Love And Virtue has lined up a stronginterernational cast including Damian Lewis, Virginie Ledoyen, John Malkovich,Peter O'Toole, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Leonor Varela, Vincent Perez, DarylHannah, Michael Madsen, Melvil Poupaud, Anna Massey, Cristian de la Fuente MaxRyan, Alexa Rey and Boo Boo Stewart.Lewis plays the hero,Orlando, ...
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Miike starts shooting English-language spaghetti western
Following months of rumourand speculation, cult director Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western: Django is now before cameras. Details of theproduction were announced to the press on location in Yamagata prefecture yesterday.Though set during the Genpeiclan wars of the 12th century, the film is being billed as Japan's first true western. The ...
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RGM starts shoots for first two productions
The Girl In The Park, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winningauthor David Auburn, and Pushing UpDaisies, a black comedy written and directed by Chaz Thorne, both went intoproduction this week and are the first two films to carry the name RGM, one ofAustralia's most prominent agencies.RGM director Robyn Gardinerand ...
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First Dutch-South African co-production starts shooting
Principal shooting started this week in Cape Town on Threes Anna's The Bird Can't Fly - the first Dutch-South African co-production.The $2.3m (Euros 2m) flm is a co-production between Dutch 24FPS Features, (lead producer Anton Scholten), South African IMG-films and Irish Borderline Productions. Investors have come from the Netherlands, including ...
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CJ Entertainment wraps AFM business with flurry of sales
Wrapping up post-AFM, Korea's CJ Entertainment has announced a slew of deals for Park Chan-wook's I'm a Cyborg But It's OK, martial arts fantasy The Restless, and gangster film A Dirty Carnival to Asia and Europe.Pre-sales for Park's romantic comedy, starring Im Soo-jung and pan-Asian pop star Rain, went to ...
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Lightning takes international sales rights for Kenny
Lightning Entertainment has secured international sales rights for the local hit comedy Kenny, which has earned A$7 million and is still in Australian cinemas after 13 weeks.The documentary-style film, distributed by Madman, is about an ordinary man who works for a company that provides toilets for events. It has hit ...
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Croatian film-makers funding set for big boost
Financial support for the film industry in Croatia could almost treble from the current amount with the planned creation of a Croatian Centre for Audiovisual Services next year.Speaking to Screendaily at the European Cinema and Audiovisual Days in Turin, Antonia D. Carnerud, Head of the Drama Department at Croatia's Ministry ...
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Record Asian pre-sales for My Wife Is A Gangster sequel
Korea's Showbox has closed a raft of Asian pre-sales deals for My Wife Is A Gangster 3, claiming a record high for any Korean film sold at AFM to Asian territories excluding Japan.Starring Taiwanese actress Shu Qi as the gangster wife descending upon Korea, the film is directed by Cho ...
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Sony takes DVD rights to self-distributed romantic comedy
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has signed the DVD distribution rights to Ed Blum's British romantic comedy Scenes of a Sexual Nature.The film is the most successful self-distributed film to be released in UK theatres, taking more than $150, 000 (£80,000) at the box office. It was released through The ...
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Cottbus forum to consider 13 film pitches
Thirteen projects will be pitched to potential production partners during this week's two-day Connecting Cottbus industry forum (November 16-17) at the FilmFestival Cottbus.They include the Czech production company Brutto Film's black comedy Choking Hazard: The Giant, the English-language sequel to its box office hit Choking Hazard; SEE Film Pro's omnibus ...
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Producers warn next Bond film may be shot outside UK
There is no guarantee that the next James Bond film will shoot in the UK. That was the message today from Casino Royale producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli."We're going to have to make that decision again," Wilson toldScreenDaily. "London is the most expensive city in the world ...
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Eichmann biopic begins shooting in Hungary and Malta
Shooting begins in Budapest and Malta next week on E-Motion's biopic of Adolf Eichmann.Eichmann, starring Thomas Kretschmann, portrays the events leading up to the capture of the Nazi war criminal by Israeli agents and his 1962 execution.Principal photography on the UK, Hungary, Belgium and the US co-production, directed by Robert ...
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Irish film production dropped 50% in 2005
Feature film production in Ireland in 2005 dropped 50% on the previous year, according to the Audiovisual Federation Review produced annually by Irish state and industry bodies.The loss of feature production was more than compensated for by significant growth in television production, much of it single and serial drama.Ten feature ...
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Sundance commissions original movies for mobile phones
Robert Redford's SundanceInstitute is dipping an experimental toe in the mobile entertainment arena bycommissioning five original short films intended for viewing on cell phonesworldwide.The three-to-five minutefilms will debut in Barcelona, on the opening day of next February's 3GSM WorldCongress, a mobile communications conference that attracts some fifty thousandtelecom-related professionals from ...
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Constantin and ProSieben Sat 1 continue output deal
Leading German independentdistributor Constantin Film Verleihhas extended its output deal with the ProSiebenSat.1 Group for a further twoyears.The new arrangement, which takeseffect from February 2007, will cover all of the ConstantinGroup's national and international in-house and co-productions shooting betweenJanuary 1, 2007 and December 31, 2008.Aside from the current deal -which ...
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Wild Bunch takes on Maverick's Stanford Prison Experiment
Paris-based Wild Bunch hasboarded Maverick Films' upcoming The Stanford Prison Experiment.Wild Bunch will handleinternational sales while John Ptak and Philip Elway's Arsenal will representUS rights.The $11m film is to bedirected by Christopher McQuarrie who will produce alongside Mark Morgan andBrent Emery. Guy Oseary and Para Pirria will executive produce.The film ...
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Film4 backs Duane Hopkins' feature debut Better Things
Film4 hascome on board for Duane Hopkins' Better Things, soon to start shooting in theUK, and Fabrice de Welz's Vinyan, in development.Hopkins,who previously wrote and directed award-winning shorts Field and Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, will make his feature debut withBetter Things,a story about troubled teenagers in the picturesque ...