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Future Films opens US office to cash-flow state credits
London-based film financingand production company Future Films is launching a new US office with the aimof cash flowing the growing number of state-sponsored film productionincentives. Simon Horsman will be CEO of Future Films USA LLC, which will bebased in Los Angeles.Future's US arm will havemore direct contact with projects and ...
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Kathy Morgan takes on Mackenzie's Camille
Kathy Morgan International(KMI) has picked up international rights to the fantasy romance Camille starring Sienna Miller and James Franco.KMI will show buyers a promoreel on the project, which is in post-production and is being produced by AlRuddy and directed by Gregory Mackenzie.Miller plays an idealisticyoung bride who goes on honeymoon ...
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Celestial to remake two Shaw Brothers classics
Hong Kong-based CelestialPictures is introducing remakes of two martial arts classics in its ShawBrothers library - Five Deadly Venoms and The Flying Guillotine - here at the AFM and has attached leadingdirectors to both.Kirk Wong is set to direct FiveDeadly Venoms - to be producedby Celestial's vice president of new ...
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Capitol on board for new Knightley, Lohan film
London-based sales companyCapitol Films has announced it has taken on financing and worldwide sales forJohn Maybury's The Best Time Of Our Lives and Rigoberto Castaneda's Blackout. The Best Time Of OurLives (working title) stars KeiraKnightley and Lindsay Lohan in the story of an unlikely friendship betweenDylan Thomas' former sweetheart Vera ...
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Pyramide's AFM slate includes hot-selling doc Let's Say
Pyramide International ishitting the AFM with a hot new documentary project, three new films to screen,the first images from Catherine Breillat's latest and a quirky comedy starringMarianne Faithfull.The documentary, Let'sSay, is directed by Francoise Marieand will be ready for Cannes 2007. The director went to various differentregions in France to ...
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New $20m equity fund deals with Regent MB
The new US equity fundMotion Picture Fund of America has raised its first $20m and signed a 12-film,three-year deal with financier, producer and distributor Regent MB of BeverlyHills and Munich.MPFA head Pete Maggi andco-manager Gino Dileo struck the deal with Regent co-presidents JeanetteBuerling and Maggie Monteith.The companies willco-finance four films ...
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Ewan McGregor on board for HanWay's Franklyn
Ewan McGregor will star inGerald McMorrow's Franklyn, whichwill shoot on location in the UK in summer 2007. UK stalwart Jeremy Thomas isproducing McMorrow's feature film debut based on his original screenplay. Thestory is about four lost souls in a futuristic London society where there is noseparation between church and state. ...
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QED takes on sales for The Girl In The Park
Bill Block's BeverlyHills-based sales company QED International has added psychological thriller TheGirl In The Park to its AFM slate.Keri Russell, AlessandroNivola and Elias Koteas have joined Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth onthe project, which is set to begin principal photography in New York onNov 13.Sean Furst, Bryan Furst and Chip ...
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HanWay takes on sales for Winterbottom's Genova
HanWay Films has acquired worldwide rights outsidethe UK for Michael Winterbottom's forthcoming Genova,which now has Colin Firth attached to star.Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton's London-basedproduction company Revolution Films is producing with co-financing from Film4(which holds UK rights). Winterbottom will shoot the project in spring 2007 onlocation in Italy with post-production will ...
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Weinsteins and BBC Films find meerkat love
The Weinstein Company (TWC)and BBC Films will co-finance African wildlife feature The Meerkats, which is scheduled for a November shoot inthe Kalahari Desert.TWC holds worldwide rightsand international chief Glen Basner and his team will introduce the projectto buyers here at AFM. For the first time BBC Films will collaborate withthe ...
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MK2 starts shoot for Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park
French outfit MK2 hasannounced the beginning of principal photography on the latest film from GusVan Sant. Filming begins this weekin Portland, Oregon on Paranoid Park, a project adapted from the book of the same name by Blake Nelson,which was released in the US in September.MK2 will produce with NeilKopp and ...
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Wang Xiaoshuai plans November shoot for Zuo You
Chinese filmmakerWang Xiaoshuai will be shooting $1.25m drama Zuo You (literally Left And Right) as his 10th feature film, the Cannes-winningdirector announced at the Golden Rooster Baihua Film Festival in China's Hangzhou City today.Beijing-basedDebo Film, producer of Wang's previous film ShanghaiDreams, will again be the main production and financing company ...
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Vertigo works with funding partner for Northern Star
UK producer Vertigo Films has lined up the first two productions to comeout of its new relationship with Pacific Continental Fund Management's FilmOpportunities Fund. The first project to shootwill be Simon Ellis' Northern Star - A Love Story (workingtitle), a rites-of-passage love story that will shoot in Gateshead, Newcastle starting ...
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Turin award gives funds to Argentos and Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana and Darioand Asia Argento will be the first recipients of the $19,000 (Euros 15,000)prize Set Torino Piemonte - for actors, directors and producers working in Italy's Turin - Piedmont region.A $19,000 (Euros 15,000) prizewill be given to each of three recipients on behalf of the Film CommissionTorino ...
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UK's HandMade relaunches with Sequence/IAC deal
A team of UK veterans has come together to revive the HandMadeFilms banner as a production and sales company. The new executive team of chairman Patrick Meehan and managing director David Ravdenwill now run HandMade, which was started by George Harrison in the 1970s andcontrols rights to the Eloise franchise ...
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Distributor SF Norge starts production division
SF Norge - Norway's leading distributor, a subsidiary of Swedishmajor, Svensk Filmindustri - is establishing its own production department,with the ambition to produce two features annually, and co-produce another two.The first slate is topped by the $12.8m package of six films about Norwegian privatedetective Varg Veum, which has currently shooting.Before ...
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Odeon gets rights to Fitzek's Die Therapie
Odeon Pictures hasacquired the film rights to adapt Sebastian Fitzek's bestselling psychothrillerDie Therapie, which was publishedthis July and immediately appeared in the bestseller lists.Berlin-based Fitzekwill be actively involved in the development of the screenplay and will serveas an advisor to the project from concept through to principal photography, which is ...
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Denmark's Flame And Citron gains momentum
Danish feature FlameAnd Citron has raised 75% of itsrelatively large $7.6m (45m Danish Kroner) and will head into production withdelivery set for 2008.Ole Christian Madsen willdirect the story of two colourful and important freedom fighters during WorldWar II. Lars K Andersen wrote the script.The director sees his newfilm as an ...
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London shoot starts for Leonti's Daylight Robbery
Shooting has started in London on heist movie DaylightRobbery. Director Paris Leonti makes his feature film debut based on hisown screenplay. The film follows a group of England football fans who use the World Cup as a cover for abig bank robbery.The cast features GeoffBell, Leo Gregory, Vas Blackwood, Paul ...
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Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund backs 24 projects
The Hubert Bals Fund of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has granted a total of $444,180(Euros 353,000) to 24 film projects and initiatives from developing countries. Grants for script andproject development went to established film-makers including Paraguay's PazEncina and Romania's Cristian Mungiu. Post-production funding went tofilm-makers including Brazil's Paulo Caldas ...