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Robbie Williams hosts short-film competition
Singer Robbie Williams is workingwith film-makers community Shooting People to encourage emerging film-makers tomake short films to complement his new album Rudebox. Responding to a wide brief,film-makers submitted a variety of treatments using as much or as little fromthe album tracks as they wanted. Williams himself selected and green-lit theseven ...
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Leung to star in See Movie's Chinese Fairy Tale
Tony Leung Ka-fai has signedup to star in Lam Wai Lun's The ChineseFairy Tale (working title), to be co-produced by Hong Kong's See Movie and mainland Chinese partners.Written and directed by LamWai Lun, the film is based on a true story which took place in Changchun in northern China, where ...
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UK distributor Spark Films launches
Award-winning producersDaniel San and Rebecca Knapp have launched their new UK distribution outfit SparkPictures Limited today, Oct 6. The company intends todistribute three to four "commercial independent"titles over the next year. San and Knapp teamed up in2004 with the aim to create a company that will make and distribute low-costcommercial ...
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US to remake Brazil hit If I Were You
USA'sClifford Werber Productions and Brazil'sTotal Entertainment will produce the English language remake of the romanticcomedy If I Were You (Se Eu FosseVocê), the most successful Brazilian film of the year. Produced by Total, inassociation with Lereby, Fox Film do Brasil and Globo Filmes (the film arm ofleading Brazilian broadcaster Globo ...
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Franka Potente to play Pope Joan
Germany's FrankaPotente is to play the lead in Volker Schloendorff's long-gestating adaptationof Donna Cross' novel Pope Joan.Cross'bestseller tells the story of Johanna von Ingelheim, who succeeded in enteringthe highest ranks of the Roman clergy disguised as a man and was elected Popein 853 - a story the Vatican claims is ...
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Five new features for Brazil's Conspiracao Filmes
Conspiracao Filmes, theBrazilian production outfit behind Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand and local hit Two Sons Of Francisco, has announced aslate of five features for 2007/08.The first project, Right On! (PodeCrer!),is currently in post production for release early next year. Directed by ArthurFontes, the film is a coming-of-age story about ...
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Pathe holds worldwide rights to The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Pathe Pictures International has announced that itwill be selling the worldwide rights to French-language feature film TheDiving Bell and the Butterfly, whichis based on the best-selling memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Principal photography began on the film on Sept 4 in France under thedirection of Julian Schnabel, director of Basquiat and ...
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Mark Jay starts shooting Dolphins in Brighton
Writer/directorMark Jay has started filming his debut feature, Dolphins, in Brighton, UK.Themovie is a teenage love story set in Brighton's custom-car culture and stars Emmerdale's Karl Davies, FootballFactory's Frank Harper, Popcorn's Layke Anderson and sees UK hip-hop singer Roots Manuva inhis first screen role.Jay haspreviously made music videos, documentary films ...
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Peter Howitt begins shooting Dangerous Parking
SlidingDoors'director Peter Howitt started shooting his latest production on Oct 3.Howitt wrote, directs and stars in the film, anadaptation of Stuart Browne's 1999 cult novel Dangerous Parking. Richard Johns produces under Howitt and Johns'production outfit Flaming Pie Films.Howitt and Johns raised the finance for the filmindependently, from private investors, including ...
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Belfast shoot starts for Collins' Kings
Prinicipal photography hasstarted in Belfast on Kings, an adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road about a group of Irish emigrantswho reunite for the funeral of one of their friends.Leading Irish actor ColmMeaney features in an ensemble cast along with Donal O'Kelly, Brendan Conroy,Donncha Crowley, ...
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Germany's e-m-s to coproduce Lolafilms' Manolete
Spanish producer Lolafilmshas recruited Germany's e-m-s new media as aco-producer on Manolete, starringAdrien Brody and Penelope Cruz, as well as for Io Don Giovanni. The film finishedprincipal photography this summer. Werner Wirsing, CEO ofe-m-s, is now an executive producer of the film and his company will handledistribution in Germany and ...
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Cornwall recruits agency for film and TV push
South West Screen andCornwall Film have appoined Cornish company Location Solutions South West tomarket the region to film and TV production companies. Location Solutions willmarket the UK's western-most county overthe next six months to national and international film and TV productioncompanies. The region has previouslyhosted TV series including Nighty Night ...
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Icon and Lionsgate projects backed in latest FFC round
A vampire filmbacked by Lionsgate, a drama marking Icon's biggest commitment to an Australianfilm, and the first co-production with China are among five Australian films that havesecured financing in the latest round from Film Finance Corporation Australia.Twinwriter-directors Michael and Peter Spierig, who sold their low-budgetself-financed horror film Undead toLionsgate, have ...
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Lars von Trier to shoot horror project next summer
Only hours after the worldpremiere of Lars von Trier's The Boss Of It All at the Copenhagen International Film Festivallast Thursday, the maverick director has announced his next film. Moving fromthe comedy of The Boss OfIt All, he will next tackle horror in Antichrist.The project was announced forthe first time ...
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Wenders joins Bardem's The Invisibles project
Director Wim Wenders has come on board for the new portmanteau film TheInvisibles (Los Invisibles), produced by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. In October, Wenders will travel to Congoto shoot a short film about the sexual abuse of women in that country. His isthe last of five 15-20 minute projects to ...
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Thuesen starts shoot for Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years
Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years starts shooting today in Denmark with newdirector Jacob Thuesen at the helm after previously attached Lone Scherfigdropped out of the project several months ago. Zentropa isproducing the $5.2m (Euros 4.1m) feature with co-producers Memfis Film, DOR Film, Lucky Red and Tju-Bang Film. Lars von ...
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Initial Entertainment plans Queen Victoria film
In the wake of The Queen, another film about theBritish Royal Family is in the pipeline. In London this week with MartinScorsese's $120m The Departed (whichhe produced for Warner Bros), Initial Entertainment Group producer Graham Kinghas revealed that he is planning a new feature about the early years of QueenVictoria."Julian ...
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Fortune Star producing Dead Air with Chen
Production started today onthriller Dead Air which acclaimedfilmmaker Teddy Chen is producing for Star Group's Fortune Star Entertainment.The high-definition featureis directed by newcomer Xavier Lee and stars hot up-and-coming actors DerekTsang, Tong Ling, Terence Yin, Jo Koo and Raymond Wong. The film will have anexclusive TV premiere on Star Chinese ...
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Spring Break shoot to continue in Croatia
Richard Shepard's Spring Break In Bosnia started principal photography on locationsin Sarajevo on Sept 12. Financed by QED International and Intermedia, the film is produced by Mark Johnson and Scott Kroopf and stars Richard Gere, Jesse Eisenberg, Terrence Howard, James Brolin and Diane Kruger. Based on Scott Anderson's article ...
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Feng enlists Korean expertise for war epic
Chinese director FengXiaogang, whose latest film The Banquetis currently topping the box office across Asia, is working with crew membersfrom Korea's MK Pictures on his upcoming war epic, tentatively entitled The Assembly. Speaking at a Korean press conferencefor The Banquet, Feng said he was a fanof Kang Jegyu's blockbuster war ...