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Kinowelt acquires producer/distributor Pegasos
After acquiring amajority stake in the license trader Intertainment earlier this year, theKinowelt Group has now continued its expansion by taking over the Cologne-baseddistributor-producer Pegasos Filmverleih und Produktion.In the deal signedin Leipzig on the eve of this year's Hof Film Days, Kinowelt has committed tocontinuing Pegasos' business exploiting rights to ...
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Documentary programme Greenhouse Project revived
The Greenhouse Project is back in action. Thetraining program for the development of feature-length documentaries, whichlaid dormant for the best part of the last ten months, is now registeringcandidates for its first round of seminars, to take place in January 2007 in Istanbul. Targeting East Mediterranean territories, the programmeexpects candidates ...
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Donner, Juonifilmi on board for The Border
Oscar-winning Finnishproducer Jorn Donner will return to filmmaking after a six-year hiatus, asproducer of Lauri Torhonen's The Border, which marks the first feature from productioncompany Juonifilmi. Scripted by Aleksi Bardy, The Border is based on the real-lifestory of Donner's father, which Donner told Torhonen as they collaborated onthe 1986 film ...
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Germany's FFA backs next Glawogger film
New feature films fromAustria's Michael Glawogger, theatre/film director Leander Hausmann and the directorialduo Marcus Mittermeier and Jan Henrik Stahlberg are among seven projectsawarded a total of $2.8m (Euros 2.25m) production support by the German FederalFilm Board (FFA).Glawogger received $313,937(Euros 250,000) for Contact High, thesequel to his comedy Nacktschnecken, which will ...
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Animaker plans Finland's highest-budget feature
Following Help! I'm a Fish and The Ugly Duckling And Me!,Danish director Michael Hegner stays in animal kingdom for his next feature, The Way To The Stars.Staged by Finnish productionhouse Animaker, and co-directed by Finnish director Kari Juusonen, the $7.7m(Euros 6.1m) CGI-animated feature - the most expensive productionever in Finland ...
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TWC options remake rights to Thai thriller 13
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hasacquired remake rights to Thai psychological thriller 13 from Sahamongkolfilm, in a deal that also includes NorthAmerican rights to the original film. The $1.2m film, which openedtwo weeks ago in Thailand, is the second feature from 26-year-old director ChukiatSakweerakul following Evil (Pisaj). Based on a Thai ...
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Sega to adapt two games into animated features
Sega Sammy Group Holdingsand subsidiary TMS Entertainment Co have announced plans to adapt two of itsmost popular game franchises into animated theatrical feature films to bereleased next spring.Osharemajo Love And Berry and Kabutomushi:Oja Mushiking are two of Japan's best selling card and video games for girls andboys respectively. Both games ...
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Scherfig returns to Danish film-making with Hjemve
Lone Scherfig isshooting in Denmark again for the first time since making her 2000 dogma hit Italian For Beginners. She will be onthe island of Funen working on a project entitled Hjemve, which can be translated as "longing for home" although anofficial international title hasn't been set yet. The film ...
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ContentFilm on board for Barker's Outpost
ContentFilm Internationalhas acquired worldwide rights to and will co-finance the new action horror filmOutpost.Steve Barker will direct theproject for producers Black Camel Pictures and Matador Pictures. The film, written by RaeBrunton, is set in an unnamed Eastern European country, where battle-wornmercenaries are hired by a mysterious businessmen forhis own special ...
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UK tax credit stranded while Europe ponders approval
Screen International's UK Film Financesummit meets today amid growing evidence that the European Commission may be uncomfortable with aspectsthe UK's new film tax plans. The UK's new tax credit was announced in March this year,further clarified in April, and has been approved by the UK parliament. UK government bodies had ...
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Amy Redford heads cast of Finding Fate for MacArt, Bootstrap
Amy Redford has joined the cast of Jack Conroy's family drama FindingFate, which is set tobegin filming in Ireland and New York in early 2007.Patrick Bergin, Hugh O'Conor, Jamie Harris, and John Keating alsostar in the story of a woman who embarks upon a search for the truth when herlife ...
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Death Defying Acts wraps London shoot
Gillian Armstrong has wrappedprincipal photography on Death DefyingActs, starring Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta Jones and Timothy Spall. Thedrama, about Harry Houdini meeting a mysterious woman on tour, filmed onlocation in and around London.Tony Grisoni wrote thescreeplay with Brian Ward. Marian Macgowan produced forMacgowan Lupovitz Nasatir Films with Chris Curling for ...
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BBC Worldwide on board for African elephant feature
Following on its first twofeatures Deep Blue and earth, BBC Worldwide is planning is third wildlife feature, Distant Thunder. BBC has comeon board as a co-producer with independent film-makers Mark Deeble and VictoriaStone. Distant Thunder will be about the previously unseen emotional intelligence of theAfrican elephant.BBC Worldwide's previous features were ...
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Redgrave, Staunton on board for next Binchy adaptation
Irish producer Noel Pearson, an Academy Award nominee for MyLeft Foot, willfollow his recent Maeve Binchy adaptation, Tara Road, with How About You' based on a Binchy short story. Adapted by Jean Pasley and directed by Anthony Byrne, HowAbout You' is acomic tale about a clash between the generations which ...
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PUSAN: Avex boards Apple, Chen Kaige project
Following its investment in Beijing-basedChengtian Entertainment, Japan's Avex is making a push into Chinese production by co-financingtwo of the company's upcoming productions - Li Yu's Apple and a biopic to be directed by Chen Kaige.Chen, who most recentlydirected big-budget fantasy epic ThePromise, is developing a film based on the life ...
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Abraham and Dornford-May pact for South African stories
Producer EricAbraham and director Mark Dornford-May have announced a new collaboration toproduce theatre and film projects based on South African talent for aninternational audience. South Africantheatre veteran Mannie Mannim will serve as a consultant. The projects currentlybeing developed include theatre co-productions with London's Young Vic Theatre,stage and film versions of ...
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Polish Insitute backs new films from Loach and Zelenka
Newfeature projects by Ken Loach, Petr Zelenka and Oliver Parker are among sixinternational co-productions supported with a total of $4.1m (Zlotys 12.8m) bythe Polish Film Institute in its latest round of funding. Loach's These Times, which hasproducer-distributor SPIInternational as its Polish co-producer, received $176,376 (ZL 546,508)production support. The Polish elements ...
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Rotterdam's Bals Fund starts digital production grant
The International FilmFestival Rotterdam (Jan 24-Feb 4, 2007) will introduce a new digital productiongrant to the Hubert Bals Fund.The 36th Rotterdam festival has announced a new $24,980 (Euros 20,000)grant for low-budget digital video productions from developing countries. Thegrants can be used to fund total production costs. During the Fund's autumn ...
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Nu Image to start Cusack's $10m parody thriller
Nu Image Bulgaria will begin filming Oct 22 on Brandhauser, an international intrigue parody starring John Cusack,Joan Cusack, Hilary Duff and Marisa Tomei. Josh Seftel, one of the directorsbehind TV series Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, will direct the $10m project, alsoknown as War Inc. The film will shoot ...
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PUSAN: Taewon unveils Resurrection at Asian Film Market
Korea's Taewon Entertainment took advantage of the firstday of the Asian Film Market to promote its upcoming project Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon.MaggieQ has joined Andy Lau in the cast of the epic actioner, which Taewon isco-producing with Hong Kong's Visualizer Film Production.Recently featured in Mission: Impossible3, Q ...