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Bruce Weber to start Robert Mitchum documentary
Bruce Weber, in Toronto tosupport a Dialogues screening of his 1988 documentary Let's Get Lost, has announced that his next project will definitelybe his long-cherished Nice Girls Don'tStay For Breakfast: A Portrait Of Robert Mitchum.Described by Weber as a"musical documentary," the project is a profile of Hollywood's original bad boy. ...
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Feature planned based on life of rocker Carole Pope
Jan Nathansonof straight edge films and Andrew Boutilier of SubmissionFilms have teamed to acquire the rights to produce a feature based on the lifeand times of Canadian rock icon Carole Pope. Based on Pope's 2001autobiography Anti-Diva, the filmexplores the outrageous life of the openly lesbian Canadian singer and hercareer in ...
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Bavaria on board for restoration of Berlin Alexanderplatz
Bavaria Media has teamed upwith The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation torestore Fassbinder's classic 14-part TV opus Berlin Alexanderplatz,which first aired on ARD in 1980.The project's originaldirector of photography Xaver Schwarzenbergerand the production manager of the series Dieter Minx are supervising therestoration with Juliane Lorenz, Fassbinder'seditor and the president of the ...
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William Hurt joins cast of $13m mystery Lighthouse
William Hurt has signed onfor a lead role in Lighthouse for Vancouver-basedIrreverent Media.The $13m mystery, fullyfinanced through private investors, is the feature debut of writer-directorFrederick Thorsen. Irreverent CEO Tom O'Brien is leadproducer while Michael Grais of Poltergeist fame is executive producer. Stockholm-based NonStop is handling world sales. Described as a ...
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Jaume Balaguero finds The Certain Lady with Filmax
Spanish horror specialist Jaume Balaguero, fresh from the Venice screening of his newest film To Let, is preparing his next feature, The Certain Lady, for producer Filmax.The film is based on thenovel La Dama Numero Trece by Jose CarlosSomoza about a poetry lover haunted by a nightmare of a parallel ...
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MTV Films Europe on board for Bunny Chow
MTVFilms Europe (MTVFE) has boarded John Barker's South African comedy Bunny Chow as a co-producer, will assistsales outfit Deviant Selling in world sales and will provide a global marketingplatform for the film in the territories it is released in.Thefilm has its world premiere here on Monday in Vanguard and its ...
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Ang Lee's Lust, Caution starts shooting in Malaysia
Ang Lee's wartime spythriller Lust, Caution started shooting this week in the Malaysian city of Ipoh, well-known for its pre-war architecture. Adapted from a novella bythe late Chinese author Eileen Chang, the Chinese-language picture is about agroup of patriotic students who plot to assassinate an intelligence chief,played by Tony Leung ...
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Holland Film Meeting selects 21 projects for pitches
The 19thHolland Film Meeting, held Sept 29-Oct 1 during the Netherlands Film Festival,will present 21 feature film projects this year as part of the NetherlandsProduction Platform.The eightDutch and 13 European feature will be pitched to apanel of international producers and financiers. The Dutch films are eligiblefor a prize of $6336 ...
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Nu Image wraps Bulgarian shoot for Day Of The Dead
Director Steve Miner haswrapped production on zombie thriller DayOf The Dead, a new interpretation of George Romero's1985 horror classic, after six weeks of shooting in and around Sofia. The production usedfacilities of Nu Image's BoyanaStudios in the Bulgarian capital and other sets and locations around thecountry, including Ilientzi, where Brian ...
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UK tax credit financier Brighthaven on board for Magicians
Brighthaven, the new film financing venture formed byWaking Ned and Shooting Fish producer Richard Holmes, has agreed to board itsfirst feature film. Brighthaven will be cash-flowing thenew UK tax credit for Andrew O'Connor's Magicians,a comedy feature from the team behind the UK hit TV series Peep Show. Brighthaven was established ...
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Smith hopes to bring Universal's Wanted to UK
UK producer Iain Smith (in Venice with two competitionfilms, The Fountain and Children Of Men)is in advanced negotiations to bring Wanted,a big-budget studio feature, to the UK. The project is beingfinanced by Universal. Adapted from a comic book, it is set in a contemporary US city. The director willbe from ...
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Sellars hopes to bring New Crowned Hope idea to other cities
Globe-trottingopera director Peter Sellars is in talks with twocities about the possibility of overseeing further events along the lines ofthe New Crowned Hope Festival, which has already yielded a handful of films competingin Venice and Toronto."Theseare the first steps," Sellars commented. "My hope isthat we can repeat this type of ...
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Fuji TV unveils fourth spin-off in Bayside franchise
Fuji TV has announcedanother entry in its successful Bayside Shakedownfilm and TV franchise - Bengoshi HaijimaHideki (Hideki Haijima, Esq.) - to bedirected by Daisaku Kobayashi and star actor and TV presenter Norito Yashima.The TV movie will be thefourth spin-off produced since the release of the original feature film in 1998and ...
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San Fu Maltha ready to fly with De Bernieres bestseller
BlackBookproducer San Fu Maltha has optioned bestseller BirdsWithout Wings from Louis De Bernieres, whose Captain Corelli's Mandolin was filmed in 2001 by WorkingTitle. Thestory is set in 19th Century Turkey, just as the Ottoman empire is beginning tocrumble. Dealingwith life in a small village split by religious and political tension, ...
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Gil Rossellini plans two romantic comedies
Italian film-maker GilRossellini, whose latest film Kill GilII premiered in Venicethis week, is hatching two new feature projects. RaiCinema has already committed to boarding romantic comedy Once Upon A Time In Parma, set in the communitywhere parmesan cheese is produced. Rossellini is co-writing and will alsoproduce. It is yet to ...
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Robert Carlyle signs on for 28 Weeks Later
Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne,Catherine McCormack, Jeremy Renner, Imogen Poots, Idris Elba and 12-year-oldnewcomer Mackintosh Muggleton have been cast in 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to DannyBoyle's 28 Days Later, which beganshooting yesterday in London.Spain's Sogecine and KoanFilms and the UK's Figment are producing for DNA Films and Fox Atomic. Shooting ...
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Films Distribution on board for new Hou Hsiao-Hsien film
Heading into the autumn festival season, French sales house FilmsDistribution has acquired three new projects at script level.The first is the next film up from Hou Hsiao-Hsien called Le Ballon Rouge.Starring Juliette Binoche,the film is about a mother who can't cope with her child and the nanny shehires from Taiwan. ...
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Focus joins One Ton on Wisit's Armful
Hong Kong's Focus Films is teaming up with Singapore-based OneTon Cinema to co-produce Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng's upcoming film Armful. The Chinese-languagestylised tragicomedy will feature a pan-Asian cast, most likely from Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Thailand. Set in 1970s South-East Asia, the film's influences range from Chinese martialarts films ...
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Berlin to launch $3.8m fund for regional films
The city ofBerlin is to launch a $3.8m (Euros 3m)Bank Fund to support the production and distribution of film productions fromthe region from 2007.Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit announced the new initiative at the beginning ofthis week's Medienforum Berlin-Brandenburg,explaining that the fund would be financed by the city of Berlin ...
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Berlin to launch $3.8m fund for regional films
The city ofBerlin is to launch a $3.8m (Euros 3m)Bank Fund to support the production and distribution of film productions fromthe region from 2007.Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit announced the new initiative at the beginning ofthis week's Medienforum Berlin-Brandenburg,explaining that the fund would be financed by the city of Berlin ...