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King Of The Mountain to go ahead despite Brock's death
The filmmakers behind King Of The Mountain, which was set tobe the acting debut of Australia's best-known racing car driver Peter Brock, who diedin an accident on the track last Friday, have said that the project willcontinue.Executive producer Tom Kennedysaid the $2.3m (A$3m) action drama will be financed by sponsors ...
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Yamada to direct World War II drama for Shochiku
Japanese major Shochiku isproducing the next film from Yoji Yamada following his acclaimedsamurai trilogy - a World War II drama with the working title Kabei, set to star veteran actressSayuri Yoshinaga. Based on the non-fictionnovel Chichi Eno Requiem, written byTeruyo Nogami, the film is set in 1940s Tokyo and follows ...
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Sony Classics pre-buys British memoir drama
Sony Pictures Classics has bought North America and Latin Americanrights to And When Did You Last See Your Father'Anand Tucker will direct the film, whose production is set tobegin in October. The project has been developed under the UK Film Council's Super-Slateinitiative in association with Film4, Intandem Films and the ...
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Cairo festival resurrects market as Egyptian production grows
The organisers of the CairoInternational Film Festival, now in its 30th year, are launching afilm market to run alongside the main festival. It will take place in the CairoOpera House, Dec 2-7."We had a market a few yearsback but it stopped for various reasons. This seemed the year to bring ...
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Australian Film Commission's script lab chooses eight projects
Director Fred Schepisi will be one of the mentors at SP*RK, theAustralian Film Commission's script lab, and eight projects have been chosen toparticipate.They include An Imaginary Life, an adaptation ofDavid Malouf's novel of the same name being producedby Penny Chapman, a former head of drama at national broadcaster the ABC, ...
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Arts Council, Film Council launch Single Shot programme
The Arts Council England and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund have launched Single Shot, a multi-platform touringprogramme of moving image projects. Single Shot will commission film and video projects - based on theconcept of a single unedited shot - by established artists and new talents.Also the Arts Council ...
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Luc Besson says he will stop directing after Arthur
Unveiling the names of the French actors who willvoice the lead roles in his upcoming Arthur And TheMinimoys, Luc Bessonconfirmed Monday morning that the film will be his last as director.Arguably one of the best known and most successfulfilm-makers to come from Francein the past 20 years, Besson made the ...
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Hammer & Tongs wraps Son of Rambow
Shooting has wrapped on Son Of Rambow, the latest film from the UK film-making team of Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, better known as Hammer & Tongs (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy).The film is being sold in Toronto by Celluloid Dreams and was executive produced by Hengameh Panahi and ...
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George Romero starts pre-production on Diary Of The Dead
George A Romero and producing partner Peter Grunwald have begun pre-production on the iconic filmmaker's latest zombie tale, Diary Of The Dead. Romero/Grunwald Productions is producing and financing the under-$10m project with Los Angeles-based Artfire Films and will commence production in Toronto on Oct 11.The story centres on a group ...
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Eli Roth joins cast of Tarantino's Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino has cast Hostel director Eli Roth, Michael Bacall and newcomer Omar Doom in Death Proof, his half of the Grindhouse horrordouble-bill he is preparing with Robert Rodriguez.Death Proofstars Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson and Zoe Bell and is currently shooting in Austin, Texas.Rodriguez' contribution Planet Terror recently completed filmingin ...
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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 ...