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Wide Blue Yonder finds funding at first Nordic Co-Production Forum
UK producer John Cairns of Parkland Films left theNorwegian Film Festival in Haugesund yesterday with his new feature, Wide Blue Yonder, fully financed, havingrecruited Stavanger's Sydvest Film as Norwegian co-producer at the first NordicCo-Production Forum.Cairns was one of the ten UK independent producers,pitching new feature film projects to potential co-producers ...
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Richard Laxton starts shoot for The Allotment
Warp Films and Art in Action have started shooting a comedywith the working title of The Allotment.Richard Laxton, who recentlycompleted Life & Lyrics, willdirect from a script by Frank Cottrell Boyce with Carl Hunter. The Allotment follows a refugee familytrying to fit into the community of their gardening allotment. The ...
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Billi Productions plans to expand CGI short into feature
BilliProductions and Glasgow Animation are seeking to turn their animated short filmSir Billi into a full-lengthfeature.Theproducers expect they need to raise $5.6m (£3m) to get the CGI feature made in12 months. BilliProductions is a company owned by husband and wife team Sascha and TessaHartmann and Sean Connery, who has signed ...
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London shoot to start for horror film Credo
Alto Films starts principal photography next week on itsfirst feature, Credo.The supernatural horror film is shooting in London's WestEnd. Toni Harman is directing, with a cast including Myanna Buring (TheDescent), ClaytonWatson (The Matrixtrilogy), and singer Stephen Gately from Boyzone.The plot follows a group of theology students in London whosummon a ...
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UK producers to pitch at first Nordic Co-Production Forum
Ten UK production companies will pitch new feature film projects to potential co-producers in Scandinavia at the first Nordic Co-Production Forum, which takes place on Monday, 21 August-Tuesday, 22 August during the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.Organised with UK-German content financing consultancy peacefulfish and Film London, the Forum concludes ...
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Valderama, Universal to make Partybuddys movie
Wilmer Valderrama will produce and possibly star in Universal Pictures'story about Partybuddys founders James King and Jason Roefaro.Mike Samonek is writing the screenplay about the entrepreneurial friendswhose VIP service offers party-goers a ready-made posse, bodyguard, limo,paparazzi detail and nightclub entry.Valderrama's manager Glenn Rigberg will serve as executive producealong with John ...
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CJ moves into English fare with Kang's West 32nd
Koreanstudio CJ Entertainment is set to shoot its first English-language feature, West 32nd. MichaelKang, who previously directed Sundance selection The Motel, will direct from a script he co-wrote with Edmund Lee. TeddyZee (Hitch, Saving Face) will produce. JohnCho, who has appeared in American Pie and Harold &Kumar Go To White ...
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Gaumont to start Bensalah's Big City
French major Gaumont has announced the start of shooting on Djamel Bensalah's Big City,a western starring a cast of children ages 8 to 14.Principal photography willcommence on Aug 14 in Alberta, Canada before movingto Bulgaria. Adult co-stars in the film,which is set in the American west of the 1880s where ...
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Peep Show team to shoot feature Magicians
The team behind the UK TV hit Peep Show is gearing up to shoot its first feature, Magicians, which will start principalphotography in the UK on Aug 20. The comedy is about a double act of magicians whofall out and become rivals years later. It will shoot on location ...
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FilmFour backs Irish comedy Garage
FilmFour is on board for Irish film-makers LennyAbrahamson and Mark O'Halloran's follow-up to theiraward-winning comedy Adam & Paul.O'Halloran wrote and Abrahmsonwill direct Garage, about asmall-town misfit. The new film will star Pat Shorttand Anne Marie Duff. The project willshoot for six weeks starting Aug 14 in Ireland. The filmmakerswill again ...
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Swiss grants go to projects from Indonesia and Malaysia
Two projects from Indonesia and one from Malaysia were selected from the 11 South-East Asian filmprojects presented at this year's Open Doors in Locarno to receive development and production grantssponsored by the Swiss Foreign Ministry's Agency for Development andCooperation (DEZA).The decision on the winnersof two grants of $40,874 (CHF 50,000) ...
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Walden, Fox give birth to family film label
Walden Media has set up a joint venture with Fox FilmedEntertainment (FFE) to release family pictures that encompasses all of Walden'sfuture slate and current and new work from Fox.A dedicated marketing, publicity and promotions team at the as-yet-unnamedcompany will work on the titles, which initially include Mr Magorium'sWonder Emporium, TheDark ...
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UK's Uli Meyer starts production on $30m MonsterMania!
London-based Uli Meyer Animation has started production on MonsterMania!, a $30m computer-animatedfeature. MichaelMarshall Smith and Stephen Jones wrote the script for the monster comedy/adventure,which is based on an idea by Uli Meyer, Jones andSmith. MonsterMania! has beenin active development for three years. Uli Meyer Animation will co-produce withIndia's Ittina Animation ...
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Parker's I Really Hate My Job starts London shoot
DirectorOliver Parker has started shooting comedy I Really Hate My Job in London. Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson,Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin and Oana Pellea star. Thefilm is shooting on location and at Three Mills Studios. Producers are 3DDProductions' Andrew Higgie and Dominic Saville with Matthew Justice and AlanGreenspan. The ...
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Mike Eschmann stars shooting $4.9m Tell
Swissdirector Mike Eschmann, whose last comedy Achtung, Fertig, Charlie! is the most successfullocal film of the past 25 years, begins shooting his next feature Tell, a parody of the Swissnational hero Wilhelm Tell, in the Bernese Alps from today (Aug 7).The$4.9m (Euros 3.8m) Swiss-German co-production between Lucerne-based ZodiacPictures, Impuls Home ...
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Alliance Atlantis shores up MDP with Sherry promotion
Alliance Atlantis' distribution arm Motion PictureDistribution (MPD) has promoted Jim Sherry to the position of executivemanaging director; Sherry was previously president of Canadian theatricaldistribution. The appointment comes in the wake of the sudden departure ofMPD chairman Victor Loewy and president and CEO Patrice Theroux in July. MPD CEO John Bailey ...
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Billionaire Gou plans new Chinese studio
Taiwan-based billionaire Terry Gou isinvesting $200m to build a film studio in northwest China. Gou announced theproject on a visit to his ancestral hometown of Jinchengin Shanxi province, near to where the new studio isplanned in Zhezhou county. Upto 40% of the investment is expected to come from local government ...
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New Hong Kong producer Artforce starts Protege
Through newHong Kong-based production company ArtforceInternational, two top Hong Kong film-makers are teaming together for the first time on Protege, a drugtrafficking drama produced by Peter Chan and directed by Derek Yee.A new jointventure between Yee, Chan and his business partner Andre Morgan, Artforce is co-producing the $4.6m (HK$36m) film ...
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Walters, Serkis and Mackintosh on board for Sugarhouse Lane
NewUK-based digital film production and distribution company Slingshot will beginshooting its debut feature Sugarhouse Lane on Aug 21.DirectorGary Love makes his feature film debut, with a script by Dominic Leyton basedon his stage play Collision. MichaelRiley is producing.Sugarhouse Lane will star StevenMackintosh as a middle-class boy who becomes involved ...
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Schloendorff plans Kazakhstan shoot for Ulzhan
Germandirector Volker Schloendorff will be reunited withactor David Bennent, the child star of his 1979Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) as Oskar Matzerath, for his next feature Ulzhan which begins shooting in Kazakhstan from September.TheFrench-Kazakh co-production between Regis Ghezelbash'sFly Times Pictures and the Kazakh Film Studio is based on ...