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Green signs on to New Line's Golden Compass
Rising French star Eva Greenhas been cast as Serafina in New Line's adaptation of The Golden Compass, the first instalment of Phillip Pullman's HisDark Materials fantasy trilogy.Green, who plays Bond's love interest Vesper Lynd opposite Daniel Craig in theupcoming Casino Royale, is thelatest addition to the $150m project.Earlier this week ...
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Zane, Sizemore sign up for Archetype mayhem
Billy Zane will starin The Mad and Tom Sizemore hassigned to Bottom Feeder, twoproductions by Peace Arch Entertainment's genre arm Archetype Films.The Mad is scheduled to beginproduction this month in Canada and tells of a doctor and his teenage daughterwho are terrorised by zombies at a truck stop.John Kalangis will ...
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Haynes names final lead in Dylan biopic
Todd Haynes has named thesixth and final actor to play Bob Dylan in his outre ensemble portrait I'm Not There, which begins production tomorrow (July 31) in Montreal.Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett and BenWhishaw had already lined up to play the iconic singer-songwriter in what has been ...
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Jakubisko wraps shoot for $13.5m Bathory
Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko has wrapped principal photography on Bathory, anEnglish-language drama about the 17th-century Hungarian noblewomanand reputed murderess Countess Erzsebet Bathory.The $13.5m project is a Slovak-Czech-UK-Hungarianco-production. Jakubisko Film Slovakiais the delegated producer in partnership with JakubiskoFilm Czech Republic. Film & Music Entertainment and LunarFilms represent the UK side, and ...
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Contest winner cast in Shochiku franchise
In a break from the usualtalent agency system of Japanese movie casting, an unknown 20-year-old actresshas won a role in the 17th installment of Shochiku's long-running Free & Easy comedy series. Kyoto college student Hana Ebise was selected from more than10,000 entrants in Shochiku's nationwide "Star Gate" open audition contest,which ...
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'Everything's being done right this time that wasn't done right back in the 1950s'
Long regarded as afilm-making pioneer, James Cameron is a self-described "evangelist" for digital3D. The director recently talked to Screen International about his vision ofcinema's future. A shorter version of this interview appears in the July 28print edition of Screen International as part of a cover feature on digital 3D.Screen International: ...
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City Of Violence star set to make Comeback
Korea's LJ Film has announced plans for its first English-language actionfilm Comeback to be the directorialdebut of Jung Doo-hong, who also stars in recent The Weinstein Company pick-up The City OfViolence.Jung is well-known as amartial arts expert and action choreographer for box office hits such as KangWoo-suk's Silmido and upcomingswordplay ...
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Pinball Films wraps UK, German shoot for Horner's KAZ
UK-basedPinball Films has wrapped principal photography on KAZ, which marks director Ashley Horner's feature debut. Theproject shot for six weeks in Newcastle upon Tyne and Berlin. KAZ stars Nora Von Waldstatten as a German music journalist who discoversshe's inherited a blood disorder from a rock musician father she never knew. ...
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Ireland's BCI backs Lenny Abrahamson's Garage
Garage, Lenny Abrahamson's second feature following Adam & Paul, has been awarded $833,513 (Euros 660,000) in the second round of funding from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland's (BCI) Sound & Vision fund. Garage is the only feature project to have been backed by the BCI in the second round of ...
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BBC veterans plan feature based on Shoebox Zoo
Drama veteransClaire Mundell and Justin Molotnikovhave set up a new production company, Synchronicity Films, to produce featurefilms and TV drama series. Mundell has worked for BBC television as a producer/director andhead of department. Molotnikov has a total of 11years TV experience, including three years of drama development at the BBC. ...
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Unfinished Sky secures FFC backing
Peter Duncan's romanticthriller Unfinished Sky, about afarmer and an Afghani illegal immigrant who fall in love, is one of threefeatures to receive production finance from Film Finance Corporation Australia this week. Australian actor WilliamMcInnes (Look Both Ways) will playthe farmer and Dutch actress Monic Hendrickx has been cast as the ...
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Hadida signs Bassett to direct Solomon Kane adaptation
As the COMIC-COM comic-book convention gets underway in San Diego,Paris-based producer Samuel Hadida has announced his Davis Films is movingahead on the epic adventure adaptation Solomon Kane.Based on the fantasy bestseller The Savage Tales Of SolomonKane by Robert E Howard,whose creations include Conan The Barbarian and King Kull, the story ...
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Chinese newcomer cast opposite Leung in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution
Tony Leung andChinese newcomer Tang Wei will star in Focus Feature's second world warespionage thriller Lust, Caution,which Ang Lee will begin shooting later this year in China.As previously reported here, Bill Kong will produce with Lee. Focus Featureschief executive officer James Schamus will serve as executive producer. Focusholds worldwide rights ...
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Locarno plans collaboration with Buenos Aires Lab
Next month's Locarno International Film Festival hasforged a new collaboration with the Buenos Aires Lab (BAL), theLatin American co-production market for independent cinema within the frameworkof the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival and TyPA (Teoria y Practica delas Artes), to allow selected filmmakers and producers from Latin America tomeet potential ...
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Canadian production companies see 11% revenue jump
Canada's film and televisionproduction community reported $2.55bn (C$2.9bn) in revenues in 2004, accordingto data released by Statistics Canada. It's an 11% increase since the lastnational snapshot of the sector in 2001. There were fewer companies tosurvey - 688 compared to 728 - but the profit margin for thesurvivors has improved ...
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Stephen Chow plans August start for A Hope
Hong Kong actor anddirector Stephen Chow announced that he will shoot his new film A Hope (working title) in August in China's Southeastern city Ningbo. Budgeted at $20m,the film will be co-financed by Chow's Star Overseas Limited, China Film Groupand Beijing Polybona Film Publishing.Chow will star inthe sci-fi film with ...
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Ang Lee casts Chinese newcomer opposite Leung
Tony Leung andChinese newcomer Tang Wei will star in Focus Feature's second world warespionage thriller Lust, Caution,which Ang Lee will begin shooting later this year in China.As previously reported here, Bill Kong will produce with Lee. Focus Featureschief executive officer James Schamus will serve as executive producer. Focusholds worldwide rights ...
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TWC signs three-year deal with Akeelah's Atchison
The Weinstein Company(TWC) has signed a three-picture, first-look deal with Akeelah And The Bee writer-director Doug Atchison.The first two titles under the deal are the romantic comedy Outspoken and the First World War romance The Last Caravan. Atchison's manager Lou Pitt will produce both projects.TWC co-president of production Michael Cole ...
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Hong Kong action maestros set to draw Triangle
Three of Hong Kong's leadingaction directors - Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To - are gearing up to worktogether on an innovative action thriller with the working title Triangle. Each of the three directorswill be responsible for around 30 minutes footage of the $5m film, withoutforewarning the others what ...
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New Cinema Fund backs Roeg's Puffball
The UK Film Council's NewCinema Fund has given funding to two film-makers at very different stages intheir careers: 78-year-old Don't Look Now veteranNicolas Roeg and first-time feature director PaulAndrew Williams. The fund, which aims tosupport "unique ideas, innovative approaches and new voices," awarded $1.2m (£664,214)of National Lottery funding to Roeg's ...