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Janek takes over as director of Citizen Havel
Czech documentary film-maker Miroslav Janek has agreed to take over as director of Citizen Havel,a documentary about former Czech president Vaclav Havel,following the tragic death of the project's original director, Pavel Koutecky. Janek has directed numerous Czech documentaries,including Kha-chee-pae,which screened in documentary competition at Karlovy Vary, and served as editor ...
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Internet doc Loose Change eyes theatrical run
US film-makers Dylan Avery and Korey Roweof Louder Than Words have released a new version of their film Loose Change, a documentary that alleges the US government lied about the events of 9/11, as Loose Change 2 following a surge of interest in the project afteran article in the August ...
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Manual Of Love sequel starts shooting in Barcelona
Manual OfLove: The Stories, a sequel to the hit Aurelio De Laurentiis-producedcomedy, has started shooting in Barcelona with Monica Bellucci and Carlo Verdone.Directedby Giovanni Veronesi, the film also stars Riccardo Scamarcio, Barbora Bobulova, Sergio Rubini, and comedians Antonio Albanese, Fabio Volo and Claudio Bisio.Likethe original film, also directed by Veronesi, ...
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Anand Tucker set to shoot new project for Number 9 and FilmFour
Number 9 Films and FilmFour have planned an autumn shoot for Anand Tucker's And When Did You LastSee Your Father' Tucker's schedule is free this autumn as he's no longer atthe helm of New Line's The GoldenCompass. Starter For Ten author David Nicholls adapted the Father screenplay from Blake Morrison'sbestseller. ...
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Catalunya establishes new $7.6m co-production fund
Spain's regional government of Catalunya has approved a new $7.6m (Euros 6m) filmco-production fund, Mesfilms Inversions.The CatalanInstitute of Finances (ICF), the Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries(ICIC) and regional public broadcaster TVC each bring $1.3m (Euros 1m) to thefund initially, with an agreement to bring an additional $1.3m (Euros 1m) eachby ...
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Goldblum signs on to Schrader holocaust project
Jeff Goldblum hassigned on to star in Beverly Hills-based Bleiberg Entertainment's holocaustdrama Adam Resurrected, followingmonths of courtship and negotiation.Bleiberg Entertainment chief Ehud Bleiberg is preparing a spring 2007 start onthe project, which is being directed by Paul Schrader and will be shot inGermany, Romania and Israel.Bleiberg Entertainment is co-financing with ...
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Pakistani feature starts historic shoot in India
Pakistani director JavaidFazil has started shooting his latest film, IShall Return (Ek Din Lot Kar Aain Ga),in Mumbai, marking the first time that a Pakistani film has ever lensed in India. Fazil, who started shootinglast week, had earlier gone to Mumbai with composer Javaad Ahmad to recordsongs with the voices ...
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Japan's Avex Entertainment plans anniversary film
Japan's Avex Entertainment hasannounced plans to produce a commemorative feature film for release in April2008, in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding ofthe Avex music and media group.Starting from this monthuntil October, the company will solicit story ideas from the public. The range ofpossible ideas is fully ...
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Applegate joins Farce Of The Penguins voice cast
Christina Applegate islending her sultry tones to the voice cast of THINKFilm's documentary spoof FarceOf The Penguins.Applegate will voice the part of Melissa, whom director Bob Saget describes asa "grounded and sexually compatible" partner to his character, Carl.Samuel L Jackson narrates the story and Lewis Black, Mo'Nique and Tracy Morganround ...
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New York bulks up 5% city tax credit for film, TV
New York City's Mayor Bloomberghas signed into law a bill that expands the city's 5% tax credit on below-the-line expenses for qualified film and television productions.The New York State 2007 executive budget allocates $30m in annual funding for the tax credit scheme through 2011, complementing a $60m state allocation for ...
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New York extends tax credits until 2011
New York's Mayor Bloombergyesterday [11] signed into law a bill that expands the city's 5% tax credit onbelow-the-line expenses for qualified film and television productions.The New York State 2007 executive budget allocates $30m in annual funding forthe tax credit scheme through 2011, complementing a $60m state allocation for a10% tax ...
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Corbijn starts UK shoot for Ian Curtis biopic
Anton Corbijnstarted filming today for Control, hisbiopic of late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. Thisshoot starts before a rival Curtis project, Jamie Thraves'All The Time,goes into production with US-based Washington Square Films. The Control film-makers have set up a studio and production base in Nottingham, with additional shooting on location ...
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Zentropa plans seven low-budget genre features
Danish production company Zentropa has created a new low-budget genre scheme called Perestrojka. The project will support seven genre films for a total of $12.8m (Euros 10m), or about $1.8m each. Zentropa introduced the idea in Cannes and has fully financed the first film under the scheme, Anders Morgenthalers' Ekko. ...
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CJ's Gwangju Massacre pic starts production
Production started July 7 onKim Ji-hoon's $10m drama, Hwaryuh-hanHyuga (lit trans: Splendid Holiday),about South Korea'sGwangju Massacre.Old-school production houseKeyweckshidae, which previously worked with director Kim on Mokpo Gangster's Paradise, is producing.CJ Entertainment is co-financing and plans to release the film in March. Set against the real eventsof the military government's ...
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Six South African writers win development competition
The UK Film Council'sDevelopment Fund and South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation's "25Words Or Less" competition has named its first six recipients of funding.The four South Africanprojects will each receive $18,504 (£10,000) in funding to develop a first draftof their project. Each will be helped by a script editor ...
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Films Sans Frontieres to remake The Blue Angel
Films Sans Frontieres has acquired thecinematographic estate of Robert Liebmann, whichincluding remake rights of The Blue Angeldirected by Josef von Sternberg.Films Sans Frontieres said it is currently amodern update of The Blue Angel. Theoriginal 1931 Weimar cinema classic starredMarlene Dietrich asa nightclub singer who tempts a repressed professor. Screenwriter Liebmann ...
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Eli Roth plans Czech shoot for Hostel 2
Eli Roth will begin production on Hostel 2 in September in Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Karlovy Vary andother locations around the Czech Republic.The director told reporters at theKarlovy Vary International Film Festival the film financing was a negative pick-upby Columbia Screen Gems and Lionsgate. Lionsgate will distribute the film with Sony ...
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Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m
The board of Eurimages has decided to support 12 features in its latest funding round, marking a total amount of $5.4m (Euros 4.2m). The coproductions supported are:35 Rhums, dir. Claire Denis (France, Germany, Belgium) Capri 1934, dir. Benoit Jacquot (France, Germany) Elsa, dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland) Fur einen Augenblick, ...
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Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m
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Four Oz features to receive FFC funding
An adaptation of the SouthAfrican novel Disgrace, to star JohnMalkovich, and Mary & Max, ananimated feature by the team who made Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet, have been given the thumbs up by Film FinanceCorporation Australia (FFC).Both have the backing of localdistributor Dendy Films while sales agent Fortissimo Films has also ...