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Finland's Salmenpera starts Man's Job shoot
Finnishdirector Aleksi Salmenpera has started shooting his second feature Man's Job (Miehen tyo).Salmenpera also wrote Man'sJob, the story of an unemployed man who becomes a gigolo to support hisfamily. The cast features Tommi Korpela, JaniVolanen and Maria Heiskanen. Petri Jokiranta and TeroKaukomaa are producing forBlind Spot Pictures. They expect delivery ...
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Annaud feature in talks for Iberian shoot
Spanish studio Ciudad De LaLuz is in advance negotiations to bring Jean-Jacques Annaud'slatest feature to its sound stages. Minor,which is billed as a mythological and pagan comedy set in an era before Homer,is scheduled to shoot around the end of the year.The French film-maker's newproject - produced with Xavier Castano ...
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Kingsley to headline Dahl mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mob comedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolar Productions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to start before the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley, ...
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Kingsley to play assassin in mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mobcomedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolarProductions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to beginbefore the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley plays an alcoholic ...
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Shanghai teams with Warner China Film on Phone Call
Shanghai Film Group isjoining forces with Warner China Film HG Group to produce contemporary drama The 601st Phone Call.Director Feng Xiaogangserves as the producer of the film while TV actor Zhang Guoli takes thedirector's seat. Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung and Zhou Bichang, winner of China's top-rated SuperGirl TV contest, ...
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Stephen Fry teams with Dev Benegal for Ramanujan
British actor, filmmakerand novelist Stephen Fry is to join forces with leading Indian auteur Dev Benegal in making Ramanujan, a biopic about the "genius" Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The film isgearing up just as the UK-India co-production treaty is on the verge of beingsigned.The idea is that Fry willdirect the ...
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Bosnia plans more support for regional films
Bosnia and Herzegovina'snational Fund for Cinematography has reserved $242,250 (Euros 200,000) of its $908,437(Euros 750,000) annual budget to support regional co-productions.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at this week's goEastFestival, Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra described thisdecision by the Bosnian Minister of Culture and Sport Gavrilo Grahovac as"a first step towards a ...
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David Dobkin to direct RIPD for Universal
DavidDobkin will direct Universal's long-in-the-works comic book adaptation RIPD based on the Dark Horse comic book Rest In Peace Department.PhilHay and Matt Manfredi will adapt the screenplay about a murdered police officerwho is recruited to a supernatural agency charged with removing troublesomespirits from Earth.NealH Moritz and Mike Richardson will produce, ...
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Working Title, Tiger Aspect plan May 15 start for Bean II
Working Title Films, in association with Tiger Aspect, will startprincipal photography for Bean II onMay 15.Rowan Atkinson will star in the sequel, which is directed by Steve Bendelack from a screenplay by Robin Driscoll and Hamish McColl based on a story by Simon McBurney.TV veteran Bendelack made his feature film ...
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Casino Royale to wrap in Czech Republic in late May
Director Martin Campbell is scheduled toconclude principal photography on Casino Royalein the Czech Republic at the end of May. The final shots will take place in Czech spa town Karlovy Vary, which will double as Montenegro. Bond franchise holders EON Productions are workingwith MGM and Columbia Pictures on the ...
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Kwak to adapt controversial Japanese novel
Korean director KT Kwak,whose credits include Typhoon, Korea's most expensive film to date, is set to direct a film based on famousJapanese novelist Murakami Ryu's Hanto ODeyo (Get Out Of The Peninsula). The controversial noveldepicts a North Korean commando unit taking over the island of Fukuoka in 2010 when Japan ...
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James McAvoy on board for Joe Wright's Atonement
James McAvoy has joined the cast of Working Title Films' production of Atonement, starring alongside Keira Knightley. Knightley will be reuniting with director Joe Wright, who previously cast her in his debut film Pride & Prejudice. Atonement, based on the Ian McEwan novel, is about a man who falls in ...
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Romantic comedy All Bar Love to start London shoot
Romantic comedy All Bar Love will start shooting in London on April 3. Te Papa Films, founded by Aubs Tredget, is producing.James Derbyshire, who hasworked in fringe theatre, is directing from a script written by Julia Boggio with Kristen McGorry andDavid Hofmyer.The film follows Martin, afriendly man who is inept ...
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Constantin receives $4.2m from German Federal Film Board
Constantin Film has been named the most successful Germanproducer and distributor of 2005 after picking up a total of $4.2m (Euros 3.5m)retroactive "reference funding" from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) to invest in new filmprojects and distribution campaigns.Thiswas the second year running that Constantin hadreceived this double honour at ...
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Chris Graham's horror film The Ferryman goes into production
Horror film, The Ferryman, a United Kingdom/New Zealand co-production to star the Emmy-nominated John Rhys Davies and Silver Bear winner Kerry Fox, goes into production March 31.The film shoots in Auckland and Waiheke Island and follows a group of twenty-something-year-olds as they charter a boat into the South Pacific, intending ...
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Pike, Dillane cast in Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces
UKactors Rosamund Pike and Stephen Dillane will take key roles in Canadianfilmmaker Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, the long-gestating project to be produced by Robert Lantos'Serendipity Point Films with Athens-based Cinegram SA. Croatianstalwart Rade Serbedzija is also cast in a lead role.Basedon the Orange Prize-winning 1997 novel by Anne Michaels, the ...
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Beijing Rosat lines up three-picture slate
Beijing-based Rosat Film andTV Productions is lining up a slate of three films including period martialarts drama Green Dragon Scimitarwhich is scheduled to start shooting in September. Budgeted at $12.5m, the filmis about the life of Guan Yu, a general in China's Three Kingdoms period. Rosat founder Li Shaohong is ...
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Korea's Nabi Pictures moves into Chinese production
Korea's Nabi Pictures is establishing a branch in China, Beijing Nabi Pictures, to produce aChinese-language film. Speaking to reporters at China's Hengdian World Studios, Nabi Pictures co-CEOs JoMin-hwan and Kim Sung-soo claim this marks the first time that a Korean filmcompany has set up a local corporation in China to ...
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First Danish-Austrian co-productions unveiled
ZentropaEntertainments and DOR-Film are to be partners on the first ever Danish-Austrianco-production with Jacob Thuesen's Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years. Thisalso marks the first collaboration between national public funds the DanishFilm Institute (DFI) and the Austrian Film Institute who are backing theproject that previously had Lone Scherfig attached asdirector. ...
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Uruguayan project wins $300,000 award at Guadalajara
Uruguayan film Eighteen Cigarettes and a Half (18 cigarillos y medio)was the first winner of the Tornasol award at the Guadalajara FIlm Festival.The prize guarantees co-production services worth $301,449 (Euros 250,000).Twenty projects participated for the top prize in thesecond Iberoamerican Co-production Meeting which came to a close today. Thewinning project ...