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Wilson, Margulies, Trachtenberg go to Beautiful Ohio
Rita Wilson,Julianna Margulies and Michelle Trachtenberg have joined the cast of accomplicefilms' Beautiful Ohio,the directorial debut of company partner Chad Lowe that began filming in NewYork this week. The story, whichas previously announced stars William Hurt, is based on Ethan Canin'sadaptation of his short story Batorsag & Szerelem and chronicles ...
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Yoji Yamada to complete samurai trilogy
Shochiku has announced that Yoji Yamada will complete the trilogy of samurai dramas he beganwith The Twilight Samurai - nominated for best foreign-language film atthe Oscars in 2004 - and The Hidden Blade.Tentatively titled BushiNo Ichibun (A Warrior's Duty), the final instalment in the trilogyis based on a story by ...
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Jackson and Walsh add sparkle to Halo
Peter Jackson and Fran Walshhave signed on as executive producers on the upcoming adaptation of the smashhit video game Halo.The pair will offer creative advice through theirWingNut Films, and Jackson's Weta Digital and Weta Workshop will provide visualeffects, creatures and miniatures for the production.The Universal Pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment and ...
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Mullins, Frain, Burton join cast of Quid Pro Quo
Aimee Mullins, James Frainand Kate Burton have joined the cast of HDNet Films' Quid Pro Quo, partof a slate of seven new titles the company announced in Toronto.Based on the novel by CarlosBrooks, Quid Pro Quo stars Nick Stahl as a wheelchair-bound public radiojournalist who meets a driven, able-bodied woman ...
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Brazilian outfits forge Euro co-production on samba doc
ThreeBrazilian production outfits - Total Filmes, Buriti Filmes and Boca a Boca -have sealed a co-production deal with Gloria Films of France and Fado Filmes ofPortugal to produce music documentary Os Guardioes Do Samba (Guardians OfSamba). Thedeal was signed during the Rio Film Festival which ends on Friday with a ...
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Zellweger to play Beatrix Potter for Phoenix, Kirschner
Renee Zellweger has signedon to star as Beatrix Potter in the biopic Miss Potter, which Babe director Chris Noonan will direct forDavid Kirschner Productions and Phoenix Pictures.Thefilm, which at one point in its evolution had Cate Blanchett attached to starin the title role, is scheduled to begin shooting on March ...
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Dragon Tiger Gate starts production at Hengdian
Hong Kong director Wilson Yip Wai-shunhas started shooting $10m kung-fu action movie, Dragon Tiger Gate, at China's Hengdian World Studios with acombination of talents from China and Hong Kong.Donnie Yen, whose credits include Seven Swords and Hero,heads the cast along with Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue and Chinese actress Dong Jie.Yen ...
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Xingu wraps Guide starring Downey Jr
Rosario Dawson,Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri and Eric Roberts joined Robert Downey Jr in thecast of A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, which has completed principal photography for TrudieStyler's Xingu Films. Orlando (Dito)Montiel's directorial debut is a product of the Sundance Institute's Directorsand Screenwriters Labs and centres on Montiel's youth growing ...
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Arclight picks up Aussie war story
Arclight Films has boarded anuntitled war story about Australian soldiers in Papua New Guinea during World War II, which gives former Film FinanceCorporation Australia (FFC) head Catriona Hughes her first credit as producer.The film, which startsshooting on September 30, also marks the feature debut of director AlisterGrierson, whose short film ...
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Krrish rolls in Singapore under incentive scheme
Production has started in Singapore on Indian director Rakesh Roshan's Krrish,which is the first film to take advantage of the $6m (S$10m) 'Film InSingapore' incentive scheme.Set up by the SingaporeTourism Board (STB), the scheme aims to encourage foreign productions to chooseSingapore as a shooting location. Up to 50% of productionexpenses ...
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Cast lines up for Lion's Gate werewolf movie Skinwalkers
Jason Behr,Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Natassia Malthe and Lyriq Bent have been cast inLions Gate's upcoming werewolf picture Skinwalkers, which is set to begin shooting inSeptember in Canada.Lions Gate isproducing with Germany's Constantin Film, which is financing the project with DonCarmody and Dennis Beradi of Red Moon Films and effects ...
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Wrenn lights up Firesign but keeps Celluloid gig
Michael Wrenn, who heads Celluloid Dreams' Pacific office, has launcheda production outfit, Firesign, and won New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)development money for the feature Electric.Wrenn is working with debut director Brendan Donovan and writer ChadTaylor, who is adapting the script from his own novel. The story, set in thechaos of ...
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Van Gogh gets US remakes treatment
Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucciand Bob Balaban have signed on to remake three features by the late Dutchfilmmaker Theo van Gogh, who is honoured in Toronto with a selection of screenings and a paneldiscussion.An early 2006 start-date isexpected on the projects, which will shoot back-to-back on digital video in New York ...
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Cronenberg Maps future with Wagner, Fields
David Cronenberg is plottinga film of Bruce Wagner's original screenplay Maps To TheStars, to be produced by Robert Lantos and his Serendipity Point Films.But whether he will get to Mapsas his next film is uncertain, since there has been movement on hislong-gestating film of Martin Amis' London Fields. Cronenberg told ...
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Arclight grabs Bana-starrer Romulus
Arclight Films has picked upinternational rights to the Romulus, My Father,an adaptation of Raimond Gaita's award-winning memoir that will star Eric Bana.Australian theatre directorand actor Richard Roxburgh will direct the story of a young family's bid tostart a new life in a hostile country. The story focuses on the relationshipbetween ...
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HDNet lines up Hartley, Soderbergh
HDNet Films, the 2929Entertainment digital production arm headed up by Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente,has greenlit seven low-budget projects to add to its already packed slate.With three pictures playingat Toronto led by Bubble, the first of six Steven Soderberghprojects announced earlier this year, HDNet is wasting little time ramping upbarely ...
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Arclight picks up Hindi Carmen
Arclight Films todayannounced that it has picked up world sales rights to Chamki, ShyamBenegal's Hindi film adaptation of Carmen."We have been activelylooking at projects out of India and believe that this film has the potential ofbeing a truly global film," said Gary Hamilton, managing director of Arclight."Shyam Benegal is a ...
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Schrader commits to Adam Resurrected
Paul Schrader has signed onto direct the Holocaust epic Adam Resurrected for Ehud Bleiberg'sfledgling Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment.Bleiberg will commencecasting immediately and is eyeing a summer 2006 start date in Germany, Romania and Israel.Noah Stollman adapted thescreenplay from Yoram Kaniuk's novel about a former circus entertainer andHolocaust survivor who inhabits ...
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Canada's Frieberg gets ready to Throw
Canadian producer CameliaFrieberg is set to become a triple threat, co-writing and directing her firstfeature film, A Stone's Throw. Production of the $1m filmwill be through her Halifax-based Palpable Pictures. Garfield Lindsay Miller, aVictoria-based writer and producer of documentaries, collaborated on thescreenplay. The film will shoot on location in February ...
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...as Kaye's Paranoia relocates from Brazil
Tony Kaye's upcomingthriller Paranoia is relocating from Brazil to Louisiana, producer Michel Shane told delegates at a Louisiana production brunch yesterday (Sep 12).Shane said production on the$20m project will begin in early 2006 at unspecified state-wide locations.Currently out to casting, Paranoiacharts the experience of a compulsive obsessive woman who loses ...