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UK industry spells out challenges at Film Council forum
Changes in tax financing andcashflowing pre-production topped the list of key issues facing the productionsector at support body the UK Film Council's first industry forum.Council chairman StewartTill, chief executive John Woodward and vice chair Andrew Eaton alsohighlighted deferred fees, producers' equity, or lack of it, and accessto capital as central ...
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Montecito Pictures set to roll with Trailer Park Boys
Ivan Reitman's Montecito Pictures isset to commence principal photography this summer on Trailer Park Boys- The Movie, a feature adaptation of theCanadian cult television series about the antics of three 'hosers'- Ricky, Julian and Bubbles - in a Maritime backwater. The production will team series director,head writer and creator Mike ...
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D'Amico, Damon team up on birth of Israel saga
Beyond Friendship,which focuses on the Arab-Jewish conflict surrounding the birth of Israelimmediately after World War Two, is to be jointly handled for worldwide salesby Myriad Pictures' Kirk D'Amico and Foresight Unlimited's Mark Damon. Their respective Santa Monica and Los-Angeles-basedfinancing and production companies will bring the title to the Cannes marketand ...
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D'Amico, Damon team up on birth of Israel saga
Beyond Friendship,which focuses on the Arab-Jewish conflict surrounding the birth of Israelimmediately after World War Two, is to be jointly handled for worldwide salesby Myriad Pictures' Kirk D'Amico and Foresight Unlimited's Mark Damon Their respective Santa Monica and Los-Angeles-basedfinancing and production companies will bring the title to the Cannes marketand ...
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Soderbergh bursts theatrical Bubble with 2929
Todd Wagner and Mark Cubanhave taken a step closer to their cross-platform day-and-date releasing visionas it emerged that the 2929 Entertainment founders have signed a mould-breaking six-picturedeal with the ever-adventurous Steven Soderbergh.Soderbergh will directthese low-budget high definition video features for 2929's HDNet Films bannerin a deal finalised at the Tribeca ...
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Clive Owen, Cuaron team up for Children Of Men
Clive Owen will star in Universal Pictures and StrikeEntertainment's Children Of Men, which is being directed by Alfonso Cuaron and is based on PDJames' sci-fi novel of the same name.Cuaron, Tim Sexton and David Arata co-wrote the screenplay set inthe near-future where mankind has virtually lost the ability to procreate.After ...
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Platinum Studios plots second Dylan Dog spinoff
LA-basedPlatinum Studios is preparing a second feature film spinoff from Italian comicbook series Dylan Dogcalled Dead Of Night and it has hired Joshua Oppenheimer and Tom Donnelly to write the film.RelativityManagement is co-financing and arranging the international financing componentsfor the film which is being planned as a $35m production and ...
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Silent Hill embarks on Canada shoot
Shooting started this week on Silent Hill,the Samuel Hadida-produced adaptation of the hit horror video game.SeanBean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates and Jodelle Ferland, the young star of Terry Gilliam's Tideland, havejoined Radha Mitchell in the cast of the Canada-France co-production.Principalphotography started on Monday in Canada, with Christophe ...
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Canada's Equinoxe begins production on Rwandan genocide pic
Montreal-based EquinoxeProductions begins principal photography May 27 on A Sunday In Kigali, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of theRwandan genocide. Directed by Robert Favreau and produced by Lyse Lafontaineand Michael Mosca, the $5.6m (C$7m) film shoots in Kigali and in surroundinglocations for 37 days. Equinoxe Films will handle ...
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Kids TV classic Land Of The Lost gets Will Ferrell treatment
Will Ferrell is attached to star for Universal in comedyadaptation of the hit 1970s sci-fi television series Land Of The Lost to be directed by Adam McKay.Chris Henchy and DennisMcNicholas have signed on to adapt the screenplay, based on the 1973-77 NBCseries about a forest ranger and his children who ...
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China claims world's third largest film industry
China hasbecome the third largest film producer in the world following the United Statesand India, one of China's top film industry officials claimed onSaturday. China shot a record number 212 films in 2004, and cinemasnationwide reported a total box office income of $180m (Y1.5bn) said ZhangPimin, vice director of the ...
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Connelly to join Winslet in Little Children
Jennifer Connelly is in final negotiations to star opposite KateWinslet in the New Line Cinema drama Little Children, which Todd Field will direct. The story centres on a dull suburban world where parentsgroom their children for Ivy League colleges and alleviate their boredomthrough affairs and internet porn.Things take a turn ...
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Bigas Luna looks to build Juani franchise
Media Films, the fledgling production division of Spanishdistributor Manga Films, is developing a franchise around popular directorBigas Luna's latest feature, I Am Juani.The initial feature (Yo Soy La Juani), a 50/50 co-production with Luna's own El VirgiliFilms budgeted at between Euros 4-4.5m, will shoot in late 2005 and is likelyto ...
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Disney looking to renew Pixar relationship
The chairmanof the Walt Disney Studios, Dick Cook, has said that Disney wants to renew thestudio's deal with animation powerhouse Pixar.Just over a year after thetwo film studios announced an end to their partnership, which has produced sixconsecutive global blockbusters and box office receipts of $2.7 billion (£1.4billion), a new ...
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Swiss launch film fund to support world cinema
Films from Asia, Africa,Latin America and Eastern Europe are set to receive support for theirproduction and international promotion through the creation of the newSwiss-based Visions Sud Est (VSE) fund.The fund, which hasstart-up capital of $424,000 (CHF 500,000), has been set up by Nyon's"Visions du Reel" International Documentary Festival, FribourgInternational Film ...
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Donald De Line headed to Warner Bros
Donald De Line, the formerParamount president whose position was recently filled by outgoing FoxEntertainment chief Gail Berman, is rumoured to be signing a production dealwith Warner Bros.De Line resurfaces following weeks of speculation over his next move afterParamount chairman Brad Grey selected Berman to be his number two at therapidly ...
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Branagh cranks up As You Like It
Principalphotography begins today on the feature film adaptation of WilliamShakespeare's As You Like It, directed by Kenneth Branagh.As You Like It, which isBranagh's fifth Shakespearean screen adaptation, features a cast that includesKevin Kline, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrian Lester, David Oyelowo, Alfred Molina,Janet McTeer and Romola Garai. With a setting inspired ...
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Mandate boards Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Los Angeles-based productionand distribution outfit Mandate Pictures has greenlit Mr Magorium's WonderEmporium, its second project bywriter Zach Helm following Stranger Than Fiction, with Natalie Portman in talks to star.Mandate will fully finance and handle worldwide sales on the picture, whichmarks Helm's directorial debut and centres on a magical toy shop, ...
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Imagine, Universal to produce Will Arnett comedy
Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled comedy pitch fromChuck Martin that his Arrested Development collaborator Brian Grazer will producethrough Imagine Entertainment.The picture will star Will Arnett, who will be seen in New Line'supcoming comedy Monster-In-Law and appears in Arrested Development. Imagine is one of the producers on theFox Network show ...
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Khoo's Be With Me to open Directors' Fortnight
Be With Me, directed by Singapore's Eric Khoo (12 Storeys),has been selected as the opening film for directors' fortnight at Cannes. The film weaves together threeinter-connected stories and is inspired by the life of Singapore's Theresa Chan- a blind and deaf woman.'It's almost a silent filmwith only five minutes of ...