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Nolte, Mechlowicz head Peaceful Warrior cast
NickNolte has been cast in the key role of Socrates in Peaceful Warrior, a movie based on Dan Millman's bestsellingself-help novel Way Of The Peaceful Warrior which went into production this week.Hejoins Scott Mechlowicz, Amy Smart and Agnes Bruckner in the cast. Victor Salva(Jeepers Creepers and JeepersCreepers 2) is directing ...
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Hit Danish director readies supernatural Island
Nikolaj Arcel, the Danish director of local smash King'sGame, is to shoot action adventure The Island Of Lost Souls thisJune. Produced through Zentropa and Nimbus Film, Island Of LostSouls is a supernatural family film in the vein of Steven Spielberg'searlier work. Unusually for a Danish film, nearly 20% of its ...
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Cannes to showcase Mexican cinema
Cannes is to throw a spotlight on the Mexican film industryat this year's film festival (May 11-22).The Cannes Classics section will be dedicated to Mexicothis year, showcasing a number of classic Mexican pictures whose restorationhas been funded by Fundacion Televisa, the cultural arm of Latin American mediagiant Televisa Group.Backed the ...
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Rea joins Portman, Purefoy on Berlin shoot of V For Vendetta
Stephen Rea has joinedNatalie Portman and James Purefoy in the cast of sci-fi epic V For Vendetta, which has started shooting in Berlin for WarnerBros Pictures.The film is produced byLarry and Andy Wachowski and Joel Silver, the team behind the Matrix trilogy, and is the directorial debut of JamesMcTeigue, assistant ...
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Applause chief to direct $10m musical in Shanghai
Peter Ho-sun Chan's $10mmusical Perhaps Love startsshooting in Shanghai next month with a hot pan-Asian cast and backing frombroadcasters TVB and Astro. A co-production between Chan'sApplause Pictures and the Ruddy Morgan Organisation (RMO), the film is directedby Chan and stars Takeshi Kaneshiro (House Of Flying Daggers) and leading Chinese actress ...
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Hart/Lunsford finishes debut feature with Langhella
Newly formed production company Hart/Lunsford Pictures hasannounced completion of its debut feature, How You Look To Me, starring Frank Langhella and LauraAllen.The Kentucky-based storycentres on the efforts of an English professor who helps three young men asthey approach adulthood. Television director J Miller Tobin made his featuredirectorial debut based on ...
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VIP media fund backs Kapur's Water
Shekhar Kapur has tied up with Europe's VIP Media Fund, toco-produce and distribute his films. The first two films announced as part of this collaborationare: Paani (Water) being produced and directed by Kapur and renownedauthor Deepak Chopra under the banner of their company INTENT, and Buddhabeing produced by Kapur and ...
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Twisted, Lions Gate follow Saw with Catacombs
Following onfrom the hugely successful 2004 horror hit Saw, Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Filmsannounced yesterday (Mar 1) that the first project in their nine-picture dealwill be called Catacombs.Principal photography is set to start in Bucharest,Romania, on Mar 7 on the project, which stars Shannyn Sossamon and Alecia Moore- aka ...
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Gordon leaves Stratus to focus on sole producing career
Mark Gordon is leavingStratus Film, the company he and Bob Yari co-founded in 2003, to focusexclusively on his producing career. Under the terms of theamicable split, Gordon and Yari will remain jointly involved in existingStratus projects that are in various stages of development and pre-production. These include The PaintedVeil starring ...
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Spanish producers spread their film budget bets
A contradictory trend is at work in Spain: the country ismaking increasingly more low-budget films, yet production cranks up this monthon two of its costliest features ever, Viggo Mortensen-starrer Alatristeand Vicente Aranda's The White Knight.Average feature film budgets decreased in Spain last yearand almost two-thirds of films were budgeted at ...
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Ledoyen, Livingston head up cast of Holly shooting in Cambodia
Guy Moshe's adventure drama Holly has begun production in Cambodia,starring Virginie Ledoyen, Udo Kier, Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Thai starKovitt Wattanakul and Vietnamese newcomer Thuy Nguyen.The story centres on a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl's desperatesearch for her family and the 35-year-old American man who helps her in herquest.Moshe co-wrote thescreenplay with ...
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UK plans multiple co-production treaties
The UK is to strike co-production treaties with SouthAfrica, China, India, Jamaica and Morocco, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowellannounced on Monday.The treaties will be developed with each country overthe next 18 months. Jowell recently signed a statement of intent with the SouthAfrican Minister for Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan."More than 27 ...
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Italy's Buskin opens co-production outfit in China
BuskinFilm, the Rome-based sales outfit, has opened an office in Beijing with the aimof co-producing projects and getting involved in product placement andservicing for international productions shooting in China. Buskinis already co-producing a project for China's CCTV with Beijing Xin Ying ShiCulture. The 20-part drama is the third instalment of ...
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Gaumont profits jump three-fold
Aftera few lackluster years, fortunes at French major Gaumont are on the rise.Announcing2004 figures on Monday, the company reported revenues of Euros 88.6m ($115m), a26% increase over 2003, and profits of Euros 9.7m up from Euros 2.8m theprevious year.Ina press release, the world's oldest film studio noted that the jump ...
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Atlantic Streamline sets start date for horror movie Butterfly
The psychological horror story Butterfly, A Grimm Love Story starring Keri Russell and ThomasKretschmann is set to begin filming in Germany in March.Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline is financing and producing theproject, about a research student who descends into depravity in order tounderstand the mind of a cannibal killer.TS Faull wrote ...
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Atlantic Alliance forced to put Holocaust drama on hold after Rywin imprisonment
Production on Atlantic Alliance Pictures' Holocaust drama LoveIs A Survivor was put onhold yesterday (28) after producers said there were insufficient funds tocomplete the project.Atlantic Alliance president Harris Salomon said he and Britishassociates had secured 75% of the Euros 7m budget, but added that the balanceremained "elusive".Salomon said the New ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - March 2
PRE PRODUCTION ALATRISTE(Estudios Picasso, Origen PC, Universal Studios) Budget: Euros 20m. Intl sales:TF1 International. The tales of a 17th century adventurer and his sidekick.Dir/scr: Agustin Diaz Yanes, based on the novel by Arturo Perez Reverte. Maincast: Viggo Mortensen, Eduardo Noriega, Javier Camara, Elena Anaya and AriadnaGil Shooting from March 7 ...
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New cast join Stranger Than Fiction
TomHulce, Linda Hunt and Tony Hale have joined the cast of Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction, which is set to begin filming in April.Aspreviously announced, Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and EmmaThompson and Queen Latifah already star in the story of an IRS auditor namedHarold Crick who inexplicably finds himself ...
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Gitai's Free Zone proves hot seller for Bac
Coming out of theEuropean Film Market, Bac International has announced fresh territorial saleson Amos Gitai's Free Zone, starring Oscar-nominee Natalie Portman.Free Zone was sold to Australia's Palace Films,Canada's Les Films Seville, Switzerland's Filmcoopi, Italy's Istituto Luce,Brazil's Imovision and Belgium's Cineart. The film,currently shooting in Israel and Jordan, caused an outcry ...
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Dutch wage two-pronged assault on Norwegian war satire
Dutch producer 24fpsis working on a film version of Krig, the satirical Norwegian novel about a war betweenthe Netherlands and Norway that erupts after an incident during the Europeanskating championship.Producer AntonScholten is at the moment negotiating the project with some unnamed Norwegianproducers. Krig's estimated budget is Euros 3m. No director ...