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Dutch TV company expands into film production
Dutch independent television productioncompany Eyeworks is expanding into film production. The creator of successfulTV formats as The National IQ Test and The 10' is working on twoprojects to be filmed in 2006.Dutch producer Rolf Koot, co-creator of AllStars and executive of its English remake Things To Do Before You're 30,has ...
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Binoche, Whitaker line-up for Ferrara's Mary
Juliette Binoche, ForrestWhitaker, Heather Graham and Matthew Modine are to star in Abel Ferrara's nextfeature, Mary. French sales and distributioncompany Wild Bunch has taken rights to the film - outside North America andItaly - ahead of Berlin's European Film Maket.Mary is a Bible-themed drama about a contemporary trio -an actor, ...
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AUSTRALIA/NZ Production Listings Feb 2
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALANDLISTINGS AUSTRALIA FINANCED THE BETGerrycan Productions. Budget: tba. Backers: Private investors. Urban drama. Ayoung Sydney stockbroker risks it all to win a friendly bet about making money.Prod: Caroline Gerard. Dir: Mark Lee. Scr: Caroline Gordon. DoP: Hugh Miller.Production design: Sam Wilde. Costume design: Lara Blomfield. Hair/make-up:Cameron Jane. Music: John ...
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Task force to investigate production decline
Although hopes were high atthe beginning of the year, the number of films produced in Hong Kong has fallento an all-time low of around 65 this year and many films performed belowexpectations over the summer. As a result, 20 film professionals have set up anemergency task force to find solutions ...
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Wertmuller lines up Loren for tsunami feature
Veteran Italian film director Lina Wertmuller is lining up afilm about the South-East Asia tsunami, which is set to star Sophia Loren.In an interview with Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera, Wertmuller said she plans to shoot the film in thebeach resorts that have been destroyed by the tsunami. The ...
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Italy pledges Euros 74m for local film-making
Silvio Berlusconi'sgovernment has announced that it will hand out around Euros 74m to the localproduction sector in 2005. Local producers now hope that the government promisewill finally put an end to a crippling two-year freeze in state subsidies.Around Euros 54m will beawarded to support feature-length films that are deemed of ...
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Heidi producers option Roman Mysteries
The British productioncompany behind Heidi, the family film remake which Warner Bros isreleasing in July, has optioned The Roman Mysteries, an 18-book seriesset in first century Rome.Martyn Auty and Ian Gordon,partners in Suitable Viewing, have optioned the books with Dashiell Productionsto adapt into a family film. Written by Caroline Lawrence, ...
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Jobson wraps A Woman In Winter
Richard Jobson is finishing theHD feature A Woman In Winter, which shot in Edinburgh and stars Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox, French actress JulieGayet and newcomer Jamie Sives.The story involves a destructive love affair between an astronomer and a mysteriousFrench photographer.Regular Jobson collaborator Chris Atkinsand Hamish McAlpine serve as producers on ...
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Indie Circle takes up Smoking
IndieCircle, the pan-European distribution consortium, has pre-boughtmulti-territory rights to Thank You For Smoking, a black comedysatirising the tobacco industry. Thefilm is sold internationally by US-UK combine ContentFilm International and isa co-production between ContentFilm and Room 9 Entertainment. Directed by JasonReitman, it went into production earlier this week.TheIndie Circle deal means ...
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France's CNC unveils Euros 22m funding for film-makers
France's advance on receipts schemewill benefit from a budget of Euros 22m for 2005, the French Film Commission(CNC) said this week.The advance on receiptsscheme is a subsidy for filmmakers which is paid back following the film'srelease.The CNC said this aid wouldgo to roughly 60 films chosen from about 600 project-stage ...
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Irish film production to benefit from foreign funding
With the exception of filmsfinanced under the Irish Film Board's low budget initiatives - such as TheTrouble With Sex, and the amateur soccer club drama Studs which isscheduled for a Dublin shoot in February - all Irish locally produced filmsrequire foreign co-producing partners and a significant element of foreignfinancing.A cursory ...
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Los Angeles film production leaps 19% in 2004
Film production in LosAngeles boomed in 2004 according to latest figures from LA's EntertainmentIndustry Development Corp.It said one of the keyreasons for the 19% increase in production days for feature films in 2004 wasthat the decline in value of the US dollar has made it more attractive forHollywood films to ...
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Douglas to co-produce Racing The Monsoon in India
Indian film financiersSahara One Motion Pictures and Percept Picture Company have announced that theywill be the primary backers of the Michael Douglas project Racing TheMonsoon - acting as co-producers with Douglas's production company FurtherFilms.The film will be shot in theAmby Valley near Mumbai - a luxury resort created by Sahara ...
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Katja von Garnier to direct Lakeshore's Blood And Chocolate
Germandirector Katja von Garnier has signed on to direct Lakeshore Entertainment's BloodAnd Chocolate, it was announced today byLakeshore's Tom Rosenberg.Produced by Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi with Daniel Bobker, the film isset to start shooting this spring.Set inEastern Europe, Blood And Chocolate is the story of Vivian Gandillion, anineteen year old ...
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Macy, Elliott et al join Thank You For Smoking
William H Macy and Sam Elliott are among sevenactors that have joined the cast of Room 9/ContentFilm's satirical comedy ThankYou For Smoking,which began principal photography in Los Angeles yesterday (24).Adam Brody, Cameron Bright, David Koechner, JK Simmons, and Kim Dickens arealso among the new arrivals on set, joining the previously ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - January 25
PRE-PRODUCTIONAURORA ISLAND(Magma Films [Irl] Art Oko Film [Ger]) Co-prods: Future Film [UK]. Budget:Euro5m. Backers: Buena Vista [Ger]. Dist: Buena Vista (Germany) and Moviehouse(UK). Thriller. Exec prods: Ralph Christians, Stephen Margolis, Michele Berk.Prods: Karel Dirka, Clodagh Freeman. Dir: Peter Medak. Scr: Agatha Dominik,Robert Newton. DoP: Elemer Ragalyi. Prod des: Michael Pickwood. ...
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UK production spend plummets in 2004
Spending by US productionsshooting in the UK plunged by more than 30% last year, according to annualfigures from support body the UK Film Council.The news follows this week'sfigures from Screen International showing that the number of local filmsshooting also slipped by around 40%. Counting all productions,the Council calculated that spending ...
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De Laurentiis, Cinecitta acquire Moroccan studio
Legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis and Rome's CinecittaStudios are teaming up as joint owners of a sprawling new studio facility inOuarzazate, in southern Morocco.Standing over 371 acres of land, the studio will be one of theworld's largest, with two shooting stages of 19,380 square feet each. The DinoDe Laurentiis-Cinecitta ...
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UK film starts fall 40% in 2004
James Bond, Jude Law perioddrama Tulip Fever, and a big-screen adaptation of BridesheadRevisited all failed to get off the ground last year as UK productionlevels crashed.As the industry was hit bytougher tax laws and a scaling back at traditional sources of funding such asFilmFour, the number of indigenous UK films ...
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Crying all the way to the bank
The Japanese appetite forweepies - originating in the early days of Kabuki theatre - remainsundiminished, and local producers are counting on this cinematic staple to paydividends in 2005.What producers have beendiscovering, with the runaway success last year of Isao Yukisaka's romanticdrama Crying Out Love In The Centre Of The World ...