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French production levels dip in 2004
French filmproduction levels dropped slightly in 2004 according to new figures from localindustry body the CNC.Last year, 203films were produced or co-produced of which 167 were co-productions of Frenchinitiative.This represents a4% drop from 2003 when 212 films were produced or co-produced with 183co-productions instigated by the French.However, 2004 was still ...
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Recycle marks new direction for Universe, Matching
The Pang brothers latesthorror film Recycle, now shooting in Thailand, marks the beginning of along-term co-operation between Hong Hong's Universe International Holdings andThailand's Matching Motion Pictures.The $5m picture reunitesDanny and Oxide Pang with Lee Sin-je, star of their international breakout hit TheEye. Lee plays a writer who discovers that events ...
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Fellowes to adapt best-selling novel Snobs
Oscar-winning British writerJulian Fellowes (Gosford Park) is to adapt his best-selling novel Snobsfor UK television - having been commissioned by the BBC's Gareth Neame.The novel, published lastyear, is a comedy about a middle-class woman on the make, trying to gatecrashinto high society circles. It is likely to be made into ...
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Stillking awarded Euros 100,000 development grant
Prague based productionservice company Stillking Films has received a Euros 100,000 Media Plus grant,which it will use to develop five projects over the next three years.The first of these is titledRevolutions Per Minute. Set in the Czech Republic, the film tells thestory of a manufacturer of vinyl LPs, whose business ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - January 17
JAPAN - January 17 PRE-PRODUCTION TOUCH (Toho)Dist (Jap): Toho. Based on a hit comic book, a feel-good love story of highschool students. Prod: Hideyuki Honma. Dir: Isshin Inudo. Main cast: MasamiNagasawa . Shooting starts in Japan in late March 2005.Contact: Toho, (81) 33213 6821 YAMATO (OTOKOTACHI NO YAMATO)(Toei)Dist (Jap): Toei. ...
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UK's Celador Films commissions stress management comedy
The UK's Celador Films'Christian Colson and Ivana MacKinnon have commissioned first-timewriter-director Ben Gregor's script, Principles Of Calmness. The deal, brokered byGregor's agent Jago Irwin at PFD, sees Gregor currently workshopping the firstdraft of his script before it goes to second draft and then into production.Principles Of Calmness is a comedy ...
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Random Harvest teams with Hammer, Winston on horror deal
In a move underliningthe growing market for quality, low-budget horror, British production andfinancing outfit Random Harvest is starting a new Enterprise InvestmentScheme (EIS) Company, Harvest PicturesIII, with Hammer Films and LA-based Stan Winston Productions.Harvest Pictures IIIwill back new horror films from Hammer, Stan Winston and Four Horsemen Films(Random Harvest's genre ...
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Korea's Kim Ki-duk shoots The Bow
South Korean director KimKi-duk has opened shooting on his 12th feature film, a low-budget production tobe titled The Bow.Following a highlysuccessful 2004 in which he won Best Director awards at Berlin and Venice for SamaritanGirl and 3-Iron respectively, Kim began shooting his latest workwith little fanfare on a remote island ...
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Fiennes to star in Coetzee adaptation Disgrace
Australian productioncompany Wild Strawberries has secured Ralph Fiennes to play the lead in itsfeature adaptation of 1999 Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace, writtenby J M Coetzee. The politically chargedstory will be filmed in South Africa, where it is set. Fiennes will play atwice-divorced academic in Cape Town who retreats to ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 signs Spyglass output deal
Germany's ProSiebenSat.1Group has signed a license agreement with US production outfit SpyglassEntertainment covering all German-language free-TV rights for titles going intoproduction from this year onwards. The agreement will includethe much-anticipated adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling novel MemoirsOf A Geisha which is being co-produced by Spyglass with Columbia Picturesand DreamWorks. Commenting ...
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Italy pins hopes on local directors for 2005
While the run-up to Christmas has once again been boosted by the releaseof blockbuster Italian comedies, only a handful of homegrown films have managedto gross more than Euros 1m - which is considered the benchmark for a strongrun at the box office - since September. Nevertheless, the local industry isconfident ...
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ITALY Production Listings - January 9 2005
ITALIAN LISTINGS -January 9 2005 PRE-PRODUCTION ADIUS, LA FESTA E'FINITA(Verdecchi Film) Backer: Fondo di Garanzia. Word gets out in high-flying Romansociety that a well-known Italian singer-songwriter is to make his comeback -despite the fact that his death was officially announced in 1980. Prod:Alessandro Verdecchi. Dir: Ezio Alovisi. Scr: Ezio Alovisi.Contact: ...
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HanWay takes on Kidulthood sales
UK-based sales agency HanWayFilms has acquired international distribution rights to Kidulthood, aLondon teenage gang story that marks the debut of a promisingwriter-director-producer trio.The film, which combines alove story, rites of passage and a tale of retribution, wrapped this week underthe direction of Menhaj Huda, a former commercials and TV director.Produced ...
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Ontario boosts production tax credits
Ontario-based producers andservice providers received an early Christmas gift as the province increasedthe labour-based production tax credits for foreign and domestic productions.Effective Jan 1 2005, the Ontario Production Services Tax Credit for foreignproductions will increase from 11% to 18% and the Ontario Film and TelevisionTax Credit for domestic productions will ...
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Cultural minorities split the Nordic markets
While minorities have longbeen a part of the daily lives in the Nordic region, they have had a hard timemaking an impression on the big screen.It is hardly surprising thatSweden has been the most open to filmmakers with foreign background, but nowNorway is catching up leaving Denmark as the most ...
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Ocelot readies Kirikou animation sequel
Spain's Intuition Films andnewly-created S2 International are set to co-produce director Michel Ocelot'sfollow-up to animated hit Kirikou And The Sorcerer, Azur And Asmar.The Euros 10mFrench-language animated film will also involve talents such as 3D director MacGuff, animation director Kyle Badla, art director Daniel Cacoault and composerYoussou N'Dour.Production will get underwayin ...
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Hong Kong sets up task force as production levels fall
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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HONG KONG Production listings - December 17
HONG KONG - December 16PRE-PRODUCTIONINVINCIBLEARMOUR(I-AnimationLtd) Co-prods: Yuk Long Multimedia, Mandarin Films. Budget: US$2.3m. Backers:Yuk Long Multimedia, Mandarin Films, I-Animation. Int'l sales: Mandarin FilmsDistribution. Genre: Animation. Synopsis: Animated feature film (2D and 3D)based on the action-packed comic book "Magic Weapons". Exec prods: Tony Wong,Raymond Wong, Man Kung. Prod: Tony Wong. Dir: ...
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NORDIC REGION Production listings - December 17
DENMARK - December 17IN PRE-PRODUCTIONDE 3 DUSKETERER(Wise Guy Productions Inc) Co-prod:SCanbox Entertainment. Budget: DKK 7.5m. Dist: SCanbox Entertaiment (Den).Youth comedy. Exec prods: Jorgen Kristiansen, Mads Peter Ole Olsen. Prod(s):Thomas Stegler, Marcella Lindstad. Dir: Martin Schmidt. Scr: Dennis Jurgensen.Shooting from May 15 until July 7, 2005.Contact: Marcella Lindstad, Wise Guy Productions, ...