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Franka Potente readies directorial debut
Run Lola Run starFranka Potente, who is a member of the International Jury at this year'sBerlinale, is to make her directorial debut this spring with a 25-30-minuteshort film.Producer Stefan Arndt of X-Filme creative pool told ScreenDaily.com that Wer Die Tollkirsche Ausgraebt will be 'a really classical silent film likefrom the ...
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Narnia embarks on Czech shoot
Production on TheChronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe has moved to theCzech Republic and will shoot for two weeks beginning on February 7. Director Andrew Adamson (Shrek,Shrek 2) began principal photography in New Zealand in June. The film is shooting in anorthernpart of the country known ...
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Fox, UTV partner on Nair's Namesake
Indian production anddistribution outfit UTV has partnered with Fox Searchlight on Mira Nair'sThe Namesake. The film is based on the 2001Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Namesakeby Jhumpa Lahiri and the script is written by Sooni Taraporewala.The novel tells the story of a Calcutta family who leaveIndia to come to Cambridge, ...
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MediaCorp Raintree embarks on Leap Of Love
MediaCorpRaintree Pictures started production this week on its long-gestating Leap Of Love, a romantic comedy that CEODaniel Yun has been developing for years with the aim of raising the profile ofSingapore film on the international stage. TheEnglish-language picture - which has a high $1.5m (S$2.5m) budget by localstandards - is ...
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Bond producers confirm Campbell as Casino Royale director
Martin Campbell has been named as the director of the 21stfilm in the James Bond series - which will be called Casino Royale. It is Campbell's second outing as director of a James Bondfilm. In 1995 he directed Goldeneye, thefirst 007 film to star Pierce Brosnan.However,no decision has yet been ...
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Hong Kong pay-TV leader moves into film production
Hong Kong's leading pay-TV operator, i-CABLECommunications, has unveiled plans to move into film production by investing upto $38.5m (HK$300m) in 10-20 features over the next two years. The company is in talks with several Hong Kong productionhouses about providing funding for a slate of productions to be selected on aproject-by-project ...
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Roissy Films to broker L'Entente Cordiale
Paris based sales outfitRoissy Films has acquired rights to comedy L'Entente Cordiale as itheads into the European Film Market.The film is a $20m productionfrom Les Films Christian Fechner with a heavyweight cast that includes DanielAuteuil, Christian Clavier, Jennifer Sanders, Francois Morel and FrancoisLevanthal.Vincent De Brus will direct L'EntenteCordiale for a ...
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Bac takes on sales for Gitai's Free Zone
Frenchdistributor Bac Films has acquired the latest work from Israeli director AmosGitai, Free Zone, which stars Oscar nominee Natalie Portman.BacInternational, the company's newly-launched sales arm will handle world saleson the film.Currentlyshooting in Israel and Jordan, Free Zone also stars Hanna Lazlo, HiamAbbas and Carmen Maura. Aco-production from France, Israel, Spain ...
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Runaway business helps Australian production
Becker Film Internationalhas taken world sales rights on Feed, a psychological thriller thatBrett Leonard is now shooting in Australia.Runaway US films play a keyrole supporting service companies and building skills in host countries but Feedis a rare example of how runaway production has directly helped a localfeature. Producer Melissa Beaufordmet ...
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Focus to launch Jet Li actioner at Berlin
Focus Features has acquiredinternational sales rights excluding Asia to Jet Li's upcoming martial artsproject and will launch it to buyers at Berlin.The latest producing venturefrom veteran producer Bill Kong, the as yet untitled film will be directed byRonny Yu and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon choreographer Yuen Wo Ping will orchestrate ...
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Doom wraps production in Prague
Video game adaptation Doomwrapped principal photography at Prague's Barrandov Studio on 28 January and isconcluding work with a reduced unit this week, unit publicist Geoff Freemantold Screendaily.com. "Filming went very well and I hope we do justiceto the video game," he said. The film is tied in with therelease of ...
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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 ...