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JAPAN Production Listings - September 28
Japan - September 28Pre-ProductionIT'S ONLY TALK(Studio Three) Budget: US$1m. Backers:CinaQuanon, Happinet Pictures, Eisei Gekijo. Int'l sales:Gold View. Dist (Jap):CineQuanon.Drama. A heartwarming drama about a woman in her mid-thirties who experiencesthe loss of her parents and her boyfriend, though continues living positively. Prod:Akira Morishige. Dir:Ryuichi Hiroki. Scr:Haruhiko Arai. DoP:Kazuhiro Suzuki.Main cast: ...
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LaMarre's urban western Click starts shooting for Sony
Production began in LosAngeles this week on Jean Claude LaMarre's urban western Click, starring the rappers Wyclef and Kurupt and DavidCarradine.Set at the end of the CivilWar, Click follows the turbulent journey of a group of outlaws who bandtogether to rob the town bank, despite the best efforts of a ...
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Six-way co-production for Austrian Headsman
As so often in the Austrianfilm scene, the idea for the medieval adventure story Henker(provisionally known in English as The Headsman) was born in a Viennacoffee house when screenwriter Susanne Freund pitched the story idea toproducer Helmut Grasser of Allegro Film 4-5 years ago.Once a treatment had beenprepared, they started ...
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German funder calls for change in French co-prod rules
At a time when co-productionregulations across Europe are coming under close scrutiny, it was suggestedthis weekend that France should loosen its requirements on shooting in theFrench language,The proposal, made only daysafter Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement was disbarred fromqualifying for French subsidies and French prizes, was made at the ...
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Germany, Austria, Switz Prod Lists - Dec 1
NOVEMBER 2004AUSTRIAPREPRODUCTIONLAPISLAZULI(Dor Film) Backer: OFI. Children's film. Dir: Wolfgang Murnberger.Contact: Dor Film, (43) 1 427 10 11.VON PARIS NACH DAKAR(Nikolaus Geyrhalter Film) Backer: OFI. Documentary . Prod/dir:Nikolaus Geyrhalter.Contact: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, (43) 1 891 3700IN PRODUCTIONDIE LETZTEN ZOEGLINGE(DOR Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien, ORF, Cine Tirol. Documentary aboutreminiscences by former pupils ...
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Filmax wraps up Shroud rights
Spanish mini-studio Filmax has acquired the rights toSpanish novel The Brotherhood Of The Holy Shroud as part of a new push to adapt local best-sellers as English-languagefeature films for the international market.According to Filmax chief Julio Fernandez, the project willbe developed next year to follow in the vein of its ...
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Beautiful Boxer director readies martial arts epic
Thai director Ekachai Uekrongtham, whose debut Beautiful Boxer won the Grand Prix 2004Award at the Brussels International Film Festival, is readying two new projects for Thai studio GMM Grammy.First up is Swords andSpirits, a martial arts adventure set in both Thailand and Japan in thelate 16th century as well as ...
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Cannes winning director celebrates End Of World
Germany's Reverse Angle is to co-produce young Romanian filmmakerCatalin Mitulescu's The Way I Spent The End Of The World which waspitched at last year's Mannheim Meetings.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com after being awarded the title of'Master of Cinema' on Wednesday evening, Wim Wenders confirmed thathis company will be a partner with Bucharest-based ...
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French court breaks off Engagement
A Paris court yesterdayruled that the company 2003 Productions falls outside regulations that wouldhave qualified it as French. The decision means that the Jean-PierreJeunet-directed film A Very LongEngagement(Un Long Dimanche De Fiancailles) no longer qualifies underFrench nationality rules.The ruling came after nearlya year of wrangling and a courtroom challenge by ...
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Korean Brother raises $1.8m from online investors
Within a space of 25 hours, South Korean production houseMKB has raised the entire budget of its upcoming $1.8m project Hello AndGoodbye, Little Brother from online investors.A total of 430 participants purchased one or more $910 (WON1m) shares in the film, which tells the story of a young boy whose ...
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Treasury accuses UK film-makers of abusing aid
The Inland Revenue has accused the British film industry ofabusing government aid, with every production of recent years deliberatelyover-claiming tax relief - according to a report in today's FinancialTimes.Revenue officials called in about 20 members of the filmindustry and warned them of severe consequences if the'exploitation' of tax-relief schemes did ...
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Korean talent looks to international break-out
2005 may end up being a breakout year forseveral Korean directors who are well-known at home, but yet to fully establishthemselves abroad. Festivals in anadventurous mood, not to mention foreign distributors, should have much tochoose from in the coming year.One of the biggest buzz projects to emergein recent months is ...
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VideoVision snaps up Karoo Boy rights
Leading South African production house Videovision Entertainment hasacquired film rights to Karoo Boy, a 1970s set novel written by TroyBlacklaws.The story of a young man's search for identity after the accidentaldeath of his twin brother is also a means of explaining the conflicts of theera and sexual awakenness in a ...
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Wright's Macbeth to be set in Melbourne's underbelly
A retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the present-day violent underbelly of Melbourne,took a step closer to getting a green light with Romper Stomper director Geoffrey Wright at the helm.M, as it istitled, was the only feature to get production funding as part of a $787,000(A$1m) package of support handed ...
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Fire destroys Japanese sound stage
A fire has destroyed a sound stage at Kadokawa-Daieistudio in Chofu, a western Tokyo suburb. The blaze, which broke out in thestructure in the early morning hours of November 21, did not result in anyinjuries. The cause has not yet been determined and total damages have not yetbeen assessed.The 1,067 ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Lists - November 24
SOUTH KOREA - November 24PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BEAST(Popcorn Film) Int'l sales/dist: Showbox. Noirish dramaabout a detective, prosecutor and gangster, all equally vicious. Dir: KimSung-soo. Main cast: Kwon Sang-woo, Yu Dong-geun.Contact: Showbox, (82) 2 3218 5626BLOOD SISTERS(Angel Underground) Int'l sales: Cineclick Asia. Horroromnibus in three segments by Korean women directors. Prod: Jenna Ku. ...
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Times Of India Group moves into film production
India's largest media company, The Times of India Group,has moved into film production, backing English language feature Being Cyrus.Directed and co-written by Homi Adajania, the film isbilled as a cross between a psychological drama and a comedy in which a dopesmoking retired sculptor, who lives in a secluded Indian hill ...
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Zentropa, Filmanova strike two picture deal
Spain's Filmanova and Denmark's Zentropa Productions havesigned a two-picture co-production agreement starting with Filmanova co-founderAnton Reixa's Tivoli Hotel.The second film of the accord has not yet been agreed.The deal marks Zentropa's first such move with a Spanish company. It brings 10% of the film's estimated Euros 2.6m budget.A romantic comedy ...
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Relativity teams with Asgaard on The First Vampire
Relativity Management hasteamed up with Jason Todd Ipson's Asgaard Entertainment to produce Ipson'sdirectorial debut The First Vampire.Asgaard associates JulioBove and Cari-Esta Albert will produce the project with Relativity's RyanKavanaugh serving as executive producer.The film is currently beingcast by Kate Dowd in London and the film is scheduled to begin filming ...
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Real-life stories all the rage in Spain
While Hollywood has foundinspiration in recent years culling its own archives for remake possibilities,Spanish cinema has been doing another kind of navel-gazing: bringing real-lifestories to the silver screen. There are currently a slew of reality-based filmsin the works in Spain and all the major production houses have at least onesuch ...