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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, ...
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Focus acquires Alzheimer Case remake rights
Belgium's foreign-languageOscar contender The Alzheimer Case (De Zak Alzheimer) has beenbought for English-language remake by Focus Features of the US.The Flemish-language thriller,directed and co-written by Erik Van Looy, sees an assassin with a failingmemory become caught in a web of government intrigue. It was produced by HildeDe Laere and Erwin ...
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BBC should invest more in UK films, say MPs
The BBC should invest more inBritish film production and in showcasing UK films on its television channels,says an influential report drafted by Members of Parliament.The House of Commons CultureCommittee investigation into the BBC is published today as part of the processleading up to the corporation's Charter renewal at the end ...
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Chris Cooper joins powerhouse cast of Universal's Jarhead
Chris Cooper hasjoined the cast of Universal's dark coming-of-age story Jarhead, which began shooting earlier this monthand is being directed by Sam Mendes.Based on Marine AnthonySwofford's memoirs of the first Gulf War, Jarhead follows a group of fightersas they sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy in acountry they ...
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Vajna, Eszterhas team for Olympic bloodbath
Prolific producerAndy Vajna and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas are developing an as-yet untitleddrama about the historic encounter between the Hungarian and Soviet water poloteams at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.The olympicsemifinal is considered to have been one of the bloodiest ever sport eventswhere the players' blood coloured the water red. The Hungarian ...
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Three Dots unveils horror Heirloom
Three Dots Entertainment,the Taiwanese production company behind hit gay comedy Formula 17, hasunveiled a slate of three new productions for 2005.The up-and-coming companyhas secured private equity investment of around US$1m for the three-pictureslate.First off is horror film TheHeirloom to be directed by 23-year-old Leste Chen whose last film, Uninhibited,screened in ...
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Head-On star boards Holocaust Train drama
Head-On star Sibel Kekilli is to play the female lead of ayoung Jewish woman in veteran producer Artur "Atze" Brauner'sHolocaust drama The Last Train (Der Letzte Zug) about Jews being sent tothe concentration camp in Auschwitz in early 1943.The film will be directed by actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. Speakingto ScreenDaily.com, 86-year-old ...
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Australia's FFC bankrolls Elephant, Power
Elephant Tales, a French/Australian co-productionwritten and directed by Mario Andreacchio, and the psychological thriller PowerSurge, the first feature from high-profile commercials director DavidDenneen, will go into production after receiving backing from Australia's Film Finance Corporation (FFC).The FFC has also announced it is willing to invest in fourother features providing certain ...
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French parliament improves film tax credit scheme
The French parliament has amended the country's taxcredit scheme for cinema, boosting the maximum credit available to Euros 1m perfilm.The tax credit system was put into place in January thisyear and allows productions and co-productions, which qualify as French underFrench film board (CNC) guidelines, to write off between 10% and ...
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Major budget hike for Irish Film Board
Arts, Sport and Tourism Minister John O'Donoghue hasannounced an 18% increase to Euros 14m in the Irish Film Board's budget for2005.The move, funded out of a budget reallocation withinminister's departments, means that the Board's resources for production,development, and training will rise from Euros 10m to Euros 12m.O'Donoghue said, "The very ...