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NY tax credit lures Producers to Brooklyn mega-studio
Mel Brooks' $45-$50m musicalrevival of his 1968 classic The Producers will become the first major film production to shoot at New York'sgigantic new Steiner Studios, the purpose-built studio backlot about to openacross 15 acres of former shipbuilding yards on the Brooklyn waterfront.Steiner owes its success inenticing the movie version of ...
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Top UK theatre director signs for feature debut
Leading UK theatre directorLaurence Boswell, best known for the starry production of This Is Our Youth, has signed up for his feature debut, tentativelytitled D.The Gruber Films productionis a modern re-telling of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac, set in a south London comprehensive school. Thescreenplay by Royal Court playwright Amit ...
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Bid by Goal! producer for Liverpool FC is 'no stunt'
Reports that film producer Mike Jefferies is bidding to takecontrol of Liverpool Football Club for £100m ($100m) are serious and nota stunt to promote his football trilogy Goal!, say sources close to Jefferies.Jefferies, chairman of Milkshake Films, has teamed up withformer Miramax executive Stuart Ford and has reportedly already held ...
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German funder dishes out Euros 4.2m to co-productions
A film about aclassical music love triangle and a feature about World War 1 nurses are among13 international co-productions awarded over Euros 4.2m in support byDuesseldorf-based Filmstiftung NRW in its latest round of funding.The largest amount - Euros 1m - went to HelmaSanders-Brahms' costume drama Clara about the love triangle ...
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IPW picks up film rights to Groo The Wanderer
Marc Toberoff's IntellectualProperties Worldwide (IPW) has picked up the motion picture rights to GrooThe Wanderer, the long-running comicbook that has been described as Conan The Barbarian meets Shrek.Created by Sergio Aragoneswith writer Mark Evanier, Groowas first published in 1983 and has spawned more than 170 instalments. Thetitular hero fuses an ...
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DeA Planeta likes look of Mirror Maze
Spanish-Italianmedia conglomerate DeA Planeta has boarded new Rioja Films thriller MirrorMaze as co-producer and local distributor.Rioja chief Jose Antonio Romero and the film's director,Guillermo Groizard, unveiled the project at the San Sebastian InternationalFilm Festival (Sept 17-25).It is oneof five feature co-productions brought to DeA Planeta by new executivepresident Alvaro Zapata ...
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Crooner Connick Jr takes lead in Oz Boomerang
US crooner Harry Connick Jr has signed to play a disgracedcorporate cowboy who pays a street kid to help him commit suicide in BoomerangDeal, to be directed by Phillip Marzella from his own script.It will be Australian director Marzella's follow-up to Low-FatElephants, which he wrote, directed and produced in 2000 ...
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Bana teams with Hanson for Warner Bros
Eric Bana, Australian starof Hulk and Troy, has landed the lead role in Curtis Hanson's nextmovie for Warner Bros Lucky You.Bana, who is also scheduled to star in Steven Spielberg's Vengeance next year, will play Huck Cheever, the leadcharacter in the character-based drama set in the world of high-stakesprofessional poker.Eric ...
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Bernal to star in Gondry's The Science Of Sleep
HotMexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is to star in the next film by EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry.The Science Of Sleep will also star French actress Charlotte Gainsbourgand French actor-director Alain Chabat.Productionoutfit Partizan and French major Gaumont will co-produce The Science OfSleep.Thescript was written by Gondry and ...
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Mobius Pictures to sell Styler trio
Mobius Pictures, the sales operation of Elie Samaha'sformer partner, David Bergstein, has partnered with Trudie Styler'sUK-based production company Xingu Films for three pictures.Mobius is bankrolling A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, theadaptation of model-singer Dito Montiel's autobiography starring Robert DowneyJr. Montiel, who will direct from his own script, is to ...
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German remake for hit Dutch football feature
SuccessfulDutch football feature In Orange (In Oranje) is to be remade for Germanaudiences.Germanproduction house Gemini Film struck a deal this week with In Orange producers Motel Films and Fu Worksto retell the story in German with a working-title In Die Mannschaft.Accordingto Fu Works other countries - including Spain, England and ...
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Chomet readies Tati screenplay for Scottish shoot
Oscar-nominated Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets OfBelleville) is to direct an animatedversion of a screenplay by legendary French comedian Jacques Tati.Called The Illusionist,it will be produced in Edinburgh - where Chomet recently set up shop -by Mark Cousinsof 4Ways Films. Sally Chomet will co-produce through Studio Django.Other partners include Les Films ...
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UK government clamps down on producer fees
The UK government has movedto clamp down on excessive producer fees on British films.Under revamped co-productionguidelines published this month, the Department for Culture, Media & Sporthas targeted producer fees over 10% of production expenditure.Although producer fees over10% are not necessarily barred, the DCMS will automatically ask for additionalproof that they ...
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4Way lines up Western Story
4Way Pictures, the UK-based company co-run by Antonia Bird,Mark Cousins, Robert Carlyle and Irvine Welsh, has announced details of ahandful of new projects.The company has now boarded A Western Story, an epicUS coming-of-age love story scripted by Naomi Wallace (Lawn Dogs). Birdwill direct the film, which will be a UK/US ...
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Honeymooners launch for Film Dublin
The IrishFilm Board has backed the launch of a location shooting initiative, FilmDublin, modelled on the Office of Film in the New York Mayor's Office.The movecomes just as production begins in Dublin on The Honeymooners, a $30mNew York-set comedy for Paramount. The Honeymooners has already testedthe initiative by closing key ...
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UK Production Listings - 16 September 2004
UK LISTINGSPRE-PRODUCTIONBITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact: Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 20 7494 1400DOA (DEAD OR ALIVE)(Impact Pictures) Budget: $20m. Backers: Constantin Film(Ger). Action/adventure. Based on Tecmo's best-selling video game franchise.Exec prod: Robert Kulzer. Prods: Jeremy Bolt, Paul WS Anderson. Dir: CoreyYuen. Scr: JF Lawton.Contact: Impact Pictures, (44) 20 7419 ...
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Pinewood confirmed for Malick's New World
In recent years, severalbig-name US auteurs have beaten a path to Britain. Robert Altman shot Gosford Park in the Home Counties. WoodyAllen has recently completed a film in London. Now, Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, Badlands, Days Of Heaven)is UK-bound.A spokesperson forPinewood Studios has confirmed that Malick has booked ...
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Moore's Sicko gathers buyer heat
An outline of Michael Moore's next documentary has been sentout to international distributors by Moore's agency Endeavor - and isgenerating heat amongst major buyers at the Toronto Film Festival.Entitled Sicko, it is his much-discussed study of thehealthcare system in the United States and Moore recently explained his agenda in making ...
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Imax in Deep partnership with Warners
Imax and Warner Bros are jointly producing Denizens Of The Deep (working title), to be directed and filmed by Howard Hall.A follow-up to 1991's Into The Deep, Imax's first 3D underwater film, the new film will provide a giant-sized view of exotic undersea creatures.Produced by Toni Myers, executive produced by ...
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Rousselet cranks up French crime caper
ProducerPhilippe Rousselet has begun production on his latest film, Les Parrains,in Paris. The film is directed by Frederic Forestier, who is best known for hiswork on hit film Dead Weight (Le Boulet)The Euros 12m comedy stars Jacques Villeret, Gerard Lanvinand Gerard Darmon as a trio of former mafioisi who come ...