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IRELAND Production Listings - October 15
IRELAND October 13PRE-PRODUCTIONDEAD LONG ENOUGH(Grand Pictures) Budget: £1m.Backers: Irish Film Board, NIFTC, Arts Council of Wales, Section 481, S&L.Romantic comedy based on the novel by James Hawes. Prods: Michael Garland, PaulDonovan. Dir: Tommy Collins. Cast: Angeline Ball. Shooting in Donegal, NorthernIreland and Wales from late November 2004 - January 2005.Contact: ...
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New Line, Internationalmedia to tap new German equity
New productions by New Line and Internationalmedia are setto benefit from financing provided by two German private media funds.Having previously worked with Paramount Pictures on Mission: Impossible 2, Shaft and Rules Of Engagement, German fund specialist Alcas has launched theMACRON Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. Projekt 1 KG fund to raise ...
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Oscar-hopeful Burman prepares Family Rights comedy
Daniel Burman, whose film El Abrazo Partido (The Lost Embrace) is currently Argentina'scandidate for the foreign languageOscar, is now preparing a comedy entitled FamilyRights.Set in the world of lawyers, the Euros 3m comedy will focuson the relationship between a father and son. The film will once again teamtogether El Abrazo ...
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Cassandra joins burgeoning FAME slate
Saul Metzstein (Late Night Shopping) is to direct Cassandra At The Wedding for Film andMusic Entertainment (FAME), the prolific UK-based production outfit run by SamTaylor and Mike Downey. Written by Peter MIlligan, Cassandra is a comedy about two identical female twins whosepersonalities are very different.This will be Metzstein'ssecond film with ...
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Mrs Henderson Presents begins London shoot
Christopher Guest has joinedJudi Dench, Bob Hoskins and Pop Idol winner Will Young in the cast of StephenFrears' Mrs Henderson Presents.The Heyman-Hoskinsproduction has just started shooting in London for Pathe Pictures and BBCFilms. Set in pre-World War II London, the true-life story tells how Soho'sWindmill Theatre takes advantage of a ...
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Raintree rolls with Maid horror
Singapore's MediaCorpRaintree Pictures has started the camera rolling for The Maid, a horror flick co-produced by Hong Kong's Dream MovieEntertainment and MovPix International of the Philippines.The $830,000 (S$1.4m) filmis horror story viewed through the eyes of a Filipino domestic maid employed bya family in Singapore. Up-and-coming Filipino actress Alessandra de ...
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Verhoeven, Tanovic win Eurimages funding
New feature projects by Danis Tanovic, Paul Verhoeven andPierre Paul Renders are among 13 European co-productions backed with over Euros4.4m by the Strasbourg-based co-production fund Eurimages in its latest roundof funding.The largest amounts went to Tanovic's Hell (Euros 600,000),which was written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz for the late Krzysztof Kieslowski aspart ...
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Aranda gathers high profile cast for White Knight
Spanish director Vicente Aranda has united a high-profilecast for his new Euros 13.6m English-language medieval romantic adventure TheWhite Knight, headlining veteran Victoria Abril with rising stars Paz Vegaand Pilar Lopez de Ayala.Argentina's Leonardo Sbaraglia and Briton Caspar Zafer roundout the cast, expected to be finalized with a couple of high-profile ...
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Oscar winning short film director to shoot Ambulance
Oscarwinning short film director Laurits Munch-Petersen is ready to shoot hisfeature debut, Ambulance, after winning $900,000 (DKK5.5m)backing from the Danish Film Institute.Thethriller shoots from late October based on a script by the Danish writer-directorand Lars Andreas Petersen. It stars Thomas Bo Larsen (Festen), PawHenriksen (Brothers) and Helle Fagralid (Kings' Game).Itsees ...
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Multicultural Import-Export takes off in Norway
More than a year after receiving $1m (NOK7.3m) in productionsupport from the Norwegian Film Fund, Pakistani-Norwegian filmmaker KhalidHussain has finally got his new film Import-Export off the ground with $330,000 from Eurimages.It is the first film to be set in the Pakistani community inOslo, and shoots from Oct 11 with ...
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Phillippe linked to Korea-set thriller Expats
American actor Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions) is in active discussions to take the lead role in the first ever NorthAmerican production to shoot entirely in Korea.Unveiled on Saturday at the Pusan International FilmFestival, Expats tells the story of ayoung American who comes to Korea on an English teaching contract, looking ...
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Lack of leading lady puts Eucalyptus, Crowe on hold
The producers behind Jocelyn Moorhouse's Eucalyptus, which was to have gone into production this year,are gearing down because they have not been able to find an Australian leadinglady to star alongside Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush.They say Crowe and Fox Searchlight, which is fully financingthe film, remain very supportive of ...
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Focus strikes first-look deal with UK's Priority Pictures
Focus Features has struck atwo-year first-look deal with Marion Pilowsky and Colin Leventhal's UKproduction company Priority Pictures.The deal also calls forLeventhal, who continues to act as a consultant for tax financier GrosvenorPark, and Trea Hoving, the former Miramax buyer who is now a Priorityconsultant, to act as advisors on acquisitions ...
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Joseph joins Udwin's Revolution
Francesca Joseph (TomorrowLa Scala) has been confirmed as director of Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution,the latest feature from East Is East producer Leslee Udwin.Scripted by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor, the film is a bittersweetcomedy based on the true story of an ardent Marxist from the north of Englandwho takes his family ...
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Watson, Hurt attracted by The Proposition
Emily Watson, John Hurt, Ray Winstone, David Wenham andDanny Huston star in the big-budget UK/Australian co-production TheProposition, which goes into production inthe tiny outback town of Winton on Monday (October 11) amid temperatures likelyto be well over 30 degrees Celsius.The film reunites director John Hillcoat and music legendand scriptwriter Nick ...
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De La Iglesia wraps The Child's Room
Alex de la Iglesia will wrap shooting next week on the firstin a landmark series of six genre TV movies for Filmax and Telecinco dubbed "Filmsto Keep You Awake."Theseries is the first of its kind in Spain. Filmax is presenting thetitles to buyers this week at Mipcom. Other directors involved ...
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Korea's 'star directors' aim to shoot to thrill
Korea's cinematic boom, that started in the late 1990s, hascreated a diverse group of star directors who, thanks to their reputation atthe box-office and at international festivals, now wield an enviable degree ofcreative control compared to their younger colleagues. The latter half of this year will see alarge number of ...
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League Of Gentlemen starts Dublin, London shoot
Principal photography has begun on the feature film The League of Gentlemen - Royston Vasey (working title).Directed by Steve Bendelack, The League of Gentlemen - Royston Vasey is from the team behind the award winning UK comedy TV series TheLeague of Gentlemen, created by and starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton,Reece ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - October 6
SOUTH KOREA October 6PRE-PRODUCTIONDAENSEO-UI SUNJEONG(Culture Cap Media) Backer/Dist:Show East. A famous overseas Korean dancer is invited to Korea for acompetition, but her sister ends up coming in her place by accident. Exec prod:Kim Dong-joo. Dir: Park Young-hoon. Main cast: Moon Geun-young. Shooting fromlate October.Contact: Show East, (82) 2 3446 9590GEUK-JANG-JEON(Jeonwonsa) ...
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EuropaCorp bankrolls Brazilian drugs thriller
Two Brazilian brothers have secured $1m investment from LucBesson's studio EuropaCorp for the European company's firstco-production in Latin America. The deal was announced at the Rio InternationalFilm Festival.The deal with Erik and Christian de Castro is for adrugs-based thriller called Federal whichwas written by Erik, aged 33, and is being ...