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Gleeson, Rea join Jordan's Breakfast On Pluto
Brendan Gleeson and StephenRea have joined the cast of Neil Jordan's Breakfast On Pluto, which started shooting last week for PathePictures.The two actors join LiamNeeson and star Cillian Murphy in the tale of a young transvestite from ruralIreland on the make in London. Shooting is taking place in the Republic ...
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Ghost Rider heads for Australia
The attractiveness of runaway production to local economieswas made clear in Australia today with the Victorian Government announcing thatColumbia Pictures Entertainment is to film $40m GhostRider in Melbourne.Premier Steve Bracks and the Minister for Innovation JohnBrumby said Ghost Rider, a Marvelcomic adaptation to be directed by Mark Steven Johnson ...
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Irvine Welsh adaptation joins Fast Forward shortlist
An Irvine Welsh adaptationof a book by Morvern Callarauthor Alan Warner, a moon expedition comedy, and a Scottish Deliverance are amongst the projects shortlisted for the FastForward initiative run by Scottish Screen, the BBC and ContentFilm.The partners will developthe ten projects into treatment, when six will go forward to first ...
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Love's Business completes casting
Human Traffic's Danny Dyer is to star in Nick Love's Costa del Crimestory The Business, which Content International will present at the AFM.Dyer will appear with TamerHassan (Batman Begins), Roland Manookian (The Football Factory)and Georgina Chapman (Shanghai Knights) in the film, which startsprincipal photography Sept 20 in Malaga, Spain. The ...
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Ledger, Collette starring pics win Oz funding
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has cleared theway for cameras to roll on two new films, investing in Candy starringHeath Ledger and Like Minds starring Toni Collette.Ledger and rising star from Abbie Cornish (Somersault)play lovers full of lust and self-destructive tendencies in thelong-gestating drama Candy, which also features Geoffrey ...
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Bim boards Bellucci vehicle Combien
Italy's Bim, which has three titles playing in competitionat the Venice Film Festival, will co-produce Bertrand Blier's next film, CombienTu Gagnes', with Italian diva Monica Bellucci.Bim president Valerio De Paolis has boarded the Euros 12mproject alongside France's Fidelite, which is Francois Ozon's long-termproduction partner. Bim also owns Italian distribution rights.The ...
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Moodysson's Heart beats up Swedish critics
Swedishdirector Lukas Moodysson says that everyone should see his latest film AHole In The Heart - despite it containing explicit sex scenes, physical andpsychological violence.Moodysson was speaking after the first press screening ofthe film in Stockholm this week. The film world premieres in Toronto tomorrow(Sept 10).The dark,provocative drama tells the ...
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Moodysson's Hole In The Heart beats up Swedish critics
Swedishdirector Lukas Moodysson says that everyone should see his latest film AHole In The Heart - despite it containing explicit sex scenes, physical andpsychological violence.Moodysson was speaking after the first press screening ofthe film in Stockholm this week. The film world premieres in Toronto tomorrow(Sept 10).The dark,provocative drama tells the ...
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Japan readies World War II dramas
Japanese studios are readying a spate of action filmscentred on World War II.Back in the mid-1990s Japanese studios also released anumber of films commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.Many were produced or directed by members of the war generation and looked backon the fallen much ...
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...as Japanese enfant terrible aims to rival Potter
Japan's Kadokawa Pictures is to remake the 1968 YoshiyukiKuroda hit The Big Spook War (Yokai Daisenso) with director TakashiMiike at the helm.Announcing the film at the Kadokawa Daei Studio, Kadokawapresident Tsuguhiko Kadokawa said it was the first instalment in a series thatwill "rival Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings ...
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Danish broadcaster TV3 backs first ever feature
MTG owned Nordic broadcaster TV3 has backed its first everfeature film, the romantic comedy Nynne, which starts shooting inCopenhagen from Oct 18.The $2.4m (DKK14,5m)project, which is based on the local bestseller Nynne's Diary,has had a number of different producers, writers and directors attached overthe year, but now heads for the ...
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Nair develops Namesake project
In Venice for the festival screening of Vanity Fair, Mira Nair has revealed details of her next project, an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Namesake.The novel tells the story of a Calcutta family who leave India to come to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the US in ...
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King Kong goes before the cameras
Director Peter Jackson and actors Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody,and Jack Black faced the media yesterday at Jackson's Wellington studio complexto mark the beginning of principal photography on King Kong.Camerasofficially roll on Monday on the remake of the 1933 classic, which is beingfinanced by Universal Pictures and will be released on ...
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Jayanti to direct Ellroy's Killer On The Road
Award-winning filmmaker Vikram Jayanti (Deep Blue, WhenWe Were Kings) is to direct a movie version of one of James Ellroy's mostgruesome novels, the gay serial killer/buddy novel, Killer On The Road.The film, scripted by former critic Chris Peachment, is dueto shoot next spring. It is being co-produced by Tartan Films ...
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Swiss films target international audiences
At the beginning of thisyear, Andrea Willson, the head of former Deutsche Columbia PicturesFilmproduktion, was recruited by the Swiss rights trader/distributor FalcomMedia Group to manage the company's expansion into German language production.The plan was for Willson toconcentrate on the development and production of feature films for the Germanspeaking area and ...
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Gilliam completes key Tideland casting
Terry Gilliam has cast nineyear-old Jodelle Ferland as the star in his upcoming Tideland, alongside a cast that includes US actress JenniferTilly and Janet McTeer and Brendan Fletcher.Ferland is already somethingof veteran, having racked up a string of TV credits including KingdomHospital, Carrie and Wolf Lake since she started acting ...
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Russian fighter jet company backs $10m action film.
Russianmilitary aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi is backing a new $10m Russian actionmovie Mirror Wars starring MalcolmMcDowell and other Hollywood actors.Mirror Wars producer Oleg Kapanets declined to put afigure on Sukhoi's financial involvement, however, the company's investment issaid to be "substantial." TheEnglish-language film is produced by the LA and Moscow based Kremlin ...
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Austria, Germany, Switzerland - 1 Sept 2004
AUSTRIA September 1PRE-PRODUCTIONKELLER(Novotny& Novotny Filmproduktion) Backer: Filmfonds Wien. Coming of age drama.Prod: Franz Novotny. Dir/scr: Eva Urtaler.Contact Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion, (43) 1 478 71 70KOTSCH(LotusFilm) Backers: Filmfonds Wien, OFI. Comedy about four slackers in Styria. Prod:Erich Lackner. Dir: Helmut Koepping. Contact: Erich Lackner, Lotus Film, (43) 1786 33 87LAPISLAZULI(DorFilm) ...
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Balaguero cranks up Flockhart thriller for Filmax
Spain's Filmax begins shooting today (Monday) on itslatest English-language outing, Jaume Balaguero's Fragile starring Calista Flockhart and rising Spanishactress Elena Anaya.The thriller, Balaguero's follow-up to 2002's Darkness and co-scripted with Jordi Galceran, will shoot fornine weeks between Barcelona and England's Isle of Wight. The budget wasnot disclosed. Filmax's Julio Fernandez ...
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Indie icon Smith readies The Passion Of The Clerks
Ten years after he burst onto the US indie scene with Clerks,filmmaker Kevin Smith has decided to make a sequel to the now almost legendaryno-budget comedy. Smith will direct The Passion Of The Clerks from hisown screenplay, with principal photography set to begin next January andMiramax set to distribute.Brian O'Halloran ...