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Working Title snaps up prize winning Population
Working Title has acquired Nick Ostler and MarkHuckerby's draft sci-fi script Population, one of the winners of the UKFilm Council's 25 Words Or Less development competition.The $30m-plus conspiracy thriller titled Populationenvisages, according to Ostler, "a Britain where the problem of over populationhasn't been solved. It's quite dark."The pair's pitch for ...
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Content boards Love's Business
ContentFilm has boarded hot "Costa delCrime" picture The Business, the company announced on Thursday.Directed by Nick Love, the picture is setduring the 80s amongst British ex-pats and criminals in the south of Spain andis being billed as similar in style to Pulp Fiction.Love, who recently shot football hooliganfilm The Football ...
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Martial arts stars align for Yip action drama
Three generations of martial artists have joined forces forWilson Yip's upcoming action drama SPL (working title), which is nearingthe end of a four-month shoot in Hong Kong.Produced by Carl Chang with backing from Abba Chan's AbbaMovies, the US$3.8m (HK$30m) film stars martial arts veteran Sammo Hung alongwith Donnie Yen and ...
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Acclaimed directors lead Australia's upcoming slate
The directors of three of the most highly acclaimedAustralian films of recent years, Ana Kokkinos, Rowan Woods and Ray Lawrence,are named within the country's upcoming slate of financed but still-to-be-madefilms.The Book OfRevelation, Ana Kokkinos's second film after Head On, and Little Fish,Rowan Woods' second film after The Boys,are being represented ...
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Fox strikes 'visionary' deal with Russia's Channel One
TwentiethCentury Fox has picked up worldwide rights excluding Russia and the Balticstates to Channel One's Russian-language horror sensation Night Watch and its sequel Day Watch.FoxSearchlight Pictures will release both titles and the studio's main divisionwill co-develop, co-finance and release a third, English-language instalmentwith Channel One, Russia's leading film and television ...
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AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND Production Listings - August 25
AUSTRALIA August 24IN PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BOOK OF REVELATION(Wildheart Zizani) Backers: FilmFinance Corporation Australia, New South Wales Film and Television Office, FilmVictoria, ContentFilm. Int'l sales: Content International. Dist: Palace Films(Aust/NZ). Drama. A dancer disappears without a trace for 12 days, then returnsjust as mysteriously. Prod: Al Clark. Dir: Ana Kokkinos. Scr: Andrew ...
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Danish veteran returns to Judge
Danish film veteranGert Fredholm, who returned to feature filmmaking after a 20 year hiatus with One Hand Clapping in 2001, is to shoothis new film Dommeren (literally TheJudge).Like Fredholm'scomeback movie it is written and produced by Mikael Olsen and will star PeterGantzler and Jens Okking. It follows a dynamic and ...
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International buyers clamour for Lord Of War
Lord Of War,billed as one of the biggest independent features currently in production inthe world, has relocated to South Africa after two weeks of shooting in NewYork.Executive producer and Arclight Films managing director GaryHamilton says he has already sold the US$50m action thriller starring NicolasCage and Ethan Hawke into "virtually ...
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Celebrated cinematographer joins Verhoeven's Book
Celebrated cinematographer Theo van de Sande has been set asdirector of photography on the forthcoming BlackBook, the new period drama by Dutch master Paul Verhoeven.Van de Sande is a Dutch national who has worked extensivelyon both sides of the Atlantic. His Hollywood credits include Wayne's World, Blade, Big Daddy and ...
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Lord Of The Rings parody starts Swiss shoot
Shooting has begun this week in Switzerland on The Ring Thing, a Swiss parody of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, which will bereleased theatrically at Christmas in Switzerland by the local outpost of BuenaVista International (BVI).Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com,Kristian Widmer of Condor Communications, which is producing the film with ...
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Hong Kong pins hopes on history, horror
The summer boxoffice period has been disappointing for Hong Kong productions. Although localfilms were starting to claw back market share earlier in the year, they've lostout whenever they've squared off against Hollywood's tentpole summer releases.But Hong Kong producers remain bullish in the long-term and several big-budgetprojects - aimed at the ...
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Japanese horror hit to get sequel
Kadokawa Pictures has announced the production of One Missed Call 2, a sequel to theTakashi Miike horror hit that grossed $13.6m in Japan earlier this year and hassince been screened in nearly 30 countries around the world.The new film, however, will have a new director, TV veteranRenpei Tsukamoto, and a ...
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French producers decry planned tax credit change
French producers are up in arms following news that fiscallegislators are proposing changes to the tax credit system which came intoeffect in January of this year.The tax credit, or credit d'impot, currently allowsproductions and co-productions, which qualify as French under French film board(CNC) guidelines, to write off between 10% and ...
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Zhang, Yeoh, Watanabe, Gong sign up for Memoirs Of A Geisha
Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe and Gong Li and are to star in the long-gestating Memoirs Of AGeisha adaptation, which RobMarshall will direct and Columbia Pictures is co-financing with DreamWorks andSpyglass Entertainment.Productionis set to begin in Los Angeles and Japan in September. Spyglass, which has afirst-look,non-exclusive deal with ...
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Tsui Hark readies $12m martial arts epic
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark is gearing up tostart shooting his next feature as director - the US$12m wuxia epic Seven Swords which is scheduled to startproduction next month.Hong Kong stars Leon Lai and Charlie Young are headliningthe cast of the film which is also expected to feature talent ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - August 19
HONG KONG - August 19PRE-PRODUCTIONINVINCIBLE ARMOUR(I-Animation Ltd) Co-prods: Yuk LongMultimedia, Mandarin Films. Budget: US$2.3m. Backers: Yuk Long Multimedia,Mandarin Films, I-Animation. Int'l sales: Mandarin Films Distribution.Animation. Animated feature film (2D and 3D) based on the action-packed comicbook Magic Weapons. Exec prods: Tony Wong, Raymond Wong, Man Kung. Prod: TonyWong. Dir: Tony ...
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Irish production sector returns to form
After a year in which production in Ireland had stalled to avirtual standstill the last days of August and early September will see adramatic return to form.First off the mark will be David T Friendly's Deep RiverProductions' The Honeymooners whichwill start shooting on August 27. The production for Paramount, co-producedwith ...
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Edinburgh Fringe to be subject of new UK feature
The UK Film Council'sPremiere Fund and FilmFour have teamed on Festival,an ensemble comedy set during the Edinburgh Fringe which will shoot on locationat the famed theatre and comedy festival this month.The production marks thefeature debut of writer-director Annie Griffin, who won a BAFTA for Book Group, the Friday night comedy ...
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Vulcan wraps principal photography on Hard Candy
Seattle-based Vulcan Productions has completed principalphotography on video director David Slade's psychological thriller HardCandy, starring Patrick Wilson and newcomer Ellen Page.Based on a screenplay by Brian Nelson, Hard Candy centreson a calamitous date between a 32-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl who meetover the internet.David W Higgins and Jody Patton ...
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Civilian Content secures $13m in tax funding
In a welcome boost after itsNew Zealand period piece River Queen stalled mid-shoot, UK media concernCivilian Content aims to double its production levels this year after securinga $12.9m (£7m) tranche of funding.The publicly-listed companyhas accessed the production funding through its partnership with financierSureFire, which has raised the money through UK ...