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Oz production slumps as foreign investment soars
New research confirms that service work on US films issoaring while Australian features remain in the doldrums in terms of numbersmade and budget levels, while co-productions have practically disappeared.Only 15 homegrown films worth A$134m were made in the 12months to June 30, according to the Australian Film Commission's latest annualsurvey, ...
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Bavaria Film picks up Bombon
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up internationalrights for Argentinian director Carlos Sorin's latest film Bombon - El Perro (aka LeChien).Produced by Guacamole Films and OK! Films (Argentina) inco-production with Madrid-based Wanda Vision, Bombon - El Perro tells the moving story of how life perks up for asweet-natured car mechanic ...
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Fiennes signs on as Potter arch-villain
Ralph Fiennes will play Harry Potter's arch-enemy Lord Voldemortin Warner Bros' upcoming Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, while Miranda Richardson joins the castas the muckraking reporter Rita Skeeter.The production, which is being directed by Mike Newell andproduced by David Heyman, has seen several other recent cast additions.Brendan Gleeson ...
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New Greek talent focuses on international market
Veteran Greekdirector Theo Angelopoulos is probablythe only name internationallyrecognisable among his local peers. If the Greekfilm industry has any hope of making an impact in the internationalmarket this lies with a handful of new directors who have the means and thetalent required.Womanwriter/director Olga Malea is probably the most prominent among ...
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Santa story gets bi-sexual twist
Paul Colichman's pioneering gay and lesbian cable network here! TVhas begun production in Vancouver on separate gay and straight-themed versionsof the same Christmas family story.Too Cool For Christmas stars George Hamilton as a local Santa who teaches afashion-conscious teenager about the merits of spending the holidays with hertwo fathers, rather ...
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Hubble goes from Big Bang to big screen
Fledgling Los Angeles-based finance and production company SyntaxEntertainment has licensed the movie rights to Gale E Christianson's book EdwinHubble: Mariner Of The Nebulae, based on the father of the Big Bang theory.The film version, which is being produced with Los Angelesbased production outfit Persistent Entertainment, will be called Hubble and ...
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Cox, Nesbitt, Goode join Allen cast
Brian Cox, Matthew Goode and James Nesbitt have joined thecast of Woody Allen's upcoming UK film.The trio will appear alongside Scarlett Johansson, EmilyMortimer and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers when principal photography starts July 12thon location in and around London.Financial partners in the film include BBC Films, Magic HourMedia, Thema Production and Invicta ...
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Filming suspended on Vincent Ward's River Queen
In the face of rumours of trouble on the set, it has beenannounced that director Vincent Ward's RiverQueen has been delayed due to the illness of UK actress Samantha Morton,but that she remains committed to the project and the delays are covered byinsurance."She has been treated in hospital for severe ...
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GREECE Production Listings - August 3 2004
GREECE - August 4PRE-PRODUCTIONHERO IN ROME (ENAS IROASSTIN ROMI)(Greek Film Centre, Sound and Image Ltd) Co-prod: Bepe Toscies Film Production(Italy). Budget: Euros 850,000. Backer: ET1 Greek public TV. Int'l sales: theGreek Film Centre. Social comedy. A mid-aged Greek man, who has never traveledbefore and speaks no foreign language, wins a ...
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Johnny To undertakes first production as financier
Milkyway Image, prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To's production entity, is to make its first investment in a film, despite the company having produced about 30 films since the mid-1990s.Election (working title) tracks a democratic election held within the world of triads, a subject To confidently expects to have strong ...
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Chadha looks to cast $90m Jeannie
Anglo-Asian director Gurinder Chadha is shortly to start casting on Jeannie, her first big-budget studio film. An Arabian Nights-style fantasy adventure which is also a prequel to the long-running TV series, I Dream Of Jeannie, the film is set in Persia in 200 BC and in the contemporary US.The central ...
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Roven taps Gartner as producing partner
FormerMGM production chief Alex Gartner has joined Mosaic Media Group as a producingpartner with the LA production and distribution group's Atlas Entertainmentfilm division.Gartner,who produced Barbershop 2 and servedas executive producer on Out Of Time, will develop and produce with Mosaic partner and Atlas Entertainmentfounder Charles Roven."This is the first step ...
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Scottish producer Meek named head of drama at Australia's ABC
Scottish producer Scott Meek is relocating to Australia totake up the role of head of drama at public broadcaster the ABC.Meek was involved in such features as Velvet Goldmine, Sid And Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears when chief executive at Zenith Productions. Hehas served on the British Film Institute ...
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Berlin funding agency dishes out Euros 3m
New films by Andreas Dresen, Eoin Moore, Hans-Christian Schmid,John Stephenson and Sven Unterwaldt are among 12 projects backed with overEuros 3m by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in its latest round of funding.The largest amount - over Euros 1m - went to Constantin Film'sdrama Siegfried, to be directed by Sven Unterwaldt from a ...
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Sutherland, Harden, Reed shoot for IFC's American Gun
Donald Sutherland, Marcia Gay Harden and Nikki Reed have joinedthe cast of Aric Avelino's ensemble drama American Gun, which began shooting in Los Angelesearlier this month and will open in the US through IFC Films.Sutherland plays the owner of a Virginian gun store whoselife becomes entangled with those of a ...
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Fandango flies with Vicari, Crialese features
Domenico Procacci's Italian production and distributionoutfit Fandango is producing a new feature by Roman director Daniele Vicari,whose debut, V-Max (Velocita' Massima) won the prestigious Donatelloaward for best first film.The Euros 2m film, named L'Orizzonte Degli Eventi,began filming last week around the Gran Sasso mountainous area of central Italyand will shoot ...
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MGM staunches red ink, stays mum on 007
Dropping no hints about sales talks or the identity of the nextJames Bond actor, MGM announced second quarter results that revealed adrastically reduced net loss and $33.6m in net cash from operating activities.Second quarter revenues fell from $487.7m for the sameperiod last year to $406.1m.Second quarter 2003 results were boosted ...
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Saved! team sets up next picture at Sobini Films
Brian Dannelly is attachedto direct Sobini Films' romantic comedy The Guided Man, which is being fast-tracked for an early 2005start.Based on L. Sprague DeCamp's 1952 novel, the story centres on a timid social speaker who enlists theaid of a revolutionary service that allows another person to speak through him.Mark Amin ...
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Holm, Broderick, Hoffman, Parker round out Candy cast
A glitteringsupporting cast has been finalised for the currently-shooting big screenversion of US TV comedy hit Strangers With Candy. Called, not surprisingly, StrangersWith Candy: The Movie,the film is a prequel to the series about a 46 year-old former junkie andprostitute who returns to high school in a bid to start ...
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Boy Eats Girl on starter course in Dublin
Production has begun on the first Irish feature to film inthe Republic of Ireland this year. Element Films', Boy Eats Girl, reunites producer Ed Guiney with director StephenBradley his former partner in Temple Films which developed and producedBradley's debut film, Sweety Barrett.A comedy horror tale of a date that goes ...