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Korea unveils international co-production fund
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has unveiled its firstsupport fund targeted at international co-productions.For 2004, one co-produced film will be selected by aspecially-appointed jury of film industry representatives, and granted amaximum of $250,000 (WON 300m).The fund applies to feature films (of at least 70 minutes)in the development, pre-production or production ...
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Filmstiftung NRW bankrolls Euro co-productions
New feature projects byRaoul Ruiz, Michael Caton-Jones and Cedric Kahn are among several Europeanco-productions receiving production support from Filmstiftung NRW in its latestround of funding.A total of Euros 7.1m wasallocated to 36 projects. The largest amount - Euro 1m - was given to CedricKahn's Franco-German co-production L'Avion about a magical ...
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Eurimages bankrolls Kahn, Chereau features
New feature projects by Cedric Kahn, Jan Svankmajer andPatrice Chereau are among 12 European co-productions which have been awarded atotal Euros 4.64m by the pan-European co-production fund Eurimages.The largest single amount - Euro 600,000 - was given to byCedric Kahn's L'Avion, which explores a child's universe and starsIsabelle Carre, Vincent ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - July 6 2004
JAPAN - July 7PRE-PRODUCTIONGODZILLA FINAL WARS(Toho Studio) Backers: Toho. Dist (Jap): Toho. The final installment of thefamous Japanese monster Godzilla series. Set in the near future, this time themutant monsters simultaneously attack New York, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai.Prod: Shogo Tomiyama. Dir: Ryuhei Kitamura. DoP: Takumi Furuya. Main cast:Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei ...
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Till named as UK Film Council chairman
Stewart Till will be thenew chairman of the UK Film Council, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announcedtoday.Till, currently deputychair of the council and chief executive of UIP, takes up the post for fouryears and starts on July 30. He will take over from outgoing chairman AlanParker."Stewart is taking onthis key role ...
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Jackie Chan embarks on Hong Kong adventure
Production restarted this week at Shanghai Film Studio onJackie Chan's new project which reunites the star with Hong Kong actiondirector Stanley Tong.Produced by Chan's JCE Movies, the US$15-20m actionadventure has the working title The Mythand also stars Tong Leung Ka-fai and hot up-and-coming Indian actress MallikaSherawat.Chan reportedly plays an Indiana ...
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Japanese megahit crosses box office milestone
Isao Yukisada's mega-hitromantic drama Crying Out For Love In The Center Of The World recordedits five millionth admission in Japan on June 30, its 54th day of release,while its box office totalled $62.3m (Y6.73bn).After seven weeks in thetheatres, Crying Out For Love was still ranked number two on the KogyoTsushin ...
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Bale, Thewlis & Taylor join cast of The New World
Christian Bale, DavidThewlis, Noah Taylor and Q'orianka Kilcher (pictured) have joined the cast of TerrenceMalick's The New World which NewLine Cinema plans to release in Nov 2005.The new cast members joinColin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, August Schellenberg and Wes Studi in thefilm which is Malick's first film since The Thin Red ...
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South Africa unveils tax breaks to attract foreign shoots
South Africa plans to offer about $41m (R252m) in taxincentives to local and foreign film companies over the next three years topromote the country as a prime filming location, Trade and Industry MinisterMandisi Mpahlwa said this week.Companies would have to spend at least $4m (R25m) inproduction costs to qualify for ...
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Banderas to direct Los Ingleses in Spain
Antonio Banderas has confirmed that he will direct his nextfilm in 2006 - in his native Spain.The actor told a Madrid press conference that he had boughtthe rights to Antonio Soler's novel El Camino De Los Ingleses and he would go behind the lens to shoot it at homein Spain."Antonio ...
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Summit, Endgame kick off The Alibi with stellar cast
Summit Entertainment's The Alibi which the international production,sales and financing outfit is co-financing with Jim Stern's Endgame startedprincipal photography yesterday in Los Angeles with a stellar cast in place.Joining the previously announced Steve Coogan, RebeccaRomijn-Stamos and James Marsden are Sam Elliot, James Brolin, Selma Blair, JohnLeguizamo, Jamie King, Henry Rollins ...
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Bonham Carter, Taylor, Fox and Lee join Charlie cast
Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Missi Pyle andChristopher Lee have joined the cast of Tim Burton's Charlie And TheChocolate Factory whichhas started shooting in London for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures.Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka in the film, 12 year-old British actorFreddie Highmore (Two Brothers, JM Barrie's ...
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Home entertainment to drive growth of film industry
The global film business,driven by an expanding home entertainment sector, is set for annual growth of7.5% over the next five years. By 2008 it will be worth $108bn, compared with$75bn last year, according to consultancy and research firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers(PWC) in its annual Global Entertainment & Media Outlook (2004-2008).The growth that ...
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Buena Vista embarks on Japanese animation
Fuji TV has announced the production of a major animatedfeature based on Brave Story, afantasy novel by Miyuki Miyabe that has sold 420,000 copies since publicationin March of 2003.The production company will be Gonzo Digimation, ananimation house responsible for several hit TV series, including Hellsing and Gantz, as well as ...
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Allen cast grows as UK production activity swells
Brian Cox, Matthew Goode and James Nesbitt have joined the cast of Woody Allen's upcoming UK film.The trio will appear alongside Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers when principal photography starts July 12th on location in and around London.Financial partners in the film include BBC Films, Magic Hour Media, ...
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Ansorge joins Anglo-Indian outfit Inspired Movies
Peter Ansorge, former head of dramaat UK broadcaster Channel Four, has joined Inspired Movies as commissioning editor/executiveproducer in charge of new film projects.Inspired Movies, an Anglo-Indian companybased in the U.K., is currently in production with Take 3 Girls, itsfirst English language film, starring Charlie Brooks (in her first role sinceleaving ...
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Telespan 2000 readies Other Side Of The Bed sequel
Independent production company Telespan 2000, headed byTomas Cimadevilla, has confirmed it is to go ahead with the sequel to TheOther Side of The Bed (El Otro Lado de La Cama).The original film was the highest-grossing Spanish film of2002, netting $15.1m at the box office and headlining Paz Vega amidst anensemble ...
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UK Production Listings - June 29
UK PRODUCTION LISTINGS PRE-PRODUCTIONBITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATEFACTORY(Warner Bros) Dir: Tim Burton. Cast: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore.Contact: Pinewood Studios, (44) 1932 562 611DIZZY HEIGHTS(Theta Films [South Africa], Samson Films [Eire]) Budget: $6m. Backer/int'lsales: Vine International. Romantic comedy. What do ...
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New blow for Hamburg film fund
FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFHH) has suffered another blow withthe news that public broadcaster ZDF will terminate its cooperation agreementand annual contribution of Euro 1m at the end of this year.The development is a direct result of Culture Senator Karinvon Welck's proposal to cut the city's contribution to FFHH by 50% to ...
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Babelsberg Film looks to board Macdonald's Last King
Germany's BabelsbergFilm is in negotiations to become a co-producer on Oscar-winning documentaryfilmmaker Kevin Macdonald's fiction feature film debut The Last King OfScotland.ScreenDaily.com has learnt exclusively that the Studio BabelsbergMotion Pictures' production unit - whose previous credits included serving asco-producer on Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist, City Of God director Fernando ...