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OZ AND NEW ZEALAND Prod Lists - June 10
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LISTINGS - June 10PRE PRODUCTIONDECEMBER BOYS(Becker Films) Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, South AustralianFilm Corporation. Int'l sales: MBM (German-speaking territories), AuraEntertainment (rest of world). Dist: Becker (Aust/NZ). Drama. Four orphans gofor a holiday by the sea. Friendships are tested and new alliances made whenrumours emerge that ...
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Allen trades Manhattan for London
Woody Allen is travelling to London to direct his next, asyet untitled, feature film.Based out of Ealing Studios, Allen will reportedly startshooting on July 12 for seven weeks in London.Allen rarely shoots his films outside the US, and it isthought to be the first time that he has come to ...
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Berlinale calls on film-makers to shoot football films
The Berlinale Talent Campus has launched a shortfilm competition - Shoot Goals! Shoot Movies! - for film-makers toillustrate their passion for the game of football as well as the fans and theculture it generates in their respective countries.According to the guidelines of the competition,submissions in either dramatic, documentary or animated ...
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Von Trier pulls out of Wagner opera project
Despite already spending more than two years onpreparations, Danish director Lars von Trier has decided to pull out of theopera production of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Opera Festival inSouthern Germany.Von Trier's adaptation of Richard Wagner's mammoth 15hour opera cycle was meant to premiere in 2006 and would ...
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Pathe, BBC finalise deal for Frears' Mrs Henderson
Pathe and BBC Films havefinalised their long-anticipated deal to board Mrs Henderson Presents,Stephen Frears' hotly-awaited upcoming production.The Heyman HoskinsProductions title is to start principal photography in September starring JudiDench and Bob Hoskins.Pathe Distribution willdistribute in the UK and France, while Pathe Pictures International will sellthe film worldwide.This script is written ...
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Babelsberg studio sale nears conclusion
Thelong-drawn out process of selling the historic Babelsberg studios near Berlincould be drawing to a conclusion.VivendiUniversal, the debt laden French group which has owned the facility since 1992,has fielded bids and is understood to have whittled these down to two or three.The likely favourites are Studio Hamburg - the production ...
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Yari takes on sales for big budget Oz feature
Bob Yari Productions is tohandle international sales on an ambitious $US 26.7m (A$32m) Australian film, ClancyOf The Overflow, a story about a quintessential bush hero to be directed bySimon Wincer.The producers are Yari, afinancier and partner in the Stratus Film Company, Wincer and Mark Pennell.Patrick Edgeworth has written the script ...
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Winterbottom not shooting Goal!
Michael Winterbottom hastaken an early bath on Goal!, the football film starring Diego Luna thatthe British director was pre-shooting in Newcastle.Revolution Films, thecompany Winterbottom runs with producer Andrew Eaton, this week confirmed localpress reports that the British director had left the project, citing creativedifferences.The first film in a plannedtrilogy was ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - June 1 2004
IRELANDPRE-PRODUCTIONAURORA ISLAND(Magma Films [Irl], Art Oko Film [Ger]) Co-prods: Future Film [UK]. Budget:Euros 5m. Backers: Buena Vista [Ger]. Dist: Buena Vista (Germany) andMoviehouse (UK). Thriller. Exec prods: Ralph Christians, Stephen Margolis,Michele Berk. Prods: Karel Dirka, Clodagh Freeman. Dir: Peter Medak. Scr:Agatha Dominik, Robert Newton. DoP: Elemer Ragalyi. Prod des: Michael ...
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Wong Kar Wai takes on kung fu grandmaster
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai has set his sights on the life story of Ip Man (pictured), the real life kung fu master of the legendary star Bruce Lee, as the subject of his next film. A spokesperson of Wong's production outfit, Jet Tone Films, said that Ip's ...
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High def DV trio kicks off HDNet film slate
HDNet Films, the high-definition production division ofTodd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment, has given the greenlight tothree low-budget movies to be shot this year on high definition digital video.* Quid Pro Quo is a dark comedy written and to be directed by Carlos Brooks andproduced by Midge Sanford and ...
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Mattison signs to The Third Wish
Jenna Mattison is set to star in the romantic comedy The ThirdWish, which will be directed by Shelley Jensen and is due to beginproduction in Los Angeles and San Francisco on Jun 8.Cinema Libre Studio has picked up domestic distribution rights andwill release the picture theatrically in October.Based on a ...
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Bynes signs on for Lovewrecked
Amanda Byneshas signed to star in Media 8 Entertainment's Lovewrecked, a familycomedy in the vein of Freaky Friday that Randal Kleiser will direct.The picture isdue to begin shooting in the Caribbean in June and centres on two teenagers whovie for the affections of a rock star at a vacation resort.Nancy ...
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Nordic newcomers emerge - against the odds
Although producers throughout the Nordic region are stillstruggling with their various unresolved issues of government funding, thereseems to be no shortage of new talent -or producers willing to back their feature debuts.In Sweden, there are signs that the continued emergence offirst-time feature directors (as well as more box-office success), might ...
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Ex-San Sebastian chief to take over Spain's ICAA
The former head of the San Sebastian International FilmFestival, Manual Perez Estremera, is set to head up Spain's major state filmbody, ICAA.Left-wingnewspaper El Pais has leaked the news that Perez Estremera, a formerfilm critic responsible for relaunching San Sebastian in 1993, will beconfirmed as head of the Instuito de las ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - May 25 2004
NORDIC LISTINGS - MAY 25DENMARKIN PRE-PRODUCTIONAMAZON JACK 3(JUNGLEDYRET HUGO - FRAEK SOM ALTID)(PH3) Backer: Danish Film Institute. the third instalment in the popularanimated feature series about Amazon Jack. Prod: Per Holst. Dirs: AndersSoerensen, Joergen Lerdam. Scr: Flemming Quist Moeller.Contact: Per Holst, PH3, (45) 35 55 93 66THE AMBULANCE(AMBULANCEN)(Nordisk Film Production) ...
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Three Thai film companies join forces to create production powerhouse
Three Thai filmcompanies - GMM Pictures, Tai Entertainment and Hub Ho Hin - are joining forcesto create a production powerhouse in response to increasing competition in thefast-growing Thai market.The new company -GMM Tai Hub (GTH) - was unveiled in Bangkok on Friday along with its initialslate of 10 projects. GMM ...
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Kapur teams with Rings producer for Indian movies
Indian director ShekharKapur (Elizabeth) is teaming up with Lord Of The Rings producerBarrie Osborne for the first time to make two films in India.First up is Paani (Water),a $20m futuristic tale which addresses the issue of water scarcity and featuresa love story set in Mumbai, 15 years in the future. ...
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Italy's Gam Film lines up slate of international films.
Gherardo Pagliei, the Italian co-producer behind CriticsWeek Italo-Moroccan contender ACasablanca Les Anges Ne Volent Pas, is lining up an ambitious slate ofinternational films.Pagliei's Rome-based Gam Film is to produce veteran Chileandirector Alejandro Jodorowsky's next movie, KingShot. The director, whose credits include 1970 cult movie El Topo and surreal 1989 picture ...
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Katapult signs Verhoeven's Blackbook
KatapultFilms, the Los Angeles-based sales agency headed by Thomas Mai and JoniSighvatsson, is to handle international duties on Blackbook, the newfilm by Dutch master Paul Verhoeven.The project has been a hot property forseveral months as rumours have swirled as to which of many possible projectsVerhoeven will shoot first. The action ...