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Dagur Kari directs Grown Up People
Icelandic filmmakerDagur Kari, who charmed audiences and critics alike with his unusualmultiple-award winning debut Noi Albinoi,started shooting his new film Grown UpPeople (Voksne Mennesker) this week in Copenhagen.Kari graduated fromthe National Film School of Denmark, but this will be his first Danish film -and it will be in black and ...
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Cineclick ties up Kim Ki-duk financing
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk's latest project 3-Iron has secured a co-financing dealfrom Japan's Happinet equal to 50% of the film's budget.Sales agent Cineclick Asia says that a deal has also beencompleted with France's Pretty Pictures which, together with Japan, means that80% of the budget is covered.Kim's previous two filmshave ...
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GreeneStreet, Kosinski take Fade Out into pre-production
GreeneStreetFilms and Geyer Kosinski have commenced pre-production on writer-directorMichael Cristofer's psychological thriller Fade Out starring Billy BobThornton and Kate Beckinsale.Kosinskiis producing with GreeneStreet's John Penotti and Fisher Stevens.Principal photography is scheduled to begin on Jul 5 and GreeneStreet FilmsInternational is representing worldwide rights in Cannes.FadeOutisabout a fragile screenwriter confused by ...
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Palm Pictures picks up Larry Clark's upcoming Wassup Rockers
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired worldwide rights toand will go into production on Larry Clark's upcoming Los Angeles youth drama WassupRockers.Production is due to begin in Los Angeles this summer and Palmexpects to release the film theatrically in North America in 2005. WouterBarendrecht and Michael Werner's Fortissimo Films will ...
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Salles to tackle football-themed film
Walter Salles,whose Motorcycle Diaries screens incompetition in Cannes today, is to make a low budget football-themed film forDonald K. Ranvaud's new production and sales collective, Buena Onda.Salles willco-direct with Daniela Thomas with whom he made Foreign Land. The film, set in Sao Paolo, will tell of four youngbrothers from an ...
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Kormakur embarks on A Little Trip To Heaven
Forest Whitakerand Norway's Maria Bonnevie are heading the cast of Baltasar Kormakur's hotEnglish-language debut A Little Trip ToHeaven, which has become the biggest Icelandic film ever with its $8.5mbudget.New sales outfitKatapult Film Sales has already pre-sold the project to A-Film (Benelux) andArtfree (Greece), and LA-based Icelandic producer Joni Sighvatsson is ...
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Spain's Arcadia turns to English language
New Barcelona-basedproduction outfit Arcadia Pictures, in the market with the recently-completedEuros 3 million The Birthday, hasannounced two new English-language pictures to shoot in 2005 and 2006.Following the business modelperfected by Dolores Pictures, producers of Luna's Stranded and Whore!,Arcadia plans to finance the two new projects through pre-sales atinternational markets. The ...
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Carlsen ready to Jump again
Danishfilmmaking veteran Henning Carlsen gets back behind the camera on May 28 whenhe starts shooting his new film Spinget(literally: The Jump), his first film since 1998.The77 year-old writer-director's film follows an average 42 year old married manwho gets the rug pulled under him when he is told that he suffers ...
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Gayet named as Jobson's Woman
Rising Frenchactress Julie Gayet is to star in British director Richard Jobson'ssupernatural love story Woman In Winter.UK seller ParkEntertainment, which is handling Jobson's ThePurifiers and its follow-up The OnlyOnes, has acquired international rights. Shot digitally, the film beginsproduction in Edinburgh in November with the support of Adobe.The story,written by Jobson, ...
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Saddle Club set for big screen
Australia's CrawfordProductions and Canada's Protocol Entertainment are preparing to shoot afeature that is based on the hit TV series TheSaddle Club, which is currently screening on Discovery Kids in the US and,when last screened in Sydney, attracted an astounding 95% of all five to12-year-olds at its peak.Matt Carroll, who was ...
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Lolafilms readies English pair
Spanish producer Lolafilmsis storming ahead with two Euros 10m English-language productions - includingvenerable helmer Carlos Saura's new film.Saura, whose current releaseThe 7th Day is being sold at Cannes by Lolafilms, will shoot LorenzoDa Ponte (working title) in Venice and Vienna. The story of Mozart'slibrettist, who was also something of an ...
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Salvatores' Love set as English-language debut
Gabriele Salvatores, theOscar-winning Italian director of Mediterraneo and I'm Not Scared,will make his English-language feature debut The Rules Of Love in Canadaas an Italy/Canada co-production with Toronto-based Capri Films and Rome-basedColorado Film Production.Inspired by the novel TheLoves Of Judith by Meir Shalev, The Rules Of Love was scripted byLaura Philips; ...
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British talent headlines Moviehouse slate
UK-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has struck a three-film partnership with Subotica Entertainment, the Irish producer of Sundance success Song For ARaggy Boy.
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Boorman heads Rai Cinemas' English-language drive
Italy's Rai Cinema is liningup a John Boorman Roman epic as part of move to bankroll a slate of Englishlanguage features, and is also backing new Italian projects from Cannesveterans Marco Bellocchio and Pupi Avati.John Boorman is in talks todirect an adaptation of Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel, Memoirs OfHadrian, a ...
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Billie Piper falls into Spirit Trap horror
British popsinger-turned-actress Billie Piper is to star in Spirit Trap, a horrorfilm set to start shooting this month for the UK's Archangel Filmworks andSpice Factory.Directed by DavidSmith from a script by himself and Phil O'Shea, the film is set in an Englishtownhouse where an evil legacy haunts a group of ...
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Richard E Grant's Wah-Wah set for summer shoot
British actorRichard E Grant is set to start shooting his long-gestating debut as awriter-director, Wah-Wah.Theautobiographical tale of growing up in South Africa is expected to starNicholas Hoult from About A Boy as the young Grant. Also likely to appearare Emily Watson and Miranda Richardson.UK-based salesoutfit The Works is understood to ...
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Peace Arch and Showtime partner up through 2007
Canadian entertainment outfit Peace Arch Entertainment Group andUS-based Showtime Networks have signed a co-financing and distribution dealthrough 2007 for up to 15 projects averaging $10m each.Peace Arch will provide production support and assume allinternational rights including Canada, while Showtime will premiere titles onits Showtime Network.Peach Arch's London-based subsidiary Peace Arch ...
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New talent invigorates Hong Kong production
Now that local films areincreasing their share of the Hong Kong box office, there are several signs ofrenewed vigour in the domestic production industry. Budgets are getting bigger,investors are becoming more adventurous and the range of films on offer isbecoming increasingly diverse.But the most encouragingdevelopment is the influx of new ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - May 11
HONG KONG - MAY 10PRE-PRODUCTIONABNORMAL BEAUTY(Magic Head Film Production) Budget: US$2m.Backers: Universe Entertainment. Int'l sales: Universe Films Distribution.Genre: Thriller. Synopsis: A photography student becomes obsessed with the ideaof taking pictures at the moment of death. She attracts the attention of apsychotic killer who finds her unusual behaviour interesting. Exec prod: ...
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Last King Of Scotland gathers momentum
Andrea Calderwood's London-based Slate Films is at lastmaking headway on its long-gestating project, Last King Of Scotland.Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald is attached to direct the film, which isnow being fast-tracked. Calderwood will co-produce with Lisa Bryer of CowboyFilms.Slate's partners on the project are FilmFour, with whom the project wasoriginally set ...