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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 ...
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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 ...