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Dillon, Tomei to star in Bukowski adaptation
Matt Dillon and Marisa Tomei are to star in Norwegianwriter-director-producer Bent Hamer'sadaptation of Charles Bukowski's Factotum,Hamer, who charmed audiences and critics alike at last year's Canneswith Kitchen Stories, will shoot his English-language debut inMinneapolis from June with a mixed Norwegian and US crew.The script was written with co-producer Jim Stark ...
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Knightley to star in Working Title's Pride And Prejudice
Keira Knightley is in advanced negotiations to star in Working Title Films' Jane Austen adaptation Pride And Prejudice.The UK star is to start shooting mid-August, according to UK press reports, although Working Title is still to cast the role of Darcy.The production means Knightley will be moving from a book ...
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Myriad to close London sales office
Myriad Pictures is closing down sales operations in London following its turbulent production of UK-Canadian title The River King.The US sales company will continue to maintain a UK production presence under Marion Pilowsky, head of international production, but Samantha Horley, senior vice president of international distribution, and sales executive Alice ...
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Polanski unveils Oliver Twist cast
Roman Polanski introducedthe press to the lead actor for his upcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens' OliverTwist in Paris yesterday. After a search that included drama schoolsthroughout England, ten year-old Barney Clark will play Twist alongside Ben Kingsleyas Fagin.The virtually unknown youngman's previous experience includes two television roles in the UK. ...
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ITALY Production Listings - April 28 2004
ITALYPRE-PRODUCTIONADIUS,LA FESTA E' FINITA(Verdecchi Film) Backing: Fondo di Garanzia. Word gets out in high-flying Romansociety that a well-known Italian singer-songwriter is to make his comeback -despite the fact that his death was officially announced in 1980. Prod:Alessandro Verdecchi. Dir: Ezio Alovisi. Scr: Ezio Alovisi.Contact: Verdecchi Film, (39) 06 39 388 ...
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ITALY Production Listings - April 28 2004
ITALYPRE-PRODUCTIONADIUS,LA FESTA E' FINITA(Verdecchi Film) Backing: Fondo di Garanzia. Word gets out in high-flying Romansociety that a well-known Italian singer-songwriter is to make his comeback -despite the fact that his death was officially announced in 1980. Prod:Alessandro Verdecchi. Dir: Ezio Alovisi. Scr: Ezio Alovisi.Contact: Verdecchi Film, (39) 06 39 388 ...
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Costa-Gavras, Haneke features win Eurimages funding
New feature film projects by Michael Haneke, ConstantinCosta-Gavras, Robert Glinski and Pal Sletaune are among nine Europeanco-productions which were awarded Euro 3.3m by the pan-European co-productionfund Eurimages in its latest round of funding.The largest amounts - Euro 600,000 each - went to Haneke's Cache and Pasquale Scimeca's Italian-Spanishco-productionPassione Di Giosue ...
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Wild Bunch Man plugs financing hole
Man ToMan, WildBunch's period piece starring Joseph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas,has patched together its financing after tax fund First Choice fell thoughfollowing the government's Feb 10 clamp down.The UK-Frenchco-production is plugging the hole left in the budget - about a third ofits total - with a standard sale and ...
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Nine Queens director readies Aura thriller
Fabian Bielinsky, director of international hit NineQueens, is putting the finishing touches onthe script for his follow-up film, a psychological thriller provisionallytitled The Aura (El Aura) and setto star Ricardo Darin.Darin (Nine Queens, Son Of The Bride) will play a taxidermist whose fantasies aboutsetting up the perfect crime come unexpectedly ...
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Metzstein begins Guy X shoot in Iceland
Jason Biggs, NataschaMcElhone and Jeremy Northam are to star in Guy X for young Britishdirector Saul Metzstein, who made his mark with 2001's well-received LateNight Shopping.The black comedy is beingproduced by Film and Music Entertainment with Spice Factory, tax-basedfinancier Movision, National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium and itssister sales company ...
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Green Butchers director prepares follow-up feature
Award winning Green Butchers writer and director Anders Thomas Jensen is readying his next feature, an as yet untitled comedy drama.Veteran producer Tivi Magnusson is currently in the final stages of financing the film, which has been nicknamed AT3. It will be the third installment in the Danish director's trilogy ...
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Argentine directors commemorate Jewish massacre with short film project
Ten up-and-coming Argentine directors are joining to make acollaborative feature of short films commemorating the tenth anniversary of amassacre targeting the local Jewish community.Among others, talents expected to contribute are DanielBurman, whose Jewish community-centered Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido) won Silver Bears for best film and actor in Berlin;Carlos Sorin ...
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Maradona biopic set to unveil star actor
The Spanish, Argentinean and Italian co-producers of a Euros 6m-plus feature film about the life of Argentinean football hero Diego Maradona have unveiled new details of the project days after the star was hospitalised in Buenos Aires for a heart problem and lung infection.The film starts with the heart problems ...
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Princess Diana crash feature readied by French producers
French producers Pierre Kubel and Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar have purchased the rights to Laurence Cosse's award-winning novel The 31st of August 1997 (Le 31 Aout 1997) which they will adapt for the big screen in the coming year.The titular date was the day that Princess Diana died in a car accident ...
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Best Of Youth director cooks up Kipling drama
Hot Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana, whose last film, The Best of Youth, won Un Certain Regard last year and has swept all the Italian awards, is currently preparing his next film.A drama named Quando Sei Nato (literally, When You Were Born), it is inspired by Rudyard Kipling's classic adventure ...
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UK production sector weathers the storm
Government crackdowns on UK tax relief earlier this year may have cast uncertainty over the production sector - and led to the high-profile collapse of productions such as John Madden's Tulip Fever - but the UK is as busy as it was at this time during its record year last ...
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Spain's Filmanova seeks new co-production opportunities
Spanish producer Filmanova is beefing up its production activities thanks to the creation of private investment fund Filmanova Invest.The company currently has more than half a dozen films in various stages of development and production, many with European and Latin American partners, and is actively seeking new projects for 2005.Backed ...
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UK Production Listings - April 20 2004
UK PRODUCTION LISTINGS APRIL 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE AMERICAN(CTB Film Company, Tartan Films) Prods: Sergey Selyanov, Hamish McAlpine. Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Cast: Michael Biehn. Shooting in New York and Siberia.Contact Camilla Summers/David Freed, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400BITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400CARRY ON LONDON(Black ...
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Malkovich thumbs a ride with Hitchhiker's Guide
John Malkovich has reportedly joined the cast of TheHitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, theSpyglass/Disney version of Douglas Adams's cult sci-fi novel.Malkovich will play a cult leader, created for the film bythe late Adams, according to a report on the BBC.The $50-$60m film alsostars Hip-hop star and actor Mos Def, ZooeyDeschanel ...
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Fragile's Click taps into German funding
UK-Germanco-production Click,set to star Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Thandie Newton, Dominic West and JuliaStiles, is one of four international co-productions to share Euros 3m fundingfrom Dusseldorf-based Filmstiftung NRW.The romantic comedy about a bride falling in love withanother woman is the directorial debut of Ol Parker and is a co-production withthe ...