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De Luca lands in production deal at Sony
Mike De Luca, who leaves hisjob as DreamWorks head of production in June, is in final talks to set up athree-year production deal with Columbia Pictures.Once the contracts aresigned De Luca and his Michael De Luca Productions will move on to the Sony lotin Culver City in July."Mike is a ...
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Romania hosts Seed Of Chucky shoot
Seed Of Chucky, the fifth picture in the Child's Play franchise about berserk homicidal dolls, beganproduction in Romania yesterday (Mar 15).It joins a growing list ofhorror pictures which are shooting in the country including the completed TheMethod and Blessed and upcoming productions Man With A Movie Camera directed by Bernard ...
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Dukakis, McCarthy, others, join Serenade's Wonderful cast
Olympia Dukakis, JimGaffigan, Thomas McCarthy (writer/director of The Station Agent), and Naseeruddin Shah (Monsoon Wedding, TheLeague Of Extraordinary Gentlemen) havejoined Edie Falco, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Tony Shalhoub in the cast of TheGreat New Wonderful, the first projectfrom low-budget production house Serenade Films.The picture weaves togetherfive stories set against the backdrop ...
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Rickman signs for Manchester United Ruined My Life
AlanRickman, Derek Jacobi, Jason Isaacs, Janet McTeer and Henry Goodman are set tostar in Manchester United Ruined My Life, the feature debut of director Mark Brozel.The adaptation of Colin Shindler's best-sellingnovel is a rites of passage story about a Jewish boy in 50s and 60s Manchester,growing up under the shadow ...
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Yuzna embarks on Rottweiler shoot
Director Brian Yuzna has begun shooting on Rottweiler, his latest contribution to Filmax's FantasticFactory genre division.The film will shoot for seven weeks in and around Barcelona.The story follows a young man who,following his escape from an EU prison in Spain for African immigrants, setsout to find his lover. Hot ...
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Dash directs State Property II for Lions Gate
Production has begun in New York on Dash Films/ROC Films' StateProperty II, the sequelto Abdul Malik Abbott's crime drama about an ambitious group of gangsters thatwas released by Lions Gate in 2002.Damon Dash will direct based on a screenplay by Adam Moreno, withwhom he collaborated on last year's hip-hop satire ...
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Jet Set producers ready cult French surf comedy
DirectorJames Huth will begin shooting comedy Brice De Nice in mid-April in Nice and Biarritz.The film is based on a character created by comedian Jean Dujardin who hasbecome something of a cult figure in France in recent years.Brice DeNice is a hapless surfer - he can barely even swim - ...
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Irish production industry in low budget regime
For full Irish production listings, click HEREAdam And Paul, Man About Dog, Freeze Frame, Timbuktu, The Halo Effect, Cowboys And Angels, Headrush, Dead Meat, Bite, Starfish, Inside I'm Dancing, The Honeymooners, Jonjo Mickybo. It's a long list, a veritable catalogue of recently made Irish films, some of them just completed ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - March 15 2004
Ireland - March 15Pre-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). Genre: Thriller. Exec. Prods: Ralph Christians, Stephen Margolis, Michele Berk. Prods: Karel Dirka, Clodagh Freeman. Dir: Peter Medak. Scr: Agatha Dominik, Robert Newton. DoP: ...
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Cinecitta teams with Rome Film Commission to attract production
Seeking to provide international film-makers with a comprehensiveand competitive production package, Cinecitta Studios has partnered with Rome'sFilm Commission to offer financial and location services.The commission officially set up shop within the studio compoundin February and will provide assistance with gap financing, free andreduced-fee shooting permits and other services.A crucial component ...
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Malick's Che decision deals morale-denting blow to indie sector
Terence Malick's surprise decision to pull out of Che, a $40m picture about the life of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara that he had co-written, has dented the pride and perhaps the finances of sales house Wild Bunch - but the blow is unlikely to be fatal either to the French ...
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Judy Blume movie adaptations land at Disney
Bestselling children's author Judy Bloom, film-maker LawrenceBlume and producer Jane Startz have signed a multi-picture deal with WaltDisney Studios.The Blumes' Tashmoo Productions and Jane Startz Productions willadapt several books beginning with Deenie, which centres on a young woman'sstruggles to defy her parents' expectations and follow her dreams.Buena Vista Motion Picture ...
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Mortensen eyes big budget Alastride adaptation
Lord Of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen is in negotiations to take the lead in big budget Spanish production The Adventures Of Captain Alatriste for Spain's Telecinco and Origen PC.Mortensen, who speaks fluent Spanish, confirmed to Spanish press during a promotional trip to Madrid on Hidalgo that he was studying ...
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Veteran Italian producer juggles historic biopics
Renowned Italian executive and line producer Mario Cotone is currently developing two major international multi-million dollar projects that will both be backed by RAI and are set to shoot next autumn.The first is a long-gestating $25m movie about Matteo Ricci, a 16th century Italian Jesuit missionary and scientist who lived ...
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Spanish industry gets political
For full Spanish production listings click HERESpanish cinema has a long history of broaching social issues. Recent hits Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos) and Mondays In The Sun (Los Lunes Al Sol) are examples of films tackling hot topics such as domestic abuse and unemployment. Pedro Almodovar touches ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - March 9 2004
SPAIN - March 9PRE-PRODUCTIONNever Again (Nunca Mais)(Producciones do Pais Nunca Mais, MediaPro) Budget: Euros 620,000. Feature-length film made up of short films about the Prestige oil spill off Spain's Galicia coast. Exec prods: Suso Iglesias, Carlos Ares, Andres Mahia, Xose Castro, Jose Manuel Blanco. Dirs/scr: Gracia Querejeta, Joaquin Oristrell, Daniel ...
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Malaysia cranks up local production
Malaysiais poised to become the second largest film producer in South East Asia, thanksto an increasing number of pictures being churned out by local producers.Twoof the biggest producers in Malaysia are planning to increase film output thisyear: Metrowealth has set to make 11, up from six last year, while TayanganUnggul ...
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Walden denies Kidman link to Narnia
Walden Media has denied widespread rumours that Nicole Kidman is poised to take a major role in the forthcoming The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.Early this week, several New Zealand newspapers - including The New Zealand Herald, The Sunday Mail and The Dominion Post - reported that Kidman spent ...
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Kinnear, Davis join Brosnan black comedy Matador
GregKinnear and Hope Davis will join Pierce Brosnan in the black comedy Matador, which is being financed by Bob Yari and Mark Gordon's Stratus FilmCompany and is due to go into production in Mexico City in April.RichardShepard wrote the screenplay and will direct, with Irish DreamTime principalsBrosnan and Beau St ...
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Mabius, Ironside prey upon Payne's Reeker
Eric Mabius and Michael Ironside have signed on to thehorror film Reeker, which was writtenand is being directed by David Payne for Payne and Tina Illman's TheInstitution and Amanda Klein and Michael Nash's Primal Pictures.Mabius featured in Resident Evil and the upcoming Resident Evil: Apocalypse, while Ironside had a role ...