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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 ...
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Coen, Redler team up on prison thriller Breakback for Millennium
Chris Coen of Halcyon Entertainment and Dan Redler of Dan Redler Entertainment are teaming up to produce the $20m prison thriller Breakback for Avi Lerner's Millennium Films.Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Peter Wetherell will serve as executive producers on the picture, which is based on a screenplay developed by ...
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Turner to script BloodRayne for Uwe Boll
AmericanPsycho co-writerGuinevere Turner is writing the screenplay for Uwe Boll's adaptation of BloodRayne, based on the bestselling video gameabout a human-vampire hybrid who hunts down supernatural enemies.Shooting on the$15m production is due to kick off in the Greater Vancouver area and EasternEurope in late summer.Turner, whoseother writing credits include Go ...
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Batman Begins begins in Iceland for Warner Bros
Gary Oldman hasjoined the cast of Warner Bros' Batman Begins, which began shooting in Iceland thisweek and is being directed by Christopher Nolan.Oldman will play Lieutenant James Gordon, a detective onthe Gotham police force, and joins an illustrious cast that includes ChristianBale as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Michael Caine as his ...
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Von Trier completes Manderlay casting
Lars von Trier has rounded out the cast for Manderlay, the second film in his USA trilogy after Dogville, with a contingent of US stars.Danny Glover and John C. Reilly join the new leading lady Bryce Dallas Howard as well as Lauren Bacall, Jeremy Davies and Chloe Sevigny, who return ...
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Darclight readies Beowulf, Possession
Arclight genre label Darclight has announced that two films are about to go into pre-production.The supernatural thriller Possession, adapted from Peter James's novel, and Beowulf - Alien Meets Braveheart, inspired by the 9th Century Beowulf poem, both involve the UK's Spice Factory and film financier Movision Entertainment.The UK/Canadian co-production Possession ...
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Duguay signs on to direct The Runelords
Christian Duguay, whosecredits include The Art Of Warand the mini-series Hitler: Rise Of Evil, has been signed to direct the $80m fantasy adventure The Runelords which is being co-produced by Franchise Pictures,Story Island Entertainment, Canyonlight Entertainment and EntertainmentBusiness Group (EBG).The Runelords is the first of three sword and sorcery tales ...
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Cinema Service learns to speak Chinese
Korean major Cinema Servicehas tied up a multi-picture deal with Thomas Leong's Hong Kong productionoutfit Lotus Entertainment.While details of theagreement have yet to be finalised, the deal is understood to involve CinemaService financing a slate of Chinese pictures that Lotus will source, developand produce."We want to make genuinelyChinese films that ...
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Hong Kong looks forward to Monkey business
For full Hong Kong production listings click HEREEmperor Motion Picture Group's The Twins Effect II, the sequel to last year's blockbuster action comedy which is currently shooting in China, seems to encapsulate many things about the current mood in the Hong Kong film industry.Firstly, the film is crammed full of ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - March 1 2004
HONG KONG March 1 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONABNORMAL BEAUTY(Magic Head Film Production) Backers: Universe Entertainment. Int'l sales: Universe Films Distribution. Thriller. Twin brothers taste the soul of love and the meaning of life after accidentally exchanging their identities. Exec prod: Daneil Lam. Prod: Oxide Pang. Dir: Oxide Pang. Cast: Gillian Chung, Joey Yung. ...