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Shochiku crosses swords again with Yamada
Shochiku is to produce andsell Kakushi Ken Oni No Tsume,the next picture by Yoji Yamada, director of this year's foreign language Oscarnominee Twilight Samurai.Production begins this month with the Japanese release scheduled for the autumn.The picture is anotherperiod Samurai drama that includes a love story that transcends class barriers.It is ...
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Czech producers battle against the odds
For full Czech listings click HEREFollowing 2003's banner year for local cinema, Czech producers are looking out for another winner. But with the usual local sources of film funds drying up and with a slate of upcoming releases that includes only a few of the most famous Czech directors, ...
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CZECH REPUBLIC Production Lists - Febuary 25 2004
IN PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BEST FILMS OF OUR LIVES (NEJLEPSI FILMY NASEHO ZIVOTA)(Negativ) Black comedy. A Tajik emigre comes to the US to show a stolen film at a film festival, an American crook is disowned by his daughter for acting in a porn movie when he was young, and two Japanese ...
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Oz popstar signs for lead role in Hating Alison Ashley
Australian pop princess and former Neighbours star Delta Goodrem has made a move into movies by accepting the title role of Hating Alison Ashley, which goes into production in the first half of this year in Melbourne."I have been offered quite a few roles over the past two years and ...
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Grosvenor Films turns to EIS scheme for Messages
Grosvenor Films, a new UK production company, aims to raise up to £2m through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), a tax-based funding mechanism unaffected by this month's clamp down.The cash raised is to finance supernatural thriller Messages, which is scheduled to begin shooting this year at Ealing Studios. Grosvenor Films ...
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Frustration mounts as producers await tax decision
Producerswere forced to wait another day yesterday to hear if any transition arrangementswere to be made for films hit by last week's UK tax clamp down.Despitemany industry insiders being hopeful of news as early as Wednesday, sourcesclose to talks with the government said on Thursday that it was still"too close ...
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Infernal Affairs star backs gangster thriller
Andy Lau's Focus Films is co-financing a $5m (HK$40m) gangster thriller, Jiang Hu, which combines a stellar cast with one of Hong Kong's most promising new directors.The film, which started shooting earlier this month, reunites many stars from recent Hong Kong blockbuster Infernal Affairs including Lau himself, Eric Tsang, Edison ...
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Korea looks to crowded spring release schedule
For full listings click HERESouth Korea has seen a large number of films wrap shooting last month, foreshadowing a crowded release schedule in late spring.The list includes a number of Cannes hopefuls, such as arthouse favourite Hong Sang-soo's fifth feature Woman Is The Future Of Man. Having two ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - February 17 2004
SOUTH KOREA - February 17PRE-PRODUCTIONCHEONG-YEON(Cineline II) Backer/dist: Korea Pictures. Drama about Korea's first female aviator, who lived in the 1920s. Prod: Seok Myung-hong. Dir: Yoon Jong-chan. Scr: Lee In-hwa, Yoon Jong-chan. Main cast: Jang Jin-young, Kim Ju-hyuk, Yu Min. Shooting in China, Korea, and US from late February.Contact: Korea Pictures, ...
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Delpy lines up dark directorial debuts
In Berlin with competition title Before Sunset, actress Julie Delpy has revealed further details of her two new directorial projects, both of which are slated to feature roles for her Before Sunset co-star, Ethan Hawke.The $4m Tell Me is a modern fairy tale about a woman trapped with a man ...
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Mar del Plata chief embarks on Village shoot
Miguel Pereira, head of Latin America's leading film festival, Mar del Plata, is due to start principal photography on his latest feature film days after the festival closes.He is in Berlin this week helping artistic producer Mauro Andrizzi put the finishing touches to the festival line-up. Twelve films have been ...
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Sundance programme alumnus Hartsfield wins Maryland Fellowship
Caran Hartsfield's drama Bury Me Standing will receive the 2004 Producers Club ofMaryland Fellowship, set up to help a Sundance Institute Feature Film Programmealumnus with a feature project.The annual fellowship provides a $10,000 grant to help fund afilmmaker's post-Sundance Lab and pre-production expenses, which may includecasting, budgeting, and location scouting.Caran ...
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Mendes unveils debut Scamp slate
Oscar winningdirector Sam Mendes has launched Scamp Film And Theatre, a new London basedfilm and theatre production company with co-directors Pippa Harris and CaroNewling.The company hasalso unveiled a high profile film development slate, which includes projectsfrom some of the UK's top TV dramatists such as Paul Abbott, David Yatesand Peter ...
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Mendes unveils Scamp debut slate
Oscar winningdirector Sam Mendes has launched Scamp Film And Theatre, a new London basedfilm and theatre production company with co-directors Pippa Harris and CaroNewling.The company hasalso unveiled a high profile film development slate, which includes projectsfrom some of the UK's top TV dramatists such as Paul Abbott, David Yatesand Peter ...
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Tupperware! movie in the works at Crossroads
Crossroads Films has optioned film rights to Laurie Kahn-Leavitt'sdocumentary Tupperware!and plans to turn it into a narrative feature charting the history of therevolutionary kitchenware design.Narrated by Kathy Bates, Tupperware! made its national debut on PBS'sAmerican Experience strand; it traces the rise of reclusive inventor Earl Tupper'shumble plastic bowls to the ...
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Bill Nighy joins voice cast of Magic Roundabout
Pathe has signed Bill Nighy - to voice the character of the rabbit, Dylan, for its CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.Nighy rounds out the previously announced voice cast members for the film of The Magic Roundabout, which is based on the classic cult TV series of the same name, ...
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Fuji TV to shoot submarine thriller
The Fuji TV network, the makers of last year's number one hit Bayside Shakedown 2, have announced the production of a submarine thriller set in the closing days of World War II.Titled Lorelei, the film will star Koji Yakusho (Eureka, Warm Water Under A Red Bridge) and 16-year-old newcomer Yu ...
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Equinoxe launches production venture
Billy Bob Thornton is in talks to star in Three Bad Men, an $11m Canada-UK co-production backed by Myriad Pictures, Anthony Minghella's and Sydney Pollock's Mirage Enterprises, David Barron and Paul Weiland's UK production outfit Contagious Films and newly-launched Canadian venture Equinoxe Productions.Weiland is set to direct the Peter Straughan-scripted ...
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Francesca Neri to produce erotic adaptation
Italian actress Francesca Neri has announced that she will soon produce her first film, an adaptation of Italy's literary sensation of 2003: an erotic diary written by a 17-year-old Sicilian schoolgirl.The diary, entitled Cento Colpi Di Spazzola Prima Di Andare A Dormire (literally, one hundred brushes before bed time) was ...
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Tonic buys short story collection by Wagner for possible horror franchise
Producer Lauren Moews' Tonic Films has acquired Death Angel'sShadow, a collection ofthree short stories by fantasy author Karl Edward Wagner featuring the cultanti-hero character of Kane.The deal was brokered by Moews for Tonic Films and by theIntellectual Property Group on behalf of the Pimlico Agency of New York.Moews is planning ...