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Romania's Silver Bullet launches London office
Romanian production company Silver Bullet Film has opened a London office as part of a move to lure UK productions to shoot in the country.Silver Bullet Film was founded by cinematographer Viorel Sergovici who has shot more than thirty film features and over 150 commercials. His recent credits include the ...
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Eastern Europe production overview
For full Eastern European production listings click HEREMost production outfits in the East have hunkered down to complete post-production during the cold, dark winter months after the short and frantic shooting season of summer and autumn.In Russia 2003 was the best year for film production since 1991 with more ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Production listings - Jan 26 2004
RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONELIZABETH AND KLODIL (ELIZAVETA I KLODIL)(Krug Film Studio) Co-prod: Mosfilm (Russia) Backer: Service of Cinematography of the Russian Ministry of Culture. Adventure film about two 15-year old girls - Russian and French - who run away from their families and go to one of the resorts in the South of ...
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SPC climbs Merchant Ivory's Heights
Sony PicturesClassics has extended its distribution ties with Merchant Ivory Productions byacquiring North American rights to Heights, a low budget comedy of manners set in contemporaryManhattan.SPC is alsonegotiating to acquire international territories on the film, a $2-3m MerchantIvory production that stars Elizabeth Banks, Glenn Close, James Marsden, JesseBradford and John ...
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New Films Int'l trades for Merchant Of Venice
New Films International (NFI)has acquired Michael RadfordC;s The Merchant Of Venice for distribution across Latin America, EasternEurope, Turkey and the Baltic States, in a deal struck with Arclight FilmsThe $30m Shakespeareadaptation, which stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, is currentlyin production in Luxembourg and scheduled for release in ...
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New Films Int'l trades for Merchant Of Venice
New Films International (NFI)has acquired Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice for distribution across Latin America, EasternEurope, Turkey and the Baltic States, in a deal struck with Arclight FilmsThe $30m Shakespeareadaptation, which stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, is currentlyin production in Luxembourg and scheduled for release in ...
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Nordic film industries look to increased government funding
For full Nordic listings click HEREAlthough the Nordic film industries can look back on 2003 as a year when local market shares either boomed - as in Norway and Finland - or maintained a solid streak - as in Denmark and Sweden - the many unresolved issues of ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - January 19 2004
DENMARK - January 19IN PRE-PRODUCTIONEUROTRASH(Wise Guy Productions) Co-prod: Zentropa Productions. Budget: Euros 1.1m. Dist: Sandrew Metronome (Den). Youth drama about two friends' attempt to get out of their miserable life in the concrete ghetto by robbing the local superDenmarket. Exec prod: Peter Aalbaek Jensen. Prod: Thomas Stegler. Dir/scr: Stefano Gonzalez. ...
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Lakeshore dives into Romania with Cave
Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems have settled on Romania as the location for the shoot of their action-thriller Prime Evil aka Cave.The picture, which is scheduled to shoot from March, had long been pencilled in to use East European locations. Lakeshore recently settled on Romania and has begun constructing sets ...
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Spanish cinema stuck in 'vicious circle' says Academy
Spanish cinema is stuck in a "vicious circle" of debility and dependence, the Spanish Cinema Academy suggested in its annual report on the local film sector, presented on Thursday in Madrid.The so-called "Crisis" of Spanish film production - the title of last year's report - is far from resolved, ...
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UK production spend hits record level
Film production spend hit record levels in the UK last year, rising 113% on 2002 totals, according to new figures published by the UK Film Council.Production spend on films starting principal photography during 2003 stood at £1.17bn by year end - more than double the £550.45m spent in 2002.The Film ...
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New films from high-profile Italian directors
For full Italian production listings click HEREMarking the first concrete steps in Vittorio Cecchi Gori's long-awaited comeback, the troubled film mogul currently has two films lined up for 2004.Currently in post-production is a new project by popular Roman actor-director Carlo Verdone entitled Love Is Eternal - For As Long ...
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ITALY Production Listings - January 12 2004
Italy - January 12 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONADIUS, LA FESTA E' FINITA(Verdecchi Film) Backing: Fondo di Garanzia) Word gets out in high-flying Roman society 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: ...
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New LA production outfit Prospect Pictures launched with Wall Street backing
Director Marcos Siega, producer Matthew Weaver and financier CarlLevin have announced the launch LA-based film and television company ProspectPictures.The company will be led by partners Siega, who directed theupcoming action comedy The Underclassman for Miramax, Weaver, who produced the Miramax comedy MyBaby's Daddy which opensin the US this week, and ...
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Refn to revisit Pusher
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn will return to his roots with a follow-up to his 1996 debut and breakthrough film Pusher.Shooting from late January, Pusher II will see the local heartthrob Mads Mikkelsen (Open Hearts, The Green Butchers, King Arthur) reprise his role from the first film, but this time ...
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Towne teams with Carlton for another remake of The 39 Steps
The Oscar winning writer and director Robert Towne (Chinatown,Shampoo) has signed adeal with Carlton International Media to remake The 39 Steps, John Buchan's classic thriller that wasfirst filmed, famously, by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935.Towne will write and direct thestory about a man who becomes embroiled in a complex murder plot ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Tax-driven film financing develops funding alternatives
For the latest UK production listings click HEREWith the UK's film tax funding in flux, financiers, producers and even two US studios are flocking to a new breed of fund that is not reliant on the current regulations under Section 48.The latest fund devised under general accountancy principles rather ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...