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India's Zee Telefilms unveils expansion plans
Zee Telefilms, India's largest listed media company, plans to invest $30m over the next two years in the production and distribution of Indian films. The company will also set up a distribution network for Indian films overseas. Zee has appointed film producer Nittin Keni - formerly with National Film Development ...
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Start-up UK production outfit to shoot William Blake biopic
Acclaimed British artist Sam Taylor-Wood is to make her feature directorial debut with Jerusalem, a film based on the life of William Blake starring Ray Winstone as the celebrated artist, poet and religious visionary.Jerusalem will be the first film from Flicks Productions, a new production company formed by agent and ...
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Von Trotta, Rothemund get Bavarian cash funding
New films by Margarethe von Trotta and Marc Rothemund are among the projects awarded a total of Euros 3m by the Bavarian regional film fund FFF Bayern.Von Trotta received the highest sum of Euros 700,000 for her new project Ich Bin Die Andere (I Am The Other Woman) about the ...
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Malaysia's Metrowealth to almost double film production
Malaysia's Metrowealth Movies Production has an ambitious target for 2004 - aiming to produce 10 Malay-language films, almost doubling this year's output of six films made at a total cost of $22.1m (RM84m).With six films under its belt, Metrowealth is already the most active producer of 2003. Of these, Cinta ...
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Koltai, Golan ready WWII dramas
Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lajos Koltai (Taking Sides, Malena) and veteran Israeli producer-director Menahem Golan have both announced feature projects about the devastating impact of the Nazis on Jews in Europe.Koltai will be making his directorial debut with adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz's novel Fateless which will begin an 11-week ...
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Production schedules aim for holidays
For full Japanese production listings click hereJapanese production, particularly at the top end of the market, is geared toward the four peak periods of New Year's, spring break, Golden Week, and summer vacation. Spring break in March is nearly a month-long holiday for most college students, while Golden Week, ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - December 8 2003
Japan - December 8PRE-PRODUCTION BOKUNO CHIKYU WA AOKATTA(Rumble Fish) Int'l sales: Rumble Fish. Human drama. A boy, whose brother mysteriously disappears, goes on a search for his sibling and his own identity. Prod: Takenori Sento. Dir: Hitoshi Yazaki. Shooting in Japan in 2004.Contact: Kumi Sato, Rumble Fish, (81) 3 5718 ...
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First-time directors line up for autumn shoots
For full current listings click here A host of projects by first-time directors went before the camera this autumn. For a start, Tatiana Brandrup has just returned from three weeks of shooting in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi for her feature debut Caucasian Business (Kaukasischer Coup) with Italian For ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod Lists - Dec 1 2003
AUSTRIA - December 1IN PRE-PRODUCTIONCRASH TEST DUMMIES(Amour Fou Filmproduktion) Co-prod: Catpics Co-productions (Switz). Backers: OFI, ORF, Filmfonds Wien. A Romanian couple are stranded in Vienna without any money, drift apart and have both changed when they are finally reunited. Prods: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu. Dir/scr: Joerg Kalt. DoP: Eva Testor. ...
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Busy new year ahead for Oz production
For full current production listings click hereThere are just four films in production in Australia for the next three months, The Human Touch, some of which has already been shot in France, The Oyster Farmer, Ten Canoes and the Kennedy Miller animation Happy Feet. There may be an unknown ...
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AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND Prod Lists - Nov 25 2003
AUSTRALIA - November 25PRE-PRODUCTIONIRRESISTIBLE(Irresistible Films, Kennedy Mellor, Spice Factory, Movision Entertainment) Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, Movision. Int'l sales: Arclight. Dist: Palace (Aust/NZ), Momentum (UK), Blue Star (Italy). Psychological thriller. Sophie Hartley is convinced she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker, Mara, wants her ...
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Barenholtz et al buy movie rights to comic strip AstroCity
Ben Barenholtz,Kurt Busiek and Jonathan Alpers have teamed up to form the partnership PanamaLeo LLC and acquired all film rights to the comic book series AstroCity.AstroCity, whichdebuted in 1955 at Image Comics, is the brainchild of Busiek and tells storiesof humans living in a wildly superhuman world. Busiek will be ...
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Alex de la Iglesia unveils his new film, Ferpect Crime
Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia has unveiled details of his new film, Ferpect Crime (Crimen Ferpecto), prior to a ten-week shoot to roll in Madrid and Seville next Monday, November 17.The director of such cult hits as Day Of The Beast and Common Wealth called the new film, about ...
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Spanish films get increased TV funding
For full current Spanish production listings see the International Production Listings section, or click here.In what would appear a reversal of fortune for both Hollywood studios and local feature films, Spanish broadcasters are cutting spending on foreign film acquisitions in favour of more local product. The projects they are ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - November 17 2003
Spain November 17PRE PRODUCTIONOxygen (Oxigeno)(Morena Films, Mikado [It], Tubedale [UK]) Budget: E 6.6m. Thriller. Based on real events reconstructing what may have happened aboard a submarine that sunk off the coast of Spain at midnight on New Year's Eve, 1936. Prods: Juan Gordon, Roberto Cicutto, Carl Clifton. Dir: Alvaro Fernandez ...
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Hating Alison Ashley rises again
Scriptwriter Christine Madafferi's adaptation of Robin Klein's coming-of-age book Hating Alison Ashley is back on track, albeit with a new director, following yesterday's decision by Film Finance Corporation Australia to again back the project. Hating Alison Ashley was approved in May with LA-based expatriate Rod Hardy in the director's chair ...
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Osborne prepares Magic Fingers in NZ
Producer Barrie M Osborne, who relocated from the US to New Zealand to work with director Peter Jackson on The Lord Of The Rings, is set to continue his relationship with the country - and to keep putting myth and fantasy up on the big screen. He is now in ...
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De Palma signs on for Signature's Dahlia
Brian De Palma has signed on to direct The Black Dahlia, the film of the James Ellroy classic noir novel which is being sold here by new sales company Signature Pictures International. Josh Hartnett is in negotiations to star in the film which is being produced by Art Linson, who ...
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De Palma signs on for Signature's Dahlia
Brian De Palma has signed on to direct The Black Dahlia, the film of the James Ellroy classic noir novel which is being sold here by new sales company Signature Pictures International. Josh Hartnett is in negotiations to star in the film which is being produced by Art Linson, who ...
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Good Woman starts shooting
Mike Barker's A Good Woman, billed as a scandalous but comic tale set in New York and Italy's Amalfi Coast during the 1930s, has begun principal photography on location in Sorrento.Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson star in the film, which is based on Oscar Wilde's classic play Lady ...