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    Hong Kong production cycles getting longer

    2003-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Production cycles are starting to get longer in Hong Kong which was once renowned for its "one-month" movies. As a result, three films scheduled for release during Chinese New Year next January are already in the can and undergoing an unusually lengthy post-production process.Media Asia's Magic Kitchen and Mandarin Films' ...

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    Cecchi Gori lines up Andreotti biopic

    2003-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Troubled Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has announced that he will produce a picture about another notorious Italian personality, seven-time prime minister Giulio Andreotti.Directed by Pasquale Squitieri, the picture will be entitled The Trial Of The Century (Il Processo Del Secolo) and will focus on 84-year-old Andreotti's infamous decade-long ...

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    HONG KONG Production Listings - Nov 11

    2003-11-10T00:00:00Z

    HONG KONG November 10PRE-PRODUCTIONCOMA(Filmko Pictures) Budget: US$1.4m. Int'l sales: Filmko Films Distribution. Thriller. Dir: Lo Chi-leung. Scr: Susan Lam. Prod des: Man Lim Chung. Cast: Karena Lam, Angelica Lee Sin-Je. Shooting in Hong Kong from November 2003 until the end of January 2004.Contact: Katherine Lee, Filmko Films Distribution, (852) 2379 ...

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    Blethyn, Bonneville join cast of Myriad's Piccadilly Jim

    2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

    BrendaBlethyn and Hugh Bonneville have been cast in the comedy Piccadilly Jim, joining Sam Rockwell and TomWilkinson in the adaptation of the P.G. Wodehouse classic novel scripted byOscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes.Set tobegin shooting this month in the UK under director John McKay (Crush), Piccadilly Jim is set in 1930's England, ...

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    Disney signs Brother Bear film-makers to their next film

    2003-11-03T04:00:00Z

    The threefilm-makers behind Buena Vista's animated feature Brother Bear, which grossed $18.5m at the weekend(Oct 31-Nov 2), have signed a deal to make their next feature for Walt DisneyFeature Animation.Directors AaronBlaise and Robert Walker and producer Chuck Williams will reprise their roleson an unspecified project for the studio. All three ...

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    South Korean production update

    2003-11-03T00:00:00Z

    For the latest South Korean production details - see International Production ListingsThe South Korean production sector's push towards dramas and romantic comedies appears to be intensifying, following the box-office failure of big-budget genre pictures in recent years. This trend peaked in September with the box-office crash of Natural ...

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    SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - November 3 2003

    2003-11-03T00:00:00Z

    SOUTH KOREA - November 3PRE-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. Shooting in China, Korea, and U.S.A from ...

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    Italian production round-up

    2003-10-27T00:00:00Z

    For the latest Italian listings, see International production ListingsA wealth of hotly-anticipated pictures are currently being made in Italy: These include Cuore Sacro, a new picture by Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek, whose last two films, Ignorant Fairies and Facing Windows have become local blockbusters. Produced by his regular partners, ...

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    ITALY Production Listings - October 27 2003

    2003-10-27T00:00:00Z

    ITALIAN LISTINGS October 27PRE-PRODUCTIONALL'OMBRA DEL PADRE(Tea Nova) Exec prod/dir: Rean Mazzone. Scr: Denis Jacobs. Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Volter, Stefania Sandrelli.Contact: Tea Nova, (39) 06 625 9260AMAMI(Tangram Film) Backer: Fondo di Garanzia (It). Drama about a woman who has recently separated from her husband and realises that she can be ...

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    Warner Independent teams with Cherry Road

    2003-10-22T04:00:00Z

    WarnerIndependent Pictures, the specialty arm of Warner Bros which launched in August2003, has secured a development and co-production fund with Cherry Road Films.Under the dealthe two companies will jointly develop projects - mostly from books, plays orpre-existing screenplays - with writers, directors and other producers.Cherry Road willalso have the opportunity ...

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    Cucinotta wraps two Italian features

    2003-10-20T04:05:00Z

    Italian star Maria Grazia Cucinotta, who shot to fame in Il Postino, has just finished shooting two Italian features.The Sicilian actress stars alongside Brooke Shields and Chevy Chase in Mariti In Affitto (Husbands For Rent), a comedy about a man who leaves his his wife and children and home on ...

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    UK Production Update - October 20

    2003-10-20T00:00:00Z

    UK Production Update - October 20IN PRODUCTION:CREEP (Dan Films, Zero West [Ger]) Backers: UK Film Council's Premiere Fund, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalia (NRW). Int'l sales: Capitol Films. Dist: Pathe (UK), X-Filme (Ger). Horror film set in subterranean London. London, midnight, on a cold evening. Unable to find a taxi, Kate (Franka Potente) ...

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    First of many Marlowe films to start shooting

    2003-10-17T04:05:00Z

    Fast rising British actor Tom Hardy is to star as Elizabethan playwright - and spy, occultist and sexually-ambiguous free thinker - Christopher Marlowe.Hardy, a graduate of the young ensemble casts of Band Of Brothers and Black Hawk Down, is donning the doublet for UK producer Andy Paterson, who is currently ...

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    The Good Cop attracts great cast

    2003-10-17T04:05:00Z

    Danish stuntman-turned-filmmaker Lasse Spang Olsen and actor Kim Bodnia have joined forces to set up their own production outfit, Endaxi Film, to make the action comedy The Good Cop. This is a continuation of the working relationship they have had on three films, the two successful action-comedies In China They ...

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    Chrysler Film Festival winner starts shooting in US

    2003-10-17T04:00:00Z

    Filming began in Virginiathis week on Jeff Wadlow's directorial debut Living The Lie, the winner of the first Chrysler Million DollarFilm Festival in 2002.Doug Liman'sentertainment company Hypnotic is producing in association with Chrysler, withUniversal set to release in spring 2004.The thriller centres on agroup of older boarding school children caught ...

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    Luna lined up to star in romantic road movie Solo Dios Sabe

    2003-10-16T04:00:00Z

    Diego Luna, who seizedglobal attention after his star turn opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in Y TuMama Tambien, has been lined up tostar in Mexican-Brazilian co-production Solo Dios Sabe.Theromantic drama/ road movie, co-written and to be directed by Luna's long-timefriend Carlos Bolado (Bajo California: El Limite Del Tiempo) of Mexico, will ...

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    Evil director returns to school for ghost story

    2003-10-15T04:05:00Z

    While Mikael Haafstroem's adaptation of Jan Guillou's autobiographical bestseller, Evil (Ondskan), is still dominating the local box-office, he has started shooting his new film Strandvaskeren (literally 'the body washed ashore') outside Stockholm. A co-production between Hans Lonnerheden's Greta Film and Nordisk Film's H.P. Lundh, the SKR16.8m psychological thriller takes place ...

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    GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod Lists - Oct 14

    2003-10-14T00:00:00Z

    AUSTRIA - Oct 14IN PRODUCTIONDER TRAUM VOM SCHWEBEN(Bonus Film) Co-prod: Troika Entertainment (Ger), BBR Productions (Can). Backer: BKA, Cine Tirol, Filmstiftung NRW, ARTE. Documentary. The only male synchronised swimming trio in Europe has found the sport of its life. Prods: Robert Winkler, Christian Vizi, Susanne Girard. Dir/scr: Barbara Graftner. DoP: ...

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    Intermission joins landmark year at Irish box office

    2003-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Intermission hit the Euros 2m milestone for BVI at Irish cinemas on Wednesdaynight, adding to the lustre of 2003 as a landmark year at the local box officefor films made in Ireland. With several strong titles yet to be released in the final quarterIrish-made films have already reached a combined ...

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    Bertolucci ready to plunge into Hell And Paradise

    2003-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Bernardo Bertolucci, whose erotic Venice Film Festival title TheDreamers is to be releasedin Italy this weekend, looks set to finally start shooting his long-awaitedpicture about 16th century Italian composer Gesualdo da Venosa.Although he first announced plans to make a movie aboutGesualdo way back in 1997, the Oscar-winning director said he ...