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Hong Kong's JCE Movies unveils first project
Jackie Chan is set to star in an untitled police action film which will be the first fruit of a joint venture production company established by the Hong Kong star and local tycoon Albert Yeung.The film, which is scheduled to start shooting at the end of this month, will be ...
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Everett, Watson dive into The Woods with Fellowes
Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson and Rupert Everett will lead the cast in Julian Fellowes' directorial debut, A Way Through The Woods.Watson, who starred in Lars Von Triers Breaking The Waves, takes the role of Anne, happily married to James( Wilkinson,) until the arrival of Bill (Everett) turns their idyllic village ...
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SARS-effect still disrupting production
Two big-budget Hong Kong projects - Time Breaker, which is set to star Jackie Chan, and Hua Mulan, starring Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh - have been delayed, partly due to the impact that SARS has had on production in mainland China.Media Asia's US$40m Time Breaker, which was scheduled to ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - August 29 2003
HONG KONG - August 29 PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE EYE II(Applause Pictures) Budget: US$4m. Int'l sales: Fortissimo Film Sales. Genre: Horror. Prods: Peter Ho Sun Chan, Lawrence Cheng. Dirs: Danny and Oxide Pang. Scr: Jojo Hui. Shooting in Hong Kong and Thailand from September 2003. Release date: Spring 2004.Contact: Fortissimo Film Sales (852) ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - August 28 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalSOUTH KOREA - August 28PRE-PRODUCTIONBARAM-UI JEONSEOL(Film Mania) Budget: $2.3. Backer/int'l sales/dist: Cinema Service. Black comedy about a man who takes up ballroom dancing and falls in love. Scr/dir: Park Jeong-woo. Main cast: Lee Sung-jae, Park Seol-mi. Shooting from late September. Contact: Cinema Service, (82) 2192 8733CHEONG-YEON(Cineline II) Drama ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - June 27 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalHong Kong - June 27 PRE-PRODUCTIONANNA AND SHAOLIN (working title)(People's Production) Budget: $3.2m. Backer: Universe Entertainment. Int'l sales: Universe Films Distribution. Action comedy. Prods: Chan Hing Kai, Jimmy Law. Dir: Raymond Yip. Scr: Chan. Main cast: Ekin Cheng, Miriam Yeung. Shooting from July 2003 in Zhengzhou, Guangzhou and ...
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CZECH REPUBLIC Production Listings - June 6 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalCzech Republic - June 6PRE-PRODUCTIONADVERSE WINDS (protipoly)(Simply Sirena) Co-prod: Non Stop (Russ). Budget: e3m-e3.5m. Int’l sales: Fortissimo. Melodrama. Exec prods: Mathieu Bonpoint, Blanche Neumann. Co-prod: Yelena Yantsura. Dir: Artemio Benki. Scr: Benki, Armelle Verenka, Gilles Taurant. DoP: Igor Luther. Shooting from January to April 2004.Contact: Blanche Neumann, Simply ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - May 30 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalIreland - May 30PRE-PRODUCTIONAURORA ISLAND(Magma Films [Ire], Art Oko Film [Ger]) Co-prods: Future Films Ltd [UK]. Budget: e5m. Backers: Buena Vista Germany (Ger), First Look Media (US). Dist: First look Media (RoW exc North Am, Canada); Buena Vista (Ger). Thriller. Exec prods: Ralph Christians, Stephen Margolis, Michele Berk. ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - May 23 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalSpain - May 23PRE-PRODUCTIONBOHEMIAN SOUL (alma de bohemio)(Tesela Films) Drama. An Argentinian man living in Spain returns to Buenos Aires for his mother's funeral. Dir: Adolfo Aristarain. Scr: Aristarain, Kathy Saavedra. Main cast: Juan Diego Botto. Shooting from Aug 4 to Oct 10 in Spain and Argentina. Contact: ...
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AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND Prod Lists - May 9 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalAustralia & New Zealand - May 9AustraliaPRE-PRODUCTIONDECK DOGZ(b:j Films) Backers: Australian Film Finance Corporation, The Movie Network. Int'l sales: Arclight. Dist: UIP (Aust/NZ), Universal International (UK, Japan, Lat Am). Teen. The one big aim of a trio of skateboard riders is to meet their hero. Exec prod: Richard ...
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CANADA Production Listings - June 20 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalCanada - June 20PRE-PRODUCTIONCAMPING SAUVAGE(Lyla Film, Cine-Roman) Budget: $3.7m. Int'l sales/dist: Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm (Can). Backers: Telefilm, Sodec, Radio Canada. Comedy. Prods: Lyse Lafontaine, Tony Roman. Dir: Guy A Lepage. Scr: Luc Dery, Andre Ducharme, Luc Lapierre. Main cast: Sylvie Moreau, Lepage. Shooting from July 3 to Aug ...
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MEXICO Production Listings - May 2 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalMEXICO - May 2PRE-PRODUCTIONANIMA SOLITARIA (working title)(Media Pro) Budget: $1.5m. Backer: Melodrama. Drama. The 1913 Mexican revolution: a heroine fights against her destiny in search of her true love. Prod: Jorge Castillo. Dir: Ernesto Medina. Scr: Carmen Limon. Ed: Castillo, Medina.Contact: Media Pro, (52) 55 5662 1624AMAPOLA(Altavista Films) ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - June 13 2003
South Korea - June 13PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE GOD HAND(Dream Search Entertainment) Budget: $3m. Int'l sales/dist: Showbox. Drama. Based on the story of a legendary martial arts fighter who left Korea for Japan in the early 20th century. Exec prod: Victor Hwang. Prod: Jung Yong-il. Dir/scr: Yang Yun-ho. Ed: Park Soon-duk. Music: Park ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Production Listings - April 11 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalEASTERN EUROPE - April 11ESTONIAPRE-PRODUCTIONAND THERE IS HELL IN YOUR HAND (sinu kates on pogutuli)(F-Setse) Tragi-comedy. A man comes to Estonia, gets rich and loses in love. Prod: Reet Sokmann. Dir/scr: Valentin KuikContact: Reet Sokmann, F-Setse, (372) 601 5983DOMINOES (doomino)(Kairiin Studio) David Lynch-style thriller. A Western businessman who ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod lists - July 4
Copyright: Screen InternationalAUSTRIA/GERMANY & SWITZERLAND - July 4AUSTRIAPRE-PRODUCTIONIM JAHR DES PFERDES (Wildart Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien, BKA, Land Upper Austria. Documentary. Story of the Asian community in Vienna and the Khmer in Helsinki and Cambodia. Prod: Vincent Lucassen. Dir/scr: Ebba Sinzinger. DoP: Wolfgang Thaler. Ed: Karina Ressler. Shooting from summer ...
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ITALY Production Listings - August 22 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalItaly - August 22PRE-PRODUCTIONALL'OMBRA DEL PADRE(Tea Nova) Prod/dir: Rean Mazzone. Scr: Denis Jacobs. Main cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Volter, Stefania Sandrelli.Contact: Tea Nova, (39) 06 625 9260ANNI RAPACI(Poetiche Cinematografiche) Budget: $3m. Backer: Telepiu. Dist: Sharada (It). Traces 20 years in the life of a major southern Italian organised ...
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UA options the rights to Snake Hips
United Artists has optionedthe rights to Anna Thomas Soffee's memoir Snake Hips and will develop the project with Hart SharpEntertainment.Published in 2002, SnakeHips is a comic account of the30-year-old authoris life as a relationship ends and she moves back homewith her parents in Virginia, where she reconnects with her Lebanese ...
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Strangler wraps for Tartan, New Horizon
The Hillside Strangler, the horror-thriller collaboration between HamishMcAlpine's UK-based Tartan Film and actor Alexa Jago and property tycoonJohn Stienfield's Los Angeles-based New Horizon Pictures, is due to wrap in LosAngeles on Aug 17.C Thomas Howell (TheHitcher, Gods & Generals) andNicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue)star in the true-life story of Kenneth Bianchi ...
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Stroke Of Genius tees up in Scotland
Scottish-based production company McDongall films is to co-ordinate the Scottish element of the $15m US indie biopic Bobby Jones - Stroke Of Genius, which starts shooting in St Andrews on August 24. Directed by Rowdy Herrington, the LLC, Dean River Productions film stars Jim Caviezel as the legendary American golfer ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - August 15 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalNORDIC TERRITORIES - August 15DENMARKPRE-PRODUCTIONBIG PLANS(Angel Productions) Budget: dkr13.2m. Backer: Danish Film Institute, TV2/Denmark, TV2/Norway, RUV. Dist: Angel Distribution (Den). Comedy. A paroled crook decides to reform his old gang to prove to his eight-year-old son that he is not a failure. Exec prods: Poul Erik Lindeborg, Mogens ...