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Stone, Farrell push on in fierce Morocco desert
Oliver Stone and Colin Farrell made an appearance at the MarrakechInternational Film Festival today (Oct 6) to talk up Stone's Fidel Castrodocumentary Comandanteand his $150m historical epic Alexander, which has now entered the third week of production at asite 35km south of Marrakech.The pair were on ebullient form at a ...
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Lombardo says ciao to Miramax Italia
Miramax'stop executive in Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo, will now switch to a "bigger-picturerole" for the company, serving as a personal European investment advisor toco-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Lombardo'snew role means that London-based senior vice president of production GinaGardini will now become Miramax's primary executive liaising with the Italianfilm and television ...
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Eco's medieval epic joins desert crusade
Thomas Schuehly, the producer of Oliver Stone's Alexander, is planning to return to Morocco withhis next project, an adaptation of Umberto Eco's medieval historical novel Baudolino that he hopes to shoot in 2005.Schuehly, who was also executive produced the screen adaptation ofEco's The Name Of The Rose, is trying to ...
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Brazil introduces film investment schemes
The fledgling government of Brazil's President Luis Inacio'Lula' da Silva is poised to announce a new subsidy grant of $9.2m (Reals 25m)towards film production.This is welcome news for a film community that has suffered fromrecent cutbacks in film investment from the public sector. State-owned companies such as BR, BNDES and ...
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UK Production Listings - October 6 2003
UNITED KINGDOM - October 6PRE-PRODUCTIONBRONTE (Random Harvest Pictures) Budget: $12m. Period drama. The moors above Yorkshire are harsh and life is severe for the Bronte family. Follows the lives of the famous writing family. Exec prods: Tim Smith, Melvyn Singer. Prods: Alistair Maclean-Clark, Basil Stephens. Dir: Marleen Gorris. Scr: Angela ...
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Taiwan readies first teenage gay comedy
Reflecting the new commercial sensibility amongst Taiwan's young filmmakers, production starts October 7 on a film that it described as Taiwan's first ever teenage gay comedy. Formula 17, produced by start-up production company Three Dots Entertainment, is a light-hearted fable about a gay 17-year-old boy who moves to Taipei for ...
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Bolivia celebrates box office smash with Dependency
A Bolivian /USco production is making box office waves in Bolivia. Already dubbed theBolivian Titanic,Rodrigo Bellott's Sexual Dependency beat US blockbusters Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle at the local box office over the weekend. With just twoprints, the teen drama attracted 360,000 admissions in ...
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UK Production Update - September 29
UK Update - September 29IN PRODUCTIONUNTITLED MIKE LEIGH 03 (Thin Man Films) Int'l sales: Studio Canal. Exec prods: Alain Sarde, Robert Jones, Gail Egan, Duncan Reid. Line prod: Georgina Lowe. Prod: Simon Channing Williams. Dir/scr: Mike Leigh. DoP: Dick Pope. Ed: Jim Clark. Prod des: Eve Stewart. Costume des: ...
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JAPAN Production listings - September 29 2003
JAPAN Production Listings - Sept 29PRE-PRODUCTIONBOKUNO CHIKYU WA AOKATTA(Rumble Fish) Int'l sales: Rumble Fish. Human drama. A boy, whose brother mysteriously disappeared, 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 ...
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French budget hikes production aid by 4.8%
Asmuch as 531.8m euros has been set aside for French film and TV production nextyear under the promising new budget outlined this afternoon in Paris by Frenchculture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon. Thatfigure represents a 4.8% jump from 2003 and is made up largely of funds comingfrom the National Cinema Center's (CNC) ...
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Clavier to produce debut French comedy
Marie-Anne Chazel will begin shooting Au Secours, J'ai 30 Ans (Help, I'm 30) on October 6, a comedy produced by French comic actor Christian Clavier.The film is based on the best selling novel The Last Chance Club by Mariane Keyes.Chazel, an actress best known to French audiences for her participation ...
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Intermedia's Alexander begins shooting in Morocco
Principal photography hasbegun in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Oliver Stone's Alexander The Great project for Intermedia, which Warner Bros willrelease in the US in November 2004.Colin Farrell stars in thelead role as the all-conquering ancient leader, and the film also starsAngelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Rosario Dawson, Jared Leto andJonathan ...
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Contentfilm, Alec Baldwin team up for Swimmer remake
Ed Pressman and John Schmidt's New York-based production anddistribution outfit ContentFilm is to remake the 1968 drama The Swimmer in conjunction with Alec Baldwin's ElDorado Pictures and Vincent Farrell's Iron Films.Baldwin will star in the project, reprising Burt Lancaster's roleas an errant suburbanite who returns home one day by swimming ...
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MTV strikes first European film production alliance
MTV Films Europe, looking to produce a slate of low-budgetyouth-orientated films in a variety of local languages, has turned to Spain forits first alliance.An agreement with Spanish consultancy Intuition Media'snew production arm Intuition Films is designed to funnel projects and potentialco-productions in Spain and Portugal to the iconic music network.Speaking ...
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MTV strikes first European film production alliance
MTV Films Europe, looking to produce a slate of low-budgetyouth-orientated films in a variety of local languages, has turned to Spain forits first alliance.An agreement with Spanish consultancy Intuition Media'snew production arm Intuition Films is designed to funnel projects and potentialco-productions in Spain and Portugal to the iconic music network.Speaking ...
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Spanish film industry in flux
Key changes to the Spanishfilm industry were announced this weekend at the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 18-28).Production, facilities andrights management giant MediaPro unveiled its acquisition of post-productioncompany Molinare and a majority stake in another, Mozart. The new acquisitions givethe company a strong new foothold in the film, TV and ...
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Spanish film industry in flux
Key changes to the Spanishfilm industry were announced this weekend at the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 18-28).Production, facilities andrights management giant MediaPro unveiled its acquisition of post-productioncompany Molinare and a majority stake in another, Mozart. The new acquisitions givethe company a strong new foothold in the film, TV and ...
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Bell lands the lead role in Vinterberg's Wendy
17year-old British star Jamie Bell has landed the plum lead part in ThomasVinterberg's highly anticipated Dear Wendy which is based on a script by Lars Von Trier.JoiningBell in the cast of the thriller, which starts shooting on Sept 26 inCopenhagen, are US actors Chris Owen, Mark Webber and Michael Angarano ...
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Phoenix gets film rights to UK kids' book Skellig
Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messer's Phoenix Pictures hasacquired film rights to UK author David Almond's award-winningchildren's novella Skellig.Annabel Jankel, whoco-directed the 1988 thriller D.O.A.,is attached to direct and produce, while Irena Brignull, whose TV writingcredits include Come Together, isin line to adapt the screenplay.Phoenix executive consultantAnne Rodman brought the project ...
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Halcyon's Deepwater kicks off in Canada
Chris Coen's LA-basedHalcyon Entertainment has commenced production on its first film in Canada. Theproject Deepwater is apsychological thriller about a drifter who happens upon the town of Deepwaterwhere he is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.Lucas Black plays thedrifter with Peter Coyote, Mia Maestro, Lesley Ann Warren, ...