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Stuttgart regional body awards film funding
New films by Didi Danquart, Michael Hofmann and Simon Aeby are among the projects supported with a total of Euros 3.1m by the Stuttgart-based regional body MFG Baden-Wurttemberg in its latest round of funding.Euros 500,000 production support was granted for Sophieee!!! filmmaker Hofmann's "impossible love story" Eden, which will be ...
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Toronto mega-studio plans are back on track
Toronto's on-again, off-again bid to build astate-of-the-art purpose-built studio on its disused port area is back on track.Three months after the last Portlands deal fell apart,the city's corporate proxy, Toronto Economic Development Corp. (TEDCO), hasannounced a new Request for Expressions of Interest (RFI) toward theconstruction of a facility up to ...
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Hamori teams with Brightlight for five films
AndrasHamori's LA-based H2O Motion Pictures is teaming with Vancouver-basedBrightlight Pictures in a $50m, five-picture international coproduction slateto be filmed over the next three years. The slateincludes a starring role for Samuel L. Jackson and long-gestating project WhiteClouds, the lastscreenplay of late British dramatist Dennis Potter, which moved from the BBC ...
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Ullmann woos Blanchett for star-studded Ibsen adaptation
Norway's great film diva, the 64 year-oldactress-turned-filmmaker Liv Ullmann, is in talks with a bevy of top Hollywoodacting talents, including Cate Blanchett, Kevin Spacey and John Cusack, with aview to casting them in yet another big screen version of A Doll's House, her countryman Henrik Ibsen's classic dissection ofmarriage.Dinamo Story, ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! star in demand
Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruehl has been reunited with director Hans Weingartner on his new feature Jan Jule Peter and has joined the cast of actor Charles Dance's directorial debut Ladies In Lavender which is set to roll in September.Bruehl and Weingartner both came to prominence last year through ...
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Estonia pins hopes on Names In Marble follow up
Kristian Taska, the young writer-producer who broke the Estonia box-office record with his feature debut Names In Marble, is in the final weeks of shooting his highly anticipated second film, We Won't Sleep Tonight. It is the first of its kind to be shot in both Estonian and English language ...
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Nesher returns to Israel to shoot End Of World
Avi Nesher, one of the most promising Israeli filmmakers of the seventies who moved to US in the early eighties and stayed there for close to 20 years, is now putting the final post-production touches to his first Israeli film since The Rage And The Glory (1984). Nesher is the ...
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Secretary team join Pressman in Arbus biopic
Secretary director Steven Shainberg and screenwriter ErinCressida Wilson have been hired to adapt Arbus, Patricia Bosworth's acclaimed biography ofphotographer Diane Arbus, for Edward R Pressman Film Corporation, BonnieTimmermann and Vincent Farrell's Iron Films.Michael Roban, who served asexecutive producer on Secretary,will serve in the same capacity on the project along with ...
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InDigEnt taps Mark Christopher for film # 11
Mark Christopher whose lastfilm was the 1998 nightclub drama 54 is the latest director to sign on to make a low-budget film forInDigEnt, the digital video collective created by New York-based IFCProductions' Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan, producer-director GaryWinick and Cinetic Media's John Sloss.Christopher will make theoffbeat comedy Pizza, the ...
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Australia/UK co-productions benefit from FFC cash
Two 'commercial' Australia/UK co-productions are among four feature films to receive backing from Australia's Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) in its latest round of funding.Irresistible, a thriller about a woman who believes she is being stalked by her husband's beautiful co-worker, is written and directed by Ann Turner and executive ...
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Chabrol thriller backed by Bavarian fund
Feature projects by veteran French director Claude Chabrol, newcomer director Marco Kreuzpaintner and Mostly Martha's Sandra Nettelbeck are among those receiving a total Euros 1.35m backing from Bavaria's regional public fund FFF Bayern.Over Euros 600,000 were awarded to Kreuzpaintner's coming of age tale Sommersturm, which will be produced by the ...
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Seres Queridos gears up for Madrid shoot
New talents Teresa de Pelegri and Dominic Harari are due to begin shooting their new feature project, in Madrid this month. The film is co-produced by Tornasol Films (Spain), Greenpoint Productions and the Film Council (UK), Madragoa Productions (Portugal) and the Patagonik Film Group (Argentina). Although essentially a comedy, the ...
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Multiple Taj Mahal films line up for release
Warner Bros is currently looking at making a Hollywood version of the story of the Taj Mahal. The project is already in pre-production, based on a script by screenwriter Kamran Pasha. Warner Bros executive Aditya Sood is working on the project and Trilogy Entertainment is to produce the film.The story ...
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Krishna Shah launches three Indian features
Hollywood-based Indian filmmaker and former Double Helix head Krishna Shah has announced a slate of three films in Mumbai. Shah and his brother Himanshu Shah have launched a Mumbai-based production company, Movie Moghuls and have announced the production of Aasman Ke Heere (Diamonds In The Sky) an English and Hindi ...
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Ribera wraps his third feature in Barcelona
Xavier Ribera has finished shooting his third feature, A + (or Amas) in Barcelona. Boasting a cast of up-and-coming young Spanish stars (Eloy Azorin, Elvira Herreria, Fernando Ramallo, Eloi Yebra, Carlos Fuentes and Ricardo Moya), and an ultra-cool sound-track, A+ tells the individual tales of three youths, whose paths eventually ...
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Little Polar Bear sequel among films to get German funding
The sequel to the 2001 hit animation feature Der Kleine Eisbaer (The Little Polar Bear) and new films by Grill Point's Andreas Dresen, Mostly Martha's Sandra Nettelbeck and Sonnenallee's Leander Hausmann are among the projects receiving a total of Euros 3.2m from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in its ...
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Columbia Asia takes world rights to Sylvia Chang's 20:30:40
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (CPFPA) has acquired worldwide rights to Taiwanese feature 20:30:40 directed by and starring Sylvia Chang.The romantic drama, which is currently in post-production, also stars Lee Sin-Je and Rene Liu who won best actress and best supporting actress respectively at this year's Hong Kong Film Awards ...
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Greek film-makers face Olympic hurdle
With the Athens 2004 Olympic Games fast approaching, a palpable sense of excitement is growing around the event in Greece - as well as a scramble to get the country's athletics and transport infrastructure ready in time.Greek film-makers, however, could be forgiven for being less than happy at the prospect ...
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Jeong to take over as COO at Showbox
Jeong Taesung, known as the international face of thePusan Promotion Plan (PPP) projects market is to become chief operating officerof the major Korean film conglomerate Showbox. Thehigh profile move means that the forthcoming PPP (5-7 October), held inparallel to the Pusan International Film Festival, will be Jeong's last in ...
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GREECE Production Listings - July 18 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalGREECE - July 18PRE-PRODUCTIONDON'T ASK, EVERYTHING IS THERE (min rotas, ola einai ekei)(The Greek Film Centre, P Karamanos Ltd) Budget: e590,000. Int'l sales: The Greek Film Centre. Dist: New Star. Psychological drama. A young woman is unable to form steady relationships as she is still under the spell ...