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French comic book to get feature adaptation
Continuing the trend, France's latest comic book character to make a jump from the page to the screen will be Rene Goscinny's Iznogoud. Patrick Braoude will direct a cast that could include comedian Michael Youn and beloved comic actor Jacques Villeret.The film will begin shooting in early 2004. Canal Plus ...
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Mosaic to produce six urban movies for HBO Films
LA entertainment groupMosaic Media Group has pre-sold a series of six urban films to HBO that will bewritten and directed by new film-makers.One of the first ideas underdiscussion is an untitled surreal love triangle and musical inspired by hip-hopduo Outkast's upcoming album SpeakerBox/The Love Below.The project will mark thefeature directorial ...
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Ireland gears up for renewed production activity
A stagnant period of film production in Ireland comes to an end this week with the start of shoot on Pierce Brosnan's Laws Of Attraction, followed next week by Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur .Arthur, which has a budget of $85m, is the biggest production ever to come to Ireland, dwarfing ...
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Sarandon, Tucci join cast of Miramax's Shall We Dance
SusanSarandon and Stanley Tucci will join Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere in thecast of Peter Chelsom's remake of Shall We Dance for Miramax Films and Spyglass Entertainment. Miramaxis handling domestic rights on the film, Spyglass has international exceptJapan where Gaga Communications has rights.Thecast also includes Bobby Cannavale, Lisa Ann Walter, ...
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Italian company produces French Crime
French stars Daniel Auteuil and Anna Mouglalis are currently working on the set of an Italian film, A Strange Crime, which is being shot entirely in French and produced by The Hundred Steps producer Fabrizio Mosca. The Euros 6m thriller is directed by acclaimed stage director Roberto Ando, whose first ...
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Kidron close to Bridget Jones sequel
After months of speculation, UK director Beeban Kidron is close to a deal to direct Renee Zellweger in Working Title Films' Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.Kidron has long been linked to the sequel to the 2001 hit but negotiations have stepped up in the last week. Zellweger, who starred ...
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Peter Sellers on hold as Rush returns to Australia
HBO Films has reportedly put The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers on hold after star Geoffrey Rush was forced to return to Australia for personal reasons.The biopic was shooting at Shepperton Studios in the UK, but, according to UK reports, Rush took an emergency flight to Australia to be ...
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Jeunet re-teams with Tautou in Euros 46m Engagement
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has confirmed the casting of Audrey Tautou in his next project, Un Long Dimanche de Fancailles (A Very Long Engagement). The film is adapted from the book by Sebastien Japrisot and will be produced and distributed in France by the local Warner Bros. outpost.Shooting on the project, which ...
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Columbia Spain prepares first local production shoot
Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas, Sony Picture Entertainment's Spanish production unit, has announced its first project to shoot this summer: Tam Tam, a co-production with local outfit Zebra Producciones. Starring Paz Vega (pictured) (Sex And Lucia) and Santi Millan (Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health), principal photography starts August 4 in ...
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Serbian black comedy CiviLife for Belgrade shoot
Principal photography on Serbian-German-French-Dutch co-production CiviLife is due to start in Belgrade on June 22 for eight weeks. The dark comedy about a Serbian black-market gangster shooting down an American pilot during the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999 is written and will be directed by Milos Radovic. Radovic enjoyed ...
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Colour Me Kubrick is Studio Hamburg's first project
Brian Cook's Euros 8.5m satirical comedy Colour Me Kubrick will be the first project for Studio Hamburg Produktion's English-language division Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) which was launched shortly before this year's Cannes Film Festival.The screenplay by Kubrick's long-time personal assistant Anthony Frewin centres on the true story of a ...
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Hou Hsiao Hsien to direct Ozu homage
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japan's Yasujiro Ozu, Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao Hsien (City Of Sadness, The Flowers Of Shanghai, Millennium Mambo) will direct a feature-length Ozu homage. Shochiku, the studio where Ozu spent his entire career, will head the film's production consortium. During a recent ...
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Nowhere In Africa producers team for Sergeant Pepper
MTM Medien & Television Muenchen and Constantin Film, who were co-producers on Caroline Link's Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa, are teaming up for Sandra Nettelbeck's second German-language feature Sergeant Pepper after her international hit Mostly Martha.The comedy about an unusual friendship between a six-year-old boy and a talking dog called Sergeant ...
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Cult French comedy heads for big screen
Camera Cafe, a comedy program that airs before the nightly news on French channel M6 will make a leap to the big screen in 2004. Created by and starring Bruno Solo and Yvan Bolloc'h, the show - which has been sold widely around the world - is a comedic look ...
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UK tax funds bankroll Bauer Martinez slate
UK tax financier Tower Film Productions has partnered with fellow funding operation UKFS to bankroll a slate of films involving Dennis Hopper, Andy Garcia, Ringo Lam, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Gina Gershon and Dominique Swain.Most of the titles are being produced through Philippe Martinez's US-based Bauer Martinez. Tower chief executive Stephen ...
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Scott takes Tristan And Isolde to Prague in August
Ridley Scott's Tristan And Isolde is set to go into production in the Czech Republic at the end of August.The film is a co-production between Quality International and ApolloMedia/ApolloProMedia, UK-based MFF and Filmgroup 111 Prague. Moshe Diamant is set to produce and Ridley Scott oversee as Executive Producer. Kolin Luxembourg ...
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Producer tells Toronto 'to get a lid' on SARS
Toronto's production industry is reaching a crisis point as the beleaguered city contemplates an ongoing battle against SARS. Producer Don Carmody, who is scheduled to begin production of Resident Evil: Apocalypse on Aug. 11, told Screen International that if the city can't "get a lid on" its SARS situation, "they ...
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Pablo Escobar story attracts tax finance
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is to be the subject of a new UK-Spanish-German co-production titled Public Enemy.The project, to be directed by Polly Steele, marks the second title, unveiled in as many weeks, being funded by UK tax financier UKFS, which is the main UK backer on London-set comedy ...
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Mikkelsen, Skarsgaard do battle in Disney's King Arthur
Denmark's most popular star Mads Mikkelsen and Swedish veteran Stellan Skarsgaard have joined the cast of Antoine Fuqua's upcoming epic King Arthur which is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Disney.Mikkelsen has already gone off to bootcamp in Ireland to prepare for his role as one of the knights of ...
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Idle, Assayas are cool for Katz's Prospero outfit
Soft-money specialist Martin Katz is leaving Grosvenor Parkto found a new Toronto-based production entity, Prospero Pictures. The fledgling operation will act as Canadian co-producer onEric Idle's upcoming The Remains Of The Piano, a spoof of Merchant Ivory costume dramas that is being made byLA-based Stratus Film Co, theindependent production outfit ...