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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 ...
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Filmko up and running with Star Runner
Hong Kong's Filmko Entertainment is starting production next Monday (June 16) on $3m action romance Star Runner, a co-production with Hong Kong-based Sil-Metropole Organisation and South Korea's Polestar.Directed by Daniel Lee (A Fighter's Blues), the film will star Vanness Wu, from Taiwanese boy band F4, and popular Korean actress Kim ...
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Finland's Lumifilm takes Pelicanman to the big screen
Finnish production outfit Lumifilm, best known for its animated TV productions including the long running Urpo & Turpo series, this week starts shooting its first live-action feature film, Pelicanman, in Helsinki. The children's adventure film tells of a pelican, who becomes so fascinated by humans that he tries to be ...
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Swedish film institute greenlights two new comedies
Two new comedies have been greenlighted by the Swedish Film Institute, one by newcomer Ragnar Di Marzo (pictured) and one by established comedian/director Peter Dalle.Ragnar Di Marzo's family comedy Karringen Dar Nere tells the story of 74-year-old Magda, whose life changes when she is persuaded to help a 23-year-old female ...
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Prague film-makers look to international cheques
With local sources of funding drying up, Czech producers are increasingly looking abroad for cash and international co-productions are becoming the new financing model.Czech cinema has traditionally been an insular world, with local sources of funding contributing to projects with local themes, a local style and a local sense of ...
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Anant Singh invites public participation in film project
Anant Singh, South Africa's leading producer, is launching a unique contest for the production of his Durban-based company Videovision's new film. The movie is based on the book Echoes Of Love From Heavens Above, by New York's Mickey Nivelli and Singh is offering a prize of $12,000 (R100,000) for public ...
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Geoff Stier joins Valhalla as head of production
Veteran producerGeoff Stier has joined Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures asproducer and the company's head of production.Stier willoversee development and production of a slate of film and television projectsincluding comic book adaptation The Punisher for Artisan and super heroine project Flux for Paramount.He will reportdirectly to Valhalla chairman Hurd.'Geoff ...
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Dutch director prepares 'Royal Scandal' project
Dutch director Frans Weisz (Charlotte, Polonaise) is planning a feature about one of the most controversial episodes in the history of the Royal Dutch family: the Greet Hofmans-incident. Greet Hofmans, a faith-healer (1894-1968) had a profound influence on Queen Juliana during the fifties . The relationship was condemned by the ...
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Film students dupe Czech public for documentary
A group of students at Prague's FAMU film academy have pulled off one of the most audacious stunts in the country's short history. The hundreds of people who made the journey to the Prague suburb of Letnany for the grand opening of giant new superstore were outraged when they discovered ...
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Cabbages & Queens set to roll in London
Recently-launched tax financier UKFS and sales agent AV Pictures have boarded Cabbages & Queens, a comedy drama set in the London theatre world starring Keri Russell (pictured), Nathan Lane, Darren Boyd, Emilia Fox, Greg Wise, Simon Callow, Joss Ackland and Brian Blessed.Principal photography is scheduled to start June 30th in ...
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Spain's Dygra starts work on major 3D animated feature
Spanish animation studio Dygra Films is preparing an ambitious 3D digital animated feature, A Midsummer Night's Dream (El Sueno De Una Noche De San Juan).The project marks the company's follow-up to hit The Living Forest (El Bosque Animado), Spain's tenth top-grossing local film in 2001 and second highest-selling video of ...
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Gaga to produce feature version of Devil May Cry game
In the latest of a string of game-to-film adaptations, arcade game maker Capcom and distributor Gaga Communications have concluded a film option deal for Devil May Cry, a Capcom game series that has sold 4.37 million units internationally. According the terms of the deal Gaga, will have exclusive rights to ...
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Cougar, Film Council, Ingenious strike three-way deal
Lynda La Plante and Sophie Balhetchet's Cougar Films has struck a three-way development deal with the UK Film Council and tax financier Ingenious Media, it was announced today. The deal will cover development on an initial slate of projects, including a new horror film from My Little Eye writer David ...
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Bardem to star in Amenabar's Out To Sea
In what will surely be one of the biggest buzz titles out of Spain next year, auteur Alejandro Amenabar will team with star Javier Bardem in new film Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), the director's first feature foray since international hit The Others.Sogecine will co-produce with Amenabar's own Himenoptero and ...
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Spain's Filmax starts shooting The Machinist
Filmax began principal photography Monday on Brad Anderson's The Machinist, a 100% Spanish production shooting for eight weeks in Barcelona.The English-language film stars Christian Bale (American Psycho), Jennifer Jason Leigh (ExistenZ), Aitana Sanchez-Gijon (I Am Not Scared), John Sharian (Saving Private Ryan) and the young Matthew Romero.The story turns on ...
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French indie banks on next generation festival auteurs
Independent French production label Aeternam Films unveiled a raft of art-house pictures produced by some of the world's edgiest talents.The company, headed by Francesca Feder, will co-produce The Moon Also Rises, the next picture by Lin Cheng-Sheng, whose Robinson's Crusoe appeared in Cannes competition last week. The drama focuses on ...
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Nicolas Roeg to shoot Adina
Legendary British film-maker Nicolas Roeg is attached to direct Adina, a philosophical horror exploring society's obsession with youth, sex and beauty. Producers are Andy Denemark and Bernadette Elliott for New York-based Burnt Danish Productions. Scheduled for production later this year, the film is written by Bernadette Elliott and Michael Lupetin. ...
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Spanish producers focus on foreign finance
Spanish producers have avidly begun turning to foreign partners in a bid to finance their films. In fact, co-production talk has dominated recent Spanish events - such as first-ever Italian-Spanish co-production market in Madrid; the Spanish Film Screenings of Malaga which saw meetings between the UK's Film Council and Spanish ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast gears up for more films
Swedish regional fund Film I Vast is expanding its already considerable studios with another 4500 square meters of fully equipped sound stage. "We're not doing this because of Manderlay, but we are in talks about that film," said CEO Tomas Eskilsson referring to the second film of Lars von ...
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Spain's City of Light studio options Mario Puzo's Borgia novel
Spain's City of Light studio complex has optioned the rights to Mario Puzo's last novel, The Family, with plans to film the Euros 25m feature on-site in 2005. US scriptwriter David Giler (Aliens 3) will adapt the epic tale about the powerful 15th century Borgia family whose influence under Rodrigo ...