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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 ...
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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 ...