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Savage to direct Blanchett in Atwood adaptation
Rising UK director Dominic Savage is to direct Cate Blanchett in an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace for Working Title Films.John Brownlow, whose recent credits include BBC Films' Sylvia Plath project, is adapting the novel, which tells the true story of a Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks who ...
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UK scriptwriters learn to pitch in 25 words or less
Four feature films pitched using 25 words or less have been granted development funding from UK support body the Film Council.The films were pitched to the Council as part of their "25 Words or Less" programme which was launched last year and called for applicants to present their concept for ...
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SARS causes Shall We Dance shift from Toronto
The SARS scare in Torontohas claimed its first feature film victim. Miramax Films' Shall We Dance, starring Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere, set toshoot June 23 in Toronto, will relocate physical production to Winnipeg,Manitoba. A company spokesperson toldScreendaily that Miramax production executives made the decision Monday,spurred by the World Health ...
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WorldWide Pictures gears up for English-language productions
Studio Hamburg WorldWide Pictures (WWP) is planning to produce and fully finance five to six English-language films in the $5m-$20m budget range this year after receiving a placement guarantee from its capital market partners. WWP, the international production arm of Studio Hamburg and the first German media fund to be ...
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Italy's Revolver to unveil international division at Cannes
Just over a year old, Italian arthouse production and distribution company Revolver is set to debut its international distribution arm with a slate of seven Italian films at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The films include Il Resto Di Niente by Antonietta De Lillo, Premio Solinas winner Lontano In Fondo ...
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One to be most expensive Bollywood production ever
Bollywood's Varma Corp is developing the most expensive Indian film ever made, EK (One), an international action adventure for the global market. EK will not have any songs or other Bollywood ingredients. The estimated budget of this feature is $20m making it the most expensive Indian film ever to be ...
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El Bonaerense director unveils Argentinian slate
Pablo Trapero, the Argentinian director of acclaimed police drama El Bonaerense, unveiled the new slate of his fledgling production house Matanza Films at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.Leading the slate is his third film Familia Rodante which he hopes to shoot in August and September. " This was ...
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First digital features announced for Scotland's New Found Films
Peter Mullan, Shirley Henderson and Kevin McKidd are among the Scottish stars to appear in the first two digital features produced under the country's New Found Films scheme. Financed by Scottish Television, Grampian Television and Scottish Screen, the three year New Found Land scheme was previously responsible for producing six ...
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UK Film Council's development fund backs range of genres
Onegin director Martha Fiennes is to tackle terrorist-themed psychological thriller Revolving Door after securing development support from UK funding body the Film Council.The project, awarded £63,000 in National Lottery support, is set during a terrorist alert and follows a British intelligence operative and a high-class escort girl as they try ...
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Reese Witherspoon to play slain American activist
Reese Witherspoon is attached to star in a South African film about slain American activist Amy Biehl for Anant Singh's Videovision. Durban-based producer Anant Singh said this week: "When the movie's ready to go, she will be the star playing Amy." Witherspoon's manager, Evelyn O'Neill, told South African press that ...
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Gilliam heads to Prague for Grimm shoot
Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm has received the final go-ahead for a shoot in Prague, with the gothic fantasy set to start a 17-week schedule at the end of June and wrap in late October. Producers are currently in negotiation with Nicole Kidman for a small part in the film, sources ...
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Bruno Ganz cast as Hitler in Eichinger drama
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, known internationally for his roles in such films as Wim Wenders' Wings Of Desire and The American Friend, will play the part of Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Euros 13.5m feature Der Untergang - Hitler Und Das Ende Des Dritten Reiches which will begin shooting in St ...
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Verhoeven eyes biopic of Dutch artist
Paul Verhoeven is planning to shoot his first Dutch movie since1984's The Fourth Man.The filmmaker, who has lived for nearly 20 years in Los Angeles, has expressed interest in a biopic on the Dutch artist Jan Montyn.The movie will be based on the novel Montyn, written in 1982 by ...
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Hong Kong launches production guarantee fund
In a bid to boost the flagging local film industry, the Hong Kong Government officially launched the Film Guarantee Fund yesterday. The new fund was created to help local companies secure bank loans for film production as well as to establish a solid film-financing infrastructure to facilitate the long-term development ...
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Kolodner & Melamede launch Salty Features
Former Madstone Films production executives Eva Kolodnerand Yael Melamede have teamed up to launch New York-based production companySalty Features, which has already boarded four projects aiming to showcase"unique vision, strong storytelling and thought-provoking subject matter."The four titlesin development include Bam Bam And Celeste, the first fictional film vehicle for comedian ...
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Zwart quits MGM's Cody Banks sequel
Norwegian director Harald Zwart says he has left MGM's sequel to Agent Cody Banks, according to local paper Dagbladet.MGM had planned to begin production on Agent Cody Banks 2 in London in June, with teen heartthrob Frankie Muniz repeating his teen 007 role in the second instalment of the spy ...
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Vajna and Kassar prepare fantasy trilogy for Sony Pictures
Andy Vajna andMario Kassar's C-2 Pictures, which produced one of the summer's mostanticipated pictures in Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, is preparing an epic fantasy trilogycalled Evermere whichhas landed at Sony Pictures. Describing the project as "Lord of The Rings meets Harry Potter," Vajna told Screen that he thought ...
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Top Italian animator prepares new feature
Top Italian animation writer, Umberto Marino, whose credits include local blockbuster Lucky And Zorba, is set to direct a new feature film, entitled La Fiamma Sul Ghiaccio (A Flame On Ice).Scripted by Marino, the film, which he describes as "a very visual and extreme love story" will be produced through ...
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Mushroom options NZ gang tale Stonedogs
Sydney-based Mushroom Pictures has announced that it has optioned Craig Marriner's debut novel Stonedogs, which deals with gang and drug culture in a city resembling the author's home town of Rotorua in New Zealand.The novel was the controversial winner of the Deutz Medal for Fiction at NZ's 2002 Montana Book ...
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Top directors benefit from Swedish funding
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has greenlit four new feature films, most of them from established, successful directors.The major recipient of funding was Swedish production and distribution company Sonet Film, which has already started shooting its first English-language feature film, The Third Wave (Den Tredje Vagen). The film is being ...