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Western productions head to the east
With fully-booked studios in Prague, Cold Mountain in Romania, and Hungary and Russia making steps to woo foreign investment, Eastern Europe is becoming an increasingly desirable location.Foreign filmmaking in Prague is going strong, despite fears of a post-boom hangover following the heady days of 2001, when three US studio shoots ...
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Asian Pictures Int'l announces first Bollywood projects
London-based Asian Pictures International has announced its first Bollywood productions.Producer Sevy Ali told Screendaily.com, "the trend in Bollywood is to make international quality co-productions and we are already working with Troika Productions of Mumbai for our first two films". The first film, titled White Noise is to be directed by ...
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Hong Kong distributor moves into production finance
Hong Kong distributor Panorama Entertainment has unveiled plans to co-finance up to five Chinese-language movies this year, starting with comedy-drama Ho Qing (Erotica), a co-production with China Star Entertainment. The $2.5m film, which started shooting today (March 24) in Hong Kong, stars Louis Koo and Eason Chan as a pair ...
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Nakata's Don't Look Up in remake deal
South Africa-based Distant Horizon has picked up remake rights to Don't Look Up (Joyuu-Rei), a Japanese horror story originally made by Ringu-director Hideo Nakata. Distant Horizon CEO, Anant Singh told Screendaily that a number of Hollywood studios have indicated an interest in the remake and that a top horror screenwriter ...
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Rising Danish star takes on Norwegian thriller
Hot Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is to star in Erich Hortnagl's Norwegian psychological thriller A Cry In The Woods (Den som frykter ulven). Mikkelsen will play a Danish police detective investigating a horrific murder in a small Norwegian town, which turns out to have a personal significance to him. Mikkelsen ...
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Alfonso Cuaron's production company unveils new titles
Anhelo, the film production company forged by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron and partner Jorge Vergara, has unveiled three international projects in the pipeline. Cuaron and Vergara initially launched Anhelo to produce the Cuaron-directed international hit Y Tu Mama Tambien which is currently in the running for a best screenplay Oscar. ...
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Endgame Entertainment launches production and financing outfit
James Stern, the Tony Award-winning producer of stage hits The Producers and Stomp, has announced the formation of production and financing house Endgame Entertainment.The company comprises development and production division Endgame Productions and The Endgame Fund, a financing source for third party producers and distributors covering a range of ...
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Italy close to signing major production/distribution deal with India
Italy is close to signing a landmark co-production and co-distribution agreement with India, which is also expected to encourage Indian crews to shoot movies in Italy. The deal is one of the latest initiatives spearheaded by new Italian state Film Department chief, Gianni Profita."We are collaborating with Indian Film Commissions ...
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Location Prague attracts two new US productions
Two US studio films, Brothers Grimm and First Daughter are close to confirming a shoot in the Czech Republic, joining a spate of other planned location shoots, according to sources in Prague. MGM and Miramax are expected to give the go-ahead to Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm for a Prague ...
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Bille August gets Hans Christian Andersen Award, prepares biopic
Danish expatriate filmmaker Bille August will receive The Hans Christian Andersen Award 2003 from the city Odense, where the world famous author was born 198 years ago, on April 2. August has just returned from Hollywood after financing collapsed on his Without Apparent Motive with Oscar-darlings Richard Gere and Julianne ...
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Entertainers launch Oz film outfit
Ned Kelly producer Nelson Woss has joined forces with live entertainment specialists Sports & Entertainment Limited (SEL) to form a new Sydney based film outfit.Called Woss Group Films/SEL, the company is looking to produce Australian projects with international ambitions as well as other international projects.Woss is one of the producers ...
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Norway greenlights Olsen Gang Jr sequel
With the first film still on theatrical release, The Norwegian Film Fund has already greenlighted the Nordisk sequel to family film The Olsen Gang Jr, which has attracted over 300,000 admissions since it opened on February 7th. The season's most successful local film is the children's version of Norway's best ...
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New Wim Wenders film gets German regional film fund cash
Wim Wenders' next feature Don't Come Knockin' has received the highest amount - Euros 500,000 - from Hamburg's regional film fund FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFH) in its latest round of a total Euros 2m in funding.With a screenplay by Sam Shepard and starring Shephard and Jessica Lange, Don't Come Knockin' will ...
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Sweden's Sundvall begins The Threat
One of Sweden's most successful directors, Kjell Sundvall, starts shooting his new film The Threat (Hotet) on March 19. Principal photography is to take place in and around Alvsbyn in the north of Sweden until April 15, when filming will continue in Stockholm.Following last year's biggest Swedish box office hit, ...
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Cast lines up for Miramax's Battle Of Shaker Heights
Shia LaBeouf (Holes), Elden Henson (The Butterfly Effect), Amy Smart (Roadtrip), Kathleen Quinlan (Breakdown), William Sadler (Shawshank Redemption), Shiri Appleby (Swimfan), and Anson Mount (City By The Sea) have joined Miramax's second Project Greenlight competition winner, The Battle Of Shaker Heights. Screenwriter Erica Beeney and directors Kyle Rankin and Efram ...
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Japan takes film sequel route
The sequel to splatterfest Battle Royale is set to wrap shooting next month, one of a string of high profile sequels in production in Japan at the moment. In fact, so many sequels are shooting or preparing to film in Japan, that some are asking whether the country is set ...
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Boyle to make Millions for Pathe, Mission
Danny Boyle is to begin shooting Mission Pictures' Millions, his first film since zombie horror hit 28 Days Later, for Pathe UK starting May 5.The high-profile project will shoot for 10 weeks in Liverpool in the UK. Pathe Distribution will distribute the quirky comic tale in the UK and France, ...
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Pathe UK starts shooting Scorpio's Natural History
Pathe UK this week started shooting on Natural History, the debut picture from ex-Renaissance Films chief Stephen Evans' Scorpio Films.The feature debut of commercials director Shona Auerbach, which is shooting in Glasgow and Greenock, stars Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler. The film revolves around a single mother's choice of whether ...
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Danish talent attracted to historical drama
Danish director Jorn Faurschou and producer Henrik Moller-Sorensen have attracted three major local names to head up the cast on the $3.3m (DKR22m) historic drama Dagen Og Vejen. Kim Bodnia (Bleeder, Old Men In New Cars) will play the self-centred and powerful lead, while actor-director Erik Clausen (Fish Out Of ...
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J Lo to teach dance moves to Gere in Miramax remake
Jennifer Lopezis in negotiations to star with Richard Gere in Miramax Films' remake of1996 Japanese megahit Shall We Dance' which Peter Chelsom will direct. The film would markLopez's third film with Miramax after Jersey Girl which is scheduled to open in Nov in theUS and An Unfinished Life which starts ...