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Spain's Tesela readies three new films
Spanish production company Tesela is preparing three new feature films including the next project from Argentinean veteran Adolfo Aristarain (Common Places).The films are the first new projects following Achero Manas' Noviembre (now in post-production with an eye to a Cannes release) since Grupo Prisa-backed Plural Entertainment bought out 80% of ...
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Tele-Muenchen ups German feature production
Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen will step up its German-language feature production as a way of filling the gap left by the bursting of the Neuer Markt bubble."We are currently speaking with all independent producers and talents we didn`t have a chance of working with in the past because they ...
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Iceland's youngest film-maker readies gay football feature
Iceland's youngest, yet most prolific, filmmaker Robert Douglas is preparing his third feature film, Off Side, which has been put on the fast track after Ingvar Thordarson (101 Reykjavík) stepped in as co-producer along with director-producer Julius Kemp. The latter also produced Douglas' two previous low-budget digital features, The Icelandic ...
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Giannini, Roth to star in Taviani brothers' Dumas project
Italian heartthrob Adriano Giannini (Swept Away) and Argentina's Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) are set to star for the Taviani brothers in Luisa Sanfelice, an ambitious Italian feature film and miniseries, Rome-based producer Cattleya announced in Berlin.Originally planned only as a miniseries, Cattleya, which is producing for Germany's Victory ...
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Danish duo create five-for-one animation plan
Danish producer-distributor Angel Films has joined with Anders Morgenthaler's TV-Animation in a new production outfit Five For One, which plans to produce five digital animated children's features. Using a new specially designed computer software and Dogme-like production principals they intend to make the five films for the price of one. ...
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Wong Kar-Wai set for 2046 wrap
WongKar-Wai's long-gestating 2046 is finally back in production in China and Hong Kong andis set to wrap at the end of March for delivery in time for this year's Cannes.The $15m film has been in and out of production since Wong shot In The MoodFor Love three yearsago, although the ...
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Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...
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Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...
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Robert Carlyle to take on Hitler role
Robert Carlyle is to play Adolf Hitler in a Canadian-backed miniseries that will explore his rise to power during the years prior to World War II.Currently filming in Prague under director Christian Duguay, the four-hour drama will 'focus closely on how the embittered, increasingly xenophobic and militaristic German society after ...
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Robert Carlyle to take on Hitler role
Robert Carlyle is to play Adolf Hitler in a Canadian-backed miniseries that will explore his rise to power during the years prior to World War II.Currently filming in Prague under director Christian Duguay, the four-hour drama will 'focus closely on how the embittered, increasingly xenophobic and militaristic German society after ...
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Malkovich to board Drunkboat
John Malkovich is set to star in Drunkboat, the first feature to be made by Daniel Walker, a Paris-based lawyer who has now moved into production. The film, which is written and directed by polymath theatre director-artist-actor Bob Meyer, is a coming of age story and a journey of self-discovery ...
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Almodovar pair comes into Focus
Pedro Almodovar's next film as director, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), has locked in its production financing structure two months before shooting is due to start in Spain, with Pathe taking a large swathe of European rights and Focus International handling sales in all other territories. The budget is estimated ...
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Soderbergh returns to remake trail
Steven Soderbergh is behind a planned remake of Argentinian heist picture Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas). Section Eight, the company he owns with George Clooney, will produce an English-language version of the picture with Gregory Jacobs making his directing debut and co-writing the screenplay with Soderbergh. The rights to Nine ...
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Spain's Zebra Films lines up three features
Madrid-based production company Zebra Films is preparing three new feature films including the as-yet-untitled next project from recent best original script Goya Award winner Antonio Hernandez (The City Of No Limits).The project is a surreal mystery with a twist about a woman haunted by her dead lover. Zebra chief Antonio ...
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Babelsberg gets Around The World
Babelsberg Studios has been given a major boost with news that Jackie Chan's Around The World In 80 Days will be shot at the studios from this spring.Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer) directs the big-budget production for US-based Walden Media at Babelsberg and on location including Berlin and Central Germany. ...
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Rosario Tijeras rights snapped up for adaptation
Mexican producer Matthias Ehrenberg of Titan Prods. (Sex, Shame And Tears) beat stiff competition for the rights to best-selling novel Rosario Tijeras by hot new Colombian writer, Jorge Franco Ramos, hailed as the precursor of a new generation of writers in Colombia. Up to 15 million copies of Rosario Tijeras ...
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Ana Claudia Talancon to lead in Ladies' Night
Ana Claudia Talancon, lead actress of all time Mexican blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, will star in the first Miravista production, Ladies' Night. Miravista is the pan-regional production company launched last year by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Admira, the media arm of Spanish telco Telefonica.Talancon ...
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Refn and Danstrup form alliance with Nordisk Film
Following the successful world premiere of Fear X in Sundance, the Danish director-producer duo, Nicolas Winding Refn and Henrik Danstrup have announced that they will establish a joint company with Danish major Nordisk Film for their next two films. The company, which will retain the producers' NWR label, will most ...
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Danish Hitman takes aim at Hollywood
The Danish computer game Hitman looks to be the next hit game to get the Hollywood treatment. The game's international distributor EIDOS is currently negotiating with unnamed Hollywood studios - although it has an existing relationship with Paramount for the Tomb Raider franchise. The Danish developers at IO Interactive have ...
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Koltai sets start date for Fateless adaptation
Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai is aiming for a Sept 30 start date for his directorial debut, an adaptation of Fateless - the Holocaust-themed novel by Nobel prize winner Imre Kertesz.Koltai has been trying for some years to find the necessary funds for the Euros 8m film.. Now the Hungarian government ...