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Trainspotting sequel has problems with E
Other than the original cast's lack of ageing, the sequel to 1996 runaway hit Trainspotting is taking shape, said director Danny Boyle at the Sundance Film Festival.In Park City for the North American debut of UK box-office sensation 28 Days Later, the director said the sequel, based on the novel, ...
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Vanity Fair faces production setback
Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair's upcoming production of Vanity Fair faces uncertainty after it emerged that US star Reese Witherspoon may have to delay shooting.Producer Janette Day said that the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel might only be delayed for a few weeks if a compromise can be reached, ...
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Breillat starts phase two of Anatomie d'Enfer shoot
Controversial director Catherine Breillat (pictured) heads out to Portugal this weekend to begin shooting phase two of her latest film, Anatomie d'Enfer. The film is based on her book Pornocratie and will once again examine the depths of sexual compulsion.Working with porn star Rocco Siffredi for the second time since ...
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Til Schweiger to star in Star Trek spoof
Til Schweiger is to take one of the leads in (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1, Michael "Bully" Herbig's follow-up to his surprise 2001 hit Manitou's Shoe Schweiger, who appeared in last year's Was Tun, Wenn's Brennt and Drive, will play opposite the Manitou acting trio of Herbig, Rick Kavanian and ...
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Hot German director announces next two projects
German filmmaker Oskar Roehler, whose Angst (Der Alte Affe Angst) is a competition entry at year's Berlinale, is developing his next two film projects with X-Filme Creative Pool and Constantin Film.Roehler (pictured), who will have Angst distributed this spring by X-Filme's distribution arm X Verleih, told screendaily that the ...
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Ermanno Olmi wraps $9.5m pirate epic
Veteran Italian director Ermanno Olmi (Profession Of Arms) has wrapped shooting on his new Euros 9m epic, Cantando Dietro I Paraventi.The film is the first production to have been shot in part at Roma Studios, the recently renovated studios built by producer Dino De Laurentiis in the 1960s.Based on a ...
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Neil Jordan plans Odysseus' Return
Neil Jordan's Borgia may have failed to start shooting, but the Irish director appears to have found another European epic, Odysseus' Return.Michael Kuhn's London-based production company is understood to be finalising a deal to board the production, which is set up with producer Uberto Pasolini, best known for The Full ...
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StudioCanal faces crippling staff losses
France's StudioCanal, which once boasted ambitions of being Europe's biggest film production outfit, looks to be heading towards total meltdown.It had recently been rumoured that hefty job cuts lay ahead at the company as parent Vivendi Universal sought cost cutting measures - and reported figures placed that number at around ...
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Constantin Film retreats from TV to focus on features
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film plans to concentrate its energies even more on the feature film sector in future.Speaking to the German daily newspaper Die Welt, Thomas Friedl, Constantin's board member for distribution and marketiing, said that his company was "assuming that the TV market will remain weak in ...
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Expat Indians plan to raise funds for Bollywood productions
Indian IT Millionaires settled in Silicon Valley are looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in Bollywood. Over 600 venture capitalists, angel investors and bankers including Kanwal Rekhi, Shailesh J Mehta, Rahul Bhasin, Raj Dugar and Brajesh Mehra participated in a Media and Entertainment conference in ...
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Inward investment in UK production sees slender rise
UK production levels from inward investment and local films limped to $696.6m (£433.1m) last year, only slightly up on 2001's disastrous tally of $660.4m, according to figures from support body the Film Council.Inward investment from overseas films and TV productions shooting in the UK such as Lara Croft And The ...
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The rise, fall and rise again of UK tax production funds
Even as the UK’s tax production funds are failing to attract enough investors to match their lofty ambitions, a new breed of internationally-oriented schemes are starting to emerge. While funds such Monument, which set out to provide 50% of budgets, have failed to materialise, tax specialists predict the growth of ...
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Kahli Small joins Focus as vice president of production
Kahli Small hasjoined Universal's specialty film unit Focus Features as vice presidentof production, co-presidents David Linde and James Schamus announced today (Jan8). Small, who most recently worked as an independent producer, will be basedat the company's West Coast offices and will report directly to Focuspresident of production Glenn Williamson.In a ...
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Morgan Freeman to play Nelson Mandela
Morgan Freeman is to play Nelson Mandela in a film version of his autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom, according to the film's director Shekhar Kapur. Kapur, a British-Pakistani director who made the transition from "Bollywood" to Hollywood with films such as The Four Feathers and Elizabeth, made the announcement at ...
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Danish stars line up for Nielsen's Bouncer
Denmark's two most internationally recognised actors, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Iben Hjejle, have signed up to star in Jesper W. Nielsen's drama The Bouncer (Loeftet), which starts shooting in Copenhagen Jan13.Writer-director Nielsen collaborated with Anker Li on the script, which is inspired by a true story and follows Svend (Waldau) ...
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Bollywood gears up for slate of high-profile productions
After Kaante became one of the big Bollywood success stories of 2002, the Indian film Industry is gearing up to launch more Hollywood co-productions this year.Mumbai based film and TV production company UTV is launching four films in 2003. Among the films is a co-production with LA based Madira Films ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Hungary passes new film law offering tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Hungary passes new film law offering tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...