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Danish quartet launches Fine & Mellow
The team behind the Danish box-office success Shake It All About has set up a new production outfit, Fine & Mellow, to handle the future projects from talents Hella Joof, Jannik Johansen and Line Knutzon. "We basically wanted to be our own bosses," says Thomas Gammeltoft, who produced Joof's Shake ...
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Soldier Of Orange 2 dispute settled out of court
Producer Rob Houwer has finally resolved the legal battle surrounding the remake of Soldier Of Orange 2, the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1979 war drama. The film was supposed to have been shot this summer, but a conflict about the completion bond between Houwer and the financing company Arteco, ...
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Production starts on The Sons Of Buena Vista
Production started today (Mon, 7 Oct) on The Sons Of Buena Vista, a sequel to Wim Wenders'Cuban musical extravaganza Buena Vista Social Club, which was one of the most successful documentary features of all time.The new film is directed by Karl German, Wenders' regular assistant director and co-executive ...
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One For The Road starts to roll
One For The Road, the UK's Film Council and FilmFour Lab-backed feature debut of writer-director Chris Cooke, has started production on location in Nottingham. A black comedy set on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers, the DV-shot film received£240,000 from the Film Council's New Cinema Fund, and is also backed ...
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Swedish Film Institute greenlights three new features
Three Swedish feature films have been greenlighted after receiving funding from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI).Children's film Misa Mi is by first-time director Linus Torell. The story, about a 10-year-old girl whose mother is dead, takes place in the forests of the north of Sweden. The film will be produced ...
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Cinema Service boosts investment in Korean film industry
South Korean major Cinema Service is to boost its investment in local film production amidst what appears to be an exodus of venture capital from the industry. With industry sources predicting leaner times ahead for production companies, the increased spending by Cinema Service is expected to give it even ...
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Norwegian sales agent backs two southern hemisphere projects
Norwegian sales agent BV International Pictures has penetrated yet another corner of the globe by signing for a film in Australia and another in New Zealand. The UK/New Zealand co-production Castle Of Lies starring James Caan and the Australian road movie/comedy Thunderstruck are both grounded in reality but there the ...
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Oldest living Japanese director shoots The Owl
Veteran Japanese director Shindo Kaneto is currently producing his latest feature, The Owl (Fukuro). The 90 year-old Shindo (pictured) is best known in the west for his The Island / Naked Island (1960) which was awarded to the Grand Prix at Moscow international film festival in 1961. Written and directed ...
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Korean box office hit may be the last of the blockbusters
New Korean gangster comedy, For The Glory Of Our Family (pictured) looks like it could be a contender for the new local all-time box-office crown. But the relative success of its performance pales in comparison with the recent disastrous failure of local mega-budget title: Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl.One ...
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China becomes new base for runaway productions
As Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill wraps the Chinese portion of its shoot at Beijing Film Studio, another Chinese production powerhouse, Shanghai Film Studio, is gearing up to house another Miramax movie - John Dahl's The Great Raid, starring Benjamin Bratt and Joseph Fiennes.Set builders at the studios are constructing Manila ...
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Japan's film industry to get boost from cultural affairs agency
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs is to raise $20m (Y2.5bn) for a range of activities to support the local film industry and promote Japanese films abroad.In its proposal for the fiscal 2003 budget, the agency detailed a number of new schemes with which to boost national film production and export ...
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Danish Film Institute greenlights first-time directors
Four new Danish films have been green-lighted after receiving funding from the Danish Film Institute (DFI). Among them are the highly anticipated new film from Annette K. Olesen (Minor Mishaps) as well as new films from three feature debutantes Malene Vilstrup, Jannik Johansen and Christoffer Boe. Olesen (pictured), who received ...
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Japan's Toei to produce Battle Royale sequel
Japan's leading distributor/exhibitor Toei, is to produce a sequel to the smash-hit feature Battle Royale. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Battle Royale earned $25.8m (Y3.1bn) in Japan from 2,150,000 admissions and went on to sell more than 29,000 video and DVD copies. The film's violence became an issue at the ...
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Norwegian film fund banks on Elling prequel
The Norwegian Film Fund is to back Maipo Film's follow-up to last year's local box office phenomenon Elling. The new film, Mother's Elling is a prequel, dealing with the title character's adventures at a Spanish holiday resort with his elderly mother. As with the first film, the script is by ...
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Tony Blair unwittingly boosts Thornton Wilder adaptation
When Tony Blair chose the closing paragraph of an obscure 1927 novel called The Bridge Of San Luis Rey to read at a memorial service last year for the victims of September 11, he did not know that UK producer Pembridge Pictures had already spent close to ten years prepping ...
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Croupier team re-unite for I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, the film which sees the re-teaming of Croupier director Mike Hodges and its acclaimed star Clive Owen, started production on location in the UK and Wales yesterday (Monday 23 Sept).The contemporary thriller, billed as Hodges' first exploration of the world of crime since his 1971 ...
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Hungary's porno-music drama Mix wraps in Budapest
"Music, love, porn", is how writer-director-producers Steven and Robert Lovy describe their latest film, Mix, that has just finished shooting in Budapest. The film's main character is a talented, American teenager who, following his father's wish, is preparing to become a pianist while secretly cherishing plans to become a DJ. ...
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Gibson's biblical Passion story will unscroll in ancient tongues
Seven years after winning two Oscars for his epic battle movie Braveheart, Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson is going behind the camera for a highly ambitious picture about the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ.After cartwheeling into a press conference at Rome's Cinecitta Studios with Neapolitan dwarf actor ...
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El Deseo links with MediaPro for production expansion
The Almodovar brothers' El Deseo company has signed a wide-ranging co-production pact with Spanish media group MediaPro which will allow both companies to expand their current production activities. The deal was announced this weekend at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28), which celebrated its 50th anniversary with a ...
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Hopper, Griffith will do it their way in Sinatra Down Under tale
Screen legend Dennis Hopper will play Frank Sinatra, Melanie Griffith his girlfriend and David Hemmings his lawyer in new film The Night We Called It A Day, which goes into production in Sydney on Oct 21 directed by Paul Goldman.The core of the story, however, belongs to Joel Edgerton. He ...