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FilmFour's Motorcycle Diaries shoots across Latin America
Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries has started shooting in Argentina. The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros) as the young Che, rising young Argentinean actor Rodrigo de la Serna (Same Love, Same Rain) as Alberto and Mia Maestro (Frida, Hotel, Timecode) as Chichina Ferreyra. Shooting ...
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Two more Fox projects to be backed by German fund
20th Century Fox's thriller The Clearing, starring Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe, and the family comedy Catch That Girl have been added to the projects to be financed by Ideenkapital's Mediastream III fund, due to investor demand.. Ideenkapital had originally planned to raise Euros 246.7m from private ...
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Wenders launches new production outfit
Wim Wenders has set up a new, Hamburg-based production outfit Reverse Angle Production which will produce his next feature project entitled Don't Come Knockin'.Originally developed at Road Movies Filmproduktion as In America, the project still has previous Wenders collaborator Sam Shepard onboard as screenwriter for the contemporary love story ...
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HanWay re-teams with Norbu for Travellers & Magicians
UK-based sales concern HanWay has re-teamed with Buddhist monk-turned film director Khyentse Norbu after their collaboration on Norbu's acclaimed debut The Cup.Norbu started principal photography on Travellers & Magicians last month on location in his homeland of Bhutan. Also sold by HanWay, The Cup played in Directors' Fortnight at the ...
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Shooting starts on Cheeky black comedy
Shooting started this week on Cheeky, a black comedy which marks the feature directorial debut of UK actor David Thewlis.Thewlis, best known for his role in Mike Leigh's Naked, has also scripted and will star in the film, produced by Trudie Styler's Xingu Films outfit. Luc Besson's Europa Corp is ...
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UK film production sector slumps by almost 40%
Confirming the worst fears of anyone in the UK struggling to get a film off the ground, local production levels have collapsed this year by almost 40%.The crash exacerbates last year's 57% slump in inward investment from overseas productions shooting. However, as Screen International reveals in this week's UK Focus ...
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UK talent joins Supertex - An Hour In Paradise
Maureen Lipman, Stephen Mangam and Elliot Levey are among the UK acting talent cast for Jan Schuette's adaptation of Leon de Winter's best-selling novel Supertex - An Hour In Paradise which has now gone into production.'I have always been amazed at the wealth of talent available in Britain. You can ...
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Jackie Chan, Arclight join EMG's Twins Effect
Jackie Chan has joined Hong Kong pop idols Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung in the cast of Emperor Multimedia Group's The Twins Effect.In addition, EMG announced that Sydney-based production and sales house, Arclight Films, will represent the film, which started shooting in Hong Kong on Tuesday, in all territories outside ...
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Indigenous Sami people ready second movie for release
With a tiny population spread across the outer reaches of Scandinavia, it seems incredible that the indigenous Sami people can boast of a film-making culture. Yet the town of Kautokeino, based in the northern most part of Norway and with just 3,000 inhabitants, already boasts one Oscar-nominated director, Nils Gaup. ...
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Nobel Prize helps greenlight Hungarian classic adaptation
Despite a string of international producers lining up with offers to film Imre Kertesz's Fateless, after the Hungarian author won the Nobel prize for Literature last week, it seems the project is going to remain predominantly Hungarian.Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai has been preparing his directorial debut - a film based ...
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John Maybury to take on Super-Cannes
John Maybury, who previously directed experimental Francis Bacon biopic Love Is The Devil, is set to direct an adaptation of JG Ballard's futuristic thriller Super-Cannes. The project marks the revival of a relationship between veteran British producer Jeremy Thomas' Recorded Pictures Company (RPC) and the controversial Ballard. Ballard, who wrote ...
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Italian singer-songwriter starts shooting debut feature
Franco Battiato, one of Italy's most celebrated singer-songwriters, has moved behind the camera to direct his first feature, Perduto Amor, which started shooting this week in Italy.Produced and co-written by the cult Sicilian singer with his long-term collaborator, philosopher Manlio Sgalambro, the picture tells the coming-of-age story of a Sicilian ...
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Craven, Williamson reteam for werewolf horror at Dimension
WesCraven is reuniting with his Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson on the horrormovie Cursed for Dimension Films.The story will be a Los Angeles-based modern twist on the werewolf genre andhas already been set for release on August 8 2003.'Kevinwrote a fun, scary and surprise-filled script just like the original Scream,' said ...
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All-star cast lines up for Olesen's Crimes
An impressive cast of Danish talent is lining up to star in award-winning local filmmaker Annette K. Olesen's Crimes, the 10th Dogme-style production to come out of the territory.The story is set in a women's prison, where a minister, played by Ann Eleonora Jorgensen (Italian For Beginners), finds her faith ...
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Golden Harvest returns to production after nine-month gap
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment plans to return to production next month following a nine-month hiatus with a romantic comedy, My Lucky Year, to star Tony Leung Chiu Wai and hot up-and-coming actress Miriam Yeung.Vincent Kok is attached to direct the film which is scheduled to start shooting at the ...
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Shooting starts on Helen Of Peckham
Shooting has started on Helen Of Peckham, the feature debut of writer-director Emily Young, starring Peter Mullan and Ingeborga Dapkunaite.Helen Of Peckham - a working title - tells the story of an aid worker in war-torn Eastern Europe who travels back to his family in London, unaware of a tragedy ...
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Blue Star Movie, Spice Factory sign co-production deal
Italy's Blue Star Movie has signed a joint venture agreement with the UK's Spice Factory to co-produce three to five pictures a year that will be shot in Italy in English with budgets ranging from $3m - $20m.The first project to be made under the agreement which was signed by ...
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Local successes defy Polish production crisis
Despite the ongoing crisis in the Polish film industry that has seen the collapse of both production levels and budgets, local films continue to dominate the country's box office Polish productions or co-productions currently account for five of the top ten films on release. Topping the box office is Andrzej ...
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Spain's Tesela secures Alta outlet
Spanish producer Tesela has signed a theatrical distribution deal with local arthouse distributor Alta Films for the release of all of its feature films over the next three years.First up will be The Suit (El Traje) Pictured), Alberto Rodriguez's Sevilla-set dramatic comedy which screened last month at San Sebastian and ...
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Mexico's Diego Luna takes lead role in Dirty Dancing sequel
Diego Luna, who grabbed worldwide attention opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in Y Tu Mama Tambien, has landed the lead role in Havana Nights, the second instalment in a planned Dirty Dancing franchise which is being co-produced by Miramax Films and Artisan Pictures.Guy Ferland, whose credits include recent made-for-Showtime feature Bang ...