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India scraps $2m limit on bank financing for films
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has withdrawn the $2m ceiling on banks for film financing, opening the way for much-needed boost to industry investment.The RBI stated that banks should fix an overall exposure limit to the film industry and ensure that advances are distributed over a number of films ...
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Disney, Admira team up on Mexican-set chick flick
Miravista, thefledgling co production venture created by Walt Disney's Latin Americanoperation and Telefonica Spain's Admira, have signed up Argentine-born LosAngeles resident Gabriela Tagliavini to direct its debut feature, Ladies'Night. A co production with Mexico's Televisa and ArgosComunicacion, the $1.5m - $2m romantic comedy is scheduled to start principalphotography this fall. ...
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Norwegian hit Elling to get prequel and sequel
Following its latest triumph at Spain's Peniscola international comedy film festival, Norway's Maipo Film is preparing two further films based on the Elling franchise, now that the comedy has become one of the most successful Norwegian films ever.Theatre director Peter Naess' second big screen effort Elling became the biggest local ...
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Italian directors team for Israeli-Palestinian conflict documentary
Eleven Italian filmmakers, including celebrated veterans Ettore Scola, Mario Monicelli and Francesco Maselli are currently on location in Palestine shooting a documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The group of directors, from Italy's Cinema del Presente Foundation have visited parts of Israel including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and are currently examining ...
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Monica Bellucci to star in Muccino's Remember Me
Hot on the heels of Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, Monica Bellucci is set to star in Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino's (The Last Kiss) upcoming movie, Remember Me (Ricordati Di Me).Local production outfit Fandango confirmed that Bellucci will star alongside popular Italian actors Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Hotel, Holy Tongue) and Laura Morante, who ...
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Czech arthouse flourishes during mainstream boom
With a boom in multiplex building and cinema admissions rising over the 10 million mark for the first time in half a decade, mainstream film is more popular than ever in the Czech Republic. And yet it is experimental film making that is grabbing most of the attention.Of all the ...
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Warner lines up Vanzina remake as second Italian pic
Warner Bros Pictures' has started production on its second Italian-language film, a sequel to 1970s cult movie La Febbre Del Cavallo starring Italy's Gigi Proietti, who also played the lead in the original comedy.The new picture, entitled La Febbre Del Cavallo - La Mandrakata is directed by popular filmmaker Carlo ...
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Italian producers told to get professional - or die
Italian producers should seek private financial partners - or risk extinction. That was the thunderous message delivered this weekend by Giampaolo Sodano, head of UNIDIM, Italy's national distributors' union at a conference near Rome. He revealed that more than 70% of Italian film companies have equity capital of less than ...
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Borgia project starts search for new finance
UK producer Stephen Woolley has been forced to refinance Neil Jordan's Renaissance epic Borgia after failing to agree a budget figure with US-based sales agent Myriad Pictures.Woolley said he was still confident that shooting will go ahead later this year despite the rupture with Myriad on the eve of the ...
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US runaway productions in decline
The number of so-called runaway productions from the US to Canada is decreasing, according to a report by the Center for Entertainment Industry Data and Research (CEIDR). The 2001 Production Report, which focuses on "theatrical-length motion pictures released in US theatres", indicates that of 158 films in its 2001 study, ...
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Spain's Alquimia pacts with France's Fidelite for co-productions
Spain's Alquimia Cinema and France's Fidelite Productions have signed a two-picture co-production deal likely to be expanded to include two further forthcoming titles. Included in the deal are Alquimia's Euros 6m Utopia, a thriller from director Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup), and Fidelite's $6m Cronique Des Anees De Baist, a chronicle ...
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Buena Vista Spain adds two more co-production projects
Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS), which last autumn announced its full-fledged entry into local feature film co-production, has added two more titles to its slate: Cat Kisses (Besos De Gato) and Hold-Up At 3... Thirty (Atraco A Las 3... Y Media). Rafael Alcazar directs the Euros 2m Kisses, a co-production ...
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Sam Neill's next role is acting as investor
Actor Sam Neill will be putting more effort than usual into his next film role - as well as starring in Gaylene Preston's romantic thriller Perfect Strangers, Neill is also an investor through his Huntaway Productions Neill's partners in Huntaway - the New Zealand production company that he set ...
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Holmes, Euston Films partner for The Farmer Wants A Wife
Shooting Fish and Waking Ned producer Richard Holmes has partnered with Euston Films, the reincarnation of UK broadcaster Thames Television's film division, to co-produce $10m romantic comedy The Farmer Wants A Wife. The true story of a campaign to find wives for lonely farmers marks Euston's first step in a ...
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News Corp's Fortune Star unveils first projects
Fortune Star, the new production company housed at News Corp's Star TV group, has unveiled its first projects made for the ancillary markets."I don't expect to unveil our theatrical slate until much nearer Mifed," said Fortune Star general manager Peter Poon. "We refuse to produce the kind of low budget ...
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Svensk Filmindustri boards Bergman's Saraband
Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has boarded legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's new picture Saraband. The film, previously titled Anna, is a long-delayed sequel to Bergman's classic 1973 drama Scenes From A Marriage. Marainne decides to contact her ex-husband Johan after many years of estrangement, they rekindle an autumnal romance, but both ...
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Danish Film Institute backs foreign-language co-productions
Two new foreign-language projects have tapped the Danish Film Institute's under-exploited funds. The two, both co-produced with Zentropa, are eligible for DFI support with a local minority co-production partner on board.Holland's Els Vandevorst will produce Sea Of Silence for her Isabella Films to be directed by the Oscar-nominated Belgian Stijn ...
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Portman, Hoffman, Ribisi, Gleeson to climb Cold Mountain
The glittering cast of Anthony Minghella's upcoming epic Cold Mountain is taking shape, with the addition of Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi and Brendan Gleeson this week. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger play the three lead roles in the film, which is a co-production between Miramax ...
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E Pictures adds Euro-Asian thriller One For The King
E Pictures, the Korean sales house that was set up a year ago, is launching a new big-budget picture from Zenith Entertainment, the production outfit behind last year's $25m blockbuster My Boss, My Hero. The picture Four For The King: Code Paris is an Asian action suspense thriller with European ...
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Germany's Das Werk reports sales increase, film production optimism
German media company Das Werk posted a 14.6% increase in turnover to Euros 26.8m for the first quarter of 2002 compared to the same period last year, thanks to business generated by its new acquisition Centropolis Effects (CFX).In a breakdown of the Group's turnover, the German companies brought in Euros ...