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Italian publisher buys into Mikado Film
Italian publishing giant De Agostini has taken a majority stake in local arthouse production and distribution outfit Mikado Film, which recently co-produced Otar Iosseliani's Lundi Matin and released Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing. The move, which represents De Agostini's third major venture in the Italian film industry in ...
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Goldfish Memory wraps first digital production
Goldfish Memory, the first of four feature films to begin shooting in Dublin in March, has wrapped after a 24 day shoot, notching up 23 set ups a day according to producer Breda Walsh of Goldfish Films.Financed by a combination of Irish Film Board finance and deferrals, the Euros1.3m contemporary ...
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Dutch incentive to re-make European films
The Dutch film industry has turned to European films as a source for re-makes in an attempt to foster local production. Three titles - 14 Tage Lebenslaenglich and Sex Oder Liebe (both German) and the Swedish comedy Gossip - have been selected to be given a Dutch make-over.The Dutch industry ...
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Iain Glen chosen to star in Japanese spy thriller
Scottish actor Iain Glen is to star in veteran Japanese director Masahiro Shinoda's final film project: the $15m thriller Spy Sorge.The 71-year-old Shinoda has been trying for more than a decade to get backers for the film, which will require two months of filming in Shanghai and Berlin, as well ...
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Ulrich Thomsen to star in Fly's Arven for Zentropa
One of the most well-known Danish actors working abroad, Ulrich Thomsen, has returned to home turf to play the lead in Arven (literal translation The Inheritance), the eagerly awaited new film from writer-director Per Fly.Fly swept the national film awards last year with his strong social-realist drama The Bench. The ...
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Singing Horse strikes right note with China Star
Singing Horse Productions, a company owned by director Joe Ma Wai Ho International Pacific Artists head Thomas Leong and producer Ivy Kong, has struck a deal to produce three pictures for Hong Kong powerhouse China Star Entertainment.All three will be directed by Ma, who has notched up a string of ...
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New Emperor chief sets out on twin-track course
Taking over last week as chief executive of Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG) Carl Chang has set out a twin track strategy stressing regional Asian film-making and smaller Hong Kong productions."We will be making big-budget action pictures, but I cannot promise to greenlight another Highbinders inside the next six months," said ...
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Miramax joins kids craze with Pokemon sequel
As part of a visible pushinto producing and distributing family-friendly entertainment, Miramax Filmshas acquired the worldwide rights outside Asia to the next Pokemon movie sequel, out-bidding Warner Bros to the fourth film in the Japanese anime cash-cow about evolutionary pocket monsters. As reported in the LosAngeles Times yesterday, Miramaxpaid an ...
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Cinerenta offspring forges own path in LA
Michael Ohoven, scionof the family behind Germany's long-established Cinerenta productionfund, is striking out on his own as a Los Angeles-based producer. His InfinityInternational Entertainment will now start entertaining production ties withother European film funds while at the same time retaining its umbilical links to Cinerenta.Ohoven (pictured here) says he isrelocating ...
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SAG downplays international impact of Global Rule
The US Screen Actors Guild(SAG) says its controversial Global Rule One will only apply to that small cadre of internationalactors primarily living in the US, and not those many foreign SAG card-holders who have worked on US films but remain overseas residents.International producers,particularly those in the UK, were in uproar ...
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Hurt to star in Lea Pool's Blue Butterfly
William Hurt is set to star in the $7.8m Canada-UK co-production BlueButterfly, opposite young US actor Marc Donato and Canadian actress PascaleBussieres under the direction of Swiss-Canadian director Lea Pool. Based on a true story with a script by Pete McCormack, the film tells of a terminally ill boy ...
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Film clean-out begins at Vivendi Universal
The corporate cleansing hasbegun at Vivendi Universal's film operations in the wake of strategic re-evaluation meetings that have taken place in the French town of Deauville. Three months after mergingwith Barry Diller's USA Networks, the French-owned studio has shut downits specialist division Universal Focus and also severed StudioCanal's co-production venture ...
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Canada's Remstar acquires new package
Montreal-based distributor Remstar has picked up Canadian rights to Jacob Berger's Aime Ton Pere (Honour Thy Father), currently in post-production. The feature debut of writer-director Berger, the $5m suspense drama sees the reunion of father and son actors Gerard and Guillaume Depardieu in starring roles. The story follows the plan ...
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Canadian film board launches co-production unit
Canada's National Film Board (NFB) will launch an International Co-production Unit (ICU) with the goal of developing key partnerships and framework agreements with international broadcasters and other organisations. NFB chairman Jacques Bensimon said that the move was precipitated by cutbacks at public-sector institutions internationally. "The NFB has a duty to ...
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Macquarie, Nine Net launch major production fund
Macquarie Bank and the Nine Network's production subsidiary today (March 21) formally announced a bold plan to entice investors to provide up to $33.2m (A$62.5m) for the production of eight feature films, two TV series and two telemovies. The third partner in the equation is Hoyts Distribution, which will distribute ...
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Dutch producer assembles cast for Turmoil
Producer Rob Houwer (Soldier Of Orange, Turkish Delight) is assembling a major Dutch cast for his latest movie Het Woeden Der Gehele Wereld (The Turmoil Of The World), a thriller based on the best-selling novel by Dutch author Maarten 't Hart. Houwer is hoping to assemble a cast including: Jeroen ...
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Indo-Canadian production treaty imminent
India and Canada are on the brink of signing a co-production treaty that will extend the nascent film production relationship between the two territories, which has already seen a number of Indian films shoot in the country.Cwurrently, Indian film star Manoj Bajpai is to star in (Exotica), an Indo-Canadian feature ...
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Isle of Man launches $35m location incentive fund
The Isle of Man Government has launched a $35.6m (£25m) fund to attract big-budget films to use it as a locationThe so-called Media Development Fund will invest in films, as well as develop an infrastructure for the film sector. The Isle of Man government aims for the fund to retain ...
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Indian banks find confidence to fund films
Indian information and broadcasting minister, Sushma Swaraj has cleared the way for the Industrial Development Bank of India, the Bank of India and the Reserve Bank of India to grant loans to filmmakers.The move comes as part of 'Operation Clean-Up', an initiative launched to prevent the use of 'underground' money ...
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Working Title, DNA team on Curtis comedy
Working Title Films and National Lottery franchise DNA Films have teamed to produce leading UK writer Richard Curtis' directing debut, a romantic comedy in which Hugh Grant is to play the British prime minister.Grant is in talks to play a bachelor PM who falls in love on his first day ...