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Oliver Stone to interview Castro for Cuba project
Spanish producers MediaPro, Morena Films and Argentina's Esperanza Films have joined Madrid-based Pentagrama Films to produce a documentary about Cuba for director Oliver Stone.Provisionally titled Looking For Fidel, the documentary is based on an original idea by Pentagrama producer Jose Ibanez exploring the history and future of the island. Production ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast lines up topnotch local slate
Film I Vast, Sweden's successful regional film fund, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in January, has lined up another busy schedule, including highly anticipated new films from Jalla! Jalla! director Josef Fares, Executive Protection's Anders Nilson and Dan Ying (Home Sour Home).Fares will shoot his as yet untitled action comedy ...
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Columbia TriStar boards Mexican co-production
Columbia Tri Star Mexico has boarded its first Mexican co production, the comedy thriller Sin Ton Ni Sonia, currently shooting in Mexico City. In addition to from covering 20% of the estimated $1m budget, Columbia TriStar has picked up the local and international distribution rights to the project. ...
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Oscar nods, Berlin Bears icing on cake for France
The five Academy Award nominations for France's Amelie were the icing on the cake for a glorious year of French cinema - a year that has seen French films score highly at the box office and now receive Oscar kudos - in addition to the four Silver Berlin Bears awarded ...
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Magicworx adds three English lang titles to slate
Munich-based production outfit Magicworx, a division of the international production and distribution 2K Group, is lining up three English-language projects to co-produce this year. Locations in Mexico or the South Pacific will serve as the setting for UK director Simon Hunter's thriller Savage Surf which will be produced by Magicworx ...
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Germany's Allmedia moves into feature production
Munich-based production outfit Allmedia is to expand into feature film production with the arrival of Uwe Schott as a joint managing director alongside Heike Richter-Karst."We have built up a reputation for quality TV productions and now the next step is to establish a feature film strand which can benefit from ...
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Byrne and Colosimo go for Take Away
In front of the cameras, when they start to roll this week on the new Australian comedy Take Away, will be a very strong cast including Rose Byrne, who won best actress at the Venice Film Festival in 2000 for her role in The Goddess Of '67. She will be ...
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Indian love story attracts multiple suitors
The Taj Mahal, the Mughal monument of love and India's premiere tourist attraction has become the favourite subject of a handful of Indian filmmakers. There are at least four films in pre-production and one already complete on the story of the Taj. Indian Writer-director-producer Akbar Khan last week began filming ...
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Gilliam to revive The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
'If I play it right,' says Terry Gilliam, 'I can continue making this film for the rest of my life.' In Berlin to support Lost In La Mancha, the so-called 'un-making of' documentary about his aborted Don Quixote production, Gilliam still aims to make the film in question. Titled The ...
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Gilliam to exec produce Quay Bros' next feature
Two of the Berlinale's "Vision Day" panelists have revealed details of the new projects they are hatching.Terry Gilliam, in town for Lost In La Mancha, will serve as executive producer on the Quay Brothers' long-anticipated second feature The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes. "Audiences are searching for a chance to journey ...
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Australia's Darnley House boards $12m Jamil
Australia's Darnley House Productions has boarded Italian producer Leo Pescarolo's $12m picture, Jamil, The Last Goddess.Backing has also been secured from Italy's Rai Cinema for the movie, which is loosely based on H.Rider Haggard's novel She, a mythical late 19th century African adventure about an immortal woman who is ...
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$25m Rhythm Section to shoot in Berlin this year
The German-UK partners behind zombie video game adaptation Resident Evil are planning to return to Berlin this year to shoot The Rhythm Section, a large-scale thriller that sets a Nikita-style story in the German capital.The $25m-$30m production is being developed through the long-term production partnership between leading German producer Bernd ...
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Canada enjoys 17% rise in 'runaway productions'
Canadian film and television production increased to $3.3bn in 2000-2001 against $2.84bn in 1999-2000, driven in large part by a 17% increase in foreign location shooting - often referred to as "runaway production" by US film industry lobbyists. According to figures released today (Feb 7) by the Canadian Film and ...
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ApolloMedia lines up Hyams, Duguay projects
German private film fund ApolloMedia is lining up another three features in the Euros 25m-Euros 70m bracket with producer Moshe Diamant, which will see the fund reunited with directors Peter Hyams and Christian Duguay after working on D'Artagnan (The Musketeer) and The Extremists, respectively.According to the fund's production coordinator Jan ...
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Germany's VIP fund to back Richter's The I Inside
Munich-based Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds (VIP) is to back the first English-language project by Der Tunnel director Roland Suso Richter.VIP is to supply just over half of the budget for The I Inside which will go into production in March by Rudy Cohen's RCD Productions with a cast understood ...
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Bavaria Film Int'l, X-Filme expand relationship
German world sales company Bavaria Film International (BFI) and X-Filme Creative Pool, producer of the Berlinale's opening film Heaven, have agreed to expand their existing working relationship."Our goal is to intensify the co-operation with X Filme on an informal basis, which could go over and above the world sales business ...
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UK's Random Harvest launches horror label
UK production outfit Random Harvest has launched a new label to focus on horror and thriller titles aimed at the 16- to 21-year-old multiplex audience.Dubbed Four Horsemen Films, Random Harvest is aiming to produce between three and five films per year through the label, and says that negotiations are at ...
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Fall in govt funds ahead for Danish film industry
The thriving Danish film industry could be in for an unpleasant shock when the new rightwing government's financial policy comes into action next year. While state financial support remains unchanged for 2002, support from the Danish Film Institute is expected to be cut by up to 20% from 2003. The ...
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Angelopoulos to start on Greece's biggest movie
Greek director Theo Angelopoulos will next week commence shooting on The Weeping Field, the first part of his long planned, seven-hour trilogy that tells the story of a couple during the twentieth century.Set for a 15-week shoot, the most expensive Greek production ever is financed by various national and international ...
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Fiennes takes lead in $10m Luther biopic
UK actor Joseph Fiennes has signed up to play religious reformer Martin Luther in a $10m feature film biopic to be directed by Eric Till.Luther, the story of a simple monk challenging the political and religious leadership of his time will also feature Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz, Mathieu Carriere, ...