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Pony Canyon launches sci-fi extravaganza Returner
Production has started on Returner, a CGI extravaganza that promises to be one of the biggest Japanese releases of 2002. Directed by Takashi Yamazaki and starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Returner is a sci-fi thriller about a killer for hire who boasts a matchless martial arts technique but has a soft spot ...
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Brosnan stays on board for Bond films 20 and 21
Pierce Brosnan has revealed that he plans to play James Bond in another film, which will take the Irish actor's tally of Bond appearances to five.Speaking at a press conference at Pinewood Studios, where the still-untitled 20th Bond film is gearing up to start shooting on Monday (Jan 14) Brosnan ...
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UK film production spend down in 2001
UK production spending fell by nearly 10% in 2001, with much of the drop blamed on the shadow cast by the threat of a summer SAG strike, according to research compiled by Screen International.Screen International's 2001 figures - which include every feature shot in the UK or abroad produced by ...
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ApolloProMedia fund to back Borderline
Evelyn Purcell's psychological thriller Borderline, starring Gina Gershon (Driven) and Chris Noth (Sex And The City), is to be backed by the German ApolloProMedia private film fund.This is the second feature to be backed by the new fund after it committed to back Michael J. Bassett's Untitled Great War Project ...
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Local industries boost world film production
Global film production totalled some 3,540 films in 2000, an increase of 76 films from 1999, according to research by industry periodical Screen Digest.With some of the smaller territories still to release production data for 2000, the figures are not exhaustive, but the trend is unmistakable: world-wide film production is ...
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Untitled Great War project wraps in Prague
The as-yet untitled World War I thriller starring Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell wrapped in the Czech Republic in December, a UK-German co-production and the first from UK-based Film & Music Entertainment Ltd. The $5 million shoot finished on time and on budget, according to producer Mike Downey, who explained that ...
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Untitled 03 among recipients of UK Premiere Fund
The UK Film Council's Premiere Fund is investing £500,000 in acclaimed director Mike Leigh's Untitled 03, currently in development. Details of the subject of the film, produced by Simon Channing-Williams of Thin Man Films and set to shoot in 2003, are typically sketchy. Traditionally, Leigh does not work ...
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UK's Working Title options boo.com story
Working Title Films is to make a film about the spectacular boom and bust story of on-line fashion store boo.com.Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's UK production company has optioned the rights to the book boo hoo: a dot.com story from concept to catastrophe. The story offers an eyewitness account of ...
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French film production on track for record year
French film production has reached a massive 162 titles during 2001 (compared to 150 last year), and will top a record 200, including films in which French partners are minority co-producers (against 171 last year) according to the CNC (Centre National de la Cinematographie).Fuelling the growth, the bullish trend for ...
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Bacall, Gazzara join von Trier's Dogville
Hollywood veterans Lauren Bacall and Ben Gazzara have been the latest additions to the all-star cast of Danish maverick Lars von Trier's highly anticipated follow-up to the multiple award-winning Dancer In The Dark. His new project, Dogville, has already attracted high-profile talent, including: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Chloe Sevigny and ...
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Helkon SK ventures into production
Children's fantasy comedy Tooth and comedy thriller Max Dark are among the first projects at the newly-launched production operation of UK distributor Helkon SK. Emma Berkosfky, former head of development at BSkyB film arm Sky Pictures, will head up development at the outfit.Berkosfky, who was also previously at British Screen ...
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Maipo opens new chapter on literary adaptations
The Norwegian production outfit Maipo Film hit gold with its first feature film production Elling with more than 740,000 local admissions - the highest figure in 25 years - and is now planning a run of literary adaptations.Veteran producer and head of Maipo Film, Dag Alveberg now has several other ...
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French music house XIII Bis launches into pictures
XIII Bis Organisation, a leading French independent music group, is making its first foray into the film business, with Anima, a fantasy thriller written and to be directed by in-house artist and composer Christophe Pascal. The French-language film, set in France and The Netherlands, in the 17th century, involves a ...
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Melanie Griffith to star in Almost Japanese
Melanie Griffith has been cast to play the lead in Robert Allan Ackermann's provocative comedy Almost Japanese which is set to be backed by the Potsdam-based producer fund Vif International Films.Shooting on the love story between a lonely and inept American teenager and a Japanese conductor (to be played by ...
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Asif Kapadia considering gunslinger project
Having transplanted the spaghetti Western to India with Miramax Films pick-up The Warrior, UK director Asif Kapadia is considering swapping the deserts of Rajasthan for the real Wild West on St Agnes' Stand.Kapadia is being wooed to direct the story of an injured gunslinger on the run for Nik Powell's ...
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Total, Titan to re-make Sex, Shame & Tears
Brazil's Total Entertainment and Mexico's Titan Prods, which signed a co-production pact in September, are poised to make a Brazilian version of the highest grossing Mexican film of all time, Sex, Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas) . The battle-of-the-sexes comedy grossed $12.4m in Mexico. Fox Film Brazil will ...
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Fox signs Indian feature co-production deal
Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox has developed a deal with Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) to produce English-language movies in India. The agreement, of which details have yet to be disclosed, includes the co-production of English as well as Hindi language films to be made in India. PNC's credits include high-profile ...
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Everett set to be crowned king in Cromwell biopic
Rupert Everett is in final talks to play King Charles I, the despotic British monarch who ill-fatedly believed in the "divine right of kings", in Mike Barker's English Civil War story Cromwell And Fairfax.Everett joins Tim Roth and Dougray Scott in the $23m IAC Films project that is thought ...
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Prague Studios, Barrandov attracting new projects
Czech upstart Prague Studios unveiled its refurbished stages last week, just in time for filming to start on Vin Diesel actioner XXX, with Rob Cohen becoming the latest director to take advantage of low production costs in the Czech Republic. At the same time, it was confirmed that Children Of ...
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Breillat's Scenes Intimes pre-sold before finished
Catherine Breillat's latest project, Scenes Intimes, which started shooting on Nov 19, has already attracted the attention of foreign distributors on the strength of the successes of Romance and A Ma Soeur! (Fat Girl).Scenes Intimes - produced, like Romance and Fat Girl , by Flach Films and starring Anne Parillaud ...