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75th Eurimages supports nine new features
At its 75th meeting held on 26-28 November 2001 in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe Eurimages fund agreed to support nine feature films for a total amount of Euros 2.7m.The feature films are :Scheme 1 - Assistance awarded mainly on the basis of the project's circulation potentialKedma, Vers l'Orient - ...
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Kastner, Michael team for MiKast Movies
Milica Kastner, formerly at Helkon SK, has teamed with Yvonne Michael, previously at Phantom Pictures, to form London-based production company MiKast Movies.The company has a debut slate including a remake of the 1969 film Royal Hunt Of The Sun and Darkness Visible, a contemporary thriller set in Hawksmoor's London.Additionally, Traffic ...
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South African producers team to form D-V-8
Independent South African producers Jeremy Nathan of Avatar Digital, Joel Phiri of ICE Media and Kobus Botha of Ballistic Pictures have formed an alliance to make up to eight feature films to be produced on digital over the next two years. The alliance, called D-V-8 Films, announced last week that ...
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UK production trend develops into horror
Don't look now, something spooky is occurring in the UK's development vaults. Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine Entertainment this month unveiled a slate of low-budget horror suspense titles with The Hole director Nick Hamm, while rising new directors such as Ratcatcher's Lynne Ramsay and Sexy Beast's Jonathan Glazer are bringing their own ...
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Grammy plans trans-sexual kick-boxer biopic
GMM Grammy, Thailand's largest entertainment conglomerate, is to bankroll a biopic of Parinya Charoenphol, a trans-sexual whose career started with kick-boxing and ended with night club singing. Singapore-based stage director Ekachai Uekrongham will make his feature film debut as director. Casting is now underway with a view to film early ...
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UK's Film Council backs French-language title
The UK's Film Council's Premiere Fund for commercially-oriented films is pumping $700,000 (£500,000) into its first foreign-language production, French director Patrice Leconte's L'Homme Du Train.Pathe will distribute the comedy drama in the UK, while Pathe International is handling international sales. Shooting started this month in France, with Philippe Carcassonne producing ...
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Assumption Of The Virgin becomes doubtful
Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella's Mirage Enterprises is battling to save Assumption Of The Virgin, one of the highest-profile UK productions on the market, after being forced to shelve plans to start production in March. The Benicio Del Toro-Juliette Binoche drama, which Mirage developed with BBC Films and Intermedia, first ...
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O'Sullivan's Heart Of Me set to roll in UK
The Heart Of Me, a drama set in 1930s London starring Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams and Paul Bettany, starts production this week in the UK.Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, the film tells the story of two sisters, one of which has an affair with the other's husband. Years later the ...
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Hong Kong's Singing Horse springs into production
Leading Hong Kong comedy director Joe Ma has set up a new production label Singing Horse Productions to deliver a slate of youth-oriented pictures. The company is jointly owned with Thomas Leong's talent agency International Pacific Artists (IPA) and Ivy Kong, former managing director of Mei Ah's production arm B.I.G. ...
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Fry, Winterbottom projects on Revolution's slate
The UK's Revolution Films is developing a slate of new films including actor Stephen Fry's directing debut, Bright Young Things, which Fry is adapting from Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Vile Bodies, as well as a Michael Winterbottom project about the conflict in Afghanistan.The Fry project is part of a concerted ...
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Tom Cruise warms to Minghella's Cold Mountain
Anthony Minghella will directTom Cruise in a screen adaptation of the US Civil War bestseller ColdMountain next summer, producerSydney Pollack reportedly confirmed from Australia this morning. The film is a co-production betweenMGM and Miramax Films.Cruise would take the lead roleof Inman, a wounded confederate soldier who embarks on a long ...
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Hotshot trio make pan-Asian history
Billed as a step up in pan-Asian co-operation, Fortissimo Film Sales unveiled details of Three, an omnibus film featuring three of the region's most commercially successful directors.Nonzee Nimibutr, director of Thailand's Jan Dara and Nang Nak, Korea's Kim Jee Won, who previously directed The Foul King, and Hong Kong-based Peter ...
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Japan's Shinoda announces final project
Masahiro Shinoda, a leading director of Japan's 1960s New Wave, has announced the production of what he says will be his last film: Spy: Sorge. A project Shinoda has been developing for the past fifteen years, Spy: Sorge will tell the story of Richard Sorge, a German journalist who served ...
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Rush & Davis team for Swimming Upstream
Two of Australia's most internationally acclaimed actors, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis, will be acting alongside each other as husband and wife when shooting starts next week in Queensland on the family drama Swimming Upstream.Australian-born Russell Mulcahy is the director and Howard and Karen Baldwin, and Australia's Andrew Mason, are ...
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Spice Factory/Beyond to Cut Deeper
The UK's Spice Factory and Australia's Beyond Films are co-developing writer/director Michael Hurst's science fiction horror film Cut Deeper, a sequel to the 1999 Australian film Cut (pictured). Shooting is scheduled to start early next year.Cut Deeper is to be produced by Michael Cowan and Jason Piette from the UK's ...
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Benigni's Pinocchio delayed until next Christmas
Roberto Benigni's hugely anticipated next picture, Pinocchio, will not be released in Italy until Christmas 2002, a spokesman for the Cecchi Gori Group confirmed on Wednesday (Nov 7).The film had originally been set for release later this year, which would have placed it somewhere between the two blockbuster heavyweights Harry ...
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China Star lines up $13m Books And Swords
China Star has unveiled a big-budget period action-romance to be directed by veteran Tsui Hark.Pre-production is cranking up on Books And Swords, a $13m adaptation of one of China's most famous novels. The story, which will be heavy on swordfight action, is about two brothers and is set during the ...
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Salles' Virgin heads for Cinecitta
Brazilian director Walter Salles' upcoming Assumption Of The Virgin will start shooting next year in Rome's fabled Cinecitta Studios on a set designed by Oscar winning legend Dante Ferretti (Gangs Of New York).Benicio Del Toro, Geoffrey Rush, Chloe Sevigny and Juliette Binoche are all set to star in the movie, ...
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Salvatores to film Italian kidnap drama
Oscar winning director Gabriele Salvatores's next project will be a screen adaptation of Niccolo' Ammaniti's critically-acclaimed drama, "Io Non Ho Paura."Set in southern Italy in the 1970s, Io Non Ho Paura is the story of a 10-year-old boy who discovers another young boy who has been kidnapped by his own ...
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Five Korean directors team to form EGG Films
Five established South Korean filmmakers have grouped together to form the nation's first in-house production company. Named EGG Films, the company will tie up the services of directors Park Chan-wook (Joint Security Area), Bae Chang-ho (My Heart), Kwak Jae-yong (My Sassy Girl), Lee Young-jae (Harmonium In My Memory) and Lee ...