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Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn gets Myriad money
Myriad Pictures has committed to fully finance romantic comedy Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn, which is set to star Jennifer Love Hewitt.Hewitt, who herself played Hepburn in a recent ABC miniseries, will be directed by Ryan Murphy, the writer and producer of hit US TV show Popular. She plays ...
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Tim Roth tapped for Natural Nylon's $23m Cromwell
Tim Roth is in final negotiations to play 17th century English revolutionary Oliver Cromwell in IAC Film's Crowmell And Fairfax.Roth will star opposite Dougray Scott, who plays general Fairfax. Mike Barker is directing the $23m Natural Nylon production, which is to shoot in January after cutting a deal with UK ...
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Lars von Trier lines up Wagner and Wendy
Fully living up to his maverick reputation, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier (pictured), will not only direct Richard Wagner's mammoth 3-day long opera The Ring Of The Nibelungen in Germany but is writing a US-set film that features guns - but not lead girls."To head a staging The Ring Of ...
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Hamburg film fund invests in production support
New film projects by Margarethe von Trotta, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Volker Schloendorff, and Rolf Schuebel have received backing in the latest round of funding by Hamburg's regional public film fund FilmFoerderung Hamburg. A total of $1.2m (DM2.6m) production support was given to von Trotta's Rosenstrasse project, which will begin shooting ...
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Germany's Constantin relinquishes Mandalay output
Germany's ConstantinFilm will not be renewing its output deal arrangement with Mandalay Pictures when it expires at the end of this year. The decision comes as the producer-distributor is drawing up a new strategy for filling its product pipeline for theatrical releases. As a recent bank analystreport observed, until now ...
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Palm Tree announces period drama slate
Palm Tree Productions has secured independent backing from Monaco-based media investment company IPH (IP Hedge) for a slate of four period dramas set in Scotland. Budgeted in the $5-$10 million range, the projects are Red Rose, Chopin's Widow, Voyage Of Dreams and The White Duchess. It is understood that IPH ...
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BBC, Film Council launch UK director-driven slate
The UK's Film Council, BBC Films and BBC 2 are to co-produce and co-finance a slate of four features in a package worth around $3.6m (£2.5m), aimed at breaking new UK directors and guaranteeing at least some exposure through broadcast on BBC 2.The scheme, which is expected to run for ...
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Total, Titan in Brazil/Mexico coproduction pact
Two fledgling companies from Brazil and Mexico have signed a co-development and production accord. Brazil's Total Filmes and Mexico's Titan Prods will co-produce a series of feature films, starting with a comedy. Details of the first project are still sketchy but according to Titan producer/founder Matthias Ehrenberg and Total's co ...
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Lee Evans, Christopher Walken undertake Plots
Lee Evans and Alfred Molina have joined Christopher Walken and Brenda Blethyn in the cast of Plots With A View, a comedy set in small-town Wales which starts a six-week shoot in the UK this Wednesday (Oct 10).Directed by Nick Hurran and produced by the US' Snowfall and the UK's ...
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Charlton Heston plays Mengele in war crime drama
Charlton Heston has joined the cast of Papa Alguem 5555, a movie about a Nazi war criminal who lives in hiding in Brazil. Adapted from a controversial novel by German author Peter Schneider, the Italian-Brazilian-Hungarian film is currently shooting in Rio de Janeiro.The movie, which is set in 1977 and ...
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Minnie Driver joins New Cardiff cast
Minnie Driver is set to join Heather Graham, Colin Firth and Mary Steenburgen in New Cardiff, a romantic comedy being produced by the UK's Fragile Films for Buena Vista International.Driver is to play Vera, a scheming woman who dumps her fiance, an artist played by Firth, by sending him an ...
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UK's Scala Productions boards TSP's Seagull
The UK's Scala Productions has boarded English-language Spanish production The Seagull, in development at Barcelona start-up TSP.Spaniard Enrique Gabriel (Fading Memories) will direct the "Mediterranean adaptation" of the Chekhov play, which was co-scripted by TSP founders Eva Baro and Antoni Sole. The $12m film is being prepped for a 2002 ...
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Shine pair re-teams for Oz-UK Love's Brother
Jane Scott and Jan Sardi, the producer and writer of Australian hit film Shine, are teaming up again for the romantic comedy Love's Brother, except that this time it will also be Sardi's directorial debut. Great Scott Productions' producing partner in the official Australian/UK co-production is Sarah Radclyffe Productions.A substantial ...
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FFF Bayern awards funding for eight projects
New feature films by Margarethe von Trotta, Oskar Roehler, Doris Doerrie and Gavin Hood, are among eight projects awarded a total of $5.9m (DM 12.6m) production funding by the Bavarian public funder FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF) at its latest session.While the largest sum - $1.4m (DM 3m) - went to Gavin ...
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Working Title develops animatronic Rat project
The UK's Working Title Films is developing an untitled family film based on newcomer Billy O'Brien's short film The Tale Of The Rat That Wrote.The story of a rat's adventures in a dark, Dickensian world combines live-action, animation and the animatronics effects from the blockbuster Babe. O'Brien is to adapt ...
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Michelangelo Antonioni to return to directing
Michelangelo Antonioni, the ailing 89-year-old director of Blow Up and Beyond The Clouds, is set to return to the film set after six years to direct one segment of a three-part feature film. Wong Kar-wai and Pedro Almodovar are attached to direct the other two parts of the movie, a ...
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Ritchie's Love, Sex, Drugs And Money starts shoot
Swept Away, UK director Guy Ritchie's follow-up to Snatch which starts a six-week shoot on location in Malta and Sardinia today (Oct 1), has changed its title to the snappier Love, Sex, Drugs And Money.The film unites Ritchie with his wife Madonna, who takes the main role of Amber - ...
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TV commercials break out into feature films
Start-up Danish production outfit, FilmPeople, has begun production on its first independent project, Polle Fiction (pictured), a feature comedy based on a TV commercial. This is only the second feature to be based on a television advertisement concept, although it is the first to go into production; as Rowan Atkinson's ...
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Germany's H5B5 to make Oma Porat biopic
German media group H5B5 Media has acquired the exclusive rights to produce a biopic based on the eventful life of Israeli actress Orna Porat.Born as Irena Kline in Germany, she came to fame on the German stage in the 1930s and was an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth. Later, ...
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Equity throws UK productions into uncertainty
Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things is amongst the high-profile productions plunged into uncertainty as the UK film sector starts to feel the impact of last week's decision by actors union Equity to strike from December 1.Other titles hit by Equity's call for its members to refuse any new contracts involving ...
