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All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 169
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Murphy to star in $9.4m comedy Perrier's Bounty
Cillian Murphy is poised to star in $9.4 million dark comedy Perrier's Bounty, scripted by Mark O'Rowe (Intermission) and directed by Ian Fitzgibbon. A co-production between Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen's Number 9 Films and Alan Moloney's Parallel, the film will shoot in Spring 2008. Intandem is handling sales.Perrier's Bounty ...
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Roberts to play lead in Working Title's Joan Root biopic
Working Title is to produce a film with Julia Roberts based on the life of African wildlife conservationist, Joan Root. The film (as yet untitled) tells the story of wildlife conservationist Joan Root who was murdered in her Kenyan home in January of this year. Julia Roberts will play the ...
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Buena Onda works with Sardi and Max on Buena Onda Americas
Miami-based producer Donald K. Ranvaud (Central Station, City Of God) is in Cannes with a slate of 10 films from the top young Latin-American talent. The new films are being packaged and produced through Ranvaud's new outfit Buena Onda Americas, which recently set up in association with Silvio Sardi Communications ...
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Dreamachine gets animated for three films
Dreamachine has announced details of three animation projects Fear (s) Of The Dark is produced by Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic of Prima Linea Productions with animators under the artistic directorship of Etienne Robial. Mia & Migoo, by Jacques-Remy Girerd. The film is produced by Folimage together with Jacques-Remy Girerd ...
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Dane Bornedal to deliver $5m thriller
Prolific Danish film-maker Ole Bornedal (Deathwatch) is to direct Deliver Us From Evil, a $5m thriller due to shoot later in the year. Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) is poised to join the cast.Bornedal describes it as 'an extremely violent story' in which a family man is thrown together with a ...
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Max crosses Borderline to Korea
Roger Frappier's Montreal-based Max Films International has pre-sold Lynn Charlebois' Borderline to Lime Tree Entertainment for Korea. The film, now in post-production, is due to be delivered in October. A five-minute promo reeling has been screening in the market.Borderline, is a drama about a woman at three different stages in ...
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Zentropa expands beyond Danish homeland
Denmark's flagship film company Zentropa is cutting many ties to its homeland with founder Lars Von Trier in talks to shift his next film abroad.In Cannes, company boss Peter Aalbeck Jensen told Screen that the company he and Von Trier founded it will be opening further facilities in Sweden where ...
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Headline on track for first western
Ambitious UK production outfit Headline (which recently snapped up the film rights to Peter Pan sequel, Peter Pan In Scarlet) is plotting its first western. The company has taken rights to Geraldine McCaughrean's bestseller Stop The Train!, set in the Oklahoma land rush.Stop The Train! Is the third McCaughrean project ...
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A-Film picks up Small Gods for Benelux
Following its acquisition of Koen Mortier's controversial Ex-Drummer (sold by Wide Management), Benelux distributor A-Film has picked up another equally offbeat film from the same stable.Small Gods, made by brothers Dimitri and Nicolas Karakatsanis, is described by A-Films' Erik Engelen as 'extremely well shot and it is definitely a movie ...
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Haneke's White Ribbon to tie up in February 2008
Further details are beginning to emerge of Michael Haneke's next project, The White Ribbon, being made through Les Films Du Losange, X-Filme and Vega.Legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere has been working on the screenplay of the film, a period piece set during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.A sales agent ...
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Olympic role for film in 2012
UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell (inCannes to declare the new UK/South Africa film co-production treatyoperational) gave an undertaking yesterday that film will be includedin the 'Cultural Olympiad' planned in London for the 2012 Olympics.'It is absolutely certain that film and British film success will ...
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Lumina strikes The Workshop deal with UK's Revolver
In the run-up to Cannes, increasingly aggressive UK distributor Revolver has been on a buying spree.Among a handful of titles it has picked up in recent weeks is Jamie Morgan's provocative documentary The Workshop, one of the buzz titles at last month's Tribeca Festival. (Lumina is selling the film in ...
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Joffe takes Corsan passage to India
Roland Joffe is India-bound. The Oscar winning British director (The Killing Fields, The Mission) is to direct $35 million epic Singularity with Aishwarya Rai (Provoked, Bride and Prejudice) in the leading role. The film, due to begin production early next year, is being produced and co-financed by Belgian outfit Corsan ...
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Carnaby crawls into the Doghouse with Jake West
London-based Carnaby International has picked up worldwide rights to Jake West's comedy horror picture Doghouse, it was announced in Cannes.The company will introduce the project, due to shoot in the autumn, to buyers during the Cannes market.Also making its market debut is Welsh comedy, Bridge Of Lies, from Bafta-winning director ...
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Black Book producer Maltha plans new WWII project with Isabella
Following his success with Black Book, producer San Fu Maltha is tackling another World War II-themed project. Maltha's company Fu Works is to partner with Els Vandevorst's Isabella Films on a film adaptation of bestseller, Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter), by former Dutch politician Jan Terlouw.The film tells the story of ...
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Bridges steps up to join cast of $25m Weide film
In a move which is already whetting buyers' appetites, Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Bob Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, the $25 million adaptation of Toby Young's bestselling satirical memoir about his time as a British journalist abroad, working in Manhattan. Bridges will be playing ...
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India - Mother figure
Fresh from The Namesake, prolific Indian director Mira Nair is working on two very different projects. She is set to direct the epic $100m Shantaram on four continents for Warner Bros. An adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' autobiographical novel, it is being produced by Initial Entertainment Group's Graham King and ...
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More cast lines up for Wrathall's Good shooting in Budapest
Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker and Mark Strong have joined Viggo Mortensen in the cast of Good, John Wrathall's screen adaptation of the CP Taylor stage play, directed by Vicente Amorim.Principal photography has begun in Budapest on the film, in which Viggo Mortensen plays the lead role of John Halder, a ...
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Mira Nair to executive produce Taraprevala's Little Zizou
Sooni Taraprevala, the award-winning screenwriter of The Namesake, Salaam Bombay and Such A Long Journey, is at work in Mumbai on her directorial debut, Little Zizou.The film, which started shooting late last month, stars Boman Irani and Mahabanoo Kotwal. It is being executive produced by Taraprevala's long-term collaborator, Mira Nair.The ...
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Flanders Audiovisual Fund gets new injection of cash
In a move that will provide a major boost to Flemish film production, the Flanders Cultural Affairs Minister Bert Anciaux has announced plans to increase Government support for State film body, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Details of the funding emerged here in Cannes.Anciaux anticipates that the new injection of ...