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Abel Ferrara: go go dancer
The new film from energetic film-maker Abel Ferrara is a sexy, glossy comedy - or so he promises, says Sheri JenningsWhat does a director like Abel Ferrara, who has already had four films invited to Cannes, do for his next act' Something completely different, it seems.Ferrara's Go Go Tales screened ...
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Chiara Arroyo: asilent witness
The Mexican director of the Cannes prize-winner Silent Light tells Chiara Arroyo why he chose to make a film about an isolated German-speaking sect. Just a decade ago, Mexico's Carlos Reygadas was a high-profile human-rights lawyer for the European Commission, specialising in armed conflicts. Now he is one of the ...
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Wildlife documentaries: nature calls
Following the global success of March Of The Penguins, animal films are the hot new genre. But is there a market for theatrical wildlife documentaries' Melanie Rodier reports. From meerkats to elephants, turtles to polar bears: in the post March Of The Penguins marketplace, a host of animal-based nature documentaries ...
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Creature features
Screen staff reporters identify forthcoming nature documentary projects.Animals In Love (Fr)Dir: Laurent CharbonnierFrench director Charbonnier, who was the DoP on the Oscar-nominated documentary Winged Migration, makes his directorial feature debut on the $10m Animals In Love, which explores courtship and love in the animal kingdom. Produced by Jean-Pierre Bailly for ...
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Case study: The Meerkats
Billed as a coming-of-age tale, BBC Films' The Meerkats is an attempt to mount a resolutely big-screen experience. Melanie Rodier reports. Now in post-production, James Honeyborne's The Meerkats is the first theatrical nature documentary from the UK's BBC Films.Co-financed by The Weinstein Company (TWC), the film is a collaboration with ...
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China: cheaper thrills
Faced with a rapidly expanding cinema sector, Chinese producers are looking to end their reliance on martial-arts epics. Sen-lun Yu looks at the new funds aiming to generate an upturn in cheaper commercial homegrown product. Chinese film-making may be best-known internationally for its eye-popping martial-arts films and its lavishly mounted ...
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Shanghai International Film Festival: going for growth
Shanghai is expanding market activities in 2007. Sen-lun Yu reports.Celebrating its 10th edition this year, the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), held June 16-24, is gradually expanding its film market and intends to demonstrate China's business potential.Aside from the Jin Jue Competition, the festival's main competitive section, and the Asian ...
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Cast grows as Brideshead Revisited starts 11-week shoot
As principal photography starts on Brideshead Revisited, Ed Stoppard, Felicity Jones, Jonathan Cake and Greta Scacchi have joined the cast. The project is shooting for 11 weeks including five weeks at Yorkshire's Castle Howard as well as location shooting in Oxford, London, Venice and Morocco. Ecosse Films are producing for ...
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Mischa Barton joins casts of Joffe's Russian drama
Mischa Barton has joined the cast of Roland Joffe's coming-of-age drama Finding t.A.T.u, which will start shooting in Moscow later this month. The musical drama is based on Russian writer A. Mitrofanov's novel t.A.T.u come back. The story follows a friendless American teenager who escapes her lonely life in Moscow ...
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Spike Lee decamps to Italy for Miracle Of St Anna
Spike Lee will shoot a film in Tuscany based on James McBride's 2003 book Miracle at St. Anna, the story of an Italian orphan who befriends a black American soldier in Italy during World War II.The project - which is in scripting stage - is the first film produced by ...
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Radio-Canada to pump $11m into features
Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has announced it will invest $11.3m (C$12m) in French-language feature film production through 2010. It will mark the third multi-year cycle of production financing via Radio-Canada's 'cinema d'ici' initiative begun in 1999. Said Allaire, ''We get involved at the script stage ...
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Japan's Bandai Visual lines up Tamagotchi feature
Japanese video producer-distributor Bandai Visual has announced an animated feature film starring the popular tamagotchi virtual pets. The first feature foray for the franchise, entitled Eiga De Tojo! Tamagotchi Dokidoki! Uchu No Maigotchi!', is set for a December release through Toho. The production consortium includes Bandai Visual, WiZ, Toho, Asatsu-DK ...
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Hoffman, Thompson set for Overture's Last Chance Harvey
Overture Films is lining up a September shoot in London on the romance Last Chance Harvey starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.Joel Hopkins, who directed the 2001 UK film Jump Tomorrow, wrote the screenplay and will direct the story of a down-at-heel man who finds a new companion while attending ...
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Walden, Phoenix hire Kwapis to direct teen mayor project
Walden Media has hired Ken Kwapis to direct its untitled teen mayor project that Phoenix Pictures' Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messner will produce.Surf's Up co-writers Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse have come aboard as screenwriters on the story of a high school slacker who runs for mayor to bolster his ...
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Amour Fou partners split to form two production outfits
Six years after founding Vienna-based Amour Fou Filmproduktion, partners Gabriele Kranzelbinder and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu have decided amicably to part and set up two separate production companies. As part of the restructuring, Kranzelbinder has launched Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production (KGP), which will acquire Amour Fou's shares in the sales company Autlook Film ...
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International buyers up 25%for second Madrid Screenings
The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid expects to attract 131 international film buyers this weekend - about 25 percent more than last year. And the growing interest is reflected not only in the number but also the stature of the buyers, according to the Spanish Producers' ...
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Pathe, BBC slate includes big-screen version of Upstairs Downstairs
Pathe and BBC Films, with support from the UK Film Council's Development Fund, have announced a development slate of five new projects, after announcing a year ago that they parties would join forces to develop bigger films with commercial potential. The four new projects announced are: an adaptation of Edwardian ...
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BBC Fiction boss Tranter spells out her plans for BBC Films
Controller of BBC Fiction Jane Tranter has defended the recent decision to move BBC Films out of its West End offices and back into BBC Television Centre. She told ScreenDaily.com that the move, likely to happen 'by around the end of the year,' is intended both to 'underpin the enormous ...
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Trinidad & Tobago starts new film tax incentive with rebate up to 30%
Trinidad & Tobago, the twin island nation in the Carribean, has today unveiled its first tax incentives for film, TV and advertising shoots. The new rebates system ranges from 12.5% for productions of expenditures up to $500,000, 15% for productions from $500,000 to $1m, or 30% rebates for productions spending ...
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Controversial Spanish film law approved by ministers
Spain's controversial new film law took a major step forward on Friday after being approved by the Council of Ministers.The legislation, now expected to come into force by the end of the year after being pushed through Parliament as a matter of urgency, is intended to improve distribution and boost ...