All Production articles – Page 409
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NewsGothenburg previews 15 hot Nordic titles
Gothenburg Film Market’s popular Works In Progress presentations included previews of films including Ruben Ostlund’s much-anticipated Turist [pictured] and Danish werewolf story When Animals Dream.
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NewsExclusive lines up Ezekiel Moss
EXCLUSIVE: The latest hot property to drop into the Berlin market will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, both of whom have drawn heat during awards season.
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NewsMyriad boards Barney Thomson
Robert Carlyle’s EFM-bound feature directorial debut The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson to star Emma Thompson and Ray Winstone.
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NewsJackie Collins, Amber to adapt novel
The bestselling author and her Chances Inc has teamed with Amber Entertainment to adapt her forthcoming novel Confessions Of A Wild Child.
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NewsJessica Alba to star in The Wright Girls
Highland Film Group will introduce the Atlas Independent project to buyers at the EFM next week.
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NewsIrons, Eisenberg join Superman-Batman
Jeremy Irons has been cast as Alfred in Warner Bros’ untitled superhero mash-up.
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NewsKeanu Reeves sci-fi heads to Babelsberg
Brian Kirk’s feature debut, sci-fi romance Passengers, starring Keanu Reeves and Rachel McAdams, is set to be Studio Babelsberg’s first international production for 2014.
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FeaturesRon Howard, Rush
Ron Howard talks about the challenges and rewards of returning to independent film-making with Formula 1 character study Rush. He also tells Wendy Mitchell about the adventure of his new film Heart Of The Sea.
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FeaturesPeter Jackson, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
For The Desolation of Smaug, the second part of his Hobbit trilogy, Peter Jackson had the tricky task of bringing the story’s raging, intelligent dragon to life. He tells John Hazelton about how the second film brings certain freedoms.
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FeaturesIn service of The Butler
Pulling together the financing for an epic about the civil-rights movement was not easy, but Lee Daniels’ box-office hit The Butler has challenged conventional wisdom about audiences for African-American and political stories. John Hazelton reports.
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NewsGothenburg: Nordic Lab filmmakers offer fresh voices
Filmmakers pitching include Iram Haq [pictured], who just completed I Am Yours and is now working on The Way Back; and Concerning Violence producer Annika Rogell with My Skinny Sister.
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NewsThe Solution boards Saints
EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway in New York on Archer Gray Productions and Maven Pictures’ drama Ten Thousand Saints starring Ethan Hawke. The Solution Entertainment Group will kick off international sales in Berlin
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Frameline Completion Fund unveils winners
The nation’s only non-profit designed to aid in the funding, distribution and promotion of LGBT films will support seven films through the final stages of their production after receiving a record 112 submissions.
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NewsQED’s Kasbah heats up
EFM: Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride, Shia LaBeouf and Zooey Deschanel have joined Bill Murray in Venture Forth and Shangri-La Entertainment’s comedy Rock The Kasbah. QED International will represent the project at Berlin.
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NewsFortitude to sell Foster Wallace drama
Mark Manuel and Ted O’Neal’s Kilburn Media will fully finance fact-based drama The End Of The Tour to star Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg. Freshly minted Fortitude International will commence sales at the EFM.
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NewsNikki Reed joins Email
The actress will star in SPJ Enterprises, zgreen entertainment and Boku Films’ horror thriller. Highland Film Group handles world sales at the EFM.
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NewsRebecca Hall joins Tumbledown
EFM: Sierra/Affinity will commence international sales in Berlin on Bron Studios’ rom-com.
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NewsShaun the Sheep begins shoot
Aardman Animations has begun production on a feature based around claymation character Shaun the Sheep.
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NewsContent taking McQueen doc to EFM
Sales on the documentary about the legendary actor to begin at the European Film Market in Berlin.
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FeaturesAmerican Hustle: the American way
The hustling started a year and a half before David O Russell’s American Hustle hit cinemas. Jeremy Kay speaks to the director and producers about the film’s high-speed, high-stakes production.