All Production articles – Page 492
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NewsStarfield unites Under the Bombs team in London
Quartet behind 2007 road move shot against backdrop of 2006 Lebanese War reunites for comedy, provisionally entitled London Haram.
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NewsDCAA launches Emirati filmmaker project
The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (DCAA) has commissioned three Emirati filmmakers - Ali F. Mostafa, Nayla Al Khaja and Khalid Ali - to make short films for a new cultural initiative, Soul Of Dubai.
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Production round-up: Brett Ratner, James Packer launch Ratpac
Australian casino entrepreneur James Packer has united with the Hollywood filmmaker and is personally bankrolling the film finance, development and production outfit. Separately, Los Angeles-based Esperanza Films and Thailand’s Angel Bear Productions have started a production parternship.
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Production update: La Ultima Pelicula lines up Dec 16 start
Principal photography is scheduled to begin in and around Yucatán, Mexico, on Raya Martin and Mark Peranson’s sub-$100,000 fiction-documentary hybrid.
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NewsDassault Systemes unveils ambitious 3D Paris project, two years in the making
Visualisation software company offers historical cross-media project, which includes documentary film.
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SFFS, Kenneth Rainin award grants to six filmmakers
The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation have announced the six recipients of grants totalling $300,000 to fund the next stage of their production.
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NewsPeter Strickland, Rook Films line up The Duke of Burgundy
Rook Films to produce Strickland’s third feature, described as “a dark melodrama” about an amateur moth collector.
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NewsIngenious responds to Commons questioning
Spokesperson says committee hearing was “completely unsatisfactory.”
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NewsPACT and BECTU mull end to crew buy-out model
EXCLUSIVE: Current buy-out model could be replaced with hourly rate; cost-neutral reform of blue book scheduled for March 2013.
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NewsAdam Wimpenny starts shooting debut feature Blackwood in London
EXCLUSIVE: Ed Stoppard, Sophia Myles, and Russell Tovey star in the supernatural thriller.
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NewsEgypt’s Zad goes into exile with Mact Productions
Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication is embarking on its first international co-production, teaming with Paris-based Mact Productions on The Exile, a romantic and political drama set against the backdrop of Luxor in the 1980s.
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NewsWael Omar tackles Egypt's football Ultras
The footballing massacre that claimed the lives of 74 young men and injured a thousand more in the Port Said soccer stadium this February is the subject of a new documentary feature to be directed by award-winning Egyptian filmmaker Wael Omar.
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NewsNorthern Soul wraps, producers eye summer 2013 release
Elaine Constantine, has completed filming on the UK drama starring Elliot Langridge and Josh Whitehouse and featuring Lisa Stansfield and Steve Coogan.
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Ric Roman Waugh to direct Relativity's Tipping Point
Waugh will also rewrite the sci-fi thriller based on an original screenplay by Todd Stein.
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Summit Entertainment acquires rights to Breed
Chase Novak aka Scott Spencer wrote the novel and Summit has hired Burr Steers to write and direct the horror thriller. David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films will produce.
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NewsMasharawi wraps West Bank-set Palestine Stereo
Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi has wrapped his latest feature Palestine Stereo and is looking for post-production finance, according to Tunisian producer Habib Attia of Cinetelefilms.
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Glenn Close, Nick Nolte join Always On My Mind
The Golden Globe-winning pair have signed on to Occupant Entertainment’s music-driven drama.
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NewsPeter Aalbaek Jensen will step down as Zentropa CEO in February 2015
His credits include Love Is All You Need, A Royal Affair and forthcoming Nymphomaniac.
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Baby, How’d We Ever Get This Way begins shooting
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography is underway in Toronto on Scythia Films and Phenomenal Films’ Baby, How’d We Ever Get This Way.
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German funds back new projects by Akin, Aladag and Verhoeven
Christmas has come early this year for Germany’s producers as national and regional funds paid out a total of more than €12m production support to such filmmakers as Fatih Akin, Feo Aladag, Rosa von Praunheim and Simon Verhoeven in their last funding sessions for 2012.