All Production articles – Page 724
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NewsScorsese and Schoonmaker return to British cinema doc
Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker will resume work on their long-gestating feature documentary about the history of British cinema.
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NewsAV Pictures picks up Obsession
AV Pictures will handle the sales on Obsession after signing a deal with new London-based production company Corona Pictures.
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NewsJaz Films develops Michelangelo Antonioni’s last script
Jaz Films has acquired Michelangelo Antonioni’s last script Two Telegrams and has already fully financed the feature and is in the process of attaching a director and cast.Antonioni, whose 1960 mystery L’Avventura screens tonight (May 20) in the Cannes Classics programme decades after its world premiere on the Croisette, co-wrote ...
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NewsSouth Africa’s DV8 kicks off football projects
DV8, the South African production and financing project, is planning to harness the football mania already descending on the country in advance of the 2010 World Cup.
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Zentropa recruits trio of Norwegian directors
Norwegian film directors Unni Straume, Petter Næss and Jens Lien have joined Zentropa International Norway, it was announced in Cannes yesterday (May 20).
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NewsAsia’s Fox Star to develop Tamil films with Murugadoss
Fox Star Studios, the pan-Asian joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox and broadcaster Star, has signed a two-picture deal with Tamil filmmaker AR Murugadoss, director of recent blockbuster Ghajini.
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NewsAlejandro Jodorowsky plans October shoot for King Shot
UJ Budapest FilmStudio’s Laszlo Kantor has revealed further details of one of the more colourful projects currently being hatched in the market, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s King Shot.
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NewsSpanish director Paula Ortiz to make first feature film
Spanish director Paula Ortiz is set to make her first feature film De Tu Ventana A La Mia. Local stars Raul Arevalo and Maribel Verdu likely are expected to play lead roles.
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NewsTom Hiddleston to play Loki in Branagh's Thor
Marvel Studios has cast Tom Hiddleston to play the villain Loki in the studio’s upcoming Thor adaptation.
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NewsHugh Hudson to adapt George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia
Director Hugh Hudson (Chariots Of Fire) is to direct Catalonia, an adaptation of George Orwell’s book Homage To Catalonia by Australian screenwriter Bob Ellis.
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NewsJapan's Sion Sono summons Lords of Chaos for English debut
Hot Japanese director Sion Sono is set to make his English-language debut with Lords Of Chaos, about Norway’s black metal music scene, which has Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone lined up to star.
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NewsGreggory, Depardieu and Garrel cast In Four Winds
Globetrotting Portuguese producer Paulo Branco has announced casting on the new Jacques Doillon feature, the Bergman-style drama In Four Winds.
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Audiard plans "dark and tragic" follow up to A Prophet
French film-maker Jacques Audiard, whose new prison drama A Prophet is one of the buzz films in this year’s competition, is plotting a new film that promises to be in the same gritty, hardboiled groove
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NewsUK's F&ME joins sci-fi comedy Iron Sky
London-based Film and Music Entertainment has boarded Blind Spot Pictures’ Iron Sky as co-producer.
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NewsGooding, Martinez line up for John Eyre's The Last Warrior
Cuba Gooding Jr, Olivier Martinez and Sergio Peris-Mencheta are in final negotiations to star in John Eyres’ $15m (€11m) post-apocalyptic action film The Last Warrior.
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NewsPepper, Preston and Lafevre join the cast of Casino Jack
Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston and Rachelle Lafevre will join Kevin Spacey on the thriller Casino Jack, which set to begin shooting on May 23 in Toronto.
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NewsNadel and Federer square up in new Jose Luiz Lopez-Linares doc
Tennis titans Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, yesterday (May 17) doing battle on the court in Madrid, will be the focus on a new crossover documentary by Jose Luiz Lopez-Linares.
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NewsPrincipal photography starts on Norwegian WW2 thriller Deceit
Norwegian director Håkon Gundersen has started principal photography for World War 2 thriller Deceit (Svik) in Budapest, Hungary.
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NewsLittle Film Company boards adaptation of Poe's Usher
The Little Film Company has boarded rights to The Ushers, a 3D contemporary adaptation of the revered Edgar Alan Poe short story The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
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NewsServillo to star as compulsive gambler in Gorbachev
Italian actor Toni Servillo is to star in Gorbachev – The Cashier Who Liked Gambling (Gorbacio – Il Cassiere ColVizio Del Gioco), a new drama being introduced to buyers by RAI Trade at the Cannes Market.