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Back to the mainland: China opens up to co-productions
Shooting permits are being issued again in China after a difficult 2008. Between October 2008 and January 2009, the Film Bureau approved 17 projects to shoot in China. Only eight received permits between June and September last year.Among the Asian projects are Cinema Popular's Dark October, which will start shooting ...
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Guy Maddin to shoot short for NFB's 70th anniversary
The National Film Board of Canada has commissioned idiosyncratic auteur Guy Maddin to create a short film to commemorate the NFB's 70th anniversary.The project, Night Mayor, goes before camera on March 9 on location in the filmmaker's hometown of Winnipeg, the city memorialized in Maddin's critical hit My Winnipeg. Maddin ...
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Lionsgate furthers Tyler Perry relationship by acquiring next two films
Lionsgate has wasted little time extending its lucrative relationship with Tyler Perry, whose number one US release Madea Goes To Jail scored a record launch recently for both studio and film-maker and stands at $65.5m after less than two weeks.The company has acquired rights to the prolific film-maker's next twoprojects ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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CBS Films takes feature rights to The Christmas Cookie Club
CBS Films and its corporate sibling under the CBS Corporation banner Simon & Schuster have acquired feature rights to the publisher's upcoming release The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman.Said to be in the vein of The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants andSteel Magnolias, The Christmas Cookie Club centres on ...
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Nigel Wooll to produce The Brigadier with UK's Turn of the Century
Nigel Wooll, executive producer on Miss Potter and co-producer on GI Jane, is to produce The Brigadier alongside Turn of the Century Productions.The UK production company optioned the international thriller The Brigadier by Josh Rosenberg. Keith Sweitzer brought the script to Turn of the Century and will produce for the ...
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Telefilm backs seven feature projects from Quebec
Telefilm Canada has announced it will invest in seven Quebecois feature projects, including the true-life story of airline pilot Robert Piche, who glided his powerless jetliner to a safe landing across hundreds of miles of open ocean. Piche will be directed by Erik Canuel from a screenplay by Chantal Cadieux ...
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Cannes announces participants for upcoming Cinefondation Residence
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the six participants participating in the 18th session of the Cinefondation Residence.The filmmakers are from Israel, Poland, Slovenia, Germany, Guatemala and Chile. There are four first-time and two sophomore directors in the bunch.The six filmmakers will spend four and a half months honing their ...
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German Federal Film Board's finances in question after court ruling
Future financing of the German Federal Film Board (FFA) was potentially put into question after the German Administrative Court ruled this week that the national funding institution's cinema levy is unconstitutional.According to the German Film Law (FFG) cinema owners are required to pay a levy of between 1.8% and 3% ...
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Nordisk hopes for pan-Scandinavian blockbuster with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Men Who Hate Women or Män som hatar kvinnor at home) - part one of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium thriller trilogy - could set box-office records with its hotly anticipated opening today in Sweden and Denmark.Danish major Nordisk ...
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Juraj Herz to begin shooting Habermann in March
Slovak auteur Juraj Herz will begin filming March 17 on his new film, Habermann.The $10m production is a co-production between Art Oko Film of Germany, KN Filmcompany of the Czech Republic, and Wega Film of Austria.Atlas Film International is handling international sales. Art Oko producer Karel Dirka expects to have ...
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Zentropa gives birth to new animation outfit
Denmark's Zentropa has launched a new animation company, Rambuk, to be headed by director Stefan Fjeldmark.Most recently Fjeldmark has been working with Denmark's Fine and Mellow Productions in a non-animation role. Commenting on the appointment, Zentropa CEO, Peter Aalbaek Jensen described Fjeldmark as having 'a rare ability to combine his ...
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Public funding for cinema in Italy cut by 23% for 2009
Arts funding in Italy for 2009 has been drastically reduced, with cinema hit by a reduction of $26.7m (Euros 20.9m), sparking a move by the arts community to change Italy's laws governing funding for cinema and the arts. The budget for Italy's single arts fund, the FUS, has been reduced ...
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Ning Hao gears up to shoot Chinese road movie
Chinese filmmaker Ning Hao will start shooting road movie Wu Ren Qu in China's north-west Xinjiang province on March 10, Ning's Stoneman Films has confirmed. China Film Group Corporation and Beijing Guoli Changsheng Film and TV Productions - which backed Ning's last film Crazy Racer - are both investing in ...
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Dutch government reveals future funding plans for Hubert Bals Fund
Details have finally emerged of how the Dutch government will continue to support the Hubert Bals Fund, with private investment playing a more key role than previously. As previously reported in ScreenDaily, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs had agreed to continue its backing of HBF after fierce debate as ...
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Bavarian fund backs projects by Hirschbiegel, Wieland and Kraus
New films by Sundance winner Oliver Hirschbiegel, Ute Wieland and Chris Kraus are among the projects receiving funding totalling $5m (Euros 3.9m) from the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern. The largest single award, $1.2m (Euros 950,000), went to Hirschbiegel's adaptation of Andreas Ulrich's bestselling book Angel Face. The film tells ...
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Salomon signs on to direct Rocky Marciano boxing biopic
Mikael Salomon has signed on to direct M.E.G.A. Film's boxing biopic Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story.According to M.E.G.A. Film's founder Morris S Levy, who will produce, this is the first authorised picture about the sporting legend's life and will reveal new details from the fighter's younger brother Lou Marciano.The story ...
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Poul, Wright to adapt Dews' Must Read After My Death
Alan Poul and Craig Wright have optioned the family story captured in documentary Must Read After My Death and plan to co-produce the feature film which Wright will write and Poul will direct.The documentary, directed by Morgan Dews, was released Friday (February 20) at New York's Quad Cinemas and in ...
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Werc Werk Works to produce, finance Epstein & Freidman's Howl
Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Walker's Werc Werk Works will produce and fully finance Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl starring James Franco.Howl is set to go into production on March 16 in New York City and centres on the obscenity trial into Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking Beat Generation poem of the ...