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Columbia signs Mullens to adapt Moore's novel The Swap
Columbia Pictures has signed the writing team of Tim and Tom Mullen to adapt Antony Moore's comedy novel The Swap.The story centres on an out-of-shape comic book dealer who loses a priceless part of his collection and follows that up by getting involved in romance and murder at his high ...
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Shooting of Wide Open Spaces begins in Ireland
Principal photography of coming of age comedy Wide Open Spaces has started in Ireland. The film was written by Arthur Mathews, co-writer of TV series Father Ted, is directed by Tom Hall and shot by Tim Fleming (Once).The film is a co-production between Irish company Grand Pictures (Spin the Bottle) ...
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Alexandra Stone leaves Recorded to set up CMP Film
Alexandra Stone, who has spent the last 14 years in senior production roles at Jeremy Thomas' Recorded Picture Company (RPC), has left Recorded to head up a new film division for Creative Management And Productions (CMP) called CMP Film Ltd.Based in London, she will be charged with developing and producing ...
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NZ award-winning producers to partner with Bavaria Film
New Zealand producers Rachel Gardner and Philip Smith of Great Southern Film and Television have been crowned New Zealand's Independent Producers of the Year. The duo are developing a slate of eight features with the most advanced being Scott Reynolds' Falling Angels and writer/director Anthony McCarten's Death Of A Superhero, ...
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Perez, Ferguson, Hall join Ricci in voice cast of Hero Of Color City
Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson and Arsenio Hall have joined Christina Ricci on the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG animated feature The Hero Of Color City.Exodus Film Group founder and CEO John D Eraklis and president Max Howard are producing the story of a pack of crayons who save ...
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Paulo Branco to work with Raoul Ruiz on Misterios De Lisboa
Portugal's leading producer Paulo Branco is set to work with Chile 's leading director Raoul Ruiz on the dark, suspense drama Misterios De Lisboa. 'The film is based on the work of Camilo Castelo Branco, one of Portugal 's greatest writers,' Paulo Branco told ScreenDaily. 'It is a melodrama ...
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Oz director Alston to expand Brisbane into a trilogy
Australian director Louise Alston is set to make two more low-budget romantic comedies, following her debut film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, which is being released in Denmark through Sunrise Film Distribution. Cameras will roll on January 7 on Jucy, the second of the films, with Alston again directing ...
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Overture signs two-year, first-look deal with Cheadle's Crescendo
Overture Films has signed a two-year first look deal with Crescendo Productions headed by Don Cheadle, Lenore Zerman and Kay Liberman.The arrangement gives Overture access to film product from Crescendo. Cheadle starred in the terrorism thriller Traitor that Overture released in August and went on to gross more than $23m.This ...
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Maya backs Robinson brothers thriller Preparation For A Murder
Vertically integrated entertainment company Maya Entertainment has boarded the thriller Preparation For A Murder written and to be directed by Jonathan and R M Robinson.The Robinson brothers make their feature directorial debut on the story of two young men who embark on a hit without realising the repercussions that will ...
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Gabriele Muccino and Domenico Procacci to follow up Italian hit
Director Gabriele Muccino (Pursuit of Happyness) and Fandango producer Domenico Procacci (Gomorrah) are to produce an Italian language film together entitled Bacami Ancora (literally, Kiss Me Again) as a follow-up to their successful 2001 collaboration The Last Kiss (L'Ultimo Bacio). Shooting is slated for spring 2009 in Rome with ...
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Manoel De Oliveira to make another film as he turns 100
Veteran Portuguese film maker Manoel De Oliveira will celebrate his 100th birthday on December 12 by shooting a new film, Singularidades De Uma Rapariga Loira, in his home country.Based on a 19th century short story by Jose Maria Eca De Queiros, Singularidades will star Ricardo Trepa as a young man ...
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Bregman's Likely Story to film The Amateur American with Ross Katz
Likely Story has acquired feature rights to the upcoming political thriller novel The Amateur American and set Ross Katz to adapt the screenplay and direct.New York-based Likely Story and the production company's founder Anthony Bregman will produce the story based on J Saunders Elmore's novel about a young American in ...
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14 projects to be pitched at Cottbus East-West co-production market
New films from Romania, Slovenia, Austria and Bulgaria are among 14 projects from 13 countries selected for presentation at this year's Connecting Cottbus East-West co-production market. The projects include Romanian filmmaker Gabriel Achim's black comedy Adalbert's Dream; first-time writer/director Martin Turk's A Gram Of Love; Alexander Hahn's 1970s drama Stopover; ...
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Screen Australia to review what constitutes an experienced producer
Screen Australia has been forced to revisit its plans to strongly favour experienced producers when it hands out development finance. The move is a result of increasing industry dissatisfaction over the agency's definition of experience. As a result, the agency has decided to re-examine that part of its guidelines.Speaking exclusively ...
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Gary Hill, co-founder of PR firm Falco Ink, dies after illness
Gary Hill, a founding partner in New York PR consultancy Falco Ink, died on November 7 following a brief stay in hospital.Hill's career in the entertainment industry spanned 25 years. He started out as the assistant to Brian DePalma, working on such films as Scarface, Blow Out and Dressed To ...
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Timbaland enters film business with Duly Noted's Vinyl
Rapper and music producer Timbaland is getting into the film business as his Mosley Media Group and production company Duly Noted Inc announced last night [Nov 12] that production will begin in spring on Richard Zelniker's Vinyl.Duly Noted's Effie T Brown and Mosley's Marcus Spence and Monique Idlett-Mosley will produce ...
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Japan's Sabu returns to director's chair with The Crab Cannery Ship
Japanese filmmaker Sabu is returning to the director’s chair after a three-year hiatus with an adaptation of Takiji Kobayashi’s famed literarywork The Crab Cannery Ship (Kanikosen).
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Paris Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picture
Charlotte Rampling, Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds and Paris Hilton have joined the cast of Werc Werk Works' upcoming Todd Solondz companion piece to his dark comedy Happiness.The 'part-sequel, par variation' to the 1998 release will also star Shirley Henderson, Renee Taylor, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chane't Johnson, Paul Reubens, ...
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Maya to produce American Tragic to star America Ferrara
Maya Entertainment has boarded the drama American Tragic starring America Ferrera, Melissa Leo and newcomer Ryan O'Nan.Ryan Piers Williams will direct from his own screenplay about a disillusioned veteran who goes on a road trip in search of happiness. June Diane Raphael also stars. Production is set to begin in ...
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Richard Jenkins joins Tatum, Seyfried in Relativity's Dear John
Richard Jenkins, attracting Oscar buzz for his performance in The Visitor, has joined Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried on the cast of Relativity Media's romance Dear John.Lasse Hallstrom has started principal photography in South Carolina on the project based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, whose work has spawned the ...