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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Routh-starrer Stuntmen
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Eric Amadio's comedy Stuntmen starring Brandon Routh, Dominique Swain and Joel Moore as Toronto gets underway.The story centres on an old rivalry that is awakened between two of Hollywood's biggest stuntmen when an ambitious documentary film-maker follows them in the ...
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Generator stirs up Ghost Machine in Belfast
New UK genre production outfit Generator Entertainment continues to build its busy slate with principal photography starting yesterday (Friday) on Chris Hartwill's debut feature Ghost Machine.The supernatural thriller stars Sean Faris, Rachael Taylor, Luke Ford and Richard Dormer.Anchor Bay Entertainment has US distribution rights and worldwide sales are being handled ...
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Fichman set for Strategic Partners talk
The 28th Atlantic Film Festival and Strategic Partners co-production market will welcome Passchendaele and Blindness producer Niv Fichman as the special guest at their Academy Luncheon on Sept 14. Fichman is a founding partner of Rhombus Media, and he will be interviewed by Super Channel and former Odeon Films executive ...
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Denzel Washington to star in Hughes Brothers' Book Of Eli
Denzel Washington will star in Alcon Entertainment and Silver Pictures' post-apocalyptic thriller The Book Of Eli that Allen and Albert Hughes will direct.Based on an original story by Gary Whitta and a rewrite by Anthony Peckham, the story takes place in the near future in an American wasteland where a ...
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Landau, Zahn, Buscemi, Livingston star in ensemble Company Men
Martin Landau, Steve Zahn, Steve Buscemi and Ron Livingston will star in Raul Sanchez Inglis' ensemble drama The Company Men, set to begin shooting in Detroit in November.Inglis wrote the screenplay about an aging salesman and his younger colleague who struggle to save an ailing toy company. Matthew Robert Kelly ...
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Thom Fitzgerald to direct Sense Of Things for Samson, Eagle Vision
Thom Fitzgerald is set to direct an adaptation of novelist Alison Dye's The Sense of Things next summer. The film will be produced by Ireland's Samson Films, producers of the Oscar-winning Once, and Eagle Vision of Canada, producers of the Oscar-winning Capote. Fitzgerald's other titles include The Hanging Garden, Beefcake, ...
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Bettany, Connelly take voyage with Darwin film Creation
Husband and wife actors Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly will play Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Darwin in the upcoming feature Creation for Oscar-winning UK producer Jeremy Thomas.Jon Amiel will direct, and the cast will also feature Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch.The film is not described as ...
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Insurer Fireman's Fund opens new London office
Feature film insurance company Fireman's Fund is expanding by opening a London office. The office will offer film underwriting to European production companies.Ian Mercer, an insurance executive with 20 years of experience in the UK and US, will head the new office, located on Leadenhall Street.Fireman's Fund will work with ...
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Jamie Babbit to direct Breaking The Girl for Myriad
Principal photography is set to commence in Vancouver in November on Myriad Pictures' erotic thriller Breaking The Girl with Brittany Snow in talks to star.Jamie Babbit will direct from a story by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner about a young college woman's disastrous plot to kill a rival student.Myriad is ...
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Fiennes to direct River Road's Coriolanus in Serbia
River Road Entertainment will film a modern-day version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Serbia. Ralph Fiennes will direct and play the lead in the film and was part of a USAID group that evaluated Serbia as a location for shooting this film in July.The film is a tragedy based on the ...
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Production begins on The Butterfly Effect: Revelation
Production has begun in Detroit on BenderSpink, FilmEngine and After Dark Films' sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect: Revelation.Chris Carmack stars as a young man who travels back in time to track down the killer of an old love and winds up unleashing a serial killer on an unsuspecting world. Rachel ...
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Vadim Perelman to direct MGM's relaunch of Poltergeist
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has signed Vadim Perelman to direct its forthcoming relaunch of the Poltergeist franchise.Perelman previously directed House Of Sand And Fog and The Life Before Her Eyes and is currently working on AMC drama pilot Ice.Cale Boyter, Executive Vice President, Production and Luke Ryan, Vice President, Production, are overseeing ...
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Warp X, Birds Eye View team for women's comedy features
Warp X and Birds Eye View are working together on a new feature film development initiative, Last Laugh: Women Create Comedy.The programme will champion female comedy talent working in the UK and bring female-led comedy features to the big screen.Skillset is supporting the scheme through its Skillset Film Skills ...
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Grbavica director Zbanic starts shoot for On The Path
Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic, winner of Berlin's Golden Bear in 2006 for her feature debut Grbavica, began shooting her second feature film On The Path in Bosnia-Herzegovina today.Featuring a cast including Leon Lucev, Zrinka Cvitesic, Sebastian Cavazza and Grbavica's lead actress Mirjana Karanovic, Zbanic's new film centres on a ...
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Erik Van Looy signs deal with Woestijnvis
Erik Van Looy, the Belgian TV personality and director of hit TheAlzheimer Case (also knownasThe Memory Of A Killer), has signed an exclusive seven-year deal with production outfit Woestijnvis.This is the company behind both his new feature Loft (being sold internationally by London-based The Works) and his highly successful TV ...
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BIFCOM's Film Policy Plus to discuss Asian incentives
The Busan Film Commission (BFC) has announced the inaugural Film Policy Plus (FPP), an Asia Pacific film policy forum for high-level policymakers and industry professionals to be held Oct 4-5 during the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) and concurrent Asian Film Market's BIFCOM. Originally a locations and post-production exhibition and ...
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Three Australians give their blessing to Ana Kokkinos film
Blessed, the new film by Australian director Ana Kokkinos (Head On), has secured a trio of fine Australian actresses in Frances O'Connor (Artificial Intelligence: AI, Mansfield Park), Miranda Otto (Lord Of The Rings) and Deborra-Lee Furness (Jindabyne), as well as Russian-born Victoria Haralabidou (Brides).The multi-narrative drama is about mothers and ...
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Quay Brothers shoot film about Jan Potocki
Stephen and Timothy Quay have concluded a two-week shoot in Poland on film about Jan Potocki, a Polish aristocrat, soldier and scholar whose wide-ranging interests included ethnology, the occult and hot-air ballooning.Polish press reports the production cost $88,000 (200,000 PLN) and described the project as a 'modest, intimate production' of ...
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Tokyo Project Gathering unveils line-up of 34 projects
The organisers of the fourth Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) have unveiled the 34 projects that will take part in this year's edition (Oct 21-24). Organised by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Japan Institute of Development and Promotion for Picture, and UniJapan, the financing and co-production market ...
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Piedmont finalises $20.5m film fund
Italy's Piedmont region, the Turin Piedmont Film Commission and LA based Endgame Entertainment have finalised terms for a$20.5m (Euros 14m) film fund.The plans were announced by Turin Piedmont Film Commission president Steve Della Casa at the Venice Film Festival.Annually, the fund will support productions by providing closing costs for qualifying ...