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Olivier Dahan back on song for StudioCanal slate
StudioCanal and Alain Goldman's Legende are currently developing the next film from La Vie En Rose director Olivier Dahan entitled My Very Own Love Song .Forest Whitaker and Renee Zellweger are attached to the English-language project, StudioCanal confirmed. StudioCanal is also eyeing a summer production start on Escape From New ...
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Pathe readies Chomet's $22m The Illusionist for 2009
Pathe is now introducing buyers to The Illusionist, the new feature from The Triplets Of Belleville creator Sylvain Chomet. The company is showing first footage here of the $22m project, financed by Pathe and France 3 with Canal Plus.Django and CineB are co-producing; producers are Bob Last and Sally Chomet ...
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Herzog to direct Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant remake
Werner Herzog is lining up to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Bad Lieutenant for Edward R Pressman and Nu Image/Millennium Films.The project is being fast-tracked for a July shoot and the producers are in talks to film in New Orleans.Nu Image/Millennium is financing and handling international sales on ...
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Samuel L Jackson blowsinto Fiennes thriller for Intandem
Samuel L Jackson has taken a lead role in Martha Fiennes’ espionage thriller Blown. The previoiusly announced members of the cast include Thandie Newton and Guy Pearce.The story delves into the world of espionage, terrorism and big business through the eyes of a ruthless MI5 agent.Fiennes, who previously directed Chromophobia ...
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Marcus Vigneron Coudroy joins Shyer's Eloise in Paris
Young 11-year-old French actor Marcus Vigneron Coudroy has joined the cast of Charles Shyer's new live-action feature Eloise In Paris, based on Kay Thompson's classic Eloise books.As previously reported, the cast also includes Uma Thurman and Australian newcomer Jordana Beatty.Vigneron Coudroy was selected from an extensive casting process in London ...
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Right Angle Studios launches production arm with Sequence
Right Angle Studios has launched its production arm Right Angle Pictures, which will focus on socially relevant projects and kicks off with the thriller Sequence.Ron Vignone wrote and will direct and the project is being fast-tracked for production in 2009 and follows a genetic researcher who discovers a giant conspiracy.Right ...
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UK and India agree details of co-production treaty
The UK and Indian governments have said they have finished the necessary negotiations to enable the long-touted UK-India film co-production agreement to come into force.The treaty will let UK and Indian film-makers co-produce films that will be eligible for national status in both countries.The main aspects of the UK-India co-production ...
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Enid Blyton's schoolgirl heroines get big-screen treatment with UFA Cinema
Enid Blyton is set to be given the big-screen treatment by Germany's new player UFA Cinema with a feature film based on the bestselling children's author's St Clare's books from the 1940s. Known in Germany as Hanni & Nanni, Blyton's original stories about the O'Sullivan twin sisters' adventures at their ...
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Platinum teams with Top Cow, Arclight on feature of Witchblade
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios has partnered with Top Cow Productions and film sales company Arclight Films on the adaptation of Top Cow's fantasy thriller comic book franchise Witchblade.The producers expect begin shooting in September in Australia. Plot details are being kept under wraps although what is known that the property ...
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Dorman, Barclayjoin cast of Caesar's Prime Mover
Australian writer/director David Caesar (Dirty Deeds) has started production on Prime Mover, starring Michael Dorman and New Zealand's Emily Barclay. Prime mover is a term used in Australia for the huge semi-trailer trucks that thunder along outback roads. The film is billed as a diesel-charged love story about a young ...
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Edko to launch Claustrophobia at Cannes
Hong Kong-based Edko Films will commence international sales at Cannes on Claustrophobia, which is one of the first films to be backed by Irresistible Films, a film fund established by Bill Kong and Japan's Avex Group Holdings. The film is the directorial debut of award-winning screenwriter Ivy Ho (July Rhapsody). ...
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BBC Films to give UK producers 30% of its actual equity recoupment
BBC Films announced today that it will create a corridor for UK producers to access 30% of the actual equity recoupment that BBC Films receives on a project.The move comes as part of some key changes to the deal terms offered to UK film producers, and has been warmly welcomed ...
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Penny Wolf launches new Film Consultancy Partners
UK-based sales veteran Penny Wolf is launching her new outfit The Film Consultancy Partners at Cannes this week.The London-based company is a boutique film consultancy working in international film distribution, marketing and financing.'I think there are so many sales companies in the UK so I didn't want to be another ...
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Spielberg will shoot long-awaited Abraham Lincoln project after Tintin
Steven Spielberg's long-gestating project about US president Abraham Lincoln will be the director's next project after the first live-action Tintin film which goes into production this September.Spielbergsays he will begin shooting of the Lincoln biopic at the beginning of 2009 'so that it can also open in the same year ...
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MMC joins H20 as co-producer of Stephen Frears' feature
Cologne-based MMC Independent has become a co-producer with Andras Hamori's H20 Motion Pictures on Stephen Frears' latest feature project Cheri which is currently shooting in France and will be moving to Germany at the end of May.A co-production contract will be officially signed by Hamori and Magic Media Company's (MMC) ...
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Sarin's Shine Of Rainbows rolls with Quinn and Nielsen
Principal photography has begun on location in Ireland for Vic Sarin's Canada-Ireland coproduction A Shine Of Rainbows, starring Connie Nielsen and Aidan Quinn. Based on the novel by Lillian Beckwith, the magical family drama tells the story of a lonely orphan (newcomer John Bell) whose life is transformed by an ...
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Natalie Portman drops out as Cathy in Wuthering Heights
Natalie Portman has dropped out of John Maybury's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae's UK-based Ecosse Films is producing. HanWay Films is handling sales. Bernstein confirmed to ScreenDaily.com on Thursday that Portman had pulled out of the project on Wednesday.The move comes as a surprise as she ...
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Endgame to produce, finance A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
LA-based Endgame Entertainment is to produce and finance A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, a comedy to star Jason Sudeikis and Will Forte from US TV's Saturday Night Live, and Leslie Bibb.Pete Huyck and Alex Gregory will make their directorial debut on the film which is based on their screenplay.Endgame CEO ...
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Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko starts shooting May 18
UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights.Daviegh Chase reprises her role as Donnie's younger sister. The cast for S. Darko also includes Ed Westwick (Son ...
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Senator to finance Gregor Jordan's thriller Unthinkable
Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment will produce and finance Gregor Jordan's thriller Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson.Weber and Caldecot Chubb are producing and principal photography is set to begin on September 2 in Michigan on the story of a secret serviceman and FBI agent who team up to locate three nuclear ...