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    Irish budget gives 18% increase to Irish Film Board

    2007-12-05T17:23:00Z

    In this afternoon's Budget for 2008 Brian Cowen, Irish Minister for Finance, gave a generous 18% increase to the Irish Film Board and renewed Section 481 Film Relief until 2012.During the course of his budget speech the minister said, 'I am renewing Section 481 Film Relief until 2012 on the ...

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    Daldry's The Reader gets funding boost from Filmstiftung NRW

    2007-12-05T17:13:00Z

    International co-productions by Dito Tsintsadze, Ben Verbong, Joergen Bergmark, and Stephen Daldry are among 14 projects awarded over $8m (Euros 5.5m) by the Duesseldorf-based regional fund Filmstiftung NRW this week. The largest sum - $2.2m (Euros 1.5m) - went to Daldry's adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's bestselling novel The Reader, which ...

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    Baltic Event gives best project award to Temptation of Saint Tony

    2007-12-05T15:12:00Z

    The third annual Baltic Event co-production market announced four awards in Tallinn. The Temptation of Saint Tony, a local Estonian project, received $5,864 (Euros 4,000) for best project presented in the market. The black comedy is directed by Veiko Ounpuu and produced by Katrin Kissa, the same team behind the ...

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    Korea's Doosabu pacts with Polygon Entertainment

    2007-12-05T08:39:00Z

    Korea's Doosabu Film has announced a deal for two effects-laden films with US-based Polygon Entertainment, headed by former ILM computer graphics supervisor Hans Uhlig. Uhlig's credits include The Perfect Storm and The Day After Tomorrow. The Korean company, which produced gangster comedy My Boss, My Hero and dramedy Sex Is ...

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    Eros starts shoot for Sujoy Ghosh's Aladin

    2007-12-04T14:42:00Z

    Eros International has started shooting Sujoy Ghosh's Aladin, a modern day retelling of the Arabian Nights story with a Bollywood twist. Eros makes its first move into visual effects through its new venture EyeQube Studios on the project. Eros is producing Aladin in association with Sujoy Ghosh's company Boundscript. Amitabh ...

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    Unknown starRappoport takes lead in new Serebrennikov feature

    2007-12-04T14:24:00Z

    Russian-born actress Ksenia Rappoport, who was nominated for European Actress 2007 at last weekend's European Film Awards for her performance in Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown, has taken the lead in Kirill Serebrennikov's new feature Yuriev Den which has now begun shooting on location in the Russian town of Yuriev near ...

  • Reviews

    El Greco

    2007-12-04T11:01:00Z

    Dir. Yannis Smaragdis. Greece / Spain / Hungary, 2007. 107minsHaving picked up the Greek cinema State Award on top of the Audience Award at Thessaloniki, this is undisputedly this year's favourite Greek film, racking over 600,000 admissions and still going strong. An historical pageant adapted from a fictional biography by ...

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    Gaumont starts shoot for Splice starring Adrien Brody

    2007-12-04T10:36:00Z

    Vincenzo Natali has started principal photography on Splice, which Gaumont is co-producing with Canada's Copperheart Entertainment. The film is set to shoot until February 29 in Toronto, with a 2009 release planned.Splicestars Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chaneac.Natali, who found cult success with Cube and also directed a vignette ...

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    Norwegian Fund backs projects including epic Max Manus

    2007-12-04T10:31:00Z

    The Norwegian Film Fund's $3.1m backing hasgiven thegreen light for leading Norwegian producer John M Jacobsen's Max Manus, a WWII epic which will shoot from February. The fund also chipped in for two less expensive first features.From a screenplay by Thomas Nordseth based on Manus' own books, and produced by ...

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    Vaclav Havel's play Leaving eyes big screen

    2007-12-04T05:00:00Z

    Playwright and former Czech president Vaclav Havel says his new play is likely to become a feature film. (Leaving) Ochazeniwas published in book form in November and will see its stage premiere in May or June 2008.It is the first play in 18 years from Havel, a former dissident who ...

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    Sweeney Todd

    2007-12-04T01:23:00Z

    Dir. Tim Burton, US, 2007, 105mins

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    JPMorgan fortifies Entertainment unit with $200m warchest

    2007-12-03T23:36:00Z

    JPMorgan is stepping up its involvement in Hollywood with a commitment to invest $200m of its own capital in film and entertainment projects.The New York-based bank, which late last year arranged $225m in production and distribution funding for start-up Overture Films, said it will use subordinated debt for investments such ...

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    Vaughn's MARV strikes first-look deal with publisher Quercus

    2007-12-03T14:23:00Z

    Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's production company MARV Films has struck a three-year, first-look deal with Quercus Publishing.MARV will have an exclusive first-look window for all of Quercus' fiction material to consider optioning film rights. MARV recently produced Vaughn's Stardust and the company also has a new first-look deal with ...

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    Bracewell lines up Richard E Grant, Laura Fraser for Cuckoo

    2007-12-03T12:35:00Z

    UK producers Punk Cinema are starting a shoot this week for Richard Bracewell's Cuckoo, his second film following acclaimed low-budget debut The Gigolos. Richard E Grant, Laura Fraser, Antonia Bernath, Adam Fenton and Tamsin Greig star in Cuckoo, a thriller about lies and jealousy. The story follows Poilly, a woman ...

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    Participant, Magnolia back Gibney's new lobbying documentary

    2007-12-03T12:04:00Z

    Participant Productions (the outfit behind Oscar winner An Inconvenient Truth) is partnering with US distributor Magnolia on Burning Down The House, a new Alex Gibney feature-documentary about the murky world of political lobbying.This is a subject that has caused huge controversy in the US since political lobbyist Jack Abramoff was ...

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    Untold Beauty cranks up with Fan, new investors

    2007-12-03T09:39:00Z

    Taiwanese heartthrob Fan Chih Wei will topline the cast of Singapore first-time director Roy Lim's Untold Beauty which will begin shooting this Wednesday (Dec 5) after a change in investors. Lim's Moving On is now producing the $689,500 (S$1m) supernatural romance Mandarin-language picture with MediaCorp Raintree Pictures. Other new investors ...

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    Fox, Vertigo line up untitled thriller to shoot in Seoul

    2007-12-03T09:37:00Z

    Producers Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment and Bill Choi and Peter Kiernan of Management 360 are in Seoul scouting locations for an as-yet-untitled LA-cop-goes-to-Seoul project. The project, which is being developed at Fox Atomic, has been compared to the Michael Douglas-starrer Black Rain, which took an American police detective to ...

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    Eguchi to head cast of Japanese action fantasy Goemon

    2007-12-03T09:32:00Z

    Yosuke Eguchi has been cast as the lead in the big-budget Japanese action fantasy Goemon. He stars as the legendary 16th century ninja bandit Goemon Ishikawa. The cast also includes Takao Osawa, Ryoko Hirosue and comedian Gori. Goemon is director Kazuaki (Kaz) Kiriya's sophmore feature after a three-year absence since ...

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    Winstone, Gooding, Perlman join cast of Untitled Gehenna Project

    2007-11-30T00:39:00Z

    Ray Winstone, Cuba Gooding Jr and Ron Perlman have signed to Ice Cold Productions' action thriller Untitled Gehenna Project.Jason Connery will direct the story of a team of elite soldiers that uncovers an evil force during a mission to rescue a government scientist from an underground base.Taryn Manning, Franky G, ...

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    Fox Baja veteran Arneson moves to Hungary's Korda Studios

    2007-11-29T19:25:00Z

    After its first shoot for Universal's Hellboy 2 wrapped last week, new Hungarian studio Korda Studios has announced some new key members of its team.Charlie Arneson has been appointed studio manager at Korda. He comes to Hungary after 10 years as head of Fox Baja Studios in Mexico, best known ...