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Kinowelt unveils production slate
Neue Kinowelt Filmproduktion (NKF), the recently founded production arm of Germany's Kinowelt Group, has unveiled an ambitious slate of projects.They include new German language features by Esther Gronenborn, Til Schweiger, Michael Schorr and Hendrik Handloegten spanning all genres from arthouse to the mainstream.According to Kinowelt's Bertil le Claire, NKF aims ...
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Ryan, Bening et al start shooting Jagged/Inferno's The Women
Principal photography has begun in Boston, Massachusetts, on Jagged Films and Inferno Distribution's comedy The Women.The film will shoot on location in and around Boston and New York City through mid-October and is being distributed in North America by Picturehouse.The story centres on two well-appointed New York women whose friendship ...
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Pusan unveils slate of 27 projects to receive ACF backing
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced the 27 projects that will receive backing from its recently-established Asian Cinema Fund (ACF). The fund provides support for Asian documentaries and independent feature films in all stages of production to the total amount of $840,000, with matching funds and/or services provided ...
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Warner Bros enters Hindi-language film production
Warner Bros has announced its long-anticipated move into local production in India by boarding action comedy Made In China, to be directed by Nikhil Advani and star action hero Akshay Kumar. Indian production houses Ramesh Sippy Productions and Orion Pictures, founded by Advani and Mukesh Talreja, will produce the film ...
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Eva Mendes boards The Spirit for Odd Lot, Lionsgate
Eva Mendes has joined Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Gabriel Macht in Odd Lot Entertainment and Lionsgate's live-action comic book adaptation The Spirit.Production is set to begin in October in New Mexico and will take place entirely at Albuquerque Studios.The fantasy thriller tells the tale of a rookie cop ...
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Palm picks up US rights to Canadian hit The Rocket
Palm Pictures has acquired US rights to the biographical ice hockey film The Rocket: The Legend Of Rocket Richard.The film won nine awards at the 2007 Genie Awards including best director for Charles Biname and best actor for Roy Dupuis.Palm Pictures plans for a late autumn theatrical release followed by ...
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Scott Bailey gets lead role in Jabor's Copacabana
Scott Bailey has been cast as the lead in Roberto Jabor's English-speaking, US-Brazil co-production Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows.Bailey, whose credits include The Guiding Guide, the upcoming Seducing Spirits, and TV series Saints & Sinners, joins Peter Paige, Gabriel Canella, Emily Holmes and Maite Proenca in the key cast.The $5m ...
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Pal lines up live-action version of Studio Ghibli's Fireflies
Tokyo 's Pal Entertainment is set to produce a live-action version of Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-autobiographical novella Grave Of The Fireflies (Hotaru No Haka), to be directed by Taro Hyugaji. The story was famously adapted into an animated feature directed by Isao Takahata in 1988 and released on a double bill ...
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Universal buys rights to Lone Survivor for Berg to direct
Universal Pictures has bought the rights to Lone Survivor, true story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's wartime experiences in Afghanistan.The studio is understood to have beaten out several bidders for rights to the book, which is currently in the top five on the New York Times' non-fiction bestseller list.Peter Berg, ...
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Carl Perkins life story comes to screen via Fastlane Entertainment
Santa Monica-based Fastlane Entertainment has acquired exclusive film rights to the life story of one of the founding fathers of rock and roll, Carl Perkins.The story will be based on a screenplay by Perkins' daughter and former songwriting partner Debbie 'DJ' Perkins. Fastlane founder Frank Miniaci will produce with Chesley ...
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Bettany, Kretschmann join cast of The Young Victoria
Paul Bettany and Thomas Kretschmann have boarded Graham King and Martin Scorsese's The Young Victoria, which commenced principal photography in England on Aug 13.The new additions complete the powerhouse European cast of Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, and Mark Strong.French Canadian Jean-Marc Vallee is directing the drama ...
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Andy Lau's Focus plans Brothers and new Fight series
Following on the successful launch of Focus First Cuts in 2005, Andy Lau's Hong Kong-based production company Focus Films is gearing up for a new Focus Fight series and is in production on a new gangster drama, Brothers, to star Lau.Focus Fight aims to produce a new wave of action ...
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Evans and Fanning join Push cast
Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou have joined the cast of Paul McGuigan's thriller Push, which Summit Entertainment will finance and distribute in North America. Summit holds the majority of international rights to the project, which is being co-financed by Icon who will release in the ...
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Zentropa plans feature about Danish terrorist group
Zentropa is planning a feature film to tell the story of the Blekinge Street Gang, the Danish terrorist group which will also be the subject of two TV projects.Since last year Zentropa has been preparing Blekinge Street, anoriginal story based on the real-life events 20 years ago scripted byLars Kjeldgaard ...
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Slingshot and Screen WM to co-produce seven features
UK regional screen agency Screen WM and new digital studio Slingshot Studios have struck a slate co-financing deal that will cover seven features during the next two years. Screen WM's production funds will finance 25% of film budgets, with the rest covered by Slingshot and its financing partners. Screen WM ...
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Bruce Dickinson-penned Chemical Weddingstarts shooting
London-based Focus Films has started production on supernatural horror film Chemical Wedding. Julian Doyle, who edited Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Time Bandits, will direct. The story is based on an original screenplay by Bruce Dickinson, frontman of Iron Maiden. Dickinson will provide the soundtrack to the film. Warner Music has ...
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Sony Pictures Classics to finance Demme drama
Sony Pictures Classics will fully finance Jonathan Demme's upcoming family drama Dancing With Shiva, which as previously announced will star Anne Hathaway. The company holds worldwide rights to the story, which takes place over the course of a wedding as an estranged daughter returns home to her family and ...
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New Thai production outfit Extra Virgin kicks off with media documentary
Thai film-maker Pimpaka Towira has set up a new Bangkok-based production outfit Extra Virgin with former Bangkok International Film Festival programmer Mai Meksawan and former Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) executive Ruengsang Sripaoraya.'The company aims to start with independent and low-budget productions and branch out to a more diverse range ...
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Film4 partners with Edinburgh theatre for new talents
Film4 and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre are starting a new $59,800 (£30,000) partnership to explore the crossover between theatre and film.The initiative will let Channel 4, Film4 and Traverse select promising new theatre talents to build long-term relationships working in film and television. The programme includes a first-look deal for plays ...
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LaCour joins Californian bank's entertainment finance arm
Bryan J LaCour has joined Union Bank of California'sentertainment-finance group as vice president and manager.LaCour brings more than seven years of experience in banking andfinance and arrives from Comerica Bank, where he served as vicepresident with the entertainment industries group.Union Bank of California's entertainment-finance business has providedcapital to the film ...