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MGM signs Goldsmith-Thomas to production deal
MGM has signed producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas to an overall production agreement through her Goldsmith-Thomas Productions.Goldsmith-Thomas was a partner at Revolution Studios for seven years and her credits include the recent release Perfect Stranger, Mona Lisa Smile, and Maid In Manhattan.Headquartered in New York, Goldsmith-Thomas and current vice president of development ...
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Michael Apted will direct third Narnia picture in 2008
Michael Apted will direct Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media's The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.The third instalment in the children's fantasy franchise is scheduled to begin filming in January 2008 in time for release on May 1, 2009.The second episode, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, will ...
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Marc Forster set to direct Bond 22 for Eon, Sony, MGM
Marc Forster will direct the 22nd James Bond film, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and MGM.Forster, who directed the 2006 release Stranger Than Fiction for Sony and the upcoming adaptation The Kite Runner for Paramount Vantage and Participant Productions, will start ...
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Terence Davies among finalists in Northwest's Digital Departures
Northwest Vision + Media has named the 12 finalists in its Digital Departures micro-budget film-making initiative. Three teams will be selected to each make a $500,000 (£250,000) feature film in the next 14 months. Other partners on board for Digital Departures include Liverpool Culture Company, the UK Film Council and ...
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Japan's Movie-Eye lines up Nightmare Detective sequel
Japanese producer-distributor Movie-Eye Entertainment unveiled its production and distribution slate at a press conference in Tokyo yesterday, which includes a sequel to Nightmare Detective, to be again directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. Tsukamoto and star Ryuhei Matsuda were on hand to answer questions about the second instalment in the series, which ...
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Global Universal Film Group signs production deal with Hands Free
LA-based Global Universal Film Group, a subsidiary of LitFunding Corp, has signed a deal with Hands Free Entertainment's production team of James Paul and Cory Hudson.Global is scheduled to become a publicly traded company once it has been spun off from LitFunding.Paul and Hudson will assist Global in producing a ...
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Glover, Basset, Stiles line up to climb Gospel Hill
Danny Glover, Angela Basset, Julia Stiles, Simon Baker, Adam Baldwin and The RZA have singed on to the political drama Gospel Hill from newly launched Deco Entertainment.The Los Angeles-based company is fully financing the project, which began shooting in South Carolina last week.Giancarlo Esposito makes his directorial debut based on ...
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Bernstein promoted to senior vp, production, at Universal
Scott Bernstein has been promoted to senior vice president of production at Universal Pictures, effective immediately.Since Bernstein joined the studio in 2004 he has overseen such projects as last summer's hit The Break-Up and Accepted. He is currently supervising Hellboy 2, which recently began production in HungaryBergstein previously served at ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights six French-language projects
Telefilm Canada has greenlit six French-language feature film projects, including France-Canada coproduction Instinct De Mort, directed by Jean-Francois Richet and starring Vincent Cassel, Gerard Depardieu and Roy Dupuis; and Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Un Ange A La Mer. Instinct De Mort (Mesrine) partners French producer Thomas Langmann of Paris production house La ...
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Huayi Brothers set to shoot Zhou Xun romantic drama
Chinese producer-distributor Huayi Brothers Films is lining up a new project from up-and-coming film-maker Cao Baoping, Something About Limi, which is set to star Zhou Xun and Taiwanese TV drama idol Vic Chou. The $1.3m (RMB10m) romantic drama with suspense elements is scheduled to start shooting in July. It tells ...
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Sarah Smith promoted as Aardman unveils new feature slate
UK-based animation powerhouse Aardman Features has announced a slate of six films in development, including a Christmas project written by Borat co-writer Peter Baynham, new non-Wallace and Gromit film from Nick Park and company founder Peter Lord's return to directing. These are the first new projects to be announced since ...
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Indian Film Company makes trading debut on London's AIM
The new Guernsey-registered Indian Film Company (IFC) has started trading on London 's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) today, after raising $109m by going public. Shares rose 20% on their trading debut. IFC, a Bollywood film production and film asset management fund started by Mumbai-based giant Network 18 Group, plans to ...
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Marcel Grant starts shooting third feature Just Ines
Shipwreck Film is currently shooting its third feature, Just Ines, from director Marcel Grant. The production is shooting next week in the South of France before returning to the UK to shoot in London July 14-Aug 3. Daniel Weyman and Caroline Ducey star in the story of a London businessman ...
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Rocksavage starts Norfolk shoot for drama The Wreck
Principal photography has started near in north Norfolk, UK, for David Rocksavage's 1960s-set family drama The Wreck. Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan, Ophelia Lovibond and Toby Marlow head the cast. The screenplay, by Rocksavage and Margaret Glover, is about a widow living on the East Anglian coast who befriends ...
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Beijing Time Antaeus unveils debut three-picture slate
Chinese cinema operator Time Antaeus Group, which is entering film production, unveiled its production arm, Beijing Time Entertainment International, and its debut three-picture slate at the on-going Shanghai International Film Festival. Action comedy Playboy Cops, which was previously announced at Cannes as a co-production with Hong Kong BIG Media Group, ...
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Forbidden Kingdom set for release during Beijing Olympics
Jackie Chan and Jet Li's first on-screen collaboration, Forbidden Kingdom, is scheduled to wrap at the end of August and is aiming for a summer 2008 release, according to the film's producer Casey Silver. As the date coincides with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Silver says he hopes the film ...
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Major studio complex planned for Poland
The Polish Film Institute hasannounced plans to build a modern, 10-stage studio complex by 2009. Film City, as the project is being called, will be built on a 476-hectare military airbase in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicou, about 80 kilometers south of Warsaw. Hangars will be converted into 10 stages, the ...
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Singapore, Malaysia join forces for Neo's Ah Long Ltd
Singapore 's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and Scorpio East Pictures are collaborating with Malaysia 's Double Vision in Ah Long Ltd, the first co-production between the neighbouring countries in recent years. Jack Neo is directing the $779,000 (S$1.2m) production which is currently being filmed around the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. ...
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Norwegian government shakes up film policy
Norway 's state film bodies will see radical change in 2008 after a government decision today. 'We have clearly defined and ambitious goals for our film policy,' said Norwegian culture minister Trond Giske, as the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - passed his Pathfinder of the Norwegian Film Offensive, a ministry ...
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Dutch actress Carice Van Houten to co-star in Valkyrie
Black Book star Carice Van Houten has been cast in Bryan Singer's wartime thriller Valkyrie. The Dutch actress co-stars as the wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, played by Tom Cruise. The cast reportedly also includes Kenneth Branagh, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Daniel Bruehl. Based on actual events, Valkyrie tells ...