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Walden, Phoenix hire Kwapis to direct teen mayor project
Walden Media has hired Ken Kwapis to direct its untitled teen mayor project that Phoenix Pictures' Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messner will produce.Surf's Up co-writers Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse have come aboard as screenwriters on the story of a high school slacker who runs for mayor to bolster his ...
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Amour Fou partners split to form two production outfits
Six years after founding Vienna-based Amour Fou Filmproduktion, partners Gabriele Kranzelbinder and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu have decided amicably to part and set up two separate production companies. As part of the restructuring, Kranzelbinder has launched Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production (KGP), which will acquire Amour Fou's shares in the sales company Autlook Film ...
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International buyers up 25%for second Madrid Screenings
The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid expects to attract 131 international film buyers this weekend - about 25 percent more than last year. And the growing interest is reflected not only in the number but also the stature of the buyers, according to the Spanish Producers' ...
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Pathe, BBC slate includes big-screen version of Upstairs Downstairs
Pathe and BBC Films, with support from the UK Film Council's Development Fund, have announced a development slate of five new projects, after announcing a year ago that they parties would join forces to develop bigger films with commercial potential. The four new projects announced are: an adaptation of Edwardian ...
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BBC Fiction boss Tranter spells out her plans for BBC Films
Controller of BBC Fiction Jane Tranter has defended the recent decision to move BBC Films out of its West End offices and back into BBC Television Centre. She told ScreenDaily.com that the move, likely to happen 'by around the end of the year,' is intended both to 'underpin the enormous ...
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Trinidad & Tobago starts new film tax incentive with rebate up to 30%
Trinidad & Tobago, the twin island nation in the Carribean, has today unveiled its first tax incentives for film, TV and advertising shoots. The new rebates system ranges from 12.5% for productions of expenditures up to $500,000, 15% for productions from $500,000 to $1m, or 30% rebates for productions spending ...
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Controversial Spanish film law approved by ministers
Spain's controversial new film law took a major step forward on Friday after being approved by the Council of Ministers.The legislation, now expected to come into force by the end of the year after being pushed through Parliament as a matter of urgency, is intended to improve distribution and boost ...
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J-horror hit-makers join forces for US project
J-horror hit-makers Hideo Nakata and Taka Ichise are set to team up on US horror project Inhuman, from Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises. The film will be based on a script - inspired by a real Japanese murder case - by Eric Heisserer, writer of the in-development Warner/Heydey ...
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BBC Worldwide takes stake in Andy Harries' Left Bank
BBC Worldwide recently announced that it will take a 25% equity stake in Left Bank Pictures, the new production company being set up by former ITV/Granada production head Andy Harries, one of the producers of The Queen. Helen Jackson, BBC Worldwide's director of Independents, will take a seat on the ...
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Finnish Film Foundation backs new Lordi film Dark Floors
Dark Floors - Finnish director Pete Riski's horror project to star 2006 European Song Contest winners Lordi - will receive $405,000 (Euros 300,000) state funding from the Finnish Film Foundation. Currently shooting at Uleaborg in Northern Finland, starring Mr Lordi, Amen the unstoppable mummy, Awa the vampire countess, Ox the ...
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Germany 's Odeon expands with genre production label
The publicly listed German film and TV group Odeon Film is expanding its feature film activities by setting up the Hanover-based Waterfall Productions (WFP) with producers Peter Rommel and Thomas Haberle to specialise in the production of quality genre feature films with budgets between $3.4m-$4.7m (Euros 2.5m-3.5m) for the international ...
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Random House and Rogue work on series including Sigler's Infested
Scott Sigler's novel Infested, to be published in the US and Canada next spring by Random House's Crown imprint, has been acquired for development by Random House Films and Rogue Pictures. The thriller is the first in a series of at least two books. Crown has a world rights multi-book ...
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Liddell makes directorial debut with psychological thriller
Veteran producer Mickey Liddell is to make his directorial debut with She Lived, a psychological thriller starring Haley Bennett, Jake Weber and Shannon Woodward. The Liddell Entertainment production will start shooting in July on location in Los Angeles. Liddell Entertainment's Jennifer Hilton will produce with Stephen Kay as executive ...
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Ring of truth
The Austrian auteur tells Vladan Petkovic why blurring the line between fact and fiction is the hallmark of his work. Austria's Ulrich Seidl is a film-maker best known for his documentaries such as Loss Is To Be Expected and Animal Love, as well as the Venice prize-winner Dog Days, the ...
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Fuel's gold
Small can be very sweet, as the Irish director discovered when his new film Garage was well-received at Cannes last week. He talks to Ted Sheehy. Lenny Abrahamson's first film, Adam & Paul, is one of the most successful Irish films of recent years. And with the film's cult status ...
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Charlie Kaufman: worlds within worlds
Charlie Kaufman started production last week on his first feature as a director, Synecdoche, New York, with a cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the eve of the shoot, Kaufman and Spike Jonze, one of his producers, talked exclusively to Mike Goodridge. Oddly, I'm not scared,' Charlie Kaufman says ...
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Family business
The daughter of film-maker Luis Puenzo has emerged as an exciting international talent with Cannes favourite XXY. Diego Batlle reports. A renowned novelist and screenwriter in Argentina, Lucia Puenzo is enjoying an exciting 2007 with a new book recently published and her first feature, XXY, selected for Cannes' Critics Week. ...
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Joel Silver keen to bring future projects to Babelsberg
Producer Joel Silver is already looking at ways of bringing future projects to Germany's Babelsberg Studios even before the first scenes are shot for Larry and Andy Wachowski's action film Speed Racer Speed Racer starts its four-month shoot Monday with a cast headed by Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Christina Ricci, ...
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eQuinoxe sets up home in Evian and selects 8 projects
The 29th eQuinoxe screenwriting workshop will run June 3-9 in Evian, France. After years of a nomadic existence, this marks the beginning of a partnership with the town of Evian. eQuinoxe president Noelle Deschamps says the aim is that the workshop will now be based in Evian for the foreseeable ...
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Lithuania becomes eligible for Eurimages funding
Lithuania has become the 33rd country to join Eurimages, the Council of Europe-supported film co-production, distribution and exhibition fund. The Eurimages board had recommended the inclusion at its March 2006 meeting and Lithuanian authorities have now confirmed their membership. Now all projects involving a Lithuanian co-producer can be considered for ...