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Italian publisher Feltrinelli starts producing first feature film
Leading Italian book publisher Feltrinelli has started production on its first feature film, We Believed (Noi Credevamo), the story of political violence sparked by Italy's battle for unification in the 19th century. The film will be released in 2008. Popular writer Giancarlo De Cataldo (Crime Novel) and director Mario Martone ...
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Rusnak's It's Alive remake starts shooting in Bulgaria
Filming has begun in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the remake of Larry Cohen's 1974 horror classic It's Alive.Robert A Katz and Avi Lerner are producing with Moshe Diamant serving as executive producer. Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited is handling international sales.Josef Rusnak is directing Bijou Phillips, James Murray and Raphael Coleman in ...
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US animator Laika plans Oregon animation campus
Animation studio Laika Inc has selected Portland-based TVA Architects to design a state-of-the-art feature animation campus to house Laika's burgeoning entertainment division.TVA Architects has begun work on a multi-phase master plan beginning with four buildings scheduled to open in late 2009. The Laika campus will be located on 30 acres ...
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Wild Hogs director Becker sells comedy pitch to Dimension
Comedy director Walt Becker has followed up the success of Wild Hogs, which opened at number one in the US last weekend, by selling a comedy pitch to Dimension Films.The company will develop and produce Runt, based on a story idea by Becker and David Gallagher about twin brothers who ...
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Berlin mayor to host LA presentation of German Federal Film Fund
Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit and members of regional film funding body Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg are flying in to LA to explain the new German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).The delegation will meet with LA-based film-makers to present the incentive, which offers a 20% rebate on every Euro spent, and will also discuss ...
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Oscar winners among those backed by Bavarian fund
New feature films by Oscar-winning filmmakers Florian Gallenberger and Caroline Link are among 29 projects awarded a total of $11 million (Euros 8.4m) by the Munich-based regional public fund FFF Bayern in its first sitting of 2007. The largest amount - $2.5m (Euros 1.9m, including Euros 500,000 from the Bavarian ...
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Media Asia, Stellar to co-produce Lu's Nanking! Nanking!
Hong Kong's Media Asia is set to co-produce Chinese director Lu Chuan's upcoming period war drama Nanking! Nanking! with Beijing-based Stellar Megamedia and the China Film Group. The film is one of three high-profile projects on Media Asia's upcoming production slate. This year the company plans to invest $64m (HK$500m) ...
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Tanya Seghatchian to head UK Film Council Development Fund
UK producer Tanya Seghatchian, who has worked on the Harry Potter films with Heyday Films and set up Apocalypso Pictures with Pawel Pawlikowski, is set to take up the post as the new head of the UK Film Council's Development Fund as of April 1. She replaces Jenny Borgars, who ...
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Government closes UK tax schemes
The UK Treasury has pulled the plug on tax schemes expected to raise hundreds of millions of pounds of film finance this year.One expert believes as much as $3.8bn (£2bn) could have been lost before the end of this tax year, which ends early next month.The UK revenue department announced ...
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Finnish producer MR Matila Rohr on board for Georg
Finnish production outfit, MR Matila Rohr Productions, will co-produce Georg, a $2.76m (Euros 2.1m) biopic of Estonian singer Georg Ots, who in the 1960s was as popular as The Beatles behind the Iron Curtain - 'and in Finland, too,' added Finnish producer Ilkka Matila. Starring Marko Matvere and Anastasia Makejeva, ...
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Oscar winner Caroline Link to shoot new feature in Munich
Germany Oscar-winning director Caroline Link, who received the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003 for Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo In Afrika), is to begin shooting her next feature Im Winter Ein Jahr (working title) this summer at locations in Munich and surroundings.The co-production between Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions ...
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Dukakis, MacLaine reteam for Ash's Poor Things
Olympia Dukakis is in talks to join Shirley MacLaine on the dark comedy Poor Things, in what would be their first on-screen reunion in nearly 20 years.The pair last starred together in 1989's box office smash Steel Magnolias. This time around the tone is very different: Poor Things is inspired ...
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Lives Of Others gets English-language remake from Mirage, TWC
Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack will produce an English-language remake of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's foreign-language Oscar winner The Lives Of Others for The Weinstein Company (TWC).The film-makers will serve as producers under their Mirage Productions label, which has renewed its exclusive first-look deal with TWC. It remained unclear last ...
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Danny Boyle plans thriller set at South Africa's Ponte City
UK director Danny Boyle's next project will be thriller Ponte Tower, a co-production between the UK and South Africa. Ponte Tower is loosely based on the book by German novelist Norman Ohler, which Michael Thomas is adpating. The film-makers plan to shoot the film entirely within the South Africa 's ...
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Beta Cinema handling world sales for Ironman
Beta Cinema is to handle world sales for Adnan G. Koese's feature debut Ironman, which is currently shooting in the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Dinslaken.Based on the true story of the world-class triathlete Andreas Niedrig, which appeared in book form in 2000 as Vom Junkie zum Ironman, Ironman is being ...
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HK government earmarks $38m for local film industry
The Hong Kong government has earmarked $38.4m (HK$300m) for the creation of a fund to support local film production and foster new talent. The measures were announced on Wednesday (Feb 28) by Hong Kong financial secretary Henry Tang in his budget address to the Legislative Council. Tang said he was ...
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Eurimages gives $5.1m to 10 European co-productions
At its 104th meeting that ended Feb 27 in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe Eurimages Fund Board of Management has given support to 10 features in its latest funding round, for a total of $5.1m (Euros 3.86m). The backed features are: Clara by Helma Sanders-Brahms (Germany, France, Hungary)Dorothy Mills by ...
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UK's Rainmaker to make Russian orphan documentary with Jon Blair
UK-based finanacing and production company Rainmaker Films is working with award-winning director Jon Blair (Anne Frank Remembered) for documentary Ochberg's Orphans. Tsotsi cinematographer Lance Gewer is on board, as is film archivist Adrian Wood. Rainmaker's Paul Goldin and Georgina Townsley are producing. The documentary is about a South African tycoon ...
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Handmade pact with Ilion for $50m CGI film Planet One
The UK's revived Handmade Films is partnering on financing, production and sales with Spain's Ilion Animation Studios for the $50m CGI animated feature Planet One. Shrek and Shrek 2 writer Joe Stillman wrote the original screenplay for the project, which will be directed by Jorge Blanco, who created the game ...
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Departed players reteam for Confession remake
It looks like Warner Bros is keen to replicate the success of Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning The Departed. The remake of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs picked up four Oscars, including best picture, director and adapted screenplay, on Sunday night and has grossed more than $250m. ...