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Chinese authorities ban film shooting in nature reserves
China has issued a new regulation that bans film shooting in nature reserves, scenic spots and at sites of historical interest across the country, according to state-owned news agency Xinhua. People who violate the regulation - issued by four government departments including the State Environmental Protection Administration and the Ministry ...
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Opus Dei to consult on Lux Vide feature film
Opus Dei - the controversial Catholic religious order exposed in Dan Brown's runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code - announced they will act as consultants on an upcoming feature film on the life of their founder, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer. The announcement was made at a Friday press conference held ...
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German-Indian film agreement signed in Berlin
Germany's Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, India's Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, and Germany's Minister of State for Culture and the Media Bernd Nuemann signed a German-Indian film agreement in Berlin on Friday afternoon providing a legal framework for cooperation between producers from Germany ...
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The European name game
Even the most cursory list of Europe's best-known actors reveals a continent stocked with starry talent: Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren from the UK; Eva Green, Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche from France; Monica Bellucci and Roberto Benigni from Italy; Franka Potente ...
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Europe and the slate-finance boom
The idea that there might be another big wave of funding around the corner remains one of the big hopes for the European film industry. Those dreams have until recently revolved around the idea of the discovery of a new tax loophole, which might allow a return to the sale-and-leaseback ...
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Banderas and Perez to back new Spanish talent
Antonio Banderas' Malaga-based Green Moon Productions and Antonio Perez's Seville-based Maestranza Films have signed a new film-per-year co-production agreement. Signed in Berlin, where Banderas was on hand to present new features as both director (Panorama title Summer Rain) and actor (competition contender Bordertown), the agreement will focus on backing new ...
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Norwegian Culture Minister pledges extra funds for local films
In Berlin this week, Norwegian culture minister Trond Giske has promised increased Government support of the local film industry.Since coming to power in late 2005, Norway's left-centre alliance has pumped an extra 6.2 million Euros into the Norwegian Film Fund, taking the overall spending to 32 million Euros per annum. ...
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Hart splits with Sharp and launches Evamere
After more than ten years in business together, the founding partners of New York based Hart Sharp Entertainment - John Hart and Jeffrey Sharp - have decided to pursue different opportunities. For his part, Hart has now launched a new venture called Evamere Entertainment that will focus on ...
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Film London, LFF partner on UK's new Production Finance Market
Here in Berlin, Film London announced plans for the UK capital's first Production Finance Market, which will run October 22-23 in association with The Times BFI London Film Festival (Oct 17-Nov 1).The two-day event in central London will bring together more than 100 film producers, and financiers from the UK, ...
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Eros enters French VOD and Egyptian theatrical markets
Eros International, the UK-based sales company that concentrates on Bollywood projects, will enter the French VOD market later this month. Eros is the only Bollywood provider for CanalPlus' CanalPlay, which will launch with 12 Eros offerings on February 22.Eros is also making headway into Egypt, which had in recent years ...
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Starfield, Maybe team on Lebanon drama
Paul Raphael's London-based Starfield Productions is working on After The Summer Rain, a new drama that was partly shot in Lebanon during the war last year. The project, which is already in post-production and will be vying for a slot in Cannes, is directed by Philippe Aractingi, whose Bosta was ...
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Englund to direct The Vij in Hungary for ReDark
Freddy Kreuger is back - but this time he is behind the camera. At the EFM this week, ReDark's Loris Curici has announced two new projects including one that will be directed by Robert Englund, the star of the legendary Nightmare On Elm Street films.Production is due to begin in ...
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Future and Capri team for Bille August's Burden Of Desire
Bille August, whose Goodbye Bafana made its world premiere in competition here, is in pre-production for his next film Burden Of Desire, which will shoot in January 2008 based on Robert MacNeil's novel of the same name.The film will be a production of Capri Films in Toronto and London-based Future ...
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Robson Entertainment plans Chile, supercentarians films
Sybil Robson Orr, who produced Blindsight in Panorama Dokumente, has travelled to the southernmost region of Chile, the Tierra del Fuego, to shoot her next project (as a director this time). The project is about an 80-year-old woman who is the last living purebred member of the Yagan tribe. 'She's ...
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Stansfield and Crook join Quest For A Heart
UK singer Lisa Stansfield and actor Mackenzie Crook will lend their voices to Quest For A Heart, a $7.7m (Euros 6m) fully-animated feature shortly to wrap a five-year production schedule for Finland's MRP Matila Rohr Productions. Stansfield will also perform the theme song.'It will be the jewel of the crown,' ...
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Mango Films takes on Jean Charles de Menezes drama
After a recent BBC television project about Jean Charles de Menezes was abruptly scrapped after four weeks of pre-production, UK-based Mango Films has picked up the exclusive rights to the story of the innocent Brazilian electrician shot and killed by London police in a tube station in the days following ...
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Eros signs three-year deal with Bollywood producer Venus
Eros International has signed a three-year output deal with Bollywood production company Venus. All Venus films for the next three year will be co-produced with Eros.Eros will keep copyrights for distribution across all formats. Two films are already in development with directors Abbas Mastan (Humraaz) and Priyadarshan (Garam Masala).Venus was ...
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Senator boards Falorni's Heart
Germany 's Senator Film has boarded Luigi Falorni's fiction feature debut Heart Of Fire as co-producer and acquired German distribution rights. Based on Senait Mehari's bestselling autobiography Heart Of Fire, the film follows her experiences serving in the Eritrean Liberation Front and witnessing the horrors of a guerrilla war. The ...
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UK Film Council Development Fund backs BBC Films trio
The UK Film Council's Development Fund is backing several new projects with BBC Films.They include Coram Boy,adapted from the novel by Jamila Gavin, with Alison Owen and ScottRudin producing and the project out to directors now. The story isabout two orphans in 18th-century England. The funding is for $135,145(£69,291). The ...
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Grandville teams with Bender and Bartkowiak for 818
Producers Dan Shepherd and Justin Williams of UK-based Grandville Pictures are teaming with Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth, Kill Bill) and his producing partner Karen Barber for Los Angeles-set action comedy 818 (working title). Andrzej Bartkowiak, the Polish-born cinematographer on Speed and The Devil's Advocate who has directed Doom and ...