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Grandville teams with Lawrence Bender 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 Cradle ...
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Colin Salmon takes lead in Games Men Play
Colin Salmon has signed on to star John Akomfrah's UK drama Games Men Play.Lincia Daniel will produce the film, about the story of a basketball coach who discovers he has a son and has to grapple with a gangster to save his life.Screen West Midlands is backing and the film ...
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Prasad to direct Cohn's remake of Yellow Handkerchief
Indian-born filmmaker Udayan Prasad will direct and William Hurt and Maria Bello star in producer Arthur Cohn's remake of Japanese classic The Yellow Handkerchief, it was announced today at a press conference in Tokyo. The $15.5m remake moves the story's locale from Hokkaido to Louisiana in the late 1940s. Production ...
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Hopper set to star in King horror
Dennis Hopper is in final talks to join Film Bridge International's Stephen King adaptation Dolan's Cadillac. Hopper will play a crime boss who kills a woman to prevent her from testifying against him in a murder trial and is subsequently pursued by the woman's vengeful young husband. Production is set ...
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Faroutfilms teams with Talabani on Iraqi love story
Rome-based production outfit Faroutfilms is partnering with Iraqi politician and producer Hero Talabani, the wife of Iraq's President Jala Talabani, on Italian/Iraqi co-production, Kirkuk. The film is a love story set in Iraq during the late 1980s during the 1986-87 Anfal campaign - when chemical attacks were ordered by Saddam ...
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Mundrunczo recasts, to restart Delta in spring
Hungarian auteur Kornel Mundrunczo, the award-winning director of Pleasant Days (Szep Napok) and Johanna, is set to re-start shooting his new feature Delta in the late spring. The film is being produced by Viktoria Petranyi through Proton Cinema, the company sheco-founded with Mundrucz.. The film is a revenge drama set ...
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Joe Dante gets Sayles, Scorsese on board for Corman feature
Gremlins and The Burbs director Joe Dante is in Berlin's Co-Production Market with his next film, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes.The $7m project is being produced by Dante with Los Angeles-based Elizabeth Stanley and UK-based Mia Bays. A chunk of the budget has already been raised through a Japanese pre-sale.The ...
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Aku Louhimies back on his feet with She-Wolf
Finnish director Aku Louhimies is is pushing ahead with his next project, She-Wolf, putting controversy over his last film behind him.Produced by Aleksi Bardy of Helsinki Film, the new film begins shootingin April. Based on a novel by Leena Lander, it is a love story set inthe Finnish civil war. ...
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Lucas and Roth steal leads in Six Bullets
Production has started on Myriad Pictures' heist thriller Six BulletsFrom Now with Josh Lucas, Tim Roth and Dermot Mulroney set to star.Myriad chief Kirk D'Amico is in Berlin pre-selling the project, whichrecounts the 1972 break-in at New York's luxury Pierre Hotel in whichrobbers dressed in dinner jackets made off with ...
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Okonedo to star in Skin
The Little Film Company is commencing sales here on true-lifeSouth African saga Skin starring Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo.Shooting is set to begin in May on the co-production between the UK'sElysian Films and Bard Entertainments and South Africa's MoonlightingFilms.The project centres on the extraordinary genetic case of Sandra Laing,a black woman ...
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Friend and Barr cast for Russian gangster movie
UK actor Rupert Friend (Pride & Prejudice) and Jean-Marc Barr (Dancer In The Dark) are attached as cast for US writer-director Tony Pemberton's $ 4.5m gangster movie Buddha's Little Finger based on the novel of the same name by Victor Pelewin.The film's Berlin-based producer Rohfilm has brought Mikhail Kalatozov's Kalatozov ...
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Rock Haven finds home with TLA
TLA Releasing has acquired worldwide rights here from journalist andfirst-time film-maker David Lewis to his drama Rock Haven.The story follows a spiritual man who moves to the coast to live withhis devoutly Christian mother and falls in love with an older man.Newcomer Sean Hoagland stars with Laura Jane Coles and ...
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Lordi ready to rock for Finnish horror film
Finnish monster hard-rock group Lordi, which won last year's Eurovision Song Contest, will star in a $5m horror movie from Finnish producer Markus Selin, of Solar Films, who has for the last four years delivered the number one local top-grossers on the Finnish charts.Selin will be in Berlin to discuss ...
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Skarsgaard to star in Scandinavia's most expensive film project
Swedish Hollywood-actor Stellan Skarsgaard will star in The Knight Templar - Svensk Filmindustri's $30.3m (Euro 22.8m) adaption of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson - currently lensing on locations in Morocco.Skarsgaard will perform as Arn's uncle in Scandinavia's so far most expensive film project - two features, ...
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Wajda film throws spotlight on Polish film fund
The expected unveiling at this year's Cannes Film Festival of Andrzej Wajda's Post Mortem will also serve as the international launch party of Poland's generous but still largely unknown new film fund. Wajda, whose Man Of Iron won the top prize at Cannes in 1981, will be among the ...
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Lovers, Lies And Thieves resurrected by Girard
Lovers, Lies And Thieves - a comedy caper whichfell apart five weeks into pre-production in 2001 - is back on themarket courtesy of Arsam International's Illann Girard, producer ofBerlinale competition entry Goodybe Bafana and executive producer ofMarch Of The Penguins. The project is a comic take on the true story ...
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Independent takes on documentary In Search Of Diego
London-based sales company Independent has picked up worldwide rights to documentary In Search Of Diego.The feature documentary, currently in post-production, follows five young UK freestyle footballers who travel the world to try to meet their hero Diego Maradona.Brothers Benjamin and Gabe Turner directed, while Leon Pearlman and Ben Winston of ...
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Whishaw and Goode take leads in HanWay's Brideshead Revisited
HanWay Films has announced that Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode have taken the lead roles as Sebastian and Charles, respectively, in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Julian Jarrold is directing the project, and Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are producing through their Ecosse Films. HanWay is handling worldwide ...
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One Eyed adds Tony Manero and Others
UK-based sales and production company One Eyed Films has added to its slate of Latin American offerings. The company is on board for Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero, a Chile/Brazil/Argentina co-production that is still seeking one more partner from Ibero-America. The comedy is about a criminal in 1970s Chile who wants ...
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Don Johnson and Jackie Chan plan action comedy Pretty Baby
Don Johnson and Jackie Chan are set to co-star in action comedy A Bullet For Pretty Baby. Arthur Sarkissian, who worked with Chan on the Rush Hour trilogy, is producing with George Edde. The contemporary San Francisco-set story is about a high-class pimp (Johnson) and small-time crook (Chan) both ...