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All Production articles – Page 835
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Sola Media takes on sales for $3m Turtle's Song
Germany-based sales company Sola Media has picked up rights to nature documentary The Turtle's Song, from UK producers Film & Music Entertainment and Big Wave Productions. Sola has world rights excluding Austria and Finland to the theatrical feature produced by F&ME's Mike Downey, Sam Taylor and Zorana Piggott and Big ...
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Sola Media takes on sales for $3m Turtle's Song
Germany-based sales company Sola Media has picked up rights to nature documentary The Turtle's Song, from UK producers Film & Music Entertainment and Big Wave Productions. Sola has world rights excluding Austria and Finland to the theatrical feature produced by F&ME's Mike Downey, Sam Taylor and Zorana Piggott and Big ...
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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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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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The Hospital launches 2007 Audi Channel Reel Talent Awards
Original screenplays are now being accepted for the Reel Talent short-film competition, which is the only incentive in the UK to finance and facilitate the production of its finalists' films.In conjunction with London-based creative community and member's club The Hospital, Audi's 24-hour digital television channel is hosting the awards in ...
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The Escapist starts shoot with Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes
Rupert Wyatt's debut feature The Escapist has begun filming in Dublin with a sterling cast of British and Irish character actors and stars. The prison escape drama features, among others, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Stephen Macintosh and Damian Lewis. Goalpost Films is handling international ...
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Frears, Morgan and Sheen reunite for The Damned Utd
The team behind Oscar-nominated The Queen will reunite for a project based on controversial 1970s English football manager Brian Clough, said producer Christine Langan, who recently joined BBC Films from Granada. Stephen Frears will direct The Damned Utd, while Peter Morgan is currently writing the screenplay adapted from David Peace's ...
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ContentFilm on board for William H Macy's directorial debut
William H Macy will make his directorial debut with Keep Coming Back, to star Salma Hayek, Mos Def, Steve Buscemi and Macy himself. ContentFilm International has international sales rights, with CAA handling North America. Rachel Rothman, Tucker Tooley and Dan Keston are producing. The coming-of-age story, written by Will Aldis, ...
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20 features selected for Sundance grants
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Programme has announced its second round of grants for 2006 with 20 feature-length documentaries receiving a total of $600,000. The grants were selected by a committee of human rights experts and film professionals from more than 300 global projects. 'The films funded in this round ...
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Richard Branson to star in global warming awareness expedition
Arctic and Antarctic explorer and environmental campaigner Will Steger has begun production on the documentary Baffin Island Expedition '07: The Explorers featuring famed Mount Everest mountaineer Ed Viesturs, Richard Branson and his son Sam. The project marks the launch of the newly established Will Steger Foundation's Global Warming 101 education ...
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Stars announced for Kim Ji-woon, Yim Pil-sung features
Cineclick Asia has announced top-tier casting locked for two of its pre-sales films, Kim Ji-woon's The Good, the Bad, and the Weird and Yim Pil-sung's Hansel and Gretel, both from new production house Barunson. Cannes director Kim Ji-woon's film has three top-of-the-line stars to play the main heroes in the ...
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Wind Dancer to develop two new comedy projects
US-based production house Wind Dancer Films has hired writers for the first two features unveiled in its recently announced development fund. Bear Aderhold and Tom Sullivan will write Fear Less, a comedy about the most fearful man on earth, who loses all his inhibitions following a freak accident. The writers ...
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Singapore's Royston Tan to direct musical drama
Singapore's most celebrated writer-director Royston Tan, whose previous credits include 15 and 4:30, will next turn his hand to a musical drama, 881, which is scheduled to start principal photography on March 1. Major Singapore players are joining forces to back the new $653,000 (S$1m) production, including Tan's long-term producer ...
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Dresdner Kleinwort explores European 'fund of funds'
Having pumped more than $4.6bn into a variety of Hollywood slate deals in the past two years, German bank Dresdner Kleinwort is now looking at Europe to see whether a similar co-financing structure could enable a portfolio of European films from different production sources. The bank's New York-based media and ...
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Easternlight opens in Singapore, schedules Dance Of The Dragon
Easternlight Films has opened a production and distribution arm in Singapore. Easternlight Film Productions' pictures will be sold internationally through partner company Easternlight/Arclight Films. The new outfit states it will be 'a first for Singapore, a one-stop shop for feature films from script development to post-production,' specialising in Asian content ...
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New German incentive backs first four projects for $3.5m
Four feature projects have been awarded over $3.5m (Euros 2.7m) by the new German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme, which came into effect on January 1 with an annual budget of $78m (Euros 60m) for the next three years. The largest production rebate - over $1.4m (Euros 1.1m) - ...
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Occupant starts production on Peep World
Los Angeles-based Occupant Films, whose horror film All The Boys Love Mandy Lane was picked up by Dimension Films at Toronto, is ramping up production on the comedy Peep World. Peter Himmelstein will direct the film and recently wrapped production for Occupant on thriller The Key Man starring Jack Davenport, ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for new Morgan Spurlock documentary
While continuing brisk sales on Laurent Tirard's Moliere, which has been acquired by Spain 's Golem, Pathe in the UK, Bim in Italy and Australia 's Hopscotch; Wild Bunch has unveiled its line up for the upcoming Berlin festival with several new projects in the pipeline. First is the new ...
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Fox buys UK and Australian rights to Scorsese's Stones documentary
20th Century Fox International has picked up UK, Australia and New Zealand rights to Martin Scorsese's upcoming Rolling Stones documentary from international sales agent Fortissimo Films. As previously announced, Paramount will roll out the as-yet-untitled documentary in the US in late 2007. The film, which is centred around two New ...