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Chic gears up to shoot Laffargue's Dakar-set Black
French production outfit Chic Films has given a green light to a new film from director Pierre Laffargue set in present day Dakar and starring French rapper MC Jean Gab'1, Carole Karemera, Francois Levantal and Anton Yakovlev.The $4.1m (Euros 3.2m) Black is set to start shooting in Paris in late ...
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Sony closes third co-financing deal with Relativity
Sony Pictures has been revealed as the beneficiary of the recent co-financing facility structured by Relativity Media.The new independent co-financing package, which is separate from the previously announced Gun Hill 1 and Gun Hill 2 deals, will be a five-year revolving credit facility. The new venture, called Beverly Blvd LLC, ...
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Antena 3 on board for Woody Allen's Spanish project
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has boarded the new Woody Allen film to shoot in Barcelona this summer with star Penelope Cruz.The network announced its participation in the film just days after Allen unveiled that Cruz would have a role.Through its production department Ensueno Films, Antena 3 will co-produce with Mediapro ...
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Berlin to host first conference of Mediterranean Euromed Programme
Producers, directors and institutions from the Mediterranean countries will be meeting with representatives from Eurimages, CNC, the World Cinema Fund and Europa Cinemas, among others, at the first regional conference of the Euromed Audiovisual II Programme being staged during the Berlinale from Feb 10-11. The conference will take stock of ...
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Fog City, Caviar roll cameras on San Francisco romance
Principal photography has begun on Around June, a romance being jointly produced by San Francisco-based Fog City Pictures and Los Angeles-based Caviar Films.Samaire Armstrong, Brad William Henke, Jon Gries and Puerto Rican newcomer Oscar Guerrero star in the story of a downtrodden young woman who falls for a penniless immigrant.The ...
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Goldstein joins HBO Films as SVP
Julie Goldstein has joined HBO as senior vice president of HBO Films, where she will assume responsibility for overseeing the development and production of the slate for theatrical release through Picturehouse. Goldstein will remain in New York to boost HBO Films' East Coast presence and will report to HBO Films ...
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De La Iglesia starts UK shoot for The Oxford Murders
The second English-language project by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, The Oxford Murders, has started shooting on location in London and Oxford for nine weeks. The serial killer thriller is produced by Tornasol Films, Estudios Picasso, Oxford Crimes, and La Fabrique de Films. The UK producer is Kevin Loader, ...
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UK Film Council to handle Cultural Test applications as of April 1
As expected, the UK government has announced that the administration of the new cultural test to qualify for the new UK film fax relief will move from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to the UK Film Council. As of April 1, all Cultural Test applications will be assessed ...
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Paul Trijbits joins Alison Owen's production company Ruby Films
Paul Trijbits, whose six-year stint as head of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund ended last autumn, has joined Alison Owen's London-based Ruby Films. Full details of Tribijts' role at Ruby are yet to be confirmed, but it is expected that he will be active in acquiring and executive ...
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Paul Trijbits joins Alison Owen's production company Ruby Films
Paul Trijbits, whose six-year stint as head of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund ended last autumn, has joined Alison Owen's London-based Ruby Films. Full details of Tribijts' role at Ruby are yet to be confirmed, but it is expected that he will be active in acquiring and executive ...
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Universal promotes Bario to EVP of production
Holly Bario, who has spent more than a decade as a production executive at Universal Pictures, has been named executive vice president of production at the studio.Bario has shepherded some of Universal's biggest comedies in recent years, including Bruce Almighty, Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, and The 40 Year-Old ...
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StudioCanal picks up three new projects, including new Klapisch film
StudioCanal has announced three new films set to debut on its Berlin slate. The first is from director Cedric Klapisch who will re-team with his Auberge Espagnole star Romain Duris. Few details are currently available apart from cast with Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, Francois Cluzet, Karin Viard and Albert Dupontel ...
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Fortissimo takes on non-Asian sales for Blood Brothers
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide sales rights excluding Asia for Blood Brothers from CMC Entertainment and John Woo and Terrence Chang's Lions Rock Productions. Fortissimo will commence sales at the upcoming European Film Market. The London and New York University-educated Alexi Tan, discovered by Woo and Chang, is making ...
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Principal photography to begin on Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment
Oscar-nominated Swedish director Jan Troell will start principal photography for his new feature, Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment, in three weeks - and although he usually takes his time, the $6.2m (Euros 4.8m) is scheduled for a world premiere at next year's Goteborg International Film Festival. Finnish-Swedish actress Maria Heiskanan, who ...
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Filmstiftung NRW backs international co-productions with $14.6m
International co-productions by Israel's Amos Gitai, New Zealand's Armagan Ballantyne and Germany's Max Faerberboeck are among 25 projects supported with a total of $14.6m (Euros 11.2m) by Filmstiftung NRW this week.The Dusseldorf-based regional fund awarded $521,000 (Euros 400,000) to Gitai's Disengagement, which will be produced by Pandora Filmproduktion with France's ...
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HanWay, Ecosse working with Jarrold for new Brideshead Revisited
HanWay Films has announced plans for a big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, to start shooting this spring. Kinky Boots and Becoming Jane director Julian Jarrold will direct from Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock's screenplay adapted from the Evelyn Waugh classic novel. Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae of Ecosse Films, who ...
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CineMart awards go to projects from Sweden, France and Philippines
As Rotterdam CineMart closed yesterday, the two Arte France Cinema Awards went to CineMart projects A Rational Solution, which Jorgen Bergmark is developing with Sweden 's Hepp Film, and Les Pieds Nus Sur Les Limaces, which Fabienne Berthaud is developing with France 's Agat Films & Cie. Each producer got ...
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Von Trier makes devil's pact with Anders Thomas Jensen on Antichrist
Lars von Trier recently took an unusual step to finish the script for his new horror film Antichrist. He phoned archrival and prolific writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen for help. Jensen has worked as a co-writer with Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig and directed three projects himself: Flickering Lights, The Green ...
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France to be focus of Halifax co-production market
The Strategic Partners international coproduction market in Canada will focus on France at its 10th anniversary event this September. The market takes place during Halifax's Atlantic Film Festival. According to Strategic Partners director Jan Miller, exit surveys from the 2006 edition showed 'Canadian interest in working with France is no ...
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RBS signs $350m financing pact with New Line
The Royal Bank of Scotland has closed a $350m film financing deal with New Line Cinema. The pact will provide co-financing for an estimated 20 New Line films during an approximately two-year period. The deal will include 2007 releases such as Hairspray, Rush Hour 3, and The Golden Compass as ...