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    PUSAN: Avex boards Apple, Chen Kaige project

    2006-10-16T20:30:00Z

    Following its investment in Beijing-basedChengtian Entertainment, Japan's Avex is making a push into Chinese production by co-financingtwo of the company's upcoming productions - Li Yu's Apple and a biopic to be directed by Chen Kaige.Chen, who most recentlydirected big-budget fantasy epic ThePromise, is developing a film based on the life ...

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    Abraham and Dornford-May pact for South African stories

    2006-10-16T17:36:00Z

    Producer EricAbraham and director Mark Dornford-May have announced a new collaboration toproduce theatre and film projects based on South African talent for aninternational audience. South Africantheatre veteran Mannie Mannim will serve as a consultant. The projects currentlybeing developed include theatre co-productions with London's Young Vic Theatre,stage and film versions of ...

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    Polish Insitute backs new films from Loach and Zelenka

    2006-10-16T14:26:00Z

    Newfeature projects by Ken Loach, Petr Zelenka and Oliver Parker are among sixinternational co-productions supported with a total of $4.1m (Zlotys 12.8m) bythe Polish Film Institute in its latest round of funding. Loach's These Times, which hasproducer-distributor SPIInternational as its Polish co-producer, received $176,376 (ZL 546,508)production support. The Polish elements ...

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    Rotterdam's Bals Fund starts digital production grant

    2006-10-16T03:00:00Z

    The International FilmFestival Rotterdam (Jan 24-Feb 4, 2007) will introduce a new digital productiongrant to the Hubert Bals Fund.The 36th Rotterdam festival has announced a new $24,980 (Euros 20,000)grant for low-budget digital video productions from developing countries. Thegrants can be used to fund total production costs. During the Fund's autumn ...

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    Nu Image to start Cusack's $10m parody thriller

    2006-10-16T03:00:00Z

    Nu Image Bulgaria will begin filming Oct 22 on Brandhauser, an international intrigue parody starring John Cusack,Joan Cusack, Hilary Duff and Marisa Tomei. Josh Seftel, one of the directorsbehind TV series Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, will direct the $10m project, alsoknown as War Inc. The film will shoot ...

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    PUSAN: Taewon unveils Resurrection at Asian Film Market

    2006-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Korea's Taewon Entertainment took advantage of the firstday of the Asian Film Market to promote its upcoming project Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon.MaggieQ has joined Andy Lau in the cast of the epic actioner, which Taewon isco-producing with Hong Kong's Visualizer Film Production.Recently featured in Mission: Impossible3, Q ...

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    PUSAN: Cha joins cast of Studio 2.0's Highway Star

    2006-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Korea's Studio 2.0 has announced that Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) will head the cast of comedy drama Highway Star. Co-directed by Kim Sang-Chanand Kim Tae-Hyun, the film is a remake of Japanese film Sharan-Q No Enka No Hanamichi, directed by Yojiro Takita, about anaspiring rock singer who signs the ...

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    Wajda starts shoot for Katyn massacre film

    2006-10-13T11:12:00Z

    Veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda has begunshooting of his long-cherished project PostMortem about the Katyn massacre of 1940 at locations near Krakow.The $5.2m (Zloty 16m) Polish-French co-production byAkson Studio with Margaret Menegoz's Les Films du Losange as minority partnerhas received $1.9m (Zloty 6m) backing from the Polish Film Institute, $564,884(Euros ...

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    UK shoot starts next week for Grant's Coffee Sex You

    2006-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Marcel Grant’s Coffee Sex You will shoot in London from Oct 16-31 before moving to shoot in Italy Nov 1-7.The feature is about a27-year-old investment banker who questions her suicide plans when she meets afledgling film producer. Rosie Fellner and Caspar Zafer will star.The financing is beingraised independently.Grant, who previouisly ...

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    Eurimages backs 14 co-productions with $5.5m

    2006-10-12T14:59:00Z

    The Council Of Europe's film fund, Eurimages, has announced its supportof 14 new European co-productions for a total of $5.5m (Euros 4.4m). The films are:L'aube du monde by Abbas Fahdel (France/Germany) Back To Africa by Othmar Schmiderer (Austria/Germany)Ein Fall fur Freunde... wie alles begann byTony Loeser and Jesper Moller ...

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    David Tennant and Emily Blunt pair for UK's Wedding

    2006-10-12T05:00:00Z

    UK actors David Tennant and EmilyBlunt have signed on for the lead roles in CheerfulWeather For The Wedding, a project from London-basedClockwork Pictures. The shoot is planned for May 2007.Clockworkproducer Teun Hilte, who was one of the producers of Paul Verhoeven'saward-winning Black Book, is devlopingthe script with Donald Rice and ...

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    Look Both Ways actor to direct Ten Empty

    2006-10-12T00:00:00Z

    It has been on the verge ofgoing ahead several times but now cameras are definitely going to roll on Ten Empty, the feature film directorialdebut of actor Anthony Hayes, who played the estranged father of two childrenin Look Both Ways. The film got the go-aheadfrom the Australian Film Commission's IndiVision ...

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    Woolcock directs modern Exodus story

    2006-10-11T11:27:00Z

    Director Penny Woolcock isfollowing up her new feature MischiefNight with an unusual film project based on the Biblical Book of Exodus.The Margate Exodus is comissioned and produced by arts group Artangel in association withCreative Partnerships Kent, Arts Council England and Channel 4.The story of Exodus isupdated to 20 years in ...

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    Speedman joins Tyler in Rogue's thriller Strangers

    2006-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Scott Speedman has signed to play the make lead opposite Liv Tylerin Rogue Pictures' thriller Strangers.Filming on the Mandate Pictures and Vertigo Entertainmentco-production is set to begin this week [Oct 10] in South Carolina in time foran October 2007 release. Focus Features International is handling internationaldistribution.Speedman and Tyler will play ...

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    Polybona boards Bigfoot's Chinese-language Huilu

    2006-10-10T20:30:00Z

    China's Beijing Polybona has come on board as co-producer on Huilu, the Chinese-language version ofHong Kong-based Bigfoot Entertainment's psychological thriller Irreversi.The move qualifies the filmas a Hong Kong-China co-production, thus making it eligible for release inmainland China. Huilu wasshot in Hong Kong almost back-to-back with the English-language Irreversi, the directorial ...

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    Brooks starts Definitely, Maybe for Working Title

    2006-10-10T10:05:00Z

    Working Title Films and Universal Pictures will start principalphotography this week in New York City forromantic comedy Definitely, Maybe. Thefilm stars Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Derek Luke, Isla Fisher, ElizabethBanks and Abigail Breslin.Adam Brooks, who previously wrote Wimbledon and co-wrote Bridget Jones: The Edge OfReason, wrote and will direct the ...

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    Robbie Williams hosts short-film competition

    2006-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Singer Robbie Williams is workingwith film-makers community Shooting People to encourage emerging film-makers tomake short films to complement his new album Rudebox. Responding to a wide brief,film-makers submitted a variety of treatments using as much or as little fromthe album tracks as they wanted. Williams himself selected and green-lit theseven ...

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    Leung to star in See Movie's Chinese Fairy Tale

    2006-10-08T20:30:00Z

    Tony Leung Ka-fai has signedup to star in Lam Wai Lun's The ChineseFairy Tale (working title), to be co-produced by Hong Kong's See Movie and mainland Chinese partners.Written and directed by LamWai Lun, the film is based on a true story which took place in Changchun in northern China, where ...

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    UK distributor Spark Films launches

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Award-winning producersDaniel San and Rebecca Knapp have launched their new UK distribution outfit SparkPictures Limited today, Oct 6. The company intends todistribute three to four "commercial independent"titles over the next year. San and Knapp teamed up in2004 with the aim to create a company that will make and distribute low-costcommercial ...

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    US to remake Brazil hit If I Were You

    2006-10-05T12:43:00Z

    USA'sClifford Werber Productions and Brazil'sTotal Entertainment will produce the English language remake of the romanticcomedy If I Were You (Se Eu FosseVocê), the most successful Brazilian film of the year. Produced by Total, inassociation with Lereby, Fox Film do Brasil and Globo Filmes (the film arm ofleading Brazilian broadcaster Globo ...