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Six South African writers win development competition
The UK Film Council'sDevelopment Fund and South Africa's National Film and Video Foundation's "25Words Or Less" competition has named its first six recipients of funding.The four South Africanprojects will each receive $18,504 (£10,000) in funding to develop a first draftof their project. Each will be helped by a script editor ...
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Films Sans Frontieres to remake The Blue Angel
Films Sans Frontieres has acquired thecinematographic estate of Robert Liebmann, whichincluding remake rights of The Blue Angeldirected by Josef von Sternberg.Films Sans Frontieres said it is currently amodern update of The Blue Angel. Theoriginal 1931 Weimar cinema classic starredMarlene Dietrich asa nightclub singer who tempts a repressed professor. Screenwriter Liebmann ...
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Eli Roth plans Czech shoot for Hostel 2
Eli Roth will begin production on Hostel 2 in September in Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Karlovy Vary andother locations around the Czech Republic.The director told reporters at theKarlovy Vary International Film Festival the film financing was a negative pick-upby Columbia Screen Gems and Lionsgate. Lionsgate will distribute the film with Sony ...
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Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m
The board of Eurimages has decided to support 12 features in its latest funding round, marking a total amount of $5.4m (Euros 4.2m). The coproductions supported are:35 Rhums, dir. Claire Denis (France, Germany, Belgium) Capri 1934, dir. Benoit Jacquot (France, Germany) Elsa, dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland) Fur einen Augenblick, ...
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Eurimages announces latest funding of $5.4m
MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Location: file:///C:/34889F51/wendy1.htmContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableContent-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"The board of Eurimages has decided tosupport 12 features in its latest funding round, marking a total amount of =$5.4m(Euros 4.2m). The coproductoins supported are:35Rhums, dir. Claire Denis (Fran=ce,Germany, Belgium) Capri1934, dir. Benoit Jacquot (Fra=nce, Germany) Elsa, dir. Silvio Soldini (Italy, Switzerland) Fureinen Augenblick, Freiheit, ...
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Four Oz features to receive FFC funding
An adaptation of the SouthAfrican novel Disgrace, to star JohnMalkovich, and Mary & Max, ananimated feature by the team who made Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet, have been given the thumbs up by Film FinanceCorporation Australia (FFC).Both have the backing of localdistributor Dendy Films while sales agent Fortissimo Films has also ...
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Thailand gears up for Bangkok Dangerous shoot
Thailand is set to host its biggest foreign shoot to date -Initial Entertainment Group's remake of the Pang Brothers gangster thriller Bangkok Dangerous - which is scheduledto start shooting for three months from this August. According to the Thailand FilmOffice, the remake, starring Nicolas Cage, will bring in $5.8m (220m ...
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Paramount on board for feature based on Olympic short
Paramount and Nickelodeon have signed on to turn Moongate Films's three-minutepromotional short Inspiration into afull-length feature tentatively titled LegendOf The Rings. UK-based Moongatecreated Inspiration for London's 2012 Olympic Bid, and the promo was shown to theInternational Olympic Committee meeting in Singapore last July. The short is about inspiring children ...
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Irish Film Board outlines new policies
TheIrish Film Board (IFB) will encourage funding applicants to submit projectsearlier in the development process, its executives announced at a presentationyesterday evening. IFBchairman James Morris and CEO Simon Perry introduced a range of new policiesand procedures that will come into effect July 1. Inaddition to setting out some core principles ...
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James Cameron to shoot Avatar next
Director James Cameron hasbeen in pre-production on his next two features, Avatar and Battle Angel,but Avatar has won the race and willbe the first to shoot.Cameron told Cine Expoattendees in Amsterdam that he plans to continue to work in the 3D digitalformat for both projects. Cameron hopes to have Avatar, ...
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Mueller tapped to head production at Senator
Christoph Mueller, producer of Marc Rothemund'sOscar-nominated Sophie Scholl - The Final Days and managing director with Sven Burgemeister of Munich-based GoldkindFilm, has been appointed as the new head of Senator Entertainment's productionarm Senator Film Produktion as of July 1.Accordingto Senator Entertainment's Marco Weber, Mueller was 'from the outset ourabsolute ideal ...
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Serotonin, Hope & Glory and Spice Factory partner for Bhopal
TheUK's Serotonin Films isworking with partners Hope & Glory Pictures and Spice Factory to producethe drama Bhopal.Ravi Kumar is writing and directing his feature-lengthdebut, with Serotonin's Dominic Norris producing.Thestory follows a young rickshaw puller who gets a menial job at a chemical plantamidst the 1984 Union Carbide industrial disaster in ...
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Justus von Dohnanyi makes directorial debut with Hartz 4.2
LeadingGerman actor Justus von Dohnanyi, who has appeared in such films as Oscar-nominatedDownfall, WWII drama Napola andthriller The Experiment, is makinghis directorial debut with the road movie-black comedy Hartz 4.2 (working title) which is shooting on location in Germany andSwitzerland until July 15.The$878,955 (Euros 700,000) production by Lars Buecheland Bernd ...
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Shochiku enlists Centro for live-action Kitaro movie
Japanese major Shochiku andHong Kong-based special effects house Centro Digital Pictures are collaboratingon live-action creature feature Gegege NoKitaro. The film, directed byKatsuhide Motoki, is the first live-action feature based on Shigeru Mizuki'sfamous character, created in 1954, and popularised in the Gegege No Kitaro manga series from 1966-1970.Centro, established in 1987,is ...
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German-French funders back films by Jacquot and de Chalonge
Newfeature films by Benoit Jacquot and Christian de Chalonge are among four projects backed with a total of $1.4m(Euros 1.1m) by the German-French Funding Commission which is administered bythe German Federal Film Board (FFA) and France's CNC to promoteco-production between the two countries.Thelargest sum - $339,754 (Euros 270,000) - went ...
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Gaumont to shoot thriller Avatar in September
Frenchstudio Gaumont has announced that it is inpreparation on Avatar, a first film by Julien Leclercq. The film is scheduled to begin shooting onSeptember 12 for ten weeks in Paris.Avataris a $10.9m (Euros 8.7m) production starring Albert Dupontel,Marie Guillard, Melanie Thierry, MartheKeller, Estelle Lefebure and Francis Renaud. Set in Parisin ...
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Berlin's World Cinema Fund backs five new projects
New feature projects by Mexico's Carlos Reygadas and Kyrgyzstan's Aktan Arym Kubat are among five filmprojects recommended for a total of $363,935(Euros 290,000) production funding in the fourth selection round ofthe Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF). The WCF jury, comprising theFrench independent distributor Isabelle Dubar,UK-based curator Keith Shiri, Swiss Television'sprogramme ...
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Private investors fund new $22.6m The Red Baron
Germany's most expensive new production in 2006, Niki Muellerschoen's $22.6m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron (Der Rote Baron), begins principal photography on July 3 in Prague as a 100% privately financed project. The financing for the film about the legendary First World War fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen ...
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UK's Slingshot plans 10 digital features in 3 years
Slingshot, a new UK-baseddigital film production and distribution company, hasannounced plans to finance, produce and distribute a slate of 10 low-budgetfeature films over the next three years. Arvind Ethan David, Rachel Connors and Thomas Hoegh have founded the company, which will be based atEaling Studios. David previously served as managing ...
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Lucy Moore wins new UK horror prize
Writer Lucy Moore has wonthe inaugural Golconda Films Horror ScreenwritingCompetition with her script Lullaby.Moore was recently featured as one of Screen International's 2006 Stars of Tomorrow.She will receive a $1,845 (£1,000)advance on a script option to make the horror film and will work with producersGolconda Films during the development process. ...