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The Legend Of Zorro poised to take over the world
All eyes will be on TheLegend Of Zorro this weekend as the adventure sequel launches on more than5,900 prints in 50 territories mostly through Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI).The distributor opens the picture day-and-date with North America in France on685 prints on Oct 26, Germany and Russia a day later on ...
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De Niro to star in Levinson's What Just Happened'
Robert De Niro will star inBarry Levinson's comedy What JustHappened' for 2929 Productions which is based on Art Linson's book andscreenplay about his experiences in Hollywood.2929 will fully finance theproject and the company's sales chief Shebnem Askin will commence internationalsales at the AFM next week. No domestic distributor is attached ...
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Australia's Kojo Group moves into film production
Leading Adelaide-basedpost-production and TV production company, Kojo Group, is moving into featurefilm production and has boarded writer/director Murali K. Thalluri's debutfeature 2:37."Our optimistic goal is tomake a couple of films per year," Kojo founding partner Kent Smith told Screendaily. "We have already had a bigrole on a number but not ...
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India's Mukta Arts unveils five-picture slate
Mukta Arts chairman andfilmmaker Subhash Ghai announced five new films during the company's 27thanniversary celebrations in Mumbai this week.Ashwini Chowdhary willdirect Good Boy Bad Boy, a collegecampus musical, with Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Isha Sharvani and TanushreeDutta in the cast. Sangeeth Sivan will direct Money Money Money, set to star ...
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Shochiku to finance Kore-eda period drama
Japanese director HirokazuKore-eda (After Life, Nobody Knows) is set to make his firstperiod drama, Hana Yori Mo Naho, withShochiku providing financing and distribution.Based on an original storyby Kore-eda, the film is scheduled for a spring 2006 release. Shochiku willalso be handling worldwide sales. The film will featureJunichi Okada (Tokyo Tower) ...
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Summit, Mandalay enter the Twilight Zone
Summit Entertainment andMandalay Pictures have jointly acquired feature rights to Richard Matheson'sshort story and classic 1963 TwilightZone extended episode Deathship.Michael Brandt and Derek Haasare co-writing the project - renamed Countdown- based an original draft by Scott Burn and Stephen Gregg.The story centres on a groupof astronauts on a mysterious planet ...
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Mayhem Project signs first two screenwriter deals
The Mayhem Project, the independent production and financecompany launched in June 2005 by executive Anthony Mosawi, has signed its firsttwo screenwriter deals.Todd Farmer will write the screenplay to the feature version of the survivalhorror video game franchise Clock Tower, while Ronnie Christensen will the supernatural story Sanctuary.Both projects will be ...
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Film Sales Company heads for Middletown
Andrew Herwitz' The FilmSales Company has bulked up its AFM slate after picking up worldwide rightsexcluding the UK to the sibling drama Middletown starring Matthew Macfayden.Macfayden, currently starring as Charles Darcy opposite Keira Knightley in PrideAnd Prejudice, will star in theIreland-set tale about the torrid relationship between two brothers.Brian Kirk ...
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Lions Gate lines up stellar voice cast for Foodfight!
Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria,Wayne Brady, Chris Kattan and Christopher Lloyd have joined the voice cast ofThreshold Animation Studios and Lions Gate Family Entertainment's upcominganimated comedy Foodfight!As previously announced,Hillary and Haylie Duff have committed to the project set after hours in asupermarket populated by talking products.Lions Gate FamilyEntertainment has scheduled an ...
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Weinsteins hustle for Kung Fu High School
The Weinstein Company (TWC) haswon a fierce bidding war to develop and produce Kung Fu High School, based on RyanGattis' acclaimed novel about youth gang culture.Ernesto M Foronda will adapt the screenplay and Neal Edelstein and Mike Macariwill produce the Romeo And Juliet tale, which is setin a high school ...
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Irish industry bolstered by flurry of winter shoots
The Irish production sectorhas experienced its most difficult year since its resurgence in 1993 - but the hopenow is that a flurry of year-end shoots will help remove some of the tarnish.Several live-action featureprojects are set to go before the camera in the next couple of months, amongthem The Front ...
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IndiVision project West set to crank up in Sydney
West, the second film greenlit under the Australian FilmCommission's new low-budget initiative IndiVision, is scheduled to startproduction in Sydney next week. The first draft of the film waswritten by its writer/director Daniel Krige about 20 years ago when he was just16 years of age.The film stars young actorsNathan Phillips, whose ...
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Hodge signs on to adapt Dark for Walden
Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge will adapt SusanCooper's British children's fantasy novel The Dark Is Rising for Walden Media.As previously reported here (Screendaily, May 6 2005),Marc Platt is producing the project about a young boy who discovers that he isdescended from a line of immortal warriors dedicated to fighting evil."We are ...
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Shutter duo to reteam on Thai-Korean horror
The two writer-directorsbehind Thai blockbuster Shutter - Parkpoom Wongpoom and BanjongPisanthanakun - are planning a new horror picture, Alone, which willshoot in Thailand and Korea from March next year. The film, which was unveiledat the Pusan International Film Festival in Korea this weekend - will also feature cast from bothcountries. ...
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New York comedy heads Indian music major's debut slate
Indian music major Saregamahas unveiled a slate of seven features, headed by Karma Confession &Holy to be directed by New York-based Indian filmmaker Manish Gupta.The comedy, which starsIndian actors Sushmita Sen and Randeep Hooda, begins shooting in New York this month. It follows three sets of characters - Indianswho have ...
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Warner boards first local language Japanese production
Warner Bros Pictures Japan has boarded its first local languageproduction Catch A Wave,based on a novel by teenage author Kazuma Toyota.Toyota was 16 when he wrote hisnovel about three surfers who learn to respect nature when one of them attemptsto ride a typhoon wave to impress his girlfriend.Toyota, now 17 ...
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Wilson, Margulies, Trachtenberg go to Beautiful Ohio
Rita Wilson,Julianna Margulies and Michelle Trachtenberg have joined the cast of accomplicefilms' Beautiful Ohio,the directorial debut of company partner Chad Lowe that began filming in NewYork this week. The story, whichas previously announced stars William Hurt, is based on Ethan Canin'sadaptation of his short story Batorsag & Szerelem and chronicles ...
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Yoji Yamada to complete samurai trilogy
Shochiku has announced that Yoji Yamada will complete the trilogy of samurai dramas he beganwith The Twilight Samurai - nominated for best foreign-language film atthe Oscars in 2004 - and The Hidden Blade.Tentatively titled BushiNo Ichibun (A Warrior's Duty), the final instalment in the trilogyis based on a story by ...
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Jackson and Walsh add sparkle to Halo
Peter Jackson and Fran Walshhave signed on as executive producers on the upcoming adaptation of the smashhit video game Halo.The pair will offer creative advice through theirWingNut Films, and Jackson's Weta Digital and Weta Workshop will provide visualeffects, creatures and miniatures for the production.The Universal Pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment and ...
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Mullins, Frain, Burton join cast of Quid Pro Quo
Aimee Mullins, James Frainand Kate Burton have joined the cast of HDNet Films' Quid Pro Quo, partof a slate of seven new titles the company announced in Toronto.Based on the novel by CarlosBrooks, Quid Pro Quo stars Nick Stahl as a wheelchair-bound public radiojournalist who meets a driven, able-bodied woman ...