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    Coppola embarks on Marie-Antoinette shoot

    2005-03-15T04:00:00Z

    Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette has officiallybegun shooting at the Palace of Versailles just outside Paris. The new film from the director of Lost In Translationwill shoot entirely in France for 11 weeks before heading to the USfor post-production.Kirsten Dunst stars as Marie-Antoinette, the Austrian whobecame Queen of France and was beheaded ...

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    Campbell joins cast of Partition

    2005-03-15T00:00:00Z

    NeveCampbell is in final negotiations to star opposite Jimi Mistry and KristinKreuk in the India-set epic romance Partition, which is being co-produced byLos-Angeles based Myriad Pictures and Canada's Sepia Films.Campbell, whose credits include the Scream franchise, Wild Things and BlindHorizon, will play the passionate but lonely Margaret Stilwell, who helps ...

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    Arclight takes on Dragon Squad rights

    2005-03-14T21:00:00Z

    Arclight Films has picked up international rights excludingAsia to Dragon Squad, a US$4.5m martial arts action film which marks thefirst time that Steven Seagal has produced an Asian picture.The film, produced by Hong Kong's Visualizer FilmProductions, starts shooting March 23 with Daniel Lee directing and ChinKar-lok as action director. Seagal ...

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    Jackson says Hobbit on hold for three years

    2005-03-14T04:00:00Z

    Lord Of TheRings director PeterJackson has said he will not start shooting an adaptation of J.R.RTolkein's The Hobbit for several years.Asked how longit would take to begin shooting the prequel to the Rings trilogy, Jackson said:"Three or four years would be accurate." Jackson was inSydney to talk to fans about ...

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    Kiarostami set to shoot next film in Italy this summer

    2005-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Abbas Kiarostami has announced that he plans to shoot afilm in Italy this summer.'Iwill shoot one film in Iran and I will make one in Italy this summer,' theIranian director said at a conference in Rome, where he is promoting Tickets,the picture he co-directed with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach.Kiarostamisuggested ...

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    Noyce, Slovo team for Working Title's Hot Stuff

    2005-03-11T04:00:00Z

    Nearly 20 yearsafter A World Apart, the acclaimed film about her relationship with hermother - a leading anti-apartheid campaigner who was killed by a parcel bomb -writer Shawn Slovo is revisiting South Africa's last two turbulent decades.Slovo, the daughterof Ruth First and leading ANC figure Joe Slovo, has teamed with ...

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    Nolte, Mechlowicz head Peaceful Warrior cast

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    NickNolte has been cast in the key role of Socrates in Peaceful Warrior, a movie based on Dan Millman's bestsellingself-help novel Way Of The Peaceful Warrior which went into production this week.Hejoins Scott Mechlowicz, Amy Smart and Agnes Bruckner in the cast. Victor Salva(Jeepers Creepers and JeepersCreepers 2) is directing ...

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    Hit Danish director readies supernatural Island

    2005-03-10T04:00:00Z

    Nikolaj Arcel, the Danish director of local smash King'sGame, is to shoot action adventure The Island Of Lost Souls thisJune. Produced through Zentropa and Nimbus Film, Island Of LostSouls is a supernatural family film in the vein of Steven Spielberg'searlier work. Unusually for a Danish film, nearly 20% of its ...

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    Cannes to showcase Mexican cinema

    2005-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Cannes is to throw a spotlight on the Mexican film industryat this year's film festival (May 11-22).The Cannes Classics section will be dedicated to Mexicothis year, showcasing a number of classic Mexican pictures whose restorationhas been funded by Fundacion Televisa, the cultural arm of Latin American mediagiant Televisa Group.Backed the ...

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    Rea joins Portman, Purefoy on Berlin shoot of V For Vendetta

    2005-03-07T04:00:00Z

    Stephen Rea has joinedNatalie Portman and James Purefoy in the cast of sci-fi epic V For Vendetta, which has started shooting in Berlin for WarnerBros Pictures.The film is produced byLarry and Andy Wachowski and Joel Silver, the team behind the Matrix trilogy, and is the directorial debut of JamesMcTeigue, assistant ...

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    Applause chief to direct $10m musical in Shanghai

    2005-03-07T04:00:00Z

    Peter Ho-sun Chan's $10mmusical Perhaps Love startsshooting in Shanghai next month with a hot pan-Asian cast and backing frombroadcasters TVB and Astro. A co-production between Chan'sApplause Pictures and the Ruddy Morgan Organisation (RMO), the film is directedby Chan and stars Takeshi Kaneshiro (House Of Flying Daggers) and leading Chinese actress ...

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    Hart/Lunsford finishes debut feature with Langhella

    2005-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Newly formed production company Hart/Lunsford Pictures hasannounced completion of its debut feature, How You Look To Me, starring Frank Langhella and LauraAllen.The Kentucky-based storycentres on the efforts of an English professor who helps three young men asthey approach adulthood. Television director J Miller Tobin made his featuredirectorial debut based on ...

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    VIP media fund backs Kapur's Water

    2005-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Shekhar Kapur has tied up with Europe's VIP Media Fund, toco-produce and distribute his films. The first two films announced as part of this collaborationare: Paani (Water) being produced and directed by Kapur and renownedauthor Deepak Chopra under the banner of their company INTENT, and Buddhabeing produced by Kapur and ...

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    Twisted, Lions Gate follow Saw with Catacombs

    2005-03-03T04:00:00Z

    Following onfrom the hugely successful 2004 horror hit Saw, Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Filmsannounced yesterday (Mar 1) that the first project in their nine-picture dealwill be called Catacombs.Principal photography is set to start in Bucharest,Romania, on Mar 7 on the project, which stars Shannyn Sossamon and Alecia Moore- aka ...

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    Gordon leaves Stratus to focus on sole producing career

    2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Mark Gordon is leavingStratus Film, the company he and Bob Yari co-founded in 2003, to focusexclusively on his producing career. Under the terms of theamicable split, Gordon and Yari will remain jointly involved in existingStratus projects that are in various stages of development and pre-production. These include The PaintedVeil starring ...

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    Spanish producers spread their film budget bets

    2005-03-02T04:00:00Z

    A contradictory trend is at work in Spain: the country ismaking increasingly more low-budget films, yet production cranks up this monthon two of its costliest features ever, Viggo Mortensen-starrer Alatristeand Vicente Aranda's The White Knight.Average feature film budgets decreased in Spain last yearand almost two-thirds of films were budgeted at ...

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    Ledoyen, Livingston head up cast of Holly shooting in Cambodia

    2005-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Guy Moshe's adventure drama Holly has begun production in Cambodia,starring Virginie Ledoyen, Udo Kier, Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Thai starKovitt Wattanakul and Vietnamese newcomer Thuy Nguyen.The story centres on a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl's desperatesearch for her family and the 35-year-old American man who helps her in herquest.Moshe co-wrote thescreenplay with ...

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    UK plans multiple co-production treaties

    2005-03-01T04:00:00Z

    The UK is to strike co-production treaties with SouthAfrica, China, India, Jamaica and Morocco, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowellannounced on Monday.The treaties will be developed with each country overthe next 18 months. Jowell recently signed a statement of intent with the SouthAfrican Minister for Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan."More than 27 ...

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    Italy's Buskin opens co-production outfit in China

    2005-03-01T04:00:00Z

    BuskinFilm, the Rome-based sales outfit, has opened an office in Beijing with the aimof co-producing projects and getting involved in product placement andservicing for international productions shooting in China. Buskinis already co-producing a project for China's CCTV with Beijing Xin Ying ShiCulture. The 20-part drama is the third instalment of ...

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    Gaumont profits jump three-fold

    2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Aftera few lackluster years, fortunes at French major Gaumont are on the rise.Announcing2004 figures on Monday, the company reported revenues of Euros 88.6m ($115m), a26% increase over 2003, and profits of Euros 9.7m up from Euros 2.8m theprevious year.Ina press release, the world's oldest film studio noted that the jump ...