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SPAIN Production Listings - November 18
SPANISHLISTINGSPREPRODUCTIONAlatriste(Telecinco,Origen) The tales of a 17th century adventurer and his sidekick. Budget: $22m.Dir/scr: Agustin Diaz Yanes, based on the novel by Arturo Perez Reverte.Shooting from March. Spanish.Contact: Telecinco (34) 91 396 6902Algo Habran Hecho(Ibarretxe & Co, Dale Candela [Arg], OM Films [Fr]) Based on the true storyof a nun who ...
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More foreign productions choosing to shoot in India
Hollywood-based production company 8X Entertainment has begun shooting historical epic One NightWith The King, in the Indian city of Jodhpur.The cast includes Peter O'Toole (the Prophet Samuel), OmarSharif (Prince Memucan), John Rhys-Davies as Mordecai and John Noble as PrinceAdmanthaOne Night With TheKing is a multi-million dollar epic which chronicles the ...
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Eastern European film industry enjoying bumper year
With a production boom in progress in Russia, commitmentsfor increased government funding in Poland and a major new player in theBaltics entering the field the film industry in the east is seeing its bestyear in a decade.While Latvia produces only one or two feature films a yearproducer Andrejs Ekis who ...
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Buyers court Warner Bros' Spanish Queens
Spanish film Queens(Reinas), Warner Bros' Pictures first 100% Spanish production, has sold toa raft of European territories while the film is still in post-production.International sales handler Fortissimo Films has closeddeals to France (ARP), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Prooptiki), Israel(Orlando Films) and Hungary (Mas Kepp Foundation).An offer is on the table for ...
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Polanski praises Prague as Oliver Twist wraps
Roman Polanski concluded filming Oliver Twist in the CzechRepublic yesterday (Nov 15).Principle photography began at Prague's Barrandov Studio in July2004. The director was enthusiastic about shooting in Barrandov's stagesand on the nearby back lot, where Czech crews built the London and villagesets."I have worked in practically all the studios of ...
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McGuckian lines up eclectic cast for Rag Tale
Five weeks of principal photography begins today (Nov 16) inLuxembourg and London on writer/director Mary McGuckian's (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Best) contemporary urban satire Rag Tale.Set in the ruthless world of British tabloid newspapers,McGuckian will produce and direct from her own original story.Heading the international cast are Simon ...
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01 Distribution roars for Benigni's Tiger
RaiCinema label 01 Distribution has taken Italian distribution rights to Tuscancomic Roberto Benigni's upcoming film, The Tiger And The Snow. As aresult it can be expected to see asignificant jump in its 2005revenues.Theannouncement yesterday by Benigni's production outfit Melampo Cinematograficaand Rai Cinema marks the end of a protracted battle among ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Prod lists - November 16
EAST EUROPEAN LISTINGS -November 16RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONBLIND-MAN'S-BUFF(ZMURKI)(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Comedy. Prod: Sergei Selyanov.Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Scr: Stas Mohnachev, Alexei Balabanov. Cost des: TatyanaPatrahaltseva. Main cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexei Panin, Dmitry Duzev, SergeiMakovetskiy, Victor Suhorukov.Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817ESCAPE (POBEG)(Central Partnership) Action.Eugenii is accused of murdering ...
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Yates in talks to direct fifth Harry Potter
Harry Potter could be in fora surprise. David Yates, an acclaimed UK TV director but largely unproven infeatures, is in talks to direct the franchise's fifth instalment, HarryPotter And The Order Of The Phoenix.Yates' TV creditsinclude political conspiracy thriller State Of Play, which won a Directors Guild of Great Britain ...
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Johnnie To cranks up Election drama
Hong Kong director Johnnie To has started shooting triaddrama Election - the first project inwhich his production company Milkyway Image has made an investment - andannounced that the $6.4m (HK$50m) production will be made as two films.To expects the contemporary drama, which traces a democraticelection within a triad society, to ...
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Magimel tipped to star as career criminal Mesrine
Hot French star BenoitMagimel (The Piano Teacher) has beentipped to star as Jacques Mesrine in Barbet Schroeder's upcoming two-partadaptation of books written by the career criminal.The first instalment of thefilm, The Death Instinct, is based onMesrine's autobiography L'Instinct DeMort, written during one of the prison terms of France's Public EnemyNumber ...
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Teague's Last Drop wraps in Romania
Principal photography is now complete in Romania on ColinTeague's The Last Drop, a heistmovie set against the backdropof World War II, starring Billy Zane, Michael Madsen, Karel Roden and footballstar David Ginola in his first feature film role.The film is the story of British military operationduring World War II to ...
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Salvatores begins shoot on psychological film noir
Oscar winnerGabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo)has started shooting his latest film, a psychological film noir entitled Quo Vadis, Baby'Produced byMaurizio Totti's Colorado Film, the Euros 3m picture is adapted from theeponymous novel by Grazia Verasani. Its title is inspired by Marlon Brando'sfamous line in Last Tango In Paris.Quo Vadis, which Salvatores is ...
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Coixet embarks on Secret Life shoot
Spanish director Isabel Coixet begins shooting today(Monday, November 8) on her new English-language film, The Secret Life OfWords, starring Tim Robbins and SarahPolley.The Euros 4m film is a co-production between the Almodovarbrothers‚ El Deseo, which backed Coixet's award-winning My LifeWithout Me, and MediaPro. Focus Features,which also handled My Life, hasinternational ...
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Clooney readies McCarthy era drama
George Clooney will direct and star in McCarthy era drama Goodnight.And Good Luck. for Section Eight and ToddWagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment.Clooney's directing follow-up to Confessions Of ADangerous Mind is being set up at WarnerBros Pictures for domestic and sold to overseas buyers through 2929International, 2929's new sales arm ...
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Christopher Lambert set for Day Of Wrath
Christopher Lambert is set to star as a 16th century Spanishdetective in the thriller Day Of Wrath,which Mark Lester's American World Pictures has acquired for worldwidesales.'I play this sheriff whoinvestigates a series of murders that are going on around the time of theSpanish Inquisition,' Lambert told Screen duringa brief stop ...
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Fortissimo boards Hedwig follow-up Shortbus
Fortissimo Film Sales haspicked up international rights to Shortbus,the much-discussed sexually frank new ensemble piece from Hedwig AndThe Angry Inch director John CameronMitchell.The film, in which Fortissimoalso takes an equity stake, is an exploration of sexuality, art and music thattracks a group of people during a power cut in New ...
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Renaissance gets Creeeepy! with Araki
London-based Renaissance Films has picked up internationalrights to Gregg Araki's next film - a scary movie with teen sexcomedy elements called Creeeeps! whichis currently casting and will start shooting early next year. Araki wrote thescript and Mary Jane Skalski, who produced his last film MysteriousSkin, will produce.UTA is handling the ...
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Kaye returns with Reaper for Media 8
Maverick filmmaker Tony Kaye (American History X) has been confirmed to direct the thriller Reaper, which Media 8 will co-produce with Circle OfConfusion and is financing and distributing.Production is set to begin in February 2005 on the project,which tells of a private eye hired to work for a beautiful woman ...
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Happinet invests $1m in A Thousand Plateaux
Japanese finance anddistribution company Happinet this week committed $1m for an equity stake andJapanese rights to A Thousand Plateaux.The $2.8m Mongolian-set familyadventure by Jang Sun Woo, Korea's controversial director of Lies and Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl, will shoot in June next year.'We are thrilled to beable to continue ...