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All Production articles – Page 887
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Oscar Moore winner teams with Secretary director
Oscar Moore prize winnerLindsay Shapero is adapting Tibor Fischer's award-winning novel Under TheFrog for American director/producer Steve Shainberg (Secretary).The film, which is currentlyin development, will be produced by Shainberg and directed by US-basedHungarian director Dezso Magyar.Under the Frog is a black comedy set against the backdrop of theHungarian uprising of ...
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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire BottomC;s Up, which actor Paul Walker isproducing with his Blue Collar Films partner Brandon Birtell along with HalfMoon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections confoundeveryone he encounters.Walker will take a cameorole in ...
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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire Bottom's Up,which actor Paul Walker is producing with his Blue Collar Films partner BrandonBirtell along with Half Moon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment. Gibraltar International is selling the film at AFM.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections ...
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Wild Bunch in the Ascendant
Wild Bunch, the ambitiousFrench sales and distribution group, has begun what it hopes is the beginningof a beautiful friendship with fast-rising US indie producer AscendantPictures. In a last minute dual addition to its autumn AFM slate,Wild Bunch has added the $40m heroic fantasy Outlander and the quirky$10m romantic drama The ...
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Six suitors seek sales on sexy Shanghai Lady
At least half a dozen of the world's top sales companies havejoined the frenzied chase for the next Wong Kar-wai film The LadyFromShanghai, which stars Nicole Kidman and Gong Li.The sellers range from Studiocanal, TF1, Wild Bunch, Pathe andWong's regular sales and finance house Fortissimo Film Sales to US powerhouseSummit ...
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Night People, GAMERz win Scottish funding
Ensemble drama Night People and comic fantasy GAMERzare the latest features to be funded under the New Found Films scheme runby Scottish Screen, Scottish Television and Grampian Television.Each feature will have a budget of £300,000 and both areexpected to go into production in the first months of 2005.Written by Adrian ...
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IFTA chief optimistic over US tax break
The US tax break just signedinto law by returning President George W Bush could prove to be a windfall forindependent producers worth up to 16% of their movie budgets, claim the organisersof the American Film Market.The production incentive,which was written into the Jumpstart Our Business Strength Act(JOBS), allows films of ...
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MKB readies Shiri 2 and mega-budget Kang action flick
A sequel to Shiri anda new action film by the director of Shiri and record-breaker Tae GukGi give Korean sales company MKB plenty of leverage on what is its marketdebut.The company emerged from the merger earlier this year of production houses KangJegyuFilms and Myung Films which were acquired by local ...
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Plague to start with Barker, Armada
CliveBarker's Midnight Picture Show label (MPS) and Armada Pictures are teaming upto produce the horror picture Plague, which is set to begin shooting inFebruary 2005.Barker,Jorge Saralegui and Tim O'Hair will produce and Armada's Chris Sievernich andMatt Milich will serve as executive producers with MPS's Joe Daley and AnthonyDiblasi and D ...
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New Films turns producer on The Mermaids Singing
LosAngeles-based distributor New Films International is moving into productionwith the announcement that it is co-producing an adaptation of Lisa CareyC;sromantic novel The Mermaids Singing starring Jessica Lange,Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.New FilmsInternational will retain all worldwide distribution rights to the $10mproject, which is due to begin filming in Eastern ...
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Fortissimo enters martial arts arena with Tsui's Seven Sword
Netherlands and HongKong-based Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up Seven Swords, the newfilm by celebrated Asian action director Tsui Hark.The $18m film, which is nowin production, is a return to the martial arts action-adventure genre whichTsui was instrumental in shaping earlier in has career. It is also the biggestinvestment to ...
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TF1 extends relations with Cattleya
France's TF1 is to extendits relationship with Italian producer Cattleya by handling the next twoprojects from the thrusting talent shop.It will handle the next filmby The Best Of Youth director Marco Tullio Giordano and the next film byveteran actor-director Michele Placido. Already on TF1's bulging autumn AFMslate is Cattleya's Eyes ...
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AFM: New Films turns producer on The Mermaids Singing
LosAngeles-based distributor New Films International is moving into productionwith the announcement that it is co-producing an adaptation of Lisa CareyC;sromantic novel The Mermaids Singing starring Jessica Lange,Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.New FilmsInternational will retain all worldwide distribution rights to the $10mproject, which is due to begin filming in Eastern ...
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Hurt joins Short Order cast
John Hurt will join the cast of theIrish/UK/German co-production Short Order, currently in the final days of the German leg ofthe shoot which is due to wrap in Hamburg on November 5.Hurt joins Emma de Caunes, RadeSerbedzija, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jack Dee in the story oflife, by ...
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Blethyn vehicle wins Oz funding
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) is to backdirector Cherie Nowlan's comedy drama Clubland, starring Brenda Blethyn.Blethynplays a raunchy Sydney club performer whose shy 20-year-old son is forced to make a decision between her and his feisty new girlfriend.The RB Films project has the backing of MovieHouseEntertainment in the UK and ...
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Storm clouds ahead for Canada's production sector
The "perfect storm" metaphor has beenflying around Canada's service production industry of late. There's nothinglike a handful of negative coincidences to put the fear into people.Item One: Mel Brooks decides to shoot theadaptation of his hit musical TheProducers in New York.Item Two: the state of New York and NewYork City ...
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Jeunet linked to Harry Potter 5
AVery Long Engagement director Jean-Pierre Jeunet says he has beenapproached as a possible director for the fifth Harry Potter movie.Askedin an interview with Empire magazine whether he had been approached,Jeunet said: "They proposed me something like this, yes."Potter producer David Heyman told ScreenDaily.com that "nodecision had yet been made" about ...
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Kidman in talks with Aardman for Flushed Away
Nicole Kidman is in talks tostar in Flushed Away, the next title to roll out of the multi-pictureanimation deal between the UK's Aardman Animations and DreamWorks SKG.Kidman is likely to play astreet-smart sewer rat named Rita, with Hugh Jackman voicing Roddy, a posh ratwho is swept out of his penthouse ...
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Canada - Production Listings: October 30
CANADA - October 29PRE-PRODUCTIONMODERN LOVE(Cirrus Productions/ Les Films Locomotions) Budget: $4.1m. Backer: TelefilmCanada. Dist: Equinoxe Films (Canada). Romance. Maddie is a marriage and sextherapist but when her boyfriend rejects her marriage proposal and leaves her,she is confronted with the harsh realization that she knows nothing of thehuman heart and modern ...
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Perabo clicks with Parker debut
US actress Piper Perabo (pictured) has joined the cast of Click, a romantic comedy that has just started shooting in London.The directorial debut of screenwriter Ol Parker, the film tells the story of a woman who faces doubts as she's about to marry her long-term boyfriend.Click is produced by Cougar ...