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All Production articles – Page 957
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Ritchie's Love, Sex, Drugs And Money starts shoot
Swept Away, UK director Guy Ritchie's follow-up to Snatch which starts a six-week shoot on location in Malta and Sardinia today (Oct 1), has changed its title to the snappier Love, Sex, Drugs And Money.The film unites Ritchie with his wife Madonna, who takes the main role of Amber - ...
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TV commercials break out into feature films
Start-up Danish production outfit, FilmPeople, has begun production on its first independent project, Polle Fiction (pictured), a feature comedy based on a TV commercial. This is only the second feature to be based on a television advertisement concept, although it is the first to go into production; as Rowan Atkinson's ...
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Germany's H5B5 to make Oma Porat biopic
German media group H5B5 Media has acquired the exclusive rights to produce a biopic based on the eventful life of Israeli actress Orna Porat.Born as Irena Kline in Germany, she came to fame on the German stage in the 1930s and was an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth. Later, ...
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Equity throws UK productions into uncertainty
Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things is amongst the high-profile productions plunged into uncertainty as the UK film sector starts to feel the impact of last week's decision by actors union Equity to strike from December 1.Other titles hit by Equity's call for its members to refuse any new contracts involving ...
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Warner Village tests Greek co-production
Warner- Village Roadshow's first ever Greek co-production, the satirical comedy, Crying, A Blessing From Paradise will be a crucial test for local titles' box office potential, when it is released on Oct 26.The Safe co-production, with local directors Thanassis Papathanassiou and Mihalis Reppas, will try to renew the spectacular success ...
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Chadha plans English-language Bollywood film
UK director Gurinder Chadha, whose credits include Bhaji On The Beach and the US-set What's Cooking', is to direct an English-language Bollywood-style film set in the UK.Chadha is aiming for the all-singing, all-dancing film to cross UK and Indian cultural barriers, doing for the Bollywood musical what Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...
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Working Title eyes Daldry for Backpacker film
Working Title Films is believed to be courting Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry for a drama about a group of young backpackers travelling abroad.Under the working title The Backpacker Movie, the picture would be the first to emerge from a three-year deal which Daldry signed with Working Title in November ...
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Mueller prepares international production slate
Marco Mueller, producer of Babak Payami's Venice prize winner Secret Ballot and executive producer of Sarajevo winner and Cannes favourite No Man's Land, says he will soon start producing Italian feature films in addition to lining up South American and African titles for the production slate that will launch his ...
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Ledger may be in Our Sunshine
Heath Ledger is in negotiations to star in Our Sunshine, based on Robert Drew's 1991 book about the infamous Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly. Working Title is attached to the project, which is being produced by LA-based Australian Nelson Woss. Other projects on Kelly that are in the pipeline include ...
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Buena Vista Spain commits to local co-productions
Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS) has committed to co-producing two to three local feature films per year, according to BVIS general manager Javier Vasallo.The company had its first taste of the market last year with Spanish-Argentine co-production Clams And Mussels (Almejas Y Mejillones), which was among the 12 top grossing ...
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Scorsese to present Sokurov's Waterloo
Martin Scorsese is to lend his name to the hugely ambitious new production by Russian auteur Aleksandr Sokurov.Scorsese will "present" Sokurov's Waterloo, a film which will concentrate on Napoleon. The picture is set to be Sokurov's third film in his tetralogy about men in power, after Taurus (which focused on ...
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Huppert to head Schroeter's next project
Isabelle Huppert, the acclaimed French actress who won the acting Palme at Cannes earlier this year for Austrian film The Piano Teacher, is to head the cast in iconic German director Werner Schroeter's next project. Schroeter's untitled project is the life story, from infancy to 45 years of age, of ...
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Gitai's Kedma may receive first Israeli funding
Israeli film-maker Amos Gitai is turning to French and Italian finance once again for his next film, Kedma. But he also hopes that the new picture will become the first of his oeuvre to gain official funding from his native Israel.After TF1 and Les Films Balenciaga produced his Venice competition ...
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UK's DNA appoints Warlow
UK National Lottery franchise DNA Films has confirmed the appointment of Richard Warlow as head of development.Warlow joins from fellow lottery franchise Pathe Pictures, where he held the post of development executive, working on The Hole and the forthcoming releases Thunderpants and The Abduction Club. He previously worked at the ...
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Kuhn and Parfitt team up for Sky Boys
Michael Kuhn has partnered with Academy Award-winning producer David Parfitt on Sky Boys, an action drama that marks the first project unveiled in the former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief's bid to make big-budget European films. The story of a heist on the Empire State building during its construction has been ...
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Italy's Cortesi prepares new Infascelli project
Massimo Cortesi, head of the Rome-based company Navert Film which co-produced Claire Peploe's Triumph of Love and Giuseppe Bertolucci's Love Probably - both screening in Venice - is lining up a new film to be directed by Italy's Fiorella Infascelli. Cortesi said he is looking for international co-production partners to ...
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Studio Ghibli's new film to be directed by rival
Studio Ghibli, whose Spirited Away is breaking Japanese box office records, has embarked on a new feature, based on Howl's Moving Castle, a children's fantasy novel by British author Diane Wynne. But in a first for the studio, the director is not Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata, the two ...
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Danish action-comedy sequel to film in Sweden
The follow-up to the first and so far only Danish action-comedy In China They Eat Dogs, which was well received by audiences and critics alike in 1999, Old Men In New Cars (In China They Eat Dogs 2), is getting ready to shoot in Sweden, after regional fund Film I ...
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FCC greenlights three new Oz films
The Australian Film Finance Corporation (FCC) has greenlighted the desert drama Japanese Story from the creative team that made local sleeper Road To Nhill, and starring Toni Collette. The other two projects getting FCC approval are Blurred, the first in a series of low-budget films supported by UK sales agent ...
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Liberato's outfit boards Gucci
Andrea De Liberato's Rome-based production outfit Poetiche Cinematografiche, which produced Venice 58 competition title Luna Rossa, has boarded director Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov's upcoming film, currently known as Gucci.The Tajikistan filmmaker's new project, about three young street thugs who carry out robberies so that they can buy designer clothes, starts shooting later ...