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Tony Blair unwittingly boosts Thornton Wilder adaptation
When Tony Blair chose the closing paragraph of an obscure 1927 novel called The Bridge Of San Luis Rey to read at a memorial service last year for the victims of September 11, he did not know that UK producer Pembridge Pictures had already spent close to ten years prepping ...
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Hungary's porno-music drama Mix wraps in Budapest
"Music, love, porn", is how writer-director-producers Steven and Robert Lovy describe their latest film, Mix, that has just finished shooting in Budapest. The film's main character is a talented, American teenager who, following his father's wish, is preparing to become a pianist while secretly cherishing plans to become a DJ. ...
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Croupier team re-unite for I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, the film which sees the re-teaming of Croupier director Mike Hodges and its acclaimed star Clive Owen, started production on location in the UK and Wales yesterday (Monday 23 Sept).The contemporary thriller, billed as Hodges' first exploration of the world of crime since his 1971 ...
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Gibson's biblical Passion story will unscroll in ancient tongues
Seven years after winning two Oscars for his epic battle movie Braveheart, Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson is going behind the camera for a highly ambitious picture about the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ.After cartwheeling into a press conference at Rome's Cinecitta Studios with Neapolitan dwarf actor ...
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El Deseo links with MediaPro for production expansion
The Almodovar brothers' El Deseo company has signed a wide-ranging co-production pact with Spanish media group MediaPro which will allow both companies to expand their current production activities. The deal was announced this weekend at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28), which celebrated its 50th anniversary with a ...
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Hopper, Griffith will do it their way in Sinatra Down Under tale
Screen legend Dennis Hopper will play Frank Sinatra, Melanie Griffith his girlfriend and David Hemmings his lawyer in new film The Night We Called It A Day, which goes into production in Sydney on Oct 21 directed by Paul Goldman.The core of the story, however, belongs to Joel Edgerton. He ...
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Critical acclaim boosts Irish film industry
After languishing in the doldrums for several years, things are beginning to look up for Irish film. Several local productions are about to start shooting and a slew of Irish helmed projects are hitting the world's cinema screens.Neil Jordan's latest film, The Good Thief, is getting raves. Similarly Jim Sheridan's ...
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$20m Edgardo Mortara bites the dust
Edgardo Mortara, one of the most ambitious productions at the UK's FilmFour, has collapsed only weeks before it was due to start principal photography.The $20m period epic starring Anthony Hopkins and Javier Bardem appeared to have survived Channel 4's decision to close down FilmFour as a stand alone operation and ...
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France's Haut Et Court takes two from Trust
Denmark's Trust Film Sales rounded a busy Toronto off with further sales on their two hot titles, Susanne Bier's Open Hearts and Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever, to France's Haut Et Court. The French company also handled Moodysson's Together with great success.Austria's Stadtkino also secured Moodysson's Russian-based drama, which like Bier's ...
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France's Haut Et Court takes two from Trust
Denmark's Trust Film Sales rounded a busy Toronto off with further sales on their two hot titles, Susanne Bier's Open Hearts and Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever, to France's Haut Et Court. The French company also handled Moodysson's Together with great success.Austria's Stadtkino also secured Moodysson's Russian-based drama, which like Bier's ...
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TVA takes local rights to Rhombus Media's current slate
TVA Films has picked up Canadian rights to new films from three major Canadian filmmakers, Francois Girard, Don McKellar and Guy Maddin, representing the entire production slate of Toronto-based Rhombus Media.Rhombus produced Girard's films The Red Violin and 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould as well as McKellar's debut ...
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Hong Kong's film industry appeals for government assistance
Hong Kong's leading film organisations plan to appeal to the government for help following a sharp downturn in both production levels and box office for domestic films in the first eight months of the year.The Federation of Hong Kong Film Workers, an alliance of nine industry associations, is holding a ...
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Indian industrial giant Tata Group moves into film production
Indian industrial giant Tata Group has entered the Bollywood film production sector, signing up Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan to star in its first film, Aitbaar.Tata is the latest in line of new entrants into the Indian film industry: in July 20th Century Fox announced plans to produce its first Bollywood ...
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French backers grow wary of culture, bank on commerce
Caution is the new buzzword in French film financing circles, with challenging fare such as the forthcoming Paris Je T'aime struggling to attract investors who increasingly favour big budget bankable hits.A challenging series of 20 five minute short stories - each one set in one of Paris' 20 districts ...
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UK rides risky business boom
Anyone looking for the next Germany should consider the UK. A $2.5bn (£1.6 bn) avalanche of financing is pouring into the film sector as changes in last April's budget start to kick in. But tax financing is in such flux that, like Germany, the boom could suddenly turn sour.With TV ...
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Valli to direct Tibet Project for German Friends
French director Eric Valli, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his feature Himalaya in 2000, has been signed up by Munich-based production house Friends Production to direct the ethnological road movie The Tibet Project (working title).Based on a screenplay by Valli, the Canadian-based, Oscar-nominated Chinese screenwriter and ...
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Argentina's production industry suffers from inflation
Film production in Argentina hit another low point after Argentine Directors Association (DAC) reported that the average cost of making a local film shot up from $120,500 (pesos 1.2m) to $180,800 (pesos 1.8m). Since the peso lost its parity with the dollar, - currently pegged at 3.6 pesos to a ...
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DNA seeks joint venture backer
Fox Searchlight is in talks to form a joint venture with DNA, the UK National Lottery franchise of leading British producer Andrew Macdonald and Duncan Kenworthy.The offshoot of Twentieth Century Fox is likely to take over from DNA's current backer Universal Studios, although the franchise has been talking to other ...
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Spain's Grupo PI taps into The Mind Of A Killer
Spain's Grupo PI will handle international sales on San Sebastian competition entry Aro Tolbukhin In The Mind Of A Killer (Aro Tolbukhin En La Mente Del Asesino).Directed by Agusti Villaronga, Lydia Zimmermann and Isaac P Racine, and based on an historical figure, the film works as a false documentary to ...
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Toronto mourns death of actress Katrin Cartlidge
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival was in a state of shock yesterday after learning of the suddendeath of Katrin Cartlidge, the talented British actress whose film rolesincluded such well-regarded European films as Topsy-Turvy, Before The Rain, Naked, Breaking The Waves and last year's Oscar-winning No Man'sLand. She was 41.Born in London, ...