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Corbijn starts UK shoot for Ian Curtis biopic
Anton Corbijnstarted filming today for Control, hisbiopic of late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. Thisshoot starts before a rival Curtis project, Jamie Thraves'All The Time,goes into production with US-based Washington Square Films. The Control film-makers have set up a studio and production base in Nottingham, with additional shooting on location ...
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April Snow director's cut breaks Japanese record
The director's cut version ofhit Korean film April Snow, starringBae Yong-joon, has broken the all-time record for first-day advance ticketsales in Japan. Distributed by UIP in Japan, the film grossed $24.2m (Y2.75bn) last year, makingit the second most successful Korean film ever at the Japanese box officebehind A Moment To ...
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Liu, Murphy star in Detectives for Plum, Peace Arch
Lucy Liu andCillian Murphy will star in Peace Arch Entertainment and Plum Picture'sromantic comedy Watching The Detectives, which is set to begin shooting in New York this week.New York-basedPlum is producing, with Peace Arch serving as co-financier and worldwidedistributor.Paul Soter wroteand makes his feature directorial debut on the story of ...
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Intermedia options Alleca's sci-fi action thriller script Man
Intermedia hasoptioned Adam Alleca's speculative sci-fi action thriller screenplay TheDrowning Man.Based on HideshiHino's manga book Living Corpse, the story follows a man who wakes up without a pulse and discovershe's at the heart of a sinister government experiment.On the run fromruthless enemies, he must team up with a former lover ...
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Magnolia buys multiple territorial rights to Cocaine Cowboys
MagnoliaPictures has acquired rights in North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealandto Billy Corben's Tribeca Film Festival premiere Cocaine Cowboys.The picturedocuments the explosion of the drug trade in 1980s Miami and featuresinterviews with some of the era's leading law enforcement officers,traffickers, suppliers, dealers and killers.Jan Hammer, whowrote the score ...
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Eastwood to get BAFTA/LA's Britannia Award for excellence in film
Clint Eastwoodwill get a new addition to his trophy cabinet in November when he receivesBAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film.Eastwood, whowon best director and best picture Oscars for both Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, will collect the accolade at the 15thAnnual Britannia Awards on Nov 2 in ...
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Brownsey named executive director of British Columbia Film
British Columbia Film hasappointed Richard Brownsey as its new executive director, effective September1. Brownsey, formerly executivedirector of the British Columbia Arts Council and director of the ProvincialCultural Services Branch, was an architect of the province's film andtelevision tax credit system. "I am looking forward tothis challenge," said Brownsey in a ...
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Camera d'Or win paves way for sales and new film
Danish writer-director Christoffer Boe might be a newcomer, but after the success of his Cannes Critics' Week entry Reconstruction, which took both the Camera d'Or and the Label Regards Jeunes this weekend, buyers are eager to close further deals on the film. Germany, France, Italy and Australia have joined the ...
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German DVD boom gathers pace
Germany's DVD boom continues at the expense of the VHS video market, according to figures released by video trade body BVV for the first quarter of 2003.The number of DVDs sold increased year-on-year by 57% from 7.4m units to 11.6m, while that for sell-through VHS cassettes dropped by 37% from ...
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Spanish producers focus on foreign finance
Spanish producers have avidly begun turning to foreign partners in a bid to finance their films. In fact, co-production talk has dominated recent Spanish events - such as first-ever Italian-Spanish co-production market in Madrid; the Spanish Film Screenings of Malaga which saw meetings between the UK's Film Council and Spanish ...
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French director Vadim dies
French director Roger Vadim died today after a long struggle with cancer. He was 72.Vadim is perhaps best known for launching Brigitte Bardot's career in the 1956 And God Created Woman. His credits also include the 1968 sci-fi picture Barbarella - starring his wife at the time, Jane Fonda - ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast gears up for more films
Swedish regional fund Film I Vast is expanding its already considerable studios with another 4500 square meters of fully equipped sound stage. "We're not doing this because of Manderlay, but we are in talks about that film," said CEO Tomas Eskilsson referring to the second film of Lars von ...
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14 directors team for Hong Kong SARS shorts
Hong Kong's film industry is joining various sectors in the community to demonstrate its fighting spirit against the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). According to Cheung Tung Joe, chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards Association, a total of 14 directors have offered their services to the making of 12 ...
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ADV Films to make live-action feature of Japanese animated TV series
ADV Films has acquired the rights to produce a live action feature of Japanese animated TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion and has teamed with Lord Of The Rings effects producer Weta Workshop in New Zealand to create the visual effects. The film is a collaboration between ADV, Weta and Gainax.ADV ...
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Buyers pick up Whore
Spanish production and sales outfit Dolores Pictures has closed five all-rights deals on its English-language title Whore.Sales include to Italy (DNC), Hong Kong (Intercontinental Film Distribution), South Korea (Jon Cinema Co Ltd), Indonesia (Rapi Films) and Israel (Shoval Films).The film, which stars Denise Richards and Daryl Hannah in a tale ...
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Autumn Springs in Germany
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has closed a deal in Germany on Czech festival favourite Autumn Spring with MFA. The film, directed by Vladimir Michalek, will open in New York City in the US through First Look Pictures at the end of July.Menemsha has also closed deals on the film with ...
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Hong Kong to construct 'Avenue of Stars'
A long-awaited project to create a Hollywood-style Avenue of Stars has finally taken off in Hong Kong. A 440 m long walkway featuring some 100 floor plaques will be built at the Waterfront Promenade in Tsim Sha Tsui to showcase Hong Kong's film industry. Cheung Tung Joe, chairman of the ...
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Wanda Vision sells Suite Havana to Trigon
Spanish producer-distributor-sales house Wanda Vision has sold Cuba-set co-production Suite Havana to Trigon Films for all Swiss and Austrian rights.Havana director Fernando Perez's prior film, Life Is To Whistle (La Vida Es Silbar), drew more than 100,000 admissions in Switzerland, Wanda chief Jose Maria Morales said.Suite is one of several ...
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Controversy sparked at Diagonale festival director appointment
The Diagonale festival of Austrian cinema and Austria's Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak have once more hit the headlines - this time with the appointment of Miroljub Vuckovic as the festival's Artistic Director and Tilmann Fuchs as Business Affairs Manager to succeed Christine Dollhofer and Constantin Wulff.Speaking ...
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Japan, UK welcome Barbarian Invasions
Denys Arcand's double prize-winning Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) was sold to Comstock for Japan and to Artificial Eye for the UK by French sales house Flach Pyramide International. Earlier in the festival FPI sold Barbarian Invasions to Bim for Italy Filmcopie of Switzerland, Films de l'Elysee for Belgium, Shapira ...