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Generator kicks off five-film genre slate with Red Mist
Generator Entertainment is kicking off with a new slate of five genre films - with budgets of about $3m each - starting with Paddy Breathnach's new supernatural thriller Red Mist, which started shooting for 24 days in Belfast on Monday. The project marks Breathnach's follow-up to Shrooms.Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge ...
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Open Graves international rights go to Voltage
Voltage Pictures has taken international rights on the upcoming horror film Open Graves to star Mike Vogel from the US hit Cloverfield and Eliza Dushku.Alvaro De Arminan will direct from a screenplay by father-and-son team Bruce A Taylor and Roderick Taylor about a group of surfers who awaken a centuries-old ...
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Soloplan takes Polish rights to Sayles' Honeydripper
Solopan has taken Polish rights to Honeydripper, the latest film from acclaimed indie film director John Sayles. The deal was concluded with sales agent Rezo early during the EFM."'It is an audience pleaser - the kind of film that has a long life. We keep doing sales (on Honeydripper) at ...
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NonStop Film Sales hook into No Network - A Modern Adventure
Stockholm-based NonStop Film Sales has confirmed that it will be handling world sales on Icelandic director Ari Kristinsson's adventure drama No Network - A Modern Adventure. The film was made through Kristinsson's production company Taka Film Production. Kristinsson, a veteran of the Icelandic film industry, has scripted and directed two ...
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Vuoerensola prepares Finnish Nazi sci-fi comedy Iron Sky
In 1945 the Nazis went to the Moon in 2018 they are coming back! That isthe pitch for macabre Finnish sci-fi comedy Iron Sky, the new feature being plotted by Timo Vuorensola.The film, which will be made by many of the same team behind Star Trek parody, Star Wreck: In ...
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Belgrade Industry Meetings unveils lineup of 12 projects for 2008 event
New feature projects by Albania's Gjergi Xhuvani, Croatia's Rajko Grlic and Israel's Yaky Yosha are among 12 projects selected for this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings which will be held for the third time between February 29 and March 2.The complete lineup of projects are:Euro-Asian section:Frenzy, Emin AlperBulut Film, TurkeyInfiltration, ...
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Munich's EVA to co-produce family adventure Raising Phoenix
Munich-based film and TV group Entertainment Value Associates (EVA) is to co-produce Marc Weigert's $15m family adventure project Raising Phoenix which is being produced by Weigert and Volker Engel's LA-based independent outfit Uncharted Territory.Raising Phoenix is due to go into production from April 2008, with location shooting likely to also ...
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Japan's Iseki Satoru to produce Korean epic Sharaku
Japanese producer Iseki Satoru (Battle Of Wits) has boarded epic mystery fantasy Sharaku (working title), which Park Tae-choon is directing for Korea's Studio2.0. Studio 2.0 is co-financing and handling international sales on the $8m Korean-Japanese co-production, which will be shot in Japan with a mostly Japanese cast and crew. Behind-the-scenes ...
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Films Distribution closes EFM deals on Lemon Tree
Buyers are swarming round Panorama entry, Lemon Tree. The film, being soldat the EFM by Paris-based Films Distribution, has been picked up for a number of territories following its first official screening earlier in the week. Deals confirmed include Benelux (Cineart), Switzerland (Agora), Seville Pictures (Canada), Teodora (Italy), Film Trade ...
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Downey and Taylor's F&ME launches new $1m development fund
UK-based Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) has created a new $1m development fund, backed by private equity, EU MEDIA support and in-house financing, and is initially backing a slate of five projects for 2008. F&ME's Mike Downey is in early development with F&ME chairman Stephen Daldry on a Charles Darwin ...
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Lives Of Others producers board Leven's Lovers, Liars & Thieves
Munich-based Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, which produced Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, will serve as German co-producer on Jeremy Leven's $ 30m romantic comedy Lovers, Liars & Thieves which is currently being prepared by Ilann Girard's Arsam International.The true story behind the theft of the Mona ...
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Devillers to bring western film-makers to China for genre slate
Natacha Devillers' Les Petites Lumieres is launching a project to bring Western filmmakers to China to make genre movies. Devillers is developing a slate of low-budget genre films - entitled China Syndromes - in partnership with Taiwanese producer Wendy Kuan and UK filmmaker Simon Rumley. Among the directors who are ...
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TWC's Shanghai and other foreign shoots face China crisis
The Chinese authorities have refused to grant shooting permission to Mikael Hafstrom's period drama Shanghai, set to star John Cusack and Gong Li, forcing the producers to scramble to find another Asian location.The Weinstein Company is backing the production, which has been in pre-production in China since last September and ...
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Warner Music UK buys UK rights to occult thriller Chemical Wedding
Warner Music UK has acquired UK rights to the supernatural occult thriller Chemical Wedding and has scheduled a theatrical in May.Former Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickinson wrote the screenplay and Simon Callow stars as a Cambridge professor who wreaks havoc after he is possessed by the spirit of the ...
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X Filme International boards films from Meyjes, Fox
New features by Menno Meyjes and Eytan Fox are being lined up by X Filme International in addition to its production of Julie Delpy's The Countess which begins shooting from Feb 18 in Berlin, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt.The X Filme Creative Pool subsidiary will serve as German co-producer for the UK's ...
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Essential acquires worldwide rights to Stan Helsing
Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights from Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures to the upcoming horror spoof Stan Helsing.The story is set on Halloween night when the eponymous reluctant hero and video shop clerk must save his town from the six most feared monsters in cinematic history.Writer-director ...
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Writer's Guild reaches deal with AMPTP
The Writers Guild Of America (WGA) announced last night that it had finally reached a tentative deal with the studios to end its 14-week strike.WGA West and East presidents Patric Verrone and Michael Winship contacted members in the small hours of Saturday morning to alert them.The agreement with the AMPTP ...
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Italy-Iraq co-production Flowers Of Kirkuk set to shoot for April
The Flowers Of Kirkuk, the first-ever co-production between Italy and Iraq,is to shoot in April, it was confirmed at the EFM yesterday. The film, to be directed by Fariborz Kamkari, has now received support from Regione Lazio. It is being produced by Fabrizia Falzetti's Far Out Films. Istituto Luce has ...
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Big deals heat up EFM in Berlin
Universal Pictures has bought North America and select territories on Sam Raimi's upcoming low budget horror film Drag Me To Hell as a flurry of deal-making set EFM alight.Meanwhile Momentum sealed UK rights to Sundance hit Hamlet 2 from Focus Features International in a deal estimated to be worth over ...
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Craven moves to Alibi from United Artists
UK-based media concern Alibi Communications has appointed David Craven as head of post-production and technical delivery.Craven previously worked in the London office of United Artists Films, which parent US studio MGM recently announced its was shutting down. The appointment is effective immediately.Alibi includes TV and feature production interests as well ...