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Canadian Telefilm to set new standards for film investment
Canadian film and TV financing agency Telefilm Canada has advised producers it is implementing new standards for its selective investments in the English market starting with 2009-2010. The new measures will incorporate 'Best Practices' into its Canada Feature Film Fund (CFFF) decisions that concentrate on identifying target audiences and developing ...
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Joe Dante on the set of The Hole
The Hole isn't Joe Dante's first 3D film but it might as well be. In 2002, the director was hired by Florida-based amusement park Busch Gardens to shoot a 25-minute ride film entitled Haunted Lighthouse. 'They called it 4D,' says Dante. 'The film was 3D and then they threw stuff ...
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UK producers Rachel Robey and Al Clark find a better place
A film production course in Nottingham in 1998 proved serendipitous for Rachel Robey and Alastair Clark. They met there, fell in love, got married and set up a production company called Wellington Films.Robey and Clark made a name for themselves in 2006 with Paul Andrew Williams' low-budget thriller London To ...
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Paramount and Abrams' Bad Robot extend deal til 2013
Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions have extended their first-look deal through 2013 ahead of the summer release of Abrams' Star Trek.The partners first collaborated on Cloverfield, which scored thebiggest January opening weekend in history when it took $40.1m overthree days. They are scheduled to begin production in ...
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Tribeca Sloan fund to offer $170,000 for science/tech projects
Promising film-makers whose projects relate to science and technology stand to receive $170,000 in funding from the Tribeca Film Institute through the return this year of the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund.Announcing a further grant initiative, Institute staff said four youngfilm-makers would each be eligible for a $1,500 scholarship throughthe Youth ...
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Summit takes on Tommy O'Haver'sthriller Golden Gate
Summit Entertainment has acquired rights to the thriller Golden Gate that Tommy O'Haver will direct from a screenplay by Charles Bohl.The film centres on an athletics star on the verge of success who ishelped by a dangerous new friend when a secret from her past threatensto unravel her dream.Craig Zadan ...
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Lionsgate takes film rights to Shange's 1975 play For Colored Girls
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide film rights to Ntozake Shange's 1975 stage play and Nzingha Stewart's adapted screenplay of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.The play was first performed in California at the Bacchanal women'sbar near Berkeley and first produced in 1975 at New York's ...
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Cast lines up for wolf pack in Summit's New Moon
Native American/First Nation actors Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman have signed on to star as the members of the wolf pack in Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: New Moon.Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner reprise theirroles from Twilight. The sequel finds Bella, played ...
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Jon Hamm joins Howl cast for Werc Werk Works
Golden Globe winner and star of TV's Mad Men Jon Hamm has signed on to Werc Werk Works' Allen Ginsberg project Howl currently shooting in New York City.Hamm will star as the Beat Gernation poet's celebrated defenceattorney Jake Ehrlich in the story about the obscenity trial thatsurrounded Ginsberg's eponymous poem.James ...
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Locations trade show slated for April 16-18 in Santa Monica
The Association Of Film Commissioners International’s annual locations trade show will take place in Santa Monica from April 16-18.More than 3,000 industry professionals and 240 exhibitors representingmore than 30 countries are expected to attend the event.Seminars will cover Candid Conversations, in which studio executivesdiscuss their film-making experiences, as well as ...
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Simon Crowe flies solo with launch of SC Films International
Simon Crowe, managing director of Velvet Octopus has launched his new production, sales and distribution outfit SC Films International.SC Films will be financed by Matthew Joynes of Aurelius Investments and Crowe’s new company will handle some foreign sales for the LA-based Aurelius Investments.Crowe’s main focus will be on commercial action, ...
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German producers fear $135m worth of production at risk
Work on more than 30 German feature film projects could be ‘at acute risk’ in 2009 because of the uncertainty surrounding the finances of the German Federal Film Fund (FFA), according to the German Producers Alliance.The figures come from a survey of its members by the Alliance. Three quarters of ...
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Salon's pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2
Companies under Hong Kong’s Salon Films’ pan-Asia alliance have announced new production projects including three projects from Taipei-based Zoom Hunt International.Producer Hsu Li-kong and his Zoom Hunt International is preparing the sequel to Ang Lee’s 1994 classic Eat Drink Man Woman, tentatively titled Eat Drink Man Woman II, a project ...
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Anne Hathaway to play Judy Garland in TWC's Get Happy
Anne Hathaway, nominated for a lead actress Oscar last season for Rachel Getting Married, is attached to star for The Weinstein Company as Judy Garland in film and stage versions of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life Of Judy Garland.Get Happy is based on hundreds of interviews and Garland’s ...
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Raintree, Wayne Wang prepare Singapore historical thriller
MediaCorp Raintree Pictures has announced much-anticipated further details on its historical film 1965 - currently in development with Wayne Wang lined up to direct.Based on the turbulent title year that Singapore broke away from Malaysia to become independent, 1965 will be a mainstream political thriller with a projected budget of ...
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Hit Singapore director Jack Neo plans ghost story triptych
Record-breaking Singaporean hit director Jack Neo (I Not Stupid)has announced a new projectGot Ghost Meh(working title) in development.Neo plans to make a 90-minute feature film made up of three parts - each a 30-minute-long ghost story filled with horror and comedy elements.Known for his poignant low-budget comedy hits, the director ...
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Dayyan Eng enlists Daniel Wu, Gong Beibi for Inseparable
Chinese American filmmaker Dayyan Eng (Waiting Alone) is to produce and direct a black-comedy from his own script titledInseparable. Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu (Shinjuku Incident) and Chinese actress Gong Beibi (Call For Love, Waiting Alone) are heading the cast.The project is being planned as a mid-budget film under Chinese ...
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Film Agency For Wales awards $470,000 to three projects
The Film Agency For Wales has awarded $217,000 to Hattie Dalton’s Barafundle Bay. Dalton’s credits include Stoned and Layer Cake.The film was produced by Margaret Matheson, Vaughan Sivell and Kelly Broad and was written by Welsh born writer/producer Vaughan Sivell of Western Edge. Independent is on board as sales agents.BarafundleBay ...
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France bangs the drum for new tax incentive in Hong Kong
The French consul general for Hong Kong and Macau declared on Monday that the future ‘belonged to co-production between Europe and Asia’ and urged Asian producers to look at shooting films in France. He made the comments at an information session outlining the new 20% tax rebate for international productions ...
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Tribeca All Access selects 27 projects from US, UK, Australia, Canada
The Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute have selected 27 projects for the 2009 Tribeca All Access programme, which encourages industry support of filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities.TAA, supported by Bloomberg, is now in its sixth year, and will run during April 20-25 during the TFF.Participating directors and screenwriters ...