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Hungary's Korda and Colorfront strike strategic partnership
Hungary's Korda Studios and new Budapest-based post-production company Colorfront have signed a partnership agreement to offer Colorfront services to productions based at Korda.Colorfront will have satellite offices and post facilities based at Korda and the companies will be connected by a high-speed fiber-optic network, enabling work such as color-graded digital ...
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Fuji TV's Bayside Shakedown team reassemble for The Guardian
Fuji TV's head feature film producer Chihiro Kameyama will reunite with the writer behind hit franchise Bayside Shakedown to produce police drama The Guardian (Dare Mo Mamotte Kurenai). Ryoichi Kimizuka is set to write and direct The Guardian (working title), starring Koichi Sato (Suite Dreams) as a detective who vows ...
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Eros and Carving Dreams to launch venture with Roshan project
Eros International has struck a co-production joint venture with Carving Dreams Motion Pictures, a new division of management and marketing company Carving Dreams Entertainment. Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, who has been a client of Carving Dreams for two years, will star in the first joint feature between the companies.Kishore Lulla, ...
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Boom for UK film locations
CLICK ON LOCATION FOR MOREThe MidlandsIsle Of ManScotlandThe SouthThe NorthWalesNorthern Ireland/ Republic Of IrelandIt's been a good year for production,' says British film commissioner Colin Brown, of feature film-making in the UK in 2007. His assessment is supported by figures released by the UK Film Council earlier this month.Inward investment ...
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Mermin's Shot In Bombay secures UK run at London's ICA
Liz Mermin's latest film, Shot In Bombay, will have a two-week UK theatrical run at London's ICA from Jan 18, 2008 before going on a regional tour. The documentary goes behind the scenes of a Bollywood film, Shootout at Lokhandwala, starring Bollywood screen legend Sanjay Dutt. US director Mermin, who ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye, NFTS back Ahmed's The Last Thakur
Shooting will begin next month in Bangladesh on Sadik Ahmed's The Last Thakur, the 'Spaghetti Eastern' that is being co-produced by Curzon Artificial Eye and the UK's National Film & Television School. The film is being executive produced by Philip Knatchbull, Nik Powell and Daniel Chamier. The producer is Tamsin ...
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UTV's Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal lines up Reebok deal
UTV Motion Pictures has struck a deal for Reebok to retail products related to its film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal across 535 stores in India. The film is about a struggling Asian football team in England. UTV noted that it had already recouped the film's $4m production costs ahead of ...
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Robin Hardy plans March 2008 shoot for Cowboys For Christ
Los Angeles-based Fantastic Films International has come on board for worldwide sales for Cowboys For Christ, written and directed by Robin Hardy. Hardy, known for directing 1973's The Wicker Man, also wrote the book of the same name. Cowboys For Christ will start shooting in March 2008 around Dumfries, Scotland. ...
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Corsan starts Canadian shoot for Breuls' directorial debut
Director Paul Breuls has started production on The Hessen Affair, a WWII-era thriller starring Billy Zane, Lyne Renee, Michael Bowen and Noah Segan.Corsan, the Belgian company Breuls runs, is producing with Phyllis Laing's Buffalo Gal Pictures co-producing. Corsan is also handling international sales.Nicholas Meyer and Ronald Roose wrote the screenplay, ...
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Berlin's WCF backs films from Armenia, Indonesia, Iran and Israel
Four film projects from Armenia, Indonesia, Iran and Israel have been backed by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) with a total of $325,680 (Euros 220,000) at its latest funding session chaired by festival director Dieter Kosslick. The four were selected from 108 submissions from 40 countries.The selected projects include ...
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Swedish Film Institute plans to double specific grants
In a response to 'the rapid technological development, new audience patterns, and the concentration of power in the cinema market,' the Swedish Film Institute has devised a new plan of action to support the promotion and distribution of quality films in the newlandscape. The recent bankruptcies of quality film ...
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Balkan Fund selects four projects for $59,000 funding
The Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has handed out its latest grants to four new projects. The projects that received $14,789 (Euros 10,000) each are: Mother from writer/director Juraj Lertic and producer Dana Budisavljevic (Croatia) Rio from writers Nicolas ...
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After strike, Hellstedt's Land Under Water gets Finnish backing
The Finnish Film Foundation has backed the first local feature film project after the producers' strike, chipping in $739,000 (Euros 500,000) production funding for Finnish director Lenka Hellstedt's Land Under Water (Maata meren alla). Current box-office figures suggest the importance of domestic product in the cinemas: last weekend, three Finnish ...
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Angelopoulos dusts off first English film with Willem Dafoe
Theo Angelopoulos starts shooting today in the northern Russian city of Nizni Novgorod his new film, The Dust of Time, the second part of the trilogy undertaken three years ago with The Weeping Meadow. The impressive international cast includes Irene Jacob taking the role as Eleni, played in The Weeping ...
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Participant, State Street partner up for Bobby Martinez
Participant Productions and State Street Pictures producers Bob Teitel and George Tillman are developing Bobby Martinez, a biopic about the first Mexican-American professional surfer on the world tour.Robert Munic, who wrote Summit Entertainment and Mandalay Pictures' upcoming teen fight club drama Get Some, has been hired to write the screenplay.The ...
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Costa Gavras returns to Greece for 2008 shoot of Eden Is West
Forty years after the Oscar-winning Z, the poignant account of the political turmoil in Greece during the 1960s, Costa Gavras is set to return to his native country to direct his next film structured as a French-Greek co-production. The project was announced today at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where ...
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Broadbent, McCrory join regulars in Harry Potter VI
Jim Broadbent and Helen McCrory have joined the regular Harry Potter cast on the upcoming sixth episode Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.Broadbent will play the potions professor Horace Slughorn, who gives Harry an old tome with a mysterious past. McCrory will play Draco Malfoy's mother Narcissa.Newcomers Jessie Cave, Hero ...
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Vikram Bhatt shoots supernatural love story in Yorkshire
Yorkshire, which hosted this summer's Indian International Film Academy awards (IIFAs), is now hosting a new shoot by Indian film-makers. Vikram Bhatt is directing 1920 with a 17-day shoot in Bolton Abbey, Allerton Castle, Bramham Park and Ripley Castle. The film is a supernatural love story about an Anglo Indian ...
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Happy Feet's George Miller creates joint venture with Omnilab
A very significant deal was announced today that gives director George Miller access to significant finance and the digital technology and hardware, personnel, and management skills, enabling him to make more films of the scale of his most recent hit, Happy Feet.His company, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, has joined forces with ...
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UKFC backs development of Bruce Robinson's Peculiar Memories
The UK Film Council has announced the first awards from its Development Fund since Tanya Seghatchian took over as head of the Fund on April 1. The UKFC has backed six films with $930,000 - with more than half of the funding, or $509,700 - going to Bruce Robinson to ...