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Lakeshore sets cast for horror movie Pathology
Lakeshore Entertainment has announced casting on the upcoming horror film Pathology, which will star Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Lee Smith, Alyssa Milano, and Johnny Whitworth.Filming is set to begin in April on the story of medical students who devise a sinister game to see who among them can commit the perfect ...
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Gruffudd joins voice cast of animated Agent Crush
Ioan Gruffudd has joined the voice cast of Agent Crush, a $20m animated adventure from LA-based Fantastic Films International and UK-based Crush Productions.Gruffudd, who won acclaim for portraying the abolitionist William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace and reprises his role as Reed Richards this summer in Fantastic Four: Rise Of The ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams merge to create dreamachine
In a move that will shake up the international sales world, Jeremy Thomas' UK-based HanWay Films and Hengameh Panahi's Paris-based Celluloid Dreams are planning to merge. The new sales, production and financing venture, dreamachine, will be based in London, Paris and Toronto. Financial terms have yet to be disclosed, but ...
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Marchal starts shooting thriller MR 73 for Gaumont and LGM
French director Olivier Marchal has begun shooting thriller MR 73 in Marseilles with Daniel Auteuil and Olivia Bonamy in the lead roles. Principal photography began in mid-February on the film, about the complex relationship between a loner cop and the young woman he protects when her parents' murderer is released ...
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Pinewood launches website for rebuilt 007 Stage
The Pinewood Studios Group has launched an official website for the rebuilt 007 Stage, located at www.007stage.com. Europe 's largest sound stage has been rebuilt and reopened following the July 2006 fire that made the stage unusable. Currently, the internal area of 59,000-square-feet makes it the biggest stage in Europe. ...
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Aardman signs exclusive three-year, first-look deal with Sony Pictures
UK-based Aardman Features will enter a three-year, exclusive first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) for all of Aardman's features in development. Aardman, known for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away, ended its increasingly tense partnership with DreamWorks in late January 2007. The new pact was struck with ...
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CR Land, Shanghai Film Group invest in Jia Zhangke's 24 City
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has announced that he is set to direct a film project, tentatively titled 24 City, in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province. The project, which includes a feature film and documentary, will be jointly financed by Shanghai Film Group, Jia's Xstream Pictures and real estate ...
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Overture teams with Echo Lake on 105 Degrees And Rising
Fledgling studio Overture Films is partnering with Echo Lake Productions on its first in-house title 105 Degrees And Rising, a drama about the fall of Saigon drama.Jon Amiel will direct the project, named after the code used by Armed Forces Radio in 1975 to alert citizens to evacuate the former ...
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UK Film Council looks for certification manager for new tax test
As of today, the certification unit for the new Cultural Test for British Film introduced as part of the UK 's new film tax relief will be based at the UK Film Council, moving from its previous home at the Department of Culture, Media & Sport. The UKFC is currently ...
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Ken Kwapis to direct He's Just Not That Into You
New Line Cinema and Flower Films have hired Ken Kwapis to direct the comedy He's Just Not That Into You.Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's bestselling novel of the same name serves as the inspiration for the project about cross-gender misunderstandings in love.Flower Films principals Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore are ...
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Seoul unveils first foreign production incentives
Seoul Metropolitan City Government has announced its first incentives for foreign film and television shoots to take place in the South Korean capital. The government has allocated $532,000 for incentives out of a $745,000 fund meant to promote tourism through marketing the city of Seoul in visual media. The city's ...
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UK's Albion launches with aims to produce Christian features
Albion Productions has launched as a UK production company dedicated to only making Christian feature films. Albion is set up as an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) company and is seeking investors for its first production, Darkness Into Light. The company said 10% of the film's profits will go to Christian ...
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Film commissions: friends in hired places
What is a film commissioner' 'On one end of the spectrum, they can be basically not much more than civil servants allocated film as part of their portfolio but they can also be people who have worked in the industry and know how we think and what we need. The ...
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Lost star Yunjin Kim joins cast of Prime's Seven Days
Korean crossover actress Yunjin Kim is attached to star in Prime Entertainment's crime thriller Seven Days (working title). Best known for her performances in the hit TV series Lost from US network ABC, she first garnered attention with her role in the watershed 1999 hit Shiri. Seven Days will be ...
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Potboiler to follow Gardener with Le Carre's Mission Song
Following its successful adaptation of John Le Carre's The Constant Gardener, Simon Channing Williams and Gail Egan's London-based Potboiler Productions is preparing a new film based on Le Carre's latest book, The Mission Song. Joe Fisher, writer of acclaimed TV drama Soundproof and of 1998's The Tichborne Claimant, is scripting ...
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UK actor cast in male lead for next Oskar Roehler project
UK actor Ray Fearon, who appeared in the soap opera Coronation Street and Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, has been cast as the male lead for German director Oskar Roehler's next feature Lulu And Jimi, to follow his 2006 Berlinale competition film Elementary Particles (Elementarteilchen). Fearon, who is currently ...
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Warner Bros to co-produce release new Til Schweiger project
Warner Bros' German office is serving as co-producer and distributor on actor-director-producer Til Schweiger's new feature film Keinohrhasen which begins principal photography on location in Berlin today. Produced by Schweiger and Tom Zickler's production company Barefoot Films with Warner Bros Film and private broadcaster SAT.1, the romantic comedy was co-written ...
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Dafoe, Gruffudd, Panettiere join Senator's Fireflies
Willem Dafoe, Ioan Gruffudd and Hayden Panettiere have joined Julia Roberts, Carrie-Anne Moss, Ryan Reynolds and Emily Watson on Senator Entertainment's first self-financed US production, the drama Fireflies In The Garden. Shannon Lucio, and George Newbern have also boarded Dennis Lee's feature directorial debut, which is set for an Apr ...
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Premiere Fund backs Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage
The UK Council's Premiere Fund has come on board with Lottery funding for Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage. Williams, who became a talent to watch with his 2006 low-budget thriller London To Brighton, also wrote the script. The story follows two brothers who kidnap an underworld figure and then 'stumble ...
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Odeon takes over Munich production company Hofmann & Voges
The restructured film and TV group Odeon Film has taken over Munich-based production company Hofmann & Voges Entertainment, which will continue to operate as a separate entity under the new owner's roof. The purchase price (in single-digit millions) was largely paid for with shares in Odeon, thus making Mischa Hofmann ...