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Wanda Vision prepares new slate of films
Spain'sWanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate of films including twofeatures set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmakerGerardo Olivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the Saharan ...
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Director Gabriele Muccino sets up production company
Last Kiss director Gabriele Muccino has set up his own production company, which willfocus on adverts and feature films and will have offices in Milan, Rome and LosAngeles'IndianaProduction will group together both young and established writers and directorsand will also operate as a talent agency,' Muccinosaid. Indiana will also have ...
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Young Hannibal wraps Czech shoot
Director PeterWebber has wrapped principal photography on YoungHannibal: Behind the Mask, after a 14-week shootin the Czech Republic. The Dino De Laurentiis production is made with partners Quinta Communications and Ingenious Film Partners. The UK'sZephyr Films is also on board.Internationalsales are being handled by producers' consultant Pamela Pickering in Los ...
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Tarr to resume work on The Man From London
Hungarian director Bela Tarr spoke to journalists at the 37th Hungarian Film Weekin Budapest about the revival ofhis project, The Man FromLondon, which was stalled last winter after the death of French producer Humbert Balsan. The film, which is to begin shooting in March, is now aFrench-German-Hungarian co-production featuring an ...
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Ecosse teams with Walden, Beacon and Revolution for feature
UK-based Ecosse Films is teaming with US heavyweights Walden Media,Beacon Pictures, and Revolution Studios for the fantasy film The Water Horse. Ecosse's Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae will produce with Barrie Osborne (The Lord of the Rings) andCharlie Lyons. Alex Schwartz, Jackie Levine and David Kaufmann areoverseeing The Water Horse ...
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London's Chocolate Chilli Films takes on The Angel of Mons
London-based production company Chocolate Chilli Films hasoptioned the script The Angel of Mons as the second feature on its slate. The project is a supernatural historical drama about a youngwoman serving as an ambulance driver during WWI who is trying to find out ifthe Angel of Monsreally exists. Alice D ...
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Dark Lot Entertainment starts work on new horror feature
Stephen Susco, who adapted the English languagescreenplay of J-horror hit The Grudge,is getting into business with Odd Lot Entertainment's fledgling genre bannerDark Lot Entertainment.Odd Lot is producing Zero Dark Thirty, Susco's tale of a returning war veteran whosetranquil hometown is transformed by a series of bizarre events.Media 8 will commence ...
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Production started on Kamala Films' debut feature Anamorph
Production has begun on new York-based KamalaFilms' debut feature and psychological thriller Anamorph, starring Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman and directed byH S Miller.Anamorph,which takes its name from a Renaissance painting trick involving perspective,centres on a damaged detective who investigates a series of killings that maybe the work of an ...
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Argentinian New Wave looks beyond home for financing
During the 1990s, awave of young film-makers emerged in Argentina who gained comparison on thefestival circuit with similar movements in Iran, Hong Kong, Thailand, Finlandand South Korea.Now severaldirectors from the group known as New Argentine Cinema - such as LisandroAlonso (The Dead), Martin Rejtman (Silvia Prieto) and Lucrecia Martel (Holy ...
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Julio Medem selects an international cast for his new film
Spain'sSogecine has unveiled new details of Spanish auteurJulio Medem's next film, Caotica Ana, set to begin shooting on February 13.Literally "Chaotic Ana,"the $6m (Euros 5m), majority Spanish-language film will star an internationalcast headlined by newcomer Manuela Velles, in herfeature debut, as the title character and singer Bebe,a recent best new ...
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Moore, McAvoy to star in Foresight's Twist Of Fate
Mandy Moore and James McAvoyare in final talks to star in the thriller TwistOf Fate for Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited. Jennifer Elster will directfrom a screenplay by Wendy Riss about a love triangle that develops between aworking class girl and an intense young man haunted by a car wreck they ...
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Disney, Walden Media set to shoot Prince Caspian
Confirming what has been anopen secret for several weeks, Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures issued ajoint statement announcing they have begun pre-production on the sequel totheir global smash The Chronicles OfNarnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe.Andrew Adamson reprises hisdirector's role on The Chronicles OfNarnia: Prince Caspian, which ...
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Village Roadshow expands co-production war-chest
The Village Roadshow Pictures Group (VRPG) has increased its film facilityfrom $900m to $1.4bn and extended the term of the deal until January 2011.Those close to the move said it would enable VRPG, the recentlyformed strategic alliance between Village Roadshow and Crescent Entertainment,to substantially expand its co-production capabilities.The company has ...
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Atmosphere, Platinum team up on Killing Demons
Atmosphere Entertainment's Mark Canton and Platinum Studios chiefScott Mitchell Rosenberg are teaming up to develop a film of Platinum's graphicnovel Killing Demons.Ascreenwriter will be announced shortly to adapt the story of a man whodedicates his life to tracking down the supernatural creatures that slaughteredhis family when he was a child.Canton ...
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Chinese masters crank up new productions
Two of mainland China's leading film-makers - Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen -are currently working on new projects that look set to raise considerableinterest in international markets.Following his quietdrama Riding Alone ForThousands Of Miles, Zhang Yimou is returning to the big-budget arenawith a $45m costume drama, starring Chow Yun-fat and ...
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Americans in Paris boost inward production
Film production in the Ile De France, whichincludes Paris, was up last year, figures have revealed.Statistics released by the National Film Centre show that on any one dayin 2005, 10 film or TV productions were being shot on the region's boulevards,parks or studios, amounting to 3,363 shoot days.Feature films accounted ...
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Film and TV shooting up 18% in London
UK film production may have had a down year in 2005 - with overall film production spending down 31% -- but filming in London was up 18%, according to agency Film London. That figure, however, is not just based on film shoots but also includes TV and commercial shoots as ...
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Picturehouse, New Line Int'l take Silk road together
Picturehouse and New Line International have snapped up themajority of the world on Francois Girard's dark romantic adaptation Silk, which will stars Keira Knightley,Michael Pitt, Koji Yakusho and Alfred Molina.Filming is due to begin at the end of February in Matsumoto, Japan,and will end in late May in Italy, as ...
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UK Production looks healthier for 2006
With news earlier this weekthat UK production spending was down 31% in 2005, theindustry is on shaky ground going into 2006. The good news is that 2006 isexpected to be a stronger year in terms of both inward investment from Hollywood and wholly UK films, thanks in large part to ...
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Sony, Universal hatch co-financing pacts with Relativity
Seeking new ways to offset their production risks while holding onto global distribution rights, Sony Pictures Entertainment and UniversalPictures have each signed separate co-financing deals with investors groupsconnected to Relativity Media.The Los Angeles-based Relativity, which structured a similar $528m dealwith Warner Bros last year, retained Deutsche Bank to raise in ...