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Spring offers hope for Korean box office
April is not considered tobe high season at the box-office in Korea, but in past years it has shown aknack for producing major box-office hits. My Little Bride (2004, $17m local gross), Memories Of Murder(2003, $27m), The Way Home (2002, $20m) and Friend (2001, $38m)have all got off to a ...
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Spain's lazonafilms, Telespan back Serrano projects
Two young Spanish productioncompanies, lazonafilms and Telespan 2000, have joined forces to back twofeature films from hot writer-director David Serrano.The mastermind behind theenormously successful comedies The Other Side Of The Bed, which hescripted, and Football Days, which he wrote and directed, Serrano iscurrently at work on scripts with an eye ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - February 21
SOUTHKOREAPRE-PRODUCTIONTHEBEAST(Popcorn Film) Budget: $8m. Int'lsales/dist: Showbox. Noirish drama about a detective, prosecutor and gangster,all equally vicious. Exec prod: Kim Woo-taek. Prod: Han Sung-gu. Dir/Scr: KimSung-soo. Main cast: Kwon Sang-woo, Yu Ji-tae, Yu Dong-geun. Shooting fromMarch.Contact: Showbox, (82) 2 3218 5632BLOOD SISTERS(Angel Underground) Int'l sales: CineclickAsia. Horror omnibus in three segments ...
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Germany's Priamos kicks off with Zanzibar project
WithBerlin awash with projects involving football, the island of Zanzibar hasjoined the team: Berlin-based production company Priamos Film is to launch withThe Dream Of Zanzibar set on the African island.Budgetedat $1.1m, the Dream Of Zanzibar will mark both the directing debut ofAlisan Saltik and the first project from Stephan Ottenbruch's ...
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Reelmachine sets slate with Emmerich
Germany'spowerful VIP media fund and Berlin Jury president Roland Emmerich have set thefirst four films to go in to production from their newly-formed Reelmachineoutfit.Emmerichwill direct the first: a UK-based film with an all-British cast called SoulOf The Age. Scripted by John Orloff and exploring the origins ofShakespeare's plays, it is ...
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New Line, CJ pact for Shadowless Sword
Korea'sCJ Entertainment and New Line Cinema have struck a pioneering co-productiondeal for The Shadowless Sword. The period action film is written anddirected by Kim Jung-joon and is billed as a sequel to breakout internationalhit Bichunmoo. The$6.5m Troy-like film, set in 800AD, began 15 weeks of production inChina on Wednesday (16 ...
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Icing sealed on Cake Weaver, Rickman set to roll
Ayear after Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver committed to the project, SnowCake has finally come together.UKproducers Andrew Eaton and Gina Carter have set up the drama as a UK-Canadianco-production with Niv Fichman, producer of The Red Violin. FortissimoFilm Sales is selling worldwide rights,while a deal is being finalised with support ...
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Innocent Voices inspires buyers in Berlin
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has completed a raft of sales on Luis Mandoki's Salvadoran civilwar drama Innocent Voices, which received its European premiere in Berlin last weekend asthe opening night film of the Kinderfilmfest.The picture sold to Metropolitan in France, Solo Film in Germany, Content Filmin the UK, New Select in ...
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Robin Williams cast as lead in The Night Listener
Robin Williams has signed onto play the lead in The Night Listener, Hart Sharp Entertainment's adaptation of Armistead Maupin'sbestselling drama.Toni Collette is in talks to join the cast on the story of a radio show hostwho strikes up a telephone friendship with a mysterious boy and in the processloses a ...
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Football fever spreads across int'l film industry
Withthe "Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer in town yesterday and the World Cup tobe held in Germany next year, football fever is breaking out in the filmindustry. From Europe to South America, new football-themed films are beingplanned.InBrazil, Walter Salles (in Germany this week for the Berlinale Talent Campus) isbusy polishing the script ...
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Bruehl set to become Spanish political martyr
Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruehl has signed onto take the lead in new Spanish feature Salvador from Barcelona-basedMEDIApro.Theaction film turns on the last two years in the life of 1970's Catalan politicalmartyr Salvador Puig Antich, who was imprisoned at the tail end of the Francoera. MEDIApro chief Jaume Roures ...
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Sturridge set to shoot Lassie in Ireland
Charles Sturridge's adaptation of the 1938 children'sclassic Lassie Come Home is to startshooting in Ireland from April with additional filming taking place on the Isleof Man.Sturridge will direct for his own company, Firstsight Films,the US rightsholder Classic Media, and Ireland's Element Films. The Isle of ManFilm Commission is also backing ...
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Studio Ghibli to part company from parent company
Studio Ghibli, the animation house that produced HayaoMiyazaki's biggest hits, including Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl'sMoving Castle, will separate from its long-time parent company, TokumaShoten Publishing, according to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbunnewspaper. Ghibli has already established a Studio Ghibli Co., Ltd.By the end of the current ...
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Berry, Forster back together for Nefertiti
Three years ago, actressHalle Berry and director Marc Forster were both in Berlin to promote Monster'sBall. Since then, she has won an Oscar and become one of Hollywood'sbiggest stars and he directed the seven-times Oscar nominated FindingNeverland. Now the two are planning tore-team on the story of Egyptian queen Nefertiti, ...
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Williams to star in inner city drama Brother
Vanessa Williams has signed to play the lead in Liberty Artistsand My Brother Productions' inner city drama Brother.Williams will play a dying mother of two young boys who tries to put herchildren up for adoption. The experience forms an intense sibling bond as thebrothers grow into adults.Fredro Starr and newcomer ...
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Universal acquires Magic Kingdom For Sale series
Universal Pictures haspicked up rights to Terry Brooks' book series Magic Kingdom For Sale which The Mummy creator Stephen Sommers willdirect.Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel will adapt the story, the first in a series ofsix books about an attorney widower who buys a magical kingdom and must save itfrom an ...
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Scherfig lines up Good shoot in Berlin
Good, a feature adaptation of C P Taylor's acclaimedplay about an otherwise moral professor who formulates Hitler's FinalSolution, is to shoot on location in Berlin this summer.Danish director LoneScherfig, a regular at the Berlin International Film Festival, will shoot the film in Potsdam, central Berlin andthe city's Olympic stadium, built ...
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Berlinale unveils European Film Market plans for 2006
Next year's European Film Market will comfortablyaccommodate as many as 300 film companies as it decamps to its spacious newhome at the historic Martin-Grobius-Bau, a ten-minute walk away from thefestival's Palast nexus.Atpresent, 170 sales outfits and umbrella organisations are housed in crampedquarters at the Debis building, with another fifty or ...
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Instant replay for German version of Finnish football film
In an unusual move,Hamburg's Wueste Filmproduktion will remake the Finnish football comedy FCVenus before the movie is even in theatres at home.Finnish production companyTalent House will start shooting the Joona Tena-directed Venus at theend of May, while the German remake, to be directed by Ute Wieland, will beginfilming at the ...
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Collins' Dead Long Enough embarks on Irish shoot
The secondlocally developed feature to commence production in Ireland in 2005, DeadLong Enough, starts principal photography today in County Donegal. StarringMartin Sheen, Angeline Ball, Jason Hughes and Douglas Henshaw, the film is aromantic comedy in which two Welsh brothers return to Ireland to relive amemorable summer of their youth. Dead ...