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    Telefilm Canada backs pair of French-language projects

    2002-11-08T04:05:00Z

    Telefilm Canada is to finance two Quebec features, both in French. The investments constitute the third round of the selective component of the Canada Feature Film Fund (CFFF). Littoral, by playwright/director Wajdi Mouawad, is a majority Canada-France (70%-30%) coproduction, produced by Montreal-based Les Productions E.G.M and Paris-based Films de Cinema. ...

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    Australian production numbers move Upstream

    2002-11-08T04:05:00Z

    Some US$74m (A$131m) was spent on Australian feature film production in the 12 months up to June 30 - a sixty percent year on year increase. 30 films were produced in the same period - four more than in the previous year.However, the latest figures are much the same as ...

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    Stephen Fry starts shooting Bright Young Things

    2002-11-07T04:05:00Z

    Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Sir John Mills and Peter O'Toole are all set to play cameo roles in Stephen Fry's directorial debut Bright Young Things, which started shooting this week in and around London and at Pinewood Studios.An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, the ...

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    Scacchi and Prochnow headline Baltic Storm

    2002-11-07T04:05:00Z

    Greta Scacchi and Juergen Prochnow are the leads in US director Reuben Leder's poltical thriller Baltic Storm which began shooting on location in Berlin on November 5.The co-production between Babelsberg-based Top Story Filmproductio, Denmark's Smile Entertainment and the UK sales agent IAC centres on the sinking of the Baltic ferry ...

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    Von Trier eyes Kidman for USA trilogy

    2002-11-06T04:05:00Z

    Danish maverick Lars von Trier has been so pleased with the results of his highly anticipated new film Dogville, that he has started to write a sequel called Manderlay - in what will be the second part of his planned new ``U.S.A. Trilogy - especially for Nicole Kidman. Producer Vibeke ...

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    Pac Man eats up big screen via Crystal Sky and Gaga

    2002-11-06T04:05:00Z

    Pac Man is coming to the big screen courtesy of Steven Paul's Crystal Sky which is teaming with Gaga Communications and the game's developer Namco to make live-action fantasy Pac Man: The Movie.The movie follows a previous agreement between Crystal Sky, Gaga and Namco to co-finance a movie based on ...

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    Female lead cast for Dirty Dancing 2

    2002-11-06T04:05:00Z

    Romola Garai has signed as the female lead in Artisan Entertainment and Miramax Films' Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2. Garai, whose credits include Nicholas Nickleby and the BBC's I Capture The Castle, will star opposite Diego Luna. Directed by Guy Ferland and produced by Lawrence Bender, the story is set ...

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    Partnerships are Keys to Italian films

    2002-11-05T04:05:00Z

    Charlotte Rampling is set to heighten the buzz surrounding Oscar nominated director Gianni Amelio's already widely-anticipated new picture, The Keys To The House (Le Chiavi di Casa), after agreeing to star in the picture alongside local actor Kim Rossi Stuart. But, just as important as the cast, is the fact ...

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    Wes Anderson clan gathers round HanWay comedy

    2002-11-05T04:05:00Z

    UK-based sales agent HanWay has boarded The Squid And The Whale, the quirky New York comedy being produced by Wes Anderson, the director behind Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums.Bill Murray, Laura Linney and John Turturro are in advanced talks to star in the $8.5m story of an eccentric family, which ...

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    Bum's Rush adds cast

    2002-11-05T04:05:00Z

    Jamie Sives, who is Wilbur in Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, and Kevin McKidd are joining Dougray Scott in the cast of Myriad Pictures' The Bum's Rush, a black comedy set in Scotland. The film will be produced by Anne Batz of Hero Films, the UK production outfit ...

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    Tucker to direct November 5 terrorist attack movie

    2002-11-05T04:05:00Z

    Hilary And Jackie director Anand Tucker is to direct Guy Fawkes story November 5 for Charles Finch and Luc Roeg's UK production-management company Artists' Independent Network.Tucker is aiming to start shooting late next year from a script by his regular collaborator Frank Cottrell Boyce. AIN, which has credits including Spider ...

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    Ex-Helkon trio goes Solo

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    The management of Helkon International Pictures (HIP) - Christian Halsey Solomon, Lee Solomon and Clifford Werber - has formally bought itself out from Helkon Media and relaunched as Solo Entertainment Group (SEG). The company's name affirms its connection to Solo Film Verleiht, the nascent German distribution outfit co-founded by former ...

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    Ex-Helkon trio goes Solo

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    The management of Helkon International Pictures (HIP) - Christian Halsey Solomon, Lee Solomon and Clifford Werber - has formally bought itself out from Helkon Media and relaunched as Solo Entertainment Group (SEG). The company's name affirms its connection to Solo Film Verleiht, the nascent German distribution outfit co-founded by former ...

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    Splendid lifts Veil on Stratus debut film

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    Splendid Pictures has signed on to represent international sales on The Painted Veil, the first film from Stratus Film Co, the independent production outfit unveiled recently by Hollywood super-producer Mark Gordon, former Miramax LA president Mark Gill and financier Bob Yari. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are to star in ...

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    Splendid lifts Veil on Stratus debut film

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    Splendid Pictures has signed on to represent international sales on The Painted Veil, the first film from Stratus Film Co, the independent production outfit unveiled recently by Hollywood super-producer Mark Gordon, former Miramax LA president Mark Gill and financier Bob Yari. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are to star in ...

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    Indian studio strikes US first-look deal with Lions Gate

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    A multi-picture deal with Lions Gate Entertainment is first evidence of the ambitions of India's Ramoji Studios to become a world scale player.The multi-year, first-look arrangement with Lions Gate enables Ramoji to offer US distribution to a number of films that shoot at its Hyderabad facilities, or are co-produced with ...

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    Mikado boards new Panahi, Sokurov projects

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    Italy's Mikado, fresh from a hefty cash boost by new multimedia shareholder De Agostini, continues to raise its international profile by boarding as a co-producer two new films from world-renown filmmakers: Aleksander Sokurov's Father And Son and Jafar Panahi's Gold, which was co-written with another festival favourite, Abbas Kiarostami. Both ...

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    Mikado boards new Panahi, Sokurov projects

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    Italy's Mikado, fresh from a hefty cash boost by new multimedia shareholder De Agostini, continues to raise its international profile by boarding as a co-producer two new films from world-renown filmmakers: Aleksander Sokurov's Father And Son and Jafar Panahi's Gold, which was co-written with another festival favourite, Abbas Kiarostami. Both ...

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    Boorman taps Jackson, Binoche for Country Of The Skulls

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    John Boorman is to direct Samuel L Jackson and Juliette Binoche in South African-set drama Country Of My Skull. UK-based sales company The Works is representing the production worldwide, with shooting scheduled for February.Jackson plays an angry American journalist and Binoche is a troubled young Afrikaaner who encounter a sinister ...

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    Boorman taps Jackson, Binoche for Country Of The Skulls

    2002-11-04T04:05:00Z

    John Boorman is to direct Samuel L Jackson and Juliette Binoche in South African-set drama Country Of My Skull. UK-based sales company The Works is representing the production worldwide, with shooting scheduled for February.Jackson plays an angry American journalist and Binoche is a troubled young Afrikaaner who encounter a sinister ...