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Chris Columbus to direct first Harry Potter film
Chris Columbus has been chosen by Warner Bros. to direct the first of the Harry Potter book adaptations, closing the chapter on one of the most competitive Hollywood job contests in recent memory.Columbus, director of such commercially successful family films as Home Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire, is expected to begin ...
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VCL takes 25% stake in next two Terminator films
Germany's VCL Film+Medien is to take a 25% stake in the next two Terminator films being produced by Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna's C2 Productions and Japan's Toho Towa.VCL, which went public last year, will get a 25% share of world revenues in all media and an option on the ...
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Spielberg to direct Kubrick's A.I. as next project
Steven Spielberg has committed to directing two science fiction tales starting immediately with A.I. an epic about artificial intelligence that had been a long-gestating pet project of Stanley Kubrick''s before his death in 1999.A.I, which Kubrick had been actively developing before he suddenly shifted his attention to what would be ...
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Natural Nylon's NYC sibling builds digital studio
Natural Nylon Films, the New York production company that describes itself as the sister company to London's star-laden Natural Nylon Entertainment, has reinvented itself as a digital entertainment studio with its own 5,000 sq.ft. production facility in the heart of Manhattan's Silicon Alley.The New York branch of Natural Nylon is ...
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Newmarket, BVFS hold hands along Burns' Sidewalks
Newmarket Capital Group and Buena Vista Film Sales (BVFS) have teamed up to back Sidewalks Of New York, the latest film from Ed Burns, who will write, direct, produce and star in the film alongside his girlfriend Heather Graham and Stanley Tucci.It is the fourth picture on which Burns has ...
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Spain's Filmax rolls out fantasy Factory blueprint
Spain's aggressively expanding Filmax Group has announced a new slate of films for its fledgling Fantastic Film Factory and is now moving ahead on plans to construct a studio in Barcelona with the aim of transforming the city into the sci-fi and fantasy film capital of Europe.At the same time, ...
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Le Studio set to fully finance Mike Leigh trio
Le Studio Canal Plus has signed a three-picture deal with UK film-maker Mike Leigh and his producing partner Simon Channing-Williams. The acclaimed director had also been in financing discussions recently with United Artists Films.Le Studio is now expected to fully finance the Leigh trio with Les Films Alain Sarde, in ...
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Industry boards next project from Bui
Tony Bui, whose debut feature Three Seasons won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, has signed with LA-based Industry Entertainment to make his next film, The World I Made For Her. Based on the novel by Thomas Moran, the film is a ...