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ITALY Production Listings - August 12 2004
ITALY - August 12PRE-PRODUCTIONADIUS, LA FESTA E' FINITA(Verdecchi Film) Backer: Fondo diGaranzia. Word gets out in high-flying Roman society that a well-known Italiansinger-songwriter is to make his comeback - despite the fact that his death wasofficially announced in 1980. Prod: Alessandro Verdecchi. Dir: Ezio Alovisi.Scr: Ezio Alovisi.Contact: Verdecchi Film, (39) ...
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Italian producers engage with market forces
Italy's production sector is facing one of its worst everproduction crises:State funding for local films has halted for over six monthsand the government is now threatening to cut over 20% out of its entertainmentfund, leaving the cinema industry with a paltry $19m per year.A number of local, auteur-driven productions which ...
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Multicultural films go Dutch
An English-language feature adaptation of Kurban Said'sbestseller Ali And Nino is beingprepared by Dutch producer Egmond Film and Television. London-based productionoutfit Silkway Entertainment and French Claudie Ossard (Amelie) areco-producers.The Euros 10m project, to be directed by Dutch directorPieter Verhoeff will be shot with an international cast in spring 2005 inAzerbaijan, ...
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Goldwyn joins ensemble of IFC Films' American Gun
Tony Goldwyn has joined thecast of Aric Avelino's ensemble drama American Gun, which began filming in Los Angeles last month andwill be released domestically through IFC Films.Goldwyn recently appeared inThe Last Samurai and will next beseen in the drama Ghosts Never Sleep with Faye Dunaway, and John Turturro's musical Romance ...
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Denmark's Fly prepares for Manslaughter
Danish filmmaker Per Fly, who swept the national filmawards with his first two films The Benchand The Inheritance, is getting readyto shoot Manslaughter, the thirdinstallment in his trilogy about the social classes in Denmark.The DKK19.3m drama will star Danish veteran JesperChristensen (The Interpreter)opposite Swede Pernilla August (TheConstant Gardener) and newcomer ...
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McDull embarks on martial arts extravaganza
McDull,the clumsy but lovable piglet first seen in hit Hong Kong animated feature, My Life As McDull, is to take up kungfu.Pre-productionhas already begun on martial arts extravaganza, McDull - Wudang, the third animated feature showcasing the pink-snoutedhero.Thenew project sees McDull travelling to China with his mother, Mrs McBing, awould-be ...
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Soccer trilogy bends it like Beckham
Echoing the off-pitch sagaof real-life England captain David Beckham, the second instalment of footballtrilogy Goal! will tell the story ofa star player's fall from grace against the backdrop of Spain's Real Madridclub.While the first film willdetail the footballer's rags-to-riches rise at English club Newcastle United,producer and co-writer Mike Jefferies said ...
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Lindon takes on The Moustache
French actorVincent Lindon (Chaos, My Little Business)will begin shooting in Paris on August 23 for The Moustache, the first feature-length fiction film by the authorEmmanuel Carrere.Lindon will staralongside Emmanuelle Devos (Read My Lips,Petites Coupures), who will play his wife. The actress worked previouslywith Carrère during the shooting of the film ...
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Dembo begins shoot on Maison De Nina
Richard Dembo,director of L'Instinct De l'Ange and La Carpe Dans La Baignoire among others,has begun shooting his next feature film, LaMaison De Nina.The story takesplace just after the liberation of France at the end of World War II, a time atwhich children were placed in homes whose goal was to ...
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Six linked Swedish films to shoot simultaneously
Six new Swedish features based on author Hakan Nesser'sbest-selling detective stories will all begin shooting on the same day - August14Two of the films will be made for theatrical distribution in2005, while all of the films in theseries will be broadcast on television all over the Nordic region in 2006 ...
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Grant wraps shoot on directorial debut
Wah Wah, the directorialdebut of Richard E Grant, has wrapped principal photography after a seven-weekshoot in Swaziland.The semi-autobiographical film, which Grant also scripted, is acoming-of-age story set against the tail end of British Colonial rule in thelate 1960s. Told from a 14-year-old boy's point of view, Wah Wah focuseson a ...
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Glenaan readies football project
Scottish director Kenny Glenaan (whose new feature Yasmin premieres in competition inLocarno today, prior to its screeningat the Edinburgh Film Festival) is shortly to go into pre-production on a filmabout the exploitative, cut-throat world of football agents.Ducain's Boys, asthe film is titled, will tell the story of agents who scour ...
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Korea's Kim Jee-woon unveils 'action noir' feature
Rising Koreandirector Kim Jee-woon (A Tale Of TwoSisters) has lifted the veil on his highly anticipated fourth feature, an"action noir" that is set to start shooting in mid-August.Dalkomhan Insaeng (English title to be decided) is produced by b.o.m.Film Productions, and tells the story of a gangster whose boss asks him ...
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Oz production slumps as foreign investment soars
New research confirms that service work on US films issoaring while Australian features remain in the doldrums in terms of numbersmade and budget levels, while co-productions have practically disappeared.Only 15 homegrown films worth A$134m were made in the 12months to June 30, according to the Australian Film Commission's latest annualsurvey, ...
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Fiennes signs on as Potter arch-villain
Ralph Fiennes will play Harry Potter's arch-enemy Lord Voldemortin Warner Bros' upcoming Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, while Miranda Richardson joins the castas the muckraking reporter Rita Skeeter.The production, which is being directed by Mike Newell andproduced by David Heyman, has seen several other recent cast additions.Brendan Gleeson ...
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Bavaria Film picks up Bombon
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up internationalrights for Argentinian director Carlos Sorin's latest film Bombon - El Perro (aka LeChien).Produced by Guacamole Films and OK! Films (Argentina) inco-production with Madrid-based Wanda Vision, Bombon - El Perro tells the moving story of how life perks up for asweet-natured car mechanic ...
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New Greek talent focuses on international market
Veteran Greekdirector Theo Angelopoulos is probablythe only name internationallyrecognisable among his local peers. If the Greekfilm industry has any hope of making an impact in the internationalmarket this lies with a handful of new directors who have the means and thetalent required.Womanwriter/director Olga Malea is probably the most prominent among ...
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Santa story gets bi-sexual twist
Paul Colichman's pioneering gay and lesbian cable network here! TVhas begun production in Vancouver on separate gay and straight-themed versionsof the same Christmas family story.Too Cool For Christmas stars George Hamilton as a local Santa who teaches afashion-conscious teenager about the merits of spending the holidays with hertwo fathers, rather ...
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Cox, Nesbitt, Goode join Allen cast
Brian Cox, Matthew Goode and James Nesbitt have joined thecast of Woody Allen's upcoming UK film.The trio will appear alongside Scarlett Johansson, EmilyMortimer and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers when principal photography starts July 12thon location in and around London.Financial partners in the film include BBC Films, Magic HourMedia, Thema Production and Invicta ...
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Hubble goes from Big Bang to big screen
Fledgling Los Angeles-based finance and production company SyntaxEntertainment has licensed the movie rights to Gale E Christianson's book EdwinHubble: Mariner Of The Nebulae, based on the father of the Big Bang theory.The film version, which is being produced with Los Angelesbased production outfit Persistent Entertainment, will be called Hubble and ...