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Fuji TV to shoot submarine thriller
The Fuji TV network, the makers of last year's number one hit Bayside Shakedown 2, have announced the production of a submarine thriller set in the closing days of World War II.Titled Lorelei, the film will star Koji Yakusho (Eureka, Warm Water Under A Red Bridge) and 16-year-old newcomer Yu ...
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Equinoxe launches production venture
Billy Bob Thornton is in talks to star in Three Bad Men, an $11m Canada-UK co-production backed by Myriad Pictures, Anthony Minghella's and Sydney Pollock's Mirage Enterprises, David Barron and Paul Weiland's UK production outfit Contagious Films and newly-launched Canadian venture Equinoxe Productions.Weiland is set to direct the Peter Straughan-scripted ...
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Francesca Neri to produce erotic adaptation
Italian actress Francesca Neri has announced that she will soon produce her first film, an adaptation of Italy's literary sensation of 2003: an erotic diary written by a 17-year-old Sicilian schoolgirl.The diary, entitled Cento Colpi Di Spazzola Prima Di Andare A Dormire (literally, one hundred brushes before bed time) was ...
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UK, Canada companies team to make animated feature of Monster Club
Montreal-based production and distribution house H2VEntertainment's Manga Latina Productions, along with UK-based UKFS as afinancing co-producer, have teamed up with the UK's Treehouse Productions toturn AP Comics' first full-colour comic book Monster Club into an animated feature film.Additionally, Manga Latina will team up with Treehouse Productionsto turn its property Alien ...
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Tonic buys short story collection by Wagner for possible horror franchise
Producer Lauren Moews' Tonic Films has acquired Death Angel'sShadow, a collection ofthree short stories by fantasy author Karl Edward Wagner featuring the cultanti-hero character of Kane.The deal was brokered by Moews for Tonic Films and by theIntellectual Property Group on behalf of the Pimlico Agency of New York.Moews is planning ...
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Cinema Vikings search for soft money booty
Moderating last week's panel on location hot zones at Screen International's European Film Summit in Berlin, Jonathan Olsberg had an apt analogy for the industry's worldwide pillaging and plundering in search of soft money booty. "We're the Vikings of modern cinema."Oldsberg, whose management consultancy helps structure international co-productions to take ...
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Greenaway goes to battle in search of human soul
Speaking in Berlin following the screening of Tulse Luper's Suitcases, Part II, maverick British director Peter Greenaway revealed details of his next major project - a Russian language epic set in the aftermath of the 30 Years War.Augsbergenfeld, as the project is called, is a historical, baroque film about an ...
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Fandango increases its international activities
Dynamic Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango outfit produced Critics Week closing film B&B and The Cormoran, is continuing to ramp up his international production and distribution labels.Procacci has boarded upcoming Australian picture Missing Tom, through the Australian company he runs with directors Rolf de Heer and Richard Lowenstein.At the ...
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Wondrous director readies Dali, Lorca project
Director Paul Morrison, whose film Wondrous Oblivion opened the Berlinale Kinderfest, is set to direct Little Ashes, a drama based on the relationship between Spanish artists Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali in 1920's Madrid.The screenplay is by Philippa Goslett, and was developed by Moira Campbell through UK production company ...
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SHIP shapes up with detective trilogy
Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP), the English-language division of Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP), has unveiled a slate of five feature projects for production in 2004/2005.The first project scheduled for production at the end of this year is the children's adventure film The Mystery Of Skeleton Island, which will be the ...
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Canadian film industry needs a shot in the arm
For Canadian production listings click HEREThe early part of the year is typically the slowest period in the Canadian film industry. Of course "the Canadian film industry" is a vague term at the best of times. These days a cynical observer might ask, "What industry'" In December, Alliance Atlantis completed ...
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Sex drama entices Winterbottom
With $30,000 in development money from United Artists, last year's Golden Bear winner Michael Winterbottom has started shooting what promises to be his most contentious project yet - a fully sexually explicit relationship drama.He is yet to decide whether the film will ever be released or indeed even completed. "We're ...
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UK Film Council tickled by Spanish comedy
The UK Film Council is to make its first ever investment in a Spanish language film as part of a bid to extend ties with mainland European partners.Spanish comedy Only Human will receive £298,723 in UK lottery investment.The Meet The Family-style comedy to be directed by Teresa De Pelegri and ...
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Zentropa and Sigma to throw Advance Party
Denmark's Zentropa and Scotland's Sigma Films have formed an alliance to back three low-budget English-language films which will shoot in Scotland later this year.Under the Advance Party banner, the three digital £1m films will be directed by Scottish feature debutants Andrea Arnold and Morag McKinnon as well as Denmark's Mikkel ...
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Machinist director moves to bossa nova
Director Brad Anderson, whose The Machinist screens in Berlin's Panorama section, is prepping two new and very different feature film projects.The first is a musical set in early 1960's Brazil. The story follows an American woman who travels to Rio de Janeiro and discovers bossa nova music. Anderson is writing ...
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Firstsight Films and Classic Media team up on Lassie
Charles Sturridge, theBATFA-award winning director of Shackleton and Longitude, haswritten and is set to direct a live-action version of Lassie with his Firstsight Films and New York-based ClassicMedia set to produce.Firstsight's SelwynRoberts, who shared BAFTA honours with Sturridge, and Francesca Barra willserve as producers while Classic Media's chairman and chief ...
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New German media fund backs its first feature
US director Aaron Allred's thriller/love story Not A Lovestory is the first feature film project to be backed by the Babelsberg-based MPF Beteiligungs GmbH & Co Zweite KG (MPF) media fund.The production by Wanowski Brothers Filmproduktion and Doris Kirch's Blue Angel Entertainment Film Productions in co-production with EuroArts Medien and ...
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Spain's Star Line unveils 2004 slate
Spanish producer Star Line, producer of Berlin Panorama entry Bear Cub (Cachorro), is looking to repeat its two-fold production success of 2003 with its new slate for 2004.Following on the coattails of Bear Cub and the company's big-budgeted international production Carmen, Spain's third top-grossing local film last year, Star Line ...
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Berlusconi government boosts support for Italian film
A report has surprisingly revealed that while the Italian government upped its investment in Italian films by 34.8% last year compared to 2002, private investment in local titles dropped a worrying 5.25%,The Italian film industry invested a total of Euros 301.7m in films in 2003, up 8.68% on the previous ...
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Jackie Chan's son joins Twins Effect II cast
Jackie Chan's son, Jaycee Chan, is making his feature acting debut alongside his father in Emperor Multimedia Group's The Twins Effect II (working title) - the sequel to last year's blockbuster action comedy - which is scheduled to start shooting next week.The US$10m martial arts action adventure reteams Hong Kong ...
