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Seven projects get $80,000 from Gucci Tribeca Doc Fund
Seven projects have been selected to receive grants from the Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci's new Gucci Tribeca Documentary Finishing Fund. The selected film-makers and their projects stand to receive a total of $80,000 in grants. They are: Andrew Berends (Delta Boys), Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman (If A ...
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Chile, Dominican Republic/Mexico take awards at Locarno Open Doors
Filmmakers from Chile, Dominican Republic/Mexico and Guatemala were the recipients of the awards presented on Wednesday at the end of the Open Doors Factory organised by the Locarno International Film Festival with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).Two grants for development and production worth $46,000 ...
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Panov's War Is Over is first production out of Europe's Babylon
Macedonian-born Mitko Panov's The War Is Over has become the first project to go into production after being developed at the Babylon programme promoting cultural diversity in Europe.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com at this week's Locarno International Film Festival, Panov explained that the co-production between Switzerland's Kamera 300 and Macedonia's Pirej ...
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Sky Movies co-finances Rocky Horror Picture Show remake
The UK's Sky Movies is co-financing a remake of musical hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show.The original film's executive producer, Lou Adler, is working with BermanBraun and Fox TV to remake the cult classic for MTV in the US and SkyMovies in the UK.Cast and director will be announced later. ...
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Showbox pre-sells Rough Cut to Japan's Pony Canyon
Korean sales agent Showbox has pre-sold action film Rough Cut to Pony Canyon for Japan. Directed by Kim Ki-duk protege Jang Hun, the $1.5m film wrapped principal photography last month.The film stars Kang Ji-hwan and So Ji-sub - well-known in both Japan and Korea for their TV drama performances. Kang ...
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Pusan's Asian Cinema Fund awards funding to 27 projects
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) Committee has announced the 27 films selected to receive backing from the Asian Cinema Fund (ACF) this year. For the Independent Feature Script and Project Development Fund category, three Korean projects, including Seaside by Kim Jong-kwan, and four Asian projects, including Woman On Fire ...
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Gyeonggito supportUS-Korea ventures with $100m fund
South Korea's Gyeonggi province has launched an entertainment initiative to promote co-ventures with Hollywood, which includes a $100m fund for films, animation and games projects with global appeal. 'Gyeonggi Province will be putting in $20m seed money and we are currently bringing in other international investors,' said Yoonsik Choi, department ...
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Swiss television increases its support for film industry by $2.3m
Swiss public television is to increase its support for independent Swiss production in gradual steps from the current annual $18.2m (CHF 19.8m) to $20.5m (CHF 22.3m) from 2011.The Audiovisual Pact (Pacte de l'audiovisuel) between the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR and six film industry associations will see an increase in ...
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Warner comes on board for Simon Verhoeven's Maennerherzen
The Lives Of Others producer Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion is collaborating for the second time with the German outpost of Warner Bros. for Simon Verhoeven's Maennerherzen which begins shooting in Berlin today.A year ago, the Munich-based company produced U-900, a comedy about a submarine on the run in 1944 Germany, ...
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MGM takes on Kaufman and Agosto's action comedy
MGM has acquired Ken Kaufman and David Agosto's untitled action comedy pitch with Get Smart director Peter Segal attached to direct.Segal will also produce with his longtime producing partner Michael Ewing and Andrew Lazar. Kaufman wrote The Missing and Space Cowboys while Agosto was his uncredited co-writer on Curious George.Callahan ...
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Goran Paskaljevic to shoot Honeymoon from October
Veteran Serbian film-maker Goran Paskaljevic (How Harry Became a Tree, The Optimists) will begin shooting his next feature Honeymoon from mid-October as the first film co-produced between Albania and Serbia.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com at this week's Locarno film festival where he is a member of the International Jury, Paskaljevic said ...
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Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen start shooting Isitt's Nativity
Debbie Isitt has started principal photography on comedy Nativity, starring Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins and Mark Wootton.Backers are BBC Films, Screen West Midlands and Limelight. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales.Isitt, who last directed Confetti, is again directing an improvised comedy.Nick Jones is producing.The film will shoot throughout ...
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Japan's Fuji TV to produce third Umizaru film
Fuji TV producer Hirotsugu Usui has announced a third sequel in the hit Umizaru marine action franchise. The news comes after two years of petitions by fans for a continuation in the story, leading Usui and the network to start work on a third installment. Umizaru 3 will again be ...
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Avex Group, Media Asiaestablish $50 film fund
Hong Kong's eSun Holdings, parent of the Media Asia Entertainment Group, and Japan's Avex Group have announced the creation of a film fund of $50m over five years, to be jointly financed by both parties. The two companies have formed a joint venture company, PAMIEM Film Fund Limited, incorporated in ...
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Le, Gigandet, Moehring join cast of Alvart's Pandorum
Martial arts world champion Cung Le, US actor Cam Gigandet (winner of the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Scene for his performance in Never Back Down), and German actors Wotan Wilke Moehring and Andre Hennicke have joined Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster in the cast of Christian Alvart's futuristic ...
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Stephen Cookson attached to direct UK feature Acts Of God
Stephen Cookson is attached to direct Acts Of God, a new UK feature now in development.Joe Stephenson and actor Ryan Sampson (Doctor Who) are writing their first feature screenplay.UK equity financier CKM Entertainments Ltd is financing the development and the production could be shooting in spring 2009.The road movie is ...
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Cast lines up for New York feature Fighting Fish
Val Emmich, Anna Moore and Halley Feiffer will star in Slew Pictures' family drama Fighting Fish, set to begin principal photography in the Woodstock/Saugerties area of New York state on Aug 11.The story tells of a brother and a sister from a troubled family who struggle to stay close.Annette Apitz ...
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TrustNordisk picks up Glasner's This Is Love
TrustNordisk will handle worldwide distribution for Matthias Glasner's latest feature This Is Love which is currently shooting on location in Berlin before moving to North Rhine-Westphalia next week.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, co-producer Jörg Schulze of cine plus Filmproduktion explained that the contact to the Scandinavian sales company had come via ...
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Brad Pitt joins Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards for TWC/Universal
Brad Pitt has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino's upcoming second world war drama Inglorious Bastards for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Universal Pictures.Pitt, who had been in talks with the director for several months, will play Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a band of convicts sent on a ...
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The Location Guide relaunches free locations website
TheLocationGuide.com has relaunched its website feature free access and new functionalities. The online resource is geared to film producers seeking locations and services across 180 countries.Changes at the site include more types of companies listed and a new look for online discussion area Pre Production Forum.The Location Guide is a ...