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Nigel Osner to start The Tale Of Reverend Jones Aug 11
Nigel Osner plans an Aug 11 start of shoot in Swansea and Gower for his film The Tale Of The Reverend Jones. Osner also wrote the screenplay, about a Welsh vicar who takes on the Church of England over its views on homosexuality.Jakob Esposito of Welsh Dragon Pictures will executive ...
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Korean government to introduce completion bond scheme
The South Korean government has announced plans for an inaugural completion bond system in order to back the development of local cultural content. In a forum between the ruling Grand National party leaders and officials from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, it was decided that the government would ...
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Schmid stirs up Storm with Berlin shoot starting today
Shooting begins in Berlin today for German filmmaker Hans-Christian Schmid's first major international English-language project Storm (Sturm) [working title] with a cast including Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane, Rolf Lassgard and Alexander Fehling.Fox plays a prosecutor at the war tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia in The Hague who is trying to ...
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Gael Garcia Bernal plans doc project on resistance
Gael Garcia Bernal is teaming up with director Marc Silver and the UK's Pulse Films on Resist, an ambitious feature documentary and web project.Described as Bernal's personal journey through the landscape of resistance, the film is in pre-production with shooting scheduled to take place in spring next year.Bernal will also ...
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Thai star Tony Jaa goes missing from Ong Bak sequel
Thai film studio Sahamongkol held a press conference in Bangkok on Friday (July 25) to confirm that Ong Bak star Tony Jaa has been missing for the past two months. The martial arts star was directing and starring in the sequel to 2003 hit Ong Bak when he disappeared. However, ...
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Andrea Arnold starts UK shoot for Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold has started shooting her follow-up to Cannes prize winner Red Road. The new feature Fish Tank stars Hunger lead Michael Fassbender with Kate Jarvis, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths, and Harry Treadaway.Artificial Eye has already acquired the UK theatrical rights; ContentFilm International is handling worldwide sales. The film is ...
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Samantha Morton to direct drama for UK's Channel 4
Actress Samantha Morton will make her directorial debut on a Channel 4 television drama, The Unloved.The drama is a Channel 4 production with co-finance from regional screen agency EM Media through the European Regional Development Fund.The story is about a young girl growing up in a children's home.Morton plans to ...
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Borman, Graves license movie rights to The Seven Sins
Producers Moritz Borman and Peter Graves will produce a film based on The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending, a book by Jon Land which is inspired by the life of Fabrizio Boccardi.Borman will produce and Graves will executive produce the film and have acquired rights to two sequels (subject to ...
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UK post company Concrete adds another Dean Street location
London-based post-production house Concrete is adding a new outpost, formerly known as The Facility, located at 62 Dean Street.Concrete has expanded to encompass the new space as well as its existing premises at 34-35 Dean Street. Both operations will now be known as Concrete.The expansion will allow Concrete to work ...
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Studio Babelsberg hopes 2008 will be as strong as last year
Studio Babelsberg is optimistic that this year's operations will generate comparable results to 2007 which was the most successful financial year since the production complex's privatisation in 1992.Last year, the group's consolidated turnover had jumped from $25.6m (Euros 16.4m) in 2006 to $135.9m (Euros 87.1m) last year with a positive ...
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Brazilian, Polish producers team for Ziembinski documentary
Brazil and Poland will be co-production partners on Ziembinski, a documentary about the Polish director and actor regarded as one of the founders of the modern Brazilian theatre in the 1940s. The Warsaw-based production company Kalejdoskop will team up with Plateau Producoes and Urszula Groska Producoes, both from Sao Paulo, ...
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Young people's charity launches competition for six shorts
Get Connected, a UK charity to provide help for young people, is launching Nobody's Perfect, a new website for young writers, actors and film directors.Aspiring film-makers aged 16-25 can submit films, scripts or music to be shown to professionals in the industry. The site will have a contest to produce ...
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Shoreline starts 3-D animated feature The Living Corpse
Sales and production company Shoreline Entertainment has commenced production in Los Angeles on its first 3-D animated feature The Living Corpse.The film is financed by Shoreline and independent investors and based on Buz Hasson and Ken Haeser's cult comic book of the same name about a zombie who embarks on ...
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Jenna Dewan, Luke Goss to star in Magdalena
Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, Platinum Studios and Top Cow Productions have hired Jenna Dewan and Luke Goss to star in Magdalena.The project is based on Top Cow's comic book about a young woman who learns she belongs to a line of female warriors descended from Mary Magdalene and ...
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Bals Fund Plus gives $317,000 to bring on Dutch co-producers
The Hubert Bals Fund Plus initiative, from the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Netherlands Film Fund, is granting a total of $317,470 (Euros 200,000) for Dutch co-producers on new films.Dutch companies Isabella Films, IDTV Motel Films, Waterland Film and Volya Films will each receive $79,360 (Euros 50,000) to each ...
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UK, Israel pledge to develop film co-production treaty
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, this week visiting Israel, has announced plans for a UK-Israel film co-production treaty. Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said they would work together to develop the treaty to encourage closer ties between the UK and Israeli film industries.Negotiations will start in the coming ...
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Irish production heats up with Happy Ever Afters, Ondine
Principal photography has commenced in Ireland on writer/director Stephen Burke's debut feature film Happy Ever Afters. Leading cast includes Sally Hawkins, Tom Riley, Deirdre Molloy and Simon Delaney.Happy Ever Afters is a screwball wedding comedy in which two couples, marrying for the wrong reasons, share the same hotel for their ...
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Paramount sets up Acquisitions Group for International, Vantage
Paramount Pictures has created the new Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Group (PWAG), a centralised acquisitions and local productions arm that will service Paramount Pictures International and its worldwide territories as well as US-based Paramount Vantage.PPI president Andrew Cripps and Paramount Vantage president Nick Meyer jointly announced the plans today.Matt Brodlie, Paramount ...
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Stillking hopes to lure Tarantino's Bastards to Czech Republic
Prague-based Stillking Films is in talks with Lawrence Bender and Quentin Tarantino to bring Tarantino's upcoming project Inglorious Bastards to the Czech Republic.Stillking marketing director Romana Paskova told local press that the company had offered the producers various locations but that the project was under a strict embargo.Earlier reports mentioned ...
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Pathe UK adds Tisne, Cowen to production team
Pathe UK is expanding its production team by hiring Louis Tisne as Director of International Production and Michael Cowen as Director of Development.Tisne, who previously worked with Momentum, will report directly to Cameron McCracken, Managing Director of Pathe UK.Cowen will identify emerging talent in the UK as well as working ...