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Andrea Arnold dives into Fish Tank with UKFC, BBC Films, Limelight
Andrea Arnold is following her Cannes 2006 jury prize-winner Red Road with her second feature Fish Tank, which is being backed by the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund with $1.1m (£570,000).Sources close to the film say it will start shooting in Kent, England on June 23 with a cast ...
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Spain's Antena 3 boards Universal andWorking Title's Iraq thriller
Antena 3 Films, the film production arm of Spain broadcaster Antena 3Television, has come aboard Universal Pictures and Working Title'suntitled Green Zone thriller as part financier.Paul Greengrass' film is filming in Spain, Morocco and the UK andstars Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, KhalidAbdalla and Jason Isaacs.The story ...
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Real Holywood unveils first slate including Simon Callow's debut
Belfast-based production company Real Holywood plans a June shoot for its first feature, Yankee King, starring Bill Campbell, Claire Forlani, Kelly Brook and Rosemary Harris.Gerry Lively (Dungeons & Dragons II) will direct for the new production company, which is backed by property developer Robert Whitton and Richard Attenborough's longtime producer ...
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UK new media complex cleared by local government
Outline planning permission has been granted for the new Centre for Creative Excellence at Seaham, County Durham in the northeast of England. The proposed centre would have a media business park, an educational campus, two hotels and an agricultural college. Backers predict it could contribute more than $100m to the ...
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Radical Comics sells 40,000 units of first two Hercules, Caliber comics
Radical Publishing, which is partnered with film company Intandem, has had hits with its first two comic book releases through subsidiary Radical Comics: Hercules: The Thracian Wars and Caliber: First Canon Of Justice. Radical Comics sold out of 40,000 units of the two titles during its launch week starting April ...
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Lakeshore boards Nia Vardalos' directorial debut
Lakeshore Entertainment has boarded Nia Vardalos' directorial debut I Hate Valentine's Day, in which she will reunite on screen with her My Big Fat Greek Wedding co-star John Corbett.Production is set to begin on June 23 on the story of a carefree florist who charms a wary restaurateur into trying ...
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H2O planning further international productions with Germany's MMC
Andras Hamori's LA-based H2O Motion Pictures is planning two international productions with Germany's Magic Media Company (MMC).Principal photography on thriller Running Wild, with lead actor and co-producer Samuel L. Jackson, will shoot later this year in South Africa and at the MMC studios in Cologne. Kevin Kerslake will direct Running ...
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Berdejo to direct romance Jennifer Can in Spain, US
Fast rising Spanish director Luis Alejandro Berdejo is preparing the $3m romance Jennifer Can for Notro Films, Versus Entertainment and Videntia Frames Producciones.Berdejo will begin shooting at the end of October in San Sebastian on his story of a hospital caretaker who develops a relationship with a young patient confined ...
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Seven Arts boards $60m William Gibson thriller Neuromancer
Peter Hoffman's Seven Arts Pictures has boarded the $60m thriller Neuromancer, based on William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk classic book.Joseph Kahn (Torque) will direct from Gibson's adapted screenplay about a computer hacker in a dystopian near-future whose brain is sabotaged after he is caught stealing from his employer.The production and sales ...
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UK's Molinare sells majority stake to Indian giant Century
UK post-production house Molinare has struck a multi-million pound deal to sell a majority stake to Indian media giant Century Communications, parent to its post-production division Pixion.The deal was done May 2 and has now been announced by Molinare's chief executive Steve Milne and managing director Mark Foligno.Century's 'intensive investment ...
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Olivier Dahan back on song for StudioCanal slate
StudioCanal and Alain Goldman's Legende are currently developing the next film from La Vie En Rose director Olivier Dahan entitled My Very Own Love Song .Forest Whitaker and Renee Zellweger are attached to the English-language project, StudioCanal confirmed. StudioCanal is also eyeing a summer production start on Escape From New ...
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Pathe readies Chomet's $22m The Illusionist for 2009
Pathe is now introducing buyers to The Illusionist, the new feature from The Triplets Of Belleville creator Sylvain Chomet. The company is showing first footage here of the $22m project, financed by Pathe and France 3 with Canal Plus.Django and CineB are co-producing; producers are Bob Last and Sally Chomet ...
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Herzog to direct Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant remake
Werner Herzog is lining up to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Bad Lieutenant for Edward R Pressman and Nu Image/Millennium Films.The project is being fast-tracked for a July shoot and the producers are in talks to film in New Orleans.Nu Image/Millennium is financing and handling international sales on ...
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Samuel L Jackson blowsinto Fiennes thriller for Intandem
Samuel L Jackson has taken a lead role in Martha Fiennes’ espionage thriller Blown. The previoiusly announced members of the cast include Thandie Newton and Guy Pearce.The story delves into the world of espionage, terrorism and big business through the eyes of a ruthless MI5 agent.Fiennes, who previously directed Chromophobia ...
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Marcus Vigneron Coudroy joins Shyer's Eloise in Paris
Young 11-year-old French actor Marcus Vigneron Coudroy has joined the cast of Charles Shyer's new live-action feature Eloise In Paris, based on Kay Thompson's classic Eloise books.As previously reported, the cast also includes Uma Thurman and Australian newcomer Jordana Beatty.Vigneron Coudroy was selected from an extensive casting process in London ...
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Right Angle Studios launches production arm with Sequence
Right Angle Studios has launched its production arm Right Angle Pictures, which will focus on socially relevant projects and kicks off with the thriller Sequence.Ron Vignone wrote and will direct and the project is being fast-tracked for production in 2009 and follows a genetic researcher who discovers a giant conspiracy.Right ...
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UK and India agree details of co-production treaty
The UK and Indian governments have said they have finished the necessary negotiations to enable the long-touted UK-India film co-production agreement to come into force.The treaty will let UK and Indian film-makers co-produce films that will be eligible for national status in both countries.The main aspects of the UK-India co-production ...
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Enid Blyton's schoolgirl heroines get big-screen treatment with UFA Cinema
Enid Blyton is set to be given the big-screen treatment by Germany's new player UFA Cinema with a feature film based on the bestselling children's author's St Clare's books from the 1940s. Known in Germany as Hanni & Nanni, Blyton's original stories about the O'Sullivan twin sisters' adventures at their ...
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Platinum teams with Top Cow, Arclight on feature of Witchblade
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios has partnered with Top Cow Productions and film sales company Arclight Films on the adaptation of Top Cow's fantasy thriller comic book franchise Witchblade.The producers expect begin shooting in September in Australia. Plot details are being kept under wraps although what is known that the property ...
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Dorman, Barclayjoin cast of Caesar's Prime Mover
Australian writer/director David Caesar (Dirty Deeds) has started production on Prime Mover, starring Michael Dorman and New Zealand's Emily Barclay. Prime mover is a term used in Australia for the huge semi-trailer trucks that thunder along outback roads. The film is billed as a diesel-charged love story about a young ...