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Films Distribution picks up Happy Ever Afters
Films Distribution has acquired Happy Ever Afters by newcomer Stephen Burke. The film is the story of two wedding parties taking place in the same hotel at the same time and the collision of the two in what is being referred to as an Irish My Big Fat Greek Wedding ...
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Canada's Strategic Partners market to spotlight South America
Filmmakers and financiers from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico will join international delegates at this year's Strategic Partners Co-Production market in Halifax, Nova Scotia (September 12-14).Run in conjunction with the Atlantic Film Festival, this three-day concentrated market has a strong core attendance from Canada, the US and the UK, as well ...
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King, Verbinski team on 'mould-breaking' animation
Oscar-winning producer Graham King has teamed up with blockbuster filmmaker Gore Verbinski, fresh off his Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, to develop an untitled animated feature that he will direct with a view to creating a new box office franchise.Both parties are eager to move ahead quickly on the big ...
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Orion Pictures unveils six-film production slate
India's Orion Pictures has announced a six-film slate to be produced over the next 12 months. It includes the animation project Ab Dilli Door Nahi, about five jungle animals trying to meet Indian politicians in the capital city of New Delhi. Already in production, local actors such as Ayesha Takia, ...
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Greenaway co-producer backs Istvan Szabo project
Veteran Hungarian director Istvan Szabo is to bring Magda Szabo's international bestseller The Door to the screen for Sandor Söth's Berlin/Leipzig-based Intuit Pictures and Jenö Habermann's Filmart in Budapest.Described by Söth to Screendaily.com as 'a morally complex story about age, loyalty and betrayal' between two strong women, a famous writer ...
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FDC grants funding to McDull WuDang, Claustrophobia
Animation McDull WuDang and live-action feature Claustrophobia have become the first two film projects to be approved for funding by Hong Kong's recently-established Film Development Fund (FDF). Administered by the Hong Kong Film Development Council (FDC), the fund is designed to support small to medium-sized productions. McDull WuDang is budgeted ...
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Universal signs deal to produce movies based on Hasbro games
Universal Pictures and Hasbro have formed a six-year strategic partnership to produce at least four motion pictures based on Hasbro brands, including Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Ouija, Battleship, Magic, The Gatherin and Stretch Armstrong.Under the terms of the deal, Hasbro will partner exclusively with Universal Pictures for feature films, with ...
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Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom, Sally Hawkins join cast of An Education
Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom and Silver Bear-winner Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) will join the cast of An Education, shooting in London in March and April. Award-winning Danish director Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, Italian For Beginners) will direct the film. Nick Hornby adapted the screenplay from the memoir of ...
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Summit completes casting on romantic vampire franchise
Summit has completed casting on its upcoming romantic thriller Twilight with Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz joining Kristen Stewart and Edward Cullen.Catherine Hardwicke is poised to commence filming later this month on Melissa Rosenberg's adaptation of the bestselling series of books by ...
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Niki Caro starts New Zealand portion of Vintner's Luck shoot
Director Niki Caro starts shooting tomorrow on her new project, The Vintner's Luck.Keisha Castle-Hughes, who also starred in Caro's Whale Rider, will star alongside Jeremie Renier, Gaspard Ulliel and Vera Farmiga.The film is adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name by New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox. The story ...
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Strong casts line up for new Italian films from Tognazzzi, Corsicato
Two new Italian films set to shoot this spring -- The Man Who Loves and Seeds Of Discontent - have both pulled together strong casts. Principal photography of The Man who Loves (L'uomo che ama), directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi, will begin February 25 in and around Turin.The film features ...
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Picture Entertainment, Plum take on Faulkner's Intruder In The Dust
Picture Entertainment and Plum Pictures are partnering on an adaptation of William Faulkner's 1948 classic Intruder In The Dust.Intruder tells the story of black farmer Lucas Beauchamp who is falsely accused of murdering a white man in Depression-era Mississippi. Locked in jail and facing the imminent arrival of a lynch ...
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Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page flock to Mandate's Peacock
Mandate Pictures has cast Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page in the psychological thriller Peacock. The story takes place in a small Nebraskan town where Murphy's schizophrenic character fools inhabitants into thinking he is man and wife. Page will play a struggling mother who holds the key to his ...
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Melissa George to set sail with Icon's thriller Triangle
Melissa George is in final negotiations to star in Triangle, a new supernatural thriller from Creep and Severance director Christsopher Smith.Icon will distribute in Australia and the UK and will handle international sales in other territories. Jason Newmark is producing for Dan Films, with Australia's Chris Brown at Pictures in ...
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Murphy, Page to star in Mandate Pictures' Peacock
Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page are to star in the psychological thriller Peacock for Mandate Pictures. Michael Lander is directing, from a script he co-wrote with Ryan Roy.Barry Mendel will produce the film with Roy; Mandate Pictures' head of production Nicole Brown will executive produce with Nathan Kahane.Murphy will play ...
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Falcon swoops on Elephant Eye's Turkey for Middle East
New York-based Elephant Eye Films has closed its first pre-sale on Craig Zobel's Turkey In The Straw. All rights for the Middle East have been taken by Falcon Films.The project is Zobel's follow-up to 2007 Sundance hit Great World Of Sound, which has been also screening at the EFM market ...
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David Alcade to direct The Seeing For Leomax
Los Angeles and Berlin-based Leomax Entertainment has optioned the screenplay The Seeing (formerly 27 Times) and set Spanish effects supervisor and commercials director David Alcade to direct.Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Regina, Canada, in the early summer on the story of a 14-year-old boy haunted by visions of ...
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Andrzej Wajda lines up Tatarak with Krystyna Janda
Further details have emerged this week about Tatarak, the next project from revered octogenarian Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda whose Oscar-nominated Katyn screens out of competition in Berlin on Friday.Production will begin later this year on the film which is an adaptation of the book by Polish novelist and poet Jaroslaw ...
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Niels Arden Oplev preps Scandinavian detective opus
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, whose Worlds Apart screened in official selection in Berlin, has revealed further details of his big budget new project Men Who Hate Women, an adaptation of the first part of Stieg Larsson's 'detective trilogy.' Oplev is directing the first part as both a feature film ...
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As Berlin winds down, attention turns to potential Cannes selections
A clearer picture is emerging of what films will be ready for this year's Cannes Film Festival in May and the lineup looks like it will be filled with its usual blend of veteran auteur films, new discoveries and US studio fare.Official selection berths already seem set for Ari Folman's ...