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Patrick Stewart lines up for Damian Harris' Pop
Patrick Stewart is attached to star in Pop, Damian Harris' follow-up to his Berlinale competition entry Gardens Of The Night.Based on Kitty Aldridge's debut novel, Harris wrote the adaptation with the author. Their script has been optioned by Andrew Karsch, who will produce the project with Simon Bosanquet of Generator ...
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Generator kicks off five-film genre slate with Red Mist
Generator Entertainment is kicking off with a new slate of five genre films - with budgets of about $3m each - starting with Paddy Breathnach's new supernatural thriller Red Mist, which started shooting for 24 days in Belfast on Monday. The project marks Breathnach's follow-up to Shrooms.Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge ...
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Downey and Taylor's F&ME launches new $1m development fund
UK-based Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) has created a new $1m development fund, backed by private equity, EU MEDIA support and in-house financing, and is initially backing a slate of five projects for 2008. F&ME's Mike Downey is in early development with F&ME chairman Stephen Daldry on a Charles Darwin ...
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Devillers to bring western film-makers to China for genre slate
Natacha Devillers' Les Petites Lumieres is launching a project to bring Western filmmakers to China to make genre movies. Devillers is developing a slate of low-budget genre films - entitled China Syndromes - in partnership with Taiwanese producer Wendy Kuan and UK filmmaker Simon Rumley. Among the directors who are ...
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Odd Lot on board for Yann Samuell's The Great Ghost Rescue
Odd Lot International (OLI) is meeting with buyers to discuss YannSamuell's upcoming children's sci-fi romp The Great Ghost Rescue.Samuell will direct from David Solomons' adapted screenplay of EvaIbboston's best seller about an uprooted ghost family who go in searchof a new home.Miriam Segal and Martin Katz will produce the live-action ...
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Magnolia's Magnet takes on Cocaine Cowboys 2
Magnolia Pictures' genre arm Magnet has acquired worldwide rights to Billy Corben's drug trade documentary Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' With The Godmother.Corben's follow-up to his 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys profiles the rise of a street dealer from California who gets in way over his head when he partners with the ...
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Lorianne Hall takes development post at UK's Ipso Facto
Lorianne Hall been appointed head of development and creative producer at UK-based Ipso Facto Films, one of the producers of last year's Berlin hit Irina Palm.Hall, a veteran of the US and Europe, previously served as head of development and creative producer for Ireland's Samson Films, literary agent at The ...
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UK's Protagonist unveils slate, plans Cannes official sales launch
Protagonist Pictures, the new sales company formed by UK heavyweights Ingenious, Film 4 and Vertigo, has announced the first titles on its sales slate. The mix of films includes new projects from directors Nicolas Winding Refn, Rupert Wyatt, Alexis Dos Santos, Vito Rocco and Tom Shankland.Ex-Metrodome and Universal executive Ben ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes on von Trotta's mediaeval story Vision
Celluloid Dreams has announced its acquisition and co-production partnership on German auteur Margarethe von Trotta's new feature, Vision.Barbara Sukowa will take the leading role in the film, based on the life ofmediaeval mystic Hildegard von Bingen.A mystic, healer and composer, von Bingen was one of the most famous womenof mediaeval ...
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The Match Factory takes a spin with Waltz With Bashir
The Match Factory (TMF) has taken on international sales for Israeli director Ari Folman's first-ever animated documentary feature Waltz With Bashir, which is currently in postproduction and hotly tipped to premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The co-production between Israel's Bridgit Folman Films Gang Ltd., France's Les Films d'Ici and ...
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McAvoy, Duff eye Perrier's Bounty for HanWay, Parallel, Number 9
James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff are in discussions to star in Perrier's Bounty, which HanWay Films is selling.Alan Moloney of Parallel Films and Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 are producing the thriller set in contemporary Dublin.Mark O'Rowe, who adapted Berlin title Boy A and Intermission, is writing ...
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Studio Babelsberg announces intentions to back US studio slate
Studio Babelsberg has revealed plans to invest '$500m or more' in a slate of features by an as-yet-unnamed US major studio to secure more Hollywood productions coming to shoot at the studios.Last year the production centre had hosted such big budget productions as Speed Racer, Valkyrie and The International and ...
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High Point sets sail with Sea Change starring Anne-Marie Duff
The High Point Media Group has taken on world rights for new UK feature The Sea Change, to star Anne-Marie Duff and Tom Burke.The project, based on Jane Rogers' 1999 novel Island, will be co-directed by Elizabeth Mitchell (Argentina, Miscommunication) and Brek Taylor (The Man Who, The Kindness Of Strangers). ...
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Independent sings with Bernard Rose's The Kreutzer Sonata
London-based sales and production company Independent has taken on international rights to Bernard Rose's The Kreutzer Sonata. Jeff Berg at ICM is handling the US rights.Danny Huston, Elisabeth Rohm, Matthew Yang King and Anjelica Huston star. Producers are Naomi Despres and Lisa Enos.The Kreutzer Sonata is about a husband who ...
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Pathe goes deep for The Descent 2 with Celador
Pathe International is starting pre-sales here at the EFM for The Descent 2. Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Mendoza will reprise their roles.The Descent's director Neil Marshall and producer Christian Colson will produce the sequel for UK-based production outfit Celador.Jon Harris, who edited The Descent as well as Stardust and Layer ...
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Elephant cooks up Turkey with Rudd, Sedaris, Theroux
Paul Rudd, John Goodman, Amy Sedaris, Justin Theroux and Danny McBride have come on board to star in Turkey In The Straw, Craig Zobel's follow-up to his 2007 Sundance hit Great World Of Sound. The project, with a budget under $5m, will start shooting in April in South Carolina, about ...
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Brake and Bergin to star in Welsh thriller Nocturne
The Film Agency For Wales has come on board for financial backing of Nocturne, to be shot later this year in South Wales by writer/director Christopher Nurse. Optimum Releasing has already taken UK rights.The horror film will star Richard Brake (Hannibal Rising) and Patrick Bergin (Sleeping With The Enemy) as ...
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Burt Reynolds starts shoot for A Bunch Of Amateurs
Shooting started February 2 on A Bunch Of Amateurs, starring Burt Reynolds, Imelda Staunton and Derek Jacobi.The UK comedy is being sold by Odyssey internationally, with Cinetic handling US rights.Director Andy Cadiff is shooting for six weeks in London and on The Isle Of Man. David Parfitt (Shakespeare In Love) ...
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Dark Sky moves into West's House Of The Devil
Dark Sky Films is working with Roger Kass of Studio Bang and Josh Braun and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix to produce new horror/thriller The House Of The Devil.Ti West wrote and will direct, with the shoot set to start in mid-March in Connecticut. It is casting now.Braun, Kass, Fessenden ...
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UK's Formosa Films to follow Clubbed with Twenty8k
Formosa Films, the UK production company behind Clubbed, is planning its second feature film, Twenty8k, to shoot in autumn 2008.Formosa, founded by producer Martin Carr and director Neil Thompson, has raised half the funding for Twenty8k, which is written by Geoff Thompson.The thriller will follow a young Asian journalist who ...