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Non-profit Shelley Foundation set up in honour of Waitress director
Andy Ostroy has set up the Adrienne Shelly Foundation dedicated to the memory of his late wife, actor and director who was found dead in New York last November.The non-profit organisation will focus on women with the stated aim of helping to finance student films and independent projects, supplement film ...
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Paramount signs first-look deal with MTV Films Europe
Paramount Pictures International has signed a three-year first-look deal with London and Los Angeles-based Zilli Films, which operates MTV Films Europe. CEO and founder Jonathan Zilli and head of development and production Bobby Allen run Zilli Films, which has the license to develop MTV branded feature films in Europe. MTV ...
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CJE to invest $85m in local productions in 2007
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE) has announced its 2007 business plan which includes investing $85m in more than 20 local productions this year, while at the same time expanding its global ties. 'While our local film industry was concentrating on sharing the pie instead of growing the market, domestic ...
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Paris Hilton-starrer starts production for Purple Pictures in LA
Hadeel Reda's financing and production company Purple Pictures has begun principal photography in Los Angeles on its debut feature The Hottie And The Nottie.Joel David Moore, Christine Lakin and Paris Hilton star in the comedy about a young man who learns he will only be able to get a date ...
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Vantage teams with Morgan Stanley for $150m financing fund
Paramount Vantage has set up a $150m film financing fund with Morgan Stanley called Marathon Funding, which will invest in the production of at least 15 films.The arrangement covers Babel, as well as the 10 films scheduled to open through Vantage this year. Titles include Paul Thomas Anderson's oil prospector ...
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Rings producer Osborne signs up for Kiwi racing driver biopic
Barrie M. Osborne has signed up as producer of the planned biopic of New Zealand Formula One racing driver Bruce McLaren.Osborne, whose credits include the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and The Matrix, will work alongside co-producer and motor racing fanatic Michael Garlick, for whom the project has been a ...
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Posner launches YaYa! Films in Spain
Enrique Posner, former general manager of Warner Bros in Spain, has set up new production outfit YaYa! Films with three feature films in the works. Posner is currently executive producing 3D animated feature The Missing Lynx, with Manuel Cristobal of Perro Verde Films and Granada-based Kandor Graphics. The $10.4m (Euros ...
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Belgian film fund reports 18 film investment
Belgian media fund Motion Investment Group (MIG) raised $21.4m (Euros $16.5m) for 18 films in 2006, making it the country's biggest source of film finance.The company's end-of-year report shows MIG backed 13 features, four television productions and a documentary.Added to its foundation year of 2005, the company has now raised ...
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New Prescience venture aims to raise $10m
A new UK Enterprise Investment Scheme venture from Prescience Film Finance and tax specialist Chancery aims to raise around $10m (£5m) for UK film and television productions.Prescience Pictures' initial projects include a Bruce Beresford-directed film version of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, to star Lindsay Lohan and to ...
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Anaphylaxis starts shooting at Ealing Studios
Filmart productions started its six-week shoot for Anaphylaxis! at London's Ealing Studios on Jan 8. The low-budget feature is the first on Filmart's slate. Ayman Farahat is writing, directing and producing. The cast is led by Guy Defferary and Katia Winter. The story follows a pathologist, who is allergic to ...
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Greengrass to direct Iraq story Imperial Life for Working Title
Paul Greengrass has signed on to direct the adaptation of Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life In The Emerald City for Working Title and Universal. Lloyd Levin, who also worked with Greengrass and Working Title on United 93, will produce with Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Universal will distribute worldwide. ...
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Hwang Jin Yi gains permission to shoot in North Korea
South Korean production Hwang Jin Yi, based on a North Korean novel dramatising the life of Korea 's most famous courtesan, has been granted permission to shoot in North Korea 's Diamond Mountains for a week starting Jan 28. Directed by Chang Yoon-hyun (Tell Me Something), the film portrays the ...
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Production IG lines up live-action Ghost In The Shell
Japanese animation house Production I.G has reached an agreement with local publisher Kodansha to act as an agent in developing a live-action feature film based on popular manga series Ghost In The Shell. Production I.G will represent Kodansha, which owns the rights to the original manga series created by Masamune ...
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China launches fund for small to mid-budget films
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) is setting up a fund to support young Chinese directors in the making of small to mid-budget films. During the first year of the fund, 16 filmmakers will each receive $64,300 (RMB500,000) to help finance a low-budget project, in addition to ...
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Nair takes the reins of Depp-starrer Shantaram for Initial
Initial Entertainment Group and Infinitum Nihil have signed Mira Nair to direct the upcoming India-set epic Shantaram.The announcement follows a prolonged period of negotiations to find a suitable film-maker that at one point included Peter Weir before the Australian director left the project.Johnny Depp will star in the adaptation of ...
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IndieVest launches production/distribution arm with Burton, Wall
Wade H Bradley, the CEO and founder of film financing outfit IndieVest, has launched production and distribution house IndieVest Pictures and hired Mark Burton (pictured above) as head of production.Former Rogue Pictures co-founder Matt Wall has been appointed vice president of development and Bradley expects to announce his distribution chief ...
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Pacino to play Salvador Dali for Niccol, Room 9
Al Pacino will play the legendary surrealist Spanish painter Salvador Dali in Room 9 Entertainment's Dali & I: The Surreal Story.Andrew Niccol will direct following his last outing on 2005's Lord Of War and shooting is set to begin in June.Room 9 partners David O Sacks, Daniel Brunt and Michael ...
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Hamori, Horowitz launch sales, co-production arm of H20
H2O Motion Pictures principals Andras Hamori and Mark Horowitz are launching an international sales and co-production arm to handle sales, marketing and financing for eight to 12 English language films a year.Horowitz will oversee marketing and acquisition and the company, which has offices in London, Amsterdam and Los Angeles, will ...
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Actors' strike: sign of the times
When Canada's performers went on strike last week, the issues included the usual grievances of workers versus management: pay, benefits and working conditions. But the sticking point was a multi-billion dollar question that could haunt the global audiovisual industry for years to come: how to share the revenue from the ...
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Profile: Endeavor's Independent
The youngest of the big five Hollywood talent agencies, Endeavor is a relative newcomer to the independent finance field. Though agents have, over the last decade, come to play an important role in getting non-studio films packaged, funded and distributed, Endeavor has only been exploring the area for a couple ...