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HanWay takes on sales for Winterbottom's Genova
HanWay Films has acquired worldwide rights outsidethe UK for Michael Winterbottom's forthcoming Genova,which now has Colin Firth attached to star.Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton's London-basedproduction company Revolution Films is producing with co-financing from Film4(which holds UK rights). Winterbottom will shoot the project in spring 2007 onlocation in Italy with post-production will ...
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MK2 starts shoot for Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park
French outfit MK2 hasannounced the beginning of principal photography on the latest film from GusVan Sant. Filming begins this weekin Portland, Oregon on Paranoid Park, a project adapted from the book of the same name by Blake Nelson,which was released in the US in September.MK2 will produce with NeilKopp and ...
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QED takes on sales for The Girl In The Park
Bill Block's BeverlyHills-based sales company QED International has added psychological thriller TheGirl In The Park to its AFM slate.Keri Russell, AlessandroNivola and Elias Koteas have joined Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth onthe project, which is set to begin principal photography in New York onNov 13.Sean Furst, Bryan Furst and Chip ...
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Weinsteins and BBC Films find meerkat love
The Weinstein Company (TWC)and BBC Films will co-finance African wildlife feature The Meerkats, which is scheduled for a November shoot inthe Kalahari Desert.TWC holds worldwide rightsand international chief Glen Basner and his team will introduce the projectto buyers here at AFM. For the first time BBC Films will collaborate withthe ...
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Wang Xiaoshuai plans November shoot for Zuo You
Chinese filmmakerWang Xiaoshuai will be shooting $1.25m drama Zuo You (literally Left And Right) as his 10th feature film, the Cannes-winningdirector announced at the Golden Rooster Baihua Film Festival in China's Hangzhou City today.Beijing-basedDebo Film, producer of Wang's previous film ShanghaiDreams, will again be the main production and financing company ...
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Vertigo works with funding partner for Northern Star
UK producer Vertigo Films has lined up the first two productions to comeout of its new relationship with Pacific Continental Fund Management's FilmOpportunities Fund. The first project to shootwill be Simon Ellis' Northern Star - A Love Story (workingtitle), a rites-of-passage love story that will shoot in Gateshead, Newcastle starting ...
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Turin award gives funds to Argentos and Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana and Darioand Asia Argento will be the first recipients of the $19,000 (Euros 15,000)prize Set Torino Piemonte - for actors, directors and producers working in Italy's Turin - Piedmont region.A $19,000 (Euros 15,000) prizewill be given to each of three recipients on behalf of the Film CommissionTorino ...
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UK's HandMade relaunches with Sequence/IAC deal
A team of UK veterans has come together to revive the HandMadeFilms banner as a production and sales company. The new executive team of chairman Patrick Meehan and managing director David Ravdenwill now run HandMade, which was started by George Harrison in the 1970s andcontrols rights to the Eloise franchise ...
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Distributor SF Norge starts production division
SF Norge - Norway's leading distributor, a subsidiary of Swedishmajor, Svensk Filmindustri - is establishing its own production department,with the ambition to produce two features annually, and co-produce another two.The first slate is topped by the $12.8m package of six films about Norwegian privatedetective Varg Veum, which has currently shooting.Before ...
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Odeon gets rights to Fitzek's Die Therapie
Odeon Pictures hasacquired the film rights to adapt Sebastian Fitzek's bestselling psychothrillerDie Therapie, which was publishedthis July and immediately appeared in the bestseller lists.Berlin-based Fitzekwill be actively involved in the development of the screenplay and will serveas an advisor to the project from concept through to principal photography, which is ...
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Denmark's Flame And Citron gains momentum
Danish feature FlameAnd Citron has raised 75% of itsrelatively large $7.6m (45m Danish Kroner) and will head into production withdelivery set for 2008.Ole Christian Madsen willdirect the story of two colourful and important freedom fighters during WorldWar II. Lars K Andersen wrote the script.The director sees his newfilm as an ...
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London shoot starts for Leonti's Daylight Robbery
Shooting has started in London on heist movie DaylightRobbery. Director Paris Leonti makes his feature film debut based on hisown screenplay. The film follows a group of England football fans who use the World Cup as a cover for abig bank robbery.The cast features GeoffBell, Leo Gregory, Vas Blackwood, Paul ...
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Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund backs 24 projects
The Hubert Bals Fund of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has granted a total of $444,180(Euros 353,000) to 24 film projects and initiatives from developing countries. Grants for script andproject development went to established film-makers including Paraguay's PazEncina and Romania's Cristian Mungiu. Post-production funding went tofilm-makers including Brazil's Paulo Caldas ...
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Kinowelt acquires producer/distributor Pegasos
After acquiring amajority stake in the license trader Intertainment earlier this year, theKinowelt Group has now continued its expansion by taking over the Cologne-baseddistributor-producer Pegasos Filmverleih und Produktion.In the deal signedin Leipzig on the eve of this year's Hof Film Days, Kinowelt has committed tocontinuing Pegasos' business exploiting rights to ...
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Documentary programme Greenhouse Project revived
The Greenhouse Project is back in action. Thetraining program for the development of feature-length documentaries, whichlaid dormant for the best part of the last ten months, is now registeringcandidates for its first round of seminars, to take place in January 2007 in Istanbul. Targeting East Mediterranean territories, the programmeexpects candidates ...
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Donner, Juonifilmi on board for The Border
Oscar-winning Finnishproducer Jorn Donner will return to filmmaking after a six-year hiatus, asproducer of Lauri Torhonen's The Border, which marks the first feature from productioncompany Juonifilmi. Scripted by Aleksi Bardy, The Border is based on the real-lifestory of Donner's father, which Donner told Torhonen as they collaborated onthe 1986 film ...
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Germany's FFA backs next Glawogger film
New feature films fromAustria's Michael Glawogger, theatre/film director Leander Hausmann and the directorialduo Marcus Mittermeier and Jan Henrik Stahlberg are among seven projectsawarded a total of $2.8m (Euros 2.25m) production support by the German FederalFilm Board (FFA).Glawogger received $313,937(Euros 250,000) for Contact High, thesequel to his comedy Nacktschnecken, which will ...
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Animaker plans Finland's highest-budget feature
Following Help! I'm a Fish and The Ugly Duckling And Me!,Danish director Michael Hegner stays in animal kingdom for his next feature, The Way To The Stars.Staged by Finnish productionhouse Animaker, and co-directed by Finnish director Kari Juusonen, the $7.7m(Euros 6.1m) CGI-animated feature - the most expensive productionever in Finland ...
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TWC options remake rights to Thai thriller 13
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hasacquired remake rights to Thai psychological thriller 13 from Sahamongkolfilm, in a deal that also includes NorthAmerican rights to the original film. The $1.2m film, which openedtwo weeks ago in Thailand, is the second feature from 26-year-old director ChukiatSakweerakul following Evil (Pisaj). Based on a Thai ...
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Sega to adapt two games into animated features
Sega Sammy Group Holdingsand subsidiary TMS Entertainment Co have announced plans to adapt two of itsmost popular game franchises into animated theatrical feature films to bereleased next spring.Osharemajo Love And Berry and Kabutomushi:Oja Mushiking are two of Japan's best selling card and video games for girls andboys respectively. Both games ...