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Scherfig returns to Danish film-making with Hjemve
Lone Scherfig isshooting in Denmark again for the first time since making her 2000 dogma hit Italian For Beginners. She will be onthe island of Funen working on a project entitled Hjemve, which can be translated as "longing for home" although anofficial international title hasn't been set yet. The film ...
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ContentFilm on board for Barker's Outpost
ContentFilm Internationalhas acquired worldwide rights to and will co-finance the new action horror filmOutpost.Steve Barker will direct theproject for producers Black Camel Pictures and Matador Pictures. The film, written by RaeBrunton, is set in an unnamed Eastern European country, where battle-wornmercenaries are hired by a mysterious businessmen forhis own special ...
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UK tax credit stranded while Europe ponders approval
Screen International's UK Film Financesummit meets today amid growing evidence that the European Commission may be uncomfortable with aspectsthe UK's new film tax plans. The UK's new tax credit was announced in March this year,further clarified in April, and has been approved by the UK parliament. UK government bodies had ...
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Amy Redford heads cast of Finding Fate for MacArt, Bootstrap
Amy Redford has joined the cast of Jack Conroy's family drama FindingFate, which is set tobegin filming in Ireland and New York in early 2007.Patrick Bergin, Hugh O'Conor, Jamie Harris, and John Keating alsostar in the story of a woman who embarks upon a search for the truth when herlife ...
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Death Defying Acts wraps London shoot
Gillian Armstrong has wrappedprincipal photography on Death DefyingActs, starring Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta Jones and Timothy Spall. Thedrama, about Harry Houdini meeting a mysterious woman on tour, filmed onlocation in and around London.Tony Grisoni wrote thescreeplay with Brian Ward. Marian Macgowan produced forMacgowan Lupovitz Nasatir Films with Chris Curling for ...
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BBC Worldwide on board for African elephant feature
Following on its first twofeatures Deep Blue and earth, BBC Worldwide is planning is third wildlife feature, Distant Thunder. BBC has comeon board as a co-producer with independent film-makers Mark Deeble and VictoriaStone. Distant Thunder will be about the previously unseen emotional intelligence of theAfrican elephant.BBC Worldwide's previous features were ...
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Redgrave, Staunton on board for next Binchy adaptation
Irish producer Noel Pearson, an Academy Award nominee for MyLeft Foot, willfollow his recent Maeve Binchy adaptation, Tara Road, with How About You' based on a Binchy short story. Adapted by Jean Pasley and directed by Anthony Byrne, HowAbout You' is acomic tale about a clash between the generations which ...
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PUSAN: Avex boards Apple, Chen Kaige project
Following its investment in Beijing-basedChengtian Entertainment, Japan's Avex is making a push into Chinese production by co-financingtwo of the company's upcoming productions - Li Yu's Apple and a biopic to be directed by Chen Kaige.Chen, who most recentlydirected big-budget fantasy epic ThePromise, is developing a film based on the life ...
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Abraham and Dornford-May pact for South African stories
Producer EricAbraham and director Mark Dornford-May have announced a new collaboration toproduce theatre and film projects based on South African talent for aninternational audience. South Africantheatre veteran Mannie Mannim will serve as a consultant. The projects currentlybeing developed include theatre co-productions with London's Young Vic Theatre,stage and film versions of ...
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Polish Insitute backs new films from Loach and Zelenka
Newfeature projects by Ken Loach, Petr Zelenka and Oliver Parker are among sixinternational co-productions supported with a total of $4.1m (Zlotys 12.8m) bythe Polish Film Institute in its latest round of funding. Loach's These Times, which hasproducer-distributor SPIInternational as its Polish co-producer, received $176,376 (ZL 546,508)production support. The Polish elements ...
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Rotterdam's Bals Fund starts digital production grant
The International FilmFestival Rotterdam (Jan 24-Feb 4, 2007) will introduce a new digital productiongrant to the Hubert Bals Fund.The 36th Rotterdam festival has announced a new $24,980 (Euros 20,000)grant for low-budget digital video productions from developing countries. Thegrants can be used to fund total production costs. During the Fund's autumn ...
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Nu Image to start Cusack's $10m parody thriller
Nu Image Bulgaria will begin filming Oct 22 on Brandhauser, an international intrigue parody starring John Cusack,Joan Cusack, Hilary Duff and Marisa Tomei. Josh Seftel, one of the directorsbehind TV series Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, will direct the $10m project, alsoknown as War Inc. The film will shoot ...
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PUSAN: Taewon unveils Resurrection at Asian Film Market
Korea's Taewon Entertainment took advantage of the firstday of the Asian Film Market to promote its upcoming project Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon.MaggieQ has joined Andy Lau in the cast of the epic actioner, which Taewon isco-producing with Hong Kong's Visualizer Film Production.Recently featured in Mission: Impossible3, Q ...
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PUSAN: Cha joins cast of Studio 2.0's Highway Star
Korea's Studio 2.0 has announced that Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) will head the cast of comedy drama Highway Star. Co-directed by Kim Sang-Chanand Kim Tae-Hyun, the film is a remake of Japanese film Sharan-Q No Enka No Hanamichi, directed by Yojiro Takita, about anaspiring rock singer who signs the ...
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Wajda starts shoot for Katyn massacre film
Veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda has begunshooting of his long-cherished project PostMortem about the Katyn massacre of 1940 at locations near Krakow.The $5.2m (Zloty 16m) Polish-French co-production byAkson Studio with Margaret Menegoz's Les Films du Losange as minority partnerhas received $1.9m (Zloty 6m) backing from the Polish Film Institute, $564,884(Euros ...
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UK shoot starts next week for Grant's Coffee Sex You
Marcel Grant’s Coffee Sex You will shoot in London from Oct 16-31 before moving to shoot in Italy Nov 1-7.The feature is about a27-year-old investment banker who questions her suicide plans when she meets afledgling film producer. Rosie Fellner and Caspar Zafer will star.The financing is beingraised independently.Grant, who previouisly ...
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Eurimages backs 14 co-productions with $5.5m
The Council Of Europe's film fund, Eurimages, has announced its supportof 14 new European co-productions for a total of $5.5m (Euros 4.4m). The films are:L'aube du monde by Abbas Fahdel (France/Germany) Back To Africa by Othmar Schmiderer (Austria/Germany)Ein Fall fur Freunde... wie alles begann byTony Loeser and Jesper Moller ...
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David Tennant and Emily Blunt pair for UK's Wedding
UK actors David Tennant and EmilyBlunt have signed on for the lead roles in CheerfulWeather For The Wedding, a project from London-basedClockwork Pictures. The shoot is planned for May 2007.Clockworkproducer Teun Hilte, who was one of the producers of Paul Verhoeven'saward-winning Black Book, is devlopingthe script with Donald Rice and ...
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Look Both Ways actor to direct Ten Empty
It has been on the verge ofgoing ahead several times but now cameras are definitely going to roll on Ten Empty, the feature film directorialdebut of actor Anthony Hayes, who played the estranged father of two childrenin Look Both Ways. The film got the go-aheadfrom the Australian Film Commission's IndiVision ...
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Woolcock directs modern Exodus story
Director Penny Woolcock isfollowing up her new feature MischiefNight with an unusual film project based on the Biblical Book of Exodus.The Margate Exodus is comissioned and produced by arts group Artangel in association withCreative Partnerships Kent, Arts Council England and Channel 4.The story of Exodus isupdated to 20 years in ...