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Beijing Rosat lines up three-picture slate
Beijing-based Rosat Film andTV Productions is lining up a slate of three films including period martialarts drama Green Dragon Scimitarwhich is scheduled to start shooting in September. Budgeted at $12.5m, the filmis about the life of Guan Yu, a general in China's Three Kingdoms period. Rosat founder Li Shaohong is ...
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Korea's Nabi Pictures moves into Chinese production
Korea's Nabi Pictures is establishing a branch in China, Beijing Nabi Pictures, to produce aChinese-language film. Speaking to reporters at China's Hengdian World Studios, Nabi Pictures co-CEOs JoMin-hwan and Kim Sung-soo claim this marks the first time that a Korean filmcompany has set up a local corporation in China to ...
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First Danish-Austrian co-productions unveiled
ZentropaEntertainments and DOR-Film are to be partners on the first ever Danish-Austrianco-production with Jacob Thuesen's Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years. Thisalso marks the first collaboration between national public funds the DanishFilm Institute (DFI) and the Austrian Film Institute who are backing theproject that previously had Lone Scherfig attached asdirector. ...
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Uruguayan project wins $300,000 award at Guadalajara
Uruguayan film Eighteen Cigarettes and a Half (18 cigarillos y medio)was the first winner of the Tornasol award at the Guadalajara FIlm Festival.The prize guarantees co-production services worth $301,449 (Euros 250,000).Twenty projects participated for the top prize in thesecond Iberoamerican Co-production Meeting which came to a close today. Thewinning project ...
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German Federal Film Board backs 11 projects with over $5.7m
Newfeature films by Marco Kreuzpaintner, Fatih Akin, Peter Timm and Ben Verbong are among 11 projects backed with over $5.7m (Euros4.8m) by the German Federal Film Board in its latest funding session.Thelargest amount $961,399 (Euros 800,0000) went to Kreuzpaintner'sadaptation of the children's classic Krabat for Claussen + Woebke Filmproduktion, while$841,365 ...
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UK Film Council announces investment in three new films
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund has announcedsupport of three new films in production, Pawel Pawlikowski's TheRestraint of Beasts, Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger'sSparkle, and Sarah Gavron's Seven Seas.The New Cinema Fund's investment in The Restraint of Beasts is $1.1m(£650,000). As reported by ScreenDaily in February, Pawlikowski's black comedy ...
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Richard Attenborough starts Belfast shoot for Closing The Ring
Director Richard Attenborough started production Monday in Belfast on Closing The Ring,an epic love story that stars Shirley MacLaine,Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Brenda Fricker, and Pete Postlethwaite. Jo Gilbert is producing with Attenborough, with Martin Katzco-producing. Closing the Ring is apresentation of the UK Film Council, Scion Films, the Northern ...
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Shooting begins on Taku Shinjo's kamikaze pilot drama
Today marked the first day of shooting on Japan'slatest WWII drama, Ore wa, Kimi no Tame ni Koso Shinini Iku (literal translation I WillDie for You), which centers around Japan'sfamed kamikaze pilots. The project was announced last August by Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, who is serving as executive producer andscreenwriter ...
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The Baker to start Wales shoot for Grandville, Picture Farm
Grandville Pictures and Picture Farm Ltd. willstart principal photography on March 27 for The Baker, the feature film debutfrom writer/director Gareth Lewis. The comedy will shoot on location in South Wales for six weeks.Damian Lewis, who is the director's brother,stars as a hitman who hides out in a small Welshvillage ...
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Hollywood studios plan their first Hindi films
Hollywoodstudios are actively seeking partnerships with Indian production houses asSony, Paramount and Disney announced their plans to make their first Hindifilms. With India's filmed entertainment business valued at $1.5billion in 2005 Hollywood studios see a huge opportunity to cash in on the Bollywood (Hindi Song & Dance film industry) marketthrough ...
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Haneke slams Austrian producer's body funding plans
Austria's leadinginternational filmmaker Michael Haneke (Hidden)has spoken out against proposals by the Austrian Producers Association toconcentrate public film funding on the makers of commercially successful films.Speaking at the first offour roundtables on the state of Austrian film production at this week's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema, Haneke said: "If ...
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Film Finance Corporation Australia to fund two new features
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) today gavefinal approval on its investments in the animated feature $9.99 and a feature-length documentary investigating discreditedauthor Norma Khouri.The stop-motion animation for adults, $9.99, is the first officialbig-screen co-production between Australian and Israel.Israeli director Tatia Rosenthal wrote the scriptwith Etgar Keret and hasbeen working with ...
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Filmko, Fortissimo come up for Air
Fortissimo Film Sales andHong Kong production company FilmkoEntertainment have boarded Zhang Yang's Air(working title), one of 25 projects participating at this year's Hong Kong AsiaFilm Financing Forum (HAF).Filmko announced today thatit is fully financing the $2.5m film while Fortissimo will handle world sales.Production is scheduled to start in southern China ...
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German producers look to the Balkans for success
Champagnecorks may have popped in Sarajevo after Jasmila Zbanic's debut feature Grbavicawon the Golden Bear at last month's Berlinale - but celebrationswere not confined to Bosnia and Herzegovina.Therewas also cause for jubilation in Germany: Didi Danquart's Karlsruhe-based noirfilm was one of the co-producers, along with Austria'scoop99, Zbanic's own company Deblokadaand ...
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Biopic spies North Korean location shoot
A biopic about a Korean composer who was found guilty of spying for the North while in Germany is about to become the firstSouth Korean film to shoot on location in North Korea's capital city. LJ Film, with the backing ofparent company Innotz/Prime Entertainment, looks set to film Yun Isang, ...
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Fortissimo game for Tian's Go Master
Fortissimo Films has boardedTian Zhuangzhuang's highly-anticipated The Go Master, taking international rights outside China.Fortissimo co-chairmenMichael Werner and Wouter Barendrecht are executive producers on the $6mCannes-tipped epic, which is currently in post-production in Beijing.The Go Master stars Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Sylvia Chang (Eat Drink Man Woman) and Xin ...
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HK's Focus cultivates ties with emerging filmmakers
Affirming its commitment togrooming new talents, Hong Kong's Focus Film is producing new feature films bythree directors that emerged through its First Cuts low-budget filmmakinginitiative that was unveiled last year.Robin Lee, who shot theTaiwanese episode The Shoe Fairy,will now direct My DNA Says I Love You, a new quirky romantic ...
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Chinese studio start-up hires sales veteran
Korean sales executive Bill Hwang has moved to Meridian Pictures Group(MPG) as Director of International Distribution. Formerly of Tube Entertainment and KangJeKyu Film, Korean-AustralianHwang has relocated to Shanghai to join the newly formed Chineseinvestor/distributor.MPG is currently in the process of completing output deals for mainlandChina and international distribution from leading ...
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Media Asia unveils brace from Infernal Affairs duo
Hong Kong's Media Asia isplanning to produce two films this year from Infernal Affairs directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak as part of anambitious slate of between eight and ten productions.First up is HK$60m ($7.7m)thriller Behind The Sin which isset to star Tony Leung Chiu-wai and scheduled to start shooting ...
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Universe hot to trot with Tony Au's 21 Feet
Hong Kongproducer-distributor Universe Entertainment has added 21 Feet, veteran filmmaker Tony Au's first project asdirector in more than a decade, to the sales slate it is offering buyers at this week's Filmart convention. The $2.5m drama isabout a boy from Hong Kong who moves to China's Hainan island with his ...