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Ayres' family saga unites Oz and Singapore
The firstAustralia-Singapore co-production, Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories starring China-born American actress Joan Chen, isto start filming next month in Melbourne and later in Macau for a 2007delivery. Christopher Doyle is the cinematographerBig and Little Films'Michael McMahon and Liz Watts of Porchlight Films are producing the epic dramain collaboration ...
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Ayres' family saga unites Oz, Singapore
The firstAustralia-Singapore co-production, Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories starring China-born American actress Joan Chen, isto start filming next month in Melbourne and later in Macau for a 2007delivery. Christopher Doyle is the cinematographerBig and Little Films'Michael McMahon and Liz Watts of Porchlight Films are producing the epic dramain collaboration ...
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China's Lotus remakes Japanese smash
Hong Kong and Beijing-basedproduction house Lotus Entertainment has acquired the Chinese-languageadaptation rights to 1980s Japanese blockbuster Kamata Koshin Kyoku (TheFall Guy). Based on the successfulJapanese play by Tsuka Kohei, who also wrote the screenplay, the originalJapanese film was produced by Haruki Kadokawa for Shochiku in 1982 and went onto gross ...
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Mackenzie to start shooting fourth film Hallam Foe
David Mackenzie is to direct Hallam Foe on location in Scotland from March 27. Mackenzie1s fourth feature after The Last Great Wilderness (2002), Young Adam (2003) and Asylum (2005) is a $5.4m ( £3.1m) adaptation of the Peter Jinks novel in which JamieBell stars as a misfit teenager who becomes ...
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Spain's Sogepaq pre-sells Bollain feature to Indie Circle
Spain's Sogepaq has closed a pre-sale on director Iciar Bollain's new film, Mataharis, topan-European distribution pool Indie Circle.The deal, which Sogepaq negotiated withMataharis producers La Iguana and Sogecine, includes rights in France (Haut et Court), Italy (Lucky Red), Belgium (Cineart), the Netherlands (A-Film) and Switzerland (Frenetic). Indie Circlepreviously handled ...
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UK's Forward scores Yates, Cole and Cattaneo projects
Forward Films foundersTracy Brimm and Kate Myers are working on their firstslate of 10 features in development, with directors including Peter Cattaneo, John Crowley, David Yates and Nigel Cole.Brimm and Myers quietly startedthe London-based production company in January 2004 after meeting years earlieras colleagues at ICM -- Brimm in Los ...
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Bayside Shakedown duo reteam for Udon
The director and producerbehind mega-hit franchise BaysideShakedown are teaming again on culinary comedy drama Udon which is set to star Yusuke Santa Maria (The Negotiator).The film, to be directed by KatsuyukiMotohiro and produced by Fuji TV's Chihiro Kameyama, revolves around a man who loseshis dreams, but rediscovers his roots in ...
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Goal! 3 goes ahead with plans for World Cup shoot
Milkshake Films hasconfirmed that it will go ahead with previously announced plans to shoot atthis summer’s World Cup in Germany for the final instalment in its football trilogy, Goal! 3.“We’ll be filming the crowdsand filming the action, filming a dozen games or so entirely in documentarystyle,” Milkshake chairman and producer ...
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Director Jan Sverak commences shooting Vratne lahve
Oscar-winning Czech director and producer Jan Sverak has begun filming Vratne lahve on location in Prague.Zdenek Sverak, thedirector's father and long-time collaborator, wrote the script and plays thelead role in the film about a reluctantly retired teacher who takes a job in asupermarket. In addition to Zdenek Sverak,the cast features ...
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Busan boosted by spring shoots
For years the southern South Korean cityof Busan (also spelt "Pusan")was known as something of a cultural backwater, more so when compared to its biggermetropolitan rival Seoul.Then five years ago director KT Kwak shot his 1980s-set feature Friend back in his hometown, taking advantage of its distinctive characteristicssuch as the ...
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British directors rush to beat Irish tax deadline
Three veteran British directors are in the finalstages of pre-production on films which will commence shooting in Ireland before the end of the month. The three films aretimed to beat the 31 March deadline on the existing UK tax regime and are among a last group of productionsto utilise the ...
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Eurimages puts more than $4.2m into nine projects
Strasbourg-based pan-European co-production fund Eurimages has backed nineprojects with more than $4.2m (Euros 3.6m).The first funding selection of 2006 includes new features by the Taviani brothers, Carlos Saura, Nana Djordjadze, and Milcho Manchevski. The largest sum, $772,849 (Euros 650,000) was awarded tothe Tavianis' story of the massacre of the Armenianpeople ...
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Im's Thousand Year Crane cranks up with Prime backing
Korean maestro ImKwon-taek's 100th film has started production with backing from start-up studioPrime Entertainment which is contributing 40% of the $3.8m budget and willdistribute the film. In addition, producer Kino2officially announced Cho Jae-hyun, whose credits include Kim Ki-duk's Bad Guy, as the male lead.Im's Cheon-nyun-hak, which translates literally as One ...
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Feature debut for Unjoo Moon with adaptation of children's book
Unjoo Moon is to direct an adaptation of children's book The Wicked, Wicked Ladies In The HauntedHouse. She directed short film, Sorrow'sChild in 1998 and this will be her feature debut. It also looks likely to bethe next project for Moon's cinematographer husband, DionBeebe who won an Oscar for Memoirs ...
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Focus to back Euro projects from McDonagh and Barra
Focus Features has boardedtwo new European productions - Belgium-set hitman drama In Bruges directed by this year's live action short Oscarwinner Martin McDonagh, and an adaptation of the bestselling World War II novelNaples '44: A World War II Diary Of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis.In Bruges is being produced by ...
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Lionsgate UK acquires Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah
Lionsgate UKhas acquired Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah for UKdistribution. Grant, who has acted in films including Withnail & I and Gosford Park, made hisdirectorial debut with the drama, a semi-autobiographical portrait of hischildhood in Swaziland.Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Julie Walters, Nicholas Hoult,and Miranda Richardson star. "We are thrilled to be ...
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Sandrew Metronome picks up rights to Goodbye Bafana
Sandrew Metronome has bought the rights and closed the deal, which coversall the Nordic countries Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland, with the film's co-producer Ilann Girard and his company ArsamGoodbyeBafana written by James Gregory and Bob Graham tells the true story of awhite South African racist whose life was ...
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Cast lines up for Vaughn's Stardust
Robert De Niro,Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, and Sienna Miller have joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's Stardust. The fantasy love story is about a young man(Cox) travelling into a magical world to win the heart of his beloved (Miller).Vaughn wrote the script with Jane Goldman, based on Gaiman's1997 ...
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Woody Allen to shoot his next film in Paris
Woody Allenwill begin production on his latest film in Paris this summer. Titled The Woody Allen Summer Project 2006, the film marks the thirdconsecutive time the director has chosen to shoot in Europe following his two latest outings inLondon, Match Point and Scoop. Continuing his love affair with Europe, in ...
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Krisztina Goda begins shooting Children of Glory
Hungariandirector Krisztina Goda beganprincipal photography March 5 on Childrenof Glory, a Hungarian-UK co-production based on a script by Joe Eszterhas and produced by Andy Vajna."Thisis an epic movie portraying the heroic efforts of the Hungarian people to tryto break the chains of their Communist occupiers and thereby influence thehistory of ...