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Germans join forces for $47.7m English-language slate
Production outfit Schmidtz KatzeFilmkollektiv and the Berlin-based developmentcompany mediacontentfactory (mcf)have joined forces to initiate a $47.7m (Euros 40m) slate of English-languagegenre films for the international market.According to thejoint venture's partners, the slate of six to seven thriller,fantasy or adventure feature films will either be based on successful novels,games and/or creative ...
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Canadians look south for new deals
Late last year, when a Canadian federalelection was called for January 23, there was a ripple of fear in the Canadianfilm industry and the culture sector as a whole. After 12 years in power, thescandal-marked Liberal government was doomed.The prospect of a Conservative victory hadmany worrying that tax-cutters would hold ...
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Universal Pictures signs production agreement with Aronofsky and Watson
UniversalPictures has entered into a first look production arrangement withdirector/writer Darren Aronofsky and his producer Eric Watson and theircompany Protozoa Pictures. The duo will also develop and produce feature filmsfor Universal's sister companies Focus Features and Rogue Pictures. Aronofsky credits include PI and Requiem For A Dream. He is currently ...
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Judelewicz preps My Life As A Dog sequel
Pascal Judelewicz'sParis-based Les Films De Cinema, the production outfit behind Panorama entry BirdsOf Heaven, has announced a slate ofprojects all to shoot this year.The films are Hair Of TheDog, the sequel to My Life As ADog, starring Stellan Skarsgaard andto be directed by Ludi Boeken (Deadlines); Catherine Cabrol's House 5 ...
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Wong Kar-wai prepares Nights with Norah Jones
Wong Kar-wai is gearing upto work this year with multi-platinum singer Norah Jones who will make heracting debut in his first English-language film which has the working title My Blueberry Nights.Based on a short film thatWong shot in Hong Kong several years ago, the film will be co-produced byStudioCanal and ...
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EU-funded film workshops to go on summer road show
An Italian developmentcompany is to start holding a series of EU-funded workshops and seminars acrossEurope this year as part of adevelopment training programme aimed at European producers.The first of the week-longresidential MAIA workshops, which are funded by the Media Programme, will kickoff in Italy in June and will focus oncreative ...
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Memento Films announces sales on Tavernier's Aurore
Parisian production, sales and distribution house MementoFilms has announced sales of Nils Tavernier's Aurore to Japan's Gaga and Agora in Switzerland.The film is a fairy tale, complete with a kingdom and alovelorn princess, based in the world of dance. Tavernier's previous effort was2000's Tous Pres Des Etoiles,about dancers at the ...
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Wanda Visions prepares new slate of films
Spain's Wanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate offilms including two features set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmaker GerardoOlivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the ...
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Wanda Vision prepares new slate of films
Spain'sWanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate of films including twofeatures set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmakerGerardo Olivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the Saharan ...
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Director Gabriele Muccino sets up production company
Last Kiss director Gabriele Muccino has set up his own production company, which willfocus on adverts and feature films and will have offices in Milan, Rome and LosAngeles'IndianaProduction will group together both young and established writers and directorsand will also operate as a talent agency,' Muccinosaid. Indiana will also have ...
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Young Hannibal wraps Czech shoot
Director PeterWebber has wrapped principal photography on YoungHannibal: Behind the Mask, after a 14-week shootin the Czech Republic. The Dino De Laurentiis production is made with partners Quinta Communications and Ingenious Film Partners. The UK'sZephyr Films is also on board.Internationalsales are being handled by producers' consultant Pamela Pickering in Los ...
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Ecosse teams with Walden, Beacon and Revolution for feature
UK-based Ecosse Films is teaming with US heavyweights Walden Media,Beacon Pictures, and Revolution Studios for the fantasy film The Water Horse. Ecosse's Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae will produce with Barrie Osborne (The Lord of the Rings) andCharlie Lyons. Alex Schwartz, Jackie Levine and David Kaufmann areoverseeing The Water Horse ...
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Tarr to resume work on The Man From London
Hungarian director Bela Tarr spoke to journalists at the 37th Hungarian Film Weekin Budapest about the revival ofhis project, The Man FromLondon, which was stalled last winter after the death of French producer Humbert Balsan. The film, which is to begin shooting in March, is now aFrench-German-Hungarian co-production featuring an ...
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London's Chocolate Chilli Films takes on The Angel of Mons
London-based production company Chocolate Chilli Films hasoptioned the script The Angel of Mons as the second feature on its slate. The project is a supernatural historical drama about a youngwoman serving as an ambulance driver during WWI who is trying to find out ifthe Angel of Monsreally exists. Alice D ...
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Dark Lot Entertainment starts work on new horror feature
Stephen Susco, who adapted the English languagescreenplay of J-horror hit The Grudge,is getting into business with Odd Lot Entertainment's fledgling genre bannerDark Lot Entertainment.Odd Lot is producing Zero Dark Thirty, Susco's tale of a returning war veteran whosetranquil hometown is transformed by a series of bizarre events.Media 8 will commence ...
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Production started on Kamala Films' debut feature Anamorph
Production has begun on new York-based KamalaFilms' debut feature and psychological thriller Anamorph, starring Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman and directed byH S Miller.Anamorph,which takes its name from a Renaissance painting trick involving perspective,centres on a damaged detective who investigates a series of killings that maybe the work of an ...
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Argentinian New Wave looks beyond home for financing
During the 1990s, awave of young film-makers emerged in Argentina who gained comparison on thefestival circuit with similar movements in Iran, Hong Kong, Thailand, Finlandand South Korea.Now severaldirectors from the group known as New Argentine Cinema - such as LisandroAlonso (The Dead), Martin Rejtman (Silvia Prieto) and Lucrecia Martel (Holy ...
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Julio Medem selects an international cast for his new film
Spain'sSogecine has unveiled new details of Spanish auteurJulio Medem's next film, Caotica Ana, set to begin shooting on February 13.Literally "Chaotic Ana,"the $6m (Euros 5m), majority Spanish-language film will star an internationalcast headlined by newcomer Manuela Velles, in herfeature debut, as the title character and singer Bebe,a recent best new ...
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Moore, McAvoy to star in Foresight's Twist Of Fate
Mandy Moore and James McAvoyare in final talks to star in the thriller TwistOf Fate for Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited. Jennifer Elster will directfrom a screenplay by Wendy Riss about a love triangle that develops between aworking class girl and an intense young man haunted by a car wreck they ...
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Disney, Walden Media set to shoot Prince Caspian
Confirming what has been anopen secret for several weeks, Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures issued ajoint statement announcing they have begun pre-production on the sequel totheir global smash The Chronicles OfNarnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe.Andrew Adamson reprises hisdirector's role on The Chronicles OfNarnia: Prince Caspian, which ...