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Robbins, Luke to star in Noyce's Hot Stuff
Tim Robbins and Derek Lukewill head the cast in Working Title's production of Phillip Noyce's HotStuff, a political thriller set in South Africa.Based on the true story ofPatrick Chamusso, an ordinary man forced to resort to terror, the film is setin a turbulent and divided South Africa in the nineteen ...
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Tom Tykwer leads Eurimages Euros 3.9m grant share out
New feature films by TomTykwer (Perfume), Roy Andersson (Du Levande) and Alain Berliner (GeneAstaire) are among 12 projects awarded a total of Euros 3.9m by the Councilof Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimages.The largest amount - Euros600,000 - went to Tykwer's adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's bestseller Perfume- The Story Of A ...
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Billionaire businessman snaps up India's Adlabs
Anil Dhirubhai AmbaniEnterprises has bought an $80.2m controlling stakein India's largest filmcompany Adlabs through subsidary companyReliance Capital.The publicly-listed Adlabsis a leading player in film production,post-production,distribution and exhibition with several multiplexesand 52 digital exhibitioncinemas. The deal is one of thebiggest in Indian entertainment history.Adlabs also owns productioncompany Entertainment One (India) Ltd, ...
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Billionaire businessman snaps up India's Adlabs
Anil Dhirubhai AmbaniEnterprises has bought an $80.2m controlling stake in India's largest filmcompany Adlabs through subsidary company Reliance Capital.The publicly-listed Adlabsis a leading player in film production, post-production, distribution andexhibition with several multiplexes and 52 digital exhibition cinemas. The deal is one of thebiggest in Indian entertainment history.Adlabs also owns ...
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Working Title hops on board Australian thriller
Working Title is to come inon British commercials director Ringan Ledwidge's directorial debut, MiddleOf Nowhere. Co-produced by Sydney-based Deborah Balderstone WBP outfit and London-based Nira Park, it will start shooting in September in Australia.Middle of Nowhere is a psychological thriller about young Britishtravellers who encounter a charismatic American with ulterior ...
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National Lampoon family brand begins first film in LA
National Lampoon Clubhouse,a new family brand created by National Lampoon Inc and Lorenzo Doumani'sMajestic Entertainment, has started production in Los Angeles on its firstproduction National Lampoon Clubhouse's Trick Or Treat.The film is a familyHalloween comedy about a 15 year-old boy spending the fateful night at homebabysitting his younger siblings who ...
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Hong Kong's Pang Brothers begin Ghost House horror pic in Canada
Kristen Stewart, the teenageactress who played Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room, is heading the cast of Ghost House Pictures'upcoming, untitled horror movie directed by Oxide and Danny Pang. The filmstarted shooting this week in Saskatchewan, Canada.Dylan McDermott, PenelopeAnn Miller and John Corbett co-star in the film which is written ...
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CMC to adapt 1940s classic Love In A Fallen City
Taiwan's CMC EntertainmentGroup is to adapt Eileen Chang's classic 1940s novella Love In A Fallen City.The $6m production is set to shoot next July from a script by Ang Lee's CrouchingTiger collaborator, Wang Hui-ling.CMC, currently midwaythrough shooting Su Chao-pin's $4.8m supernatural thriller Silk, hassigned Blue Gate Crossing's Yee Chih-yen to ...
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Three Dots makes a Catch with new distribution outfit
Taiwan's Three DotsEntertainment has joined forces with new production and distribution companySerenity Entertainment International to produce Catch, the latestfeature from Formula 17 director DJ Chen.The $700,000 production,which will begin shooting in Taiwan next month, sees Chen re-team with Formula17 star Tony Yang, who will play a movie extra.Last year Yang ...
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Rourke, Nighy, McGregor enlist for Stormbreaker
An impressive cast isgathering for the $40m-plus teen superspy adventure Stormbreaker, whichbegins shooting in the Isle of Man next week.Alex Pettyfer (pictured), who was TomBrown in UK TV series Tom Brown's Schooldays, will play 14-year-old specialagent Alex Rider. Mickey Rourke will star as Alex's nemesis, megalomaniacbusinessman Darrius Sayle. Bill Nighy ...
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Latin American productions boosted by Berlinale fund
Planned productions fromLatin America have attracted most support at the latest funding session of theBerlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF). Five features and one distributioncampaign will share Euros 195,000 ($235,445) from the body's latest round of awards.Fund manager Vincenzo Bugnostressed: 'The majority of the submissions came from Latin America for thefunding ...
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Paris opens $17m fund to documentaries
The Ile de France Commission,which encompasses Paris and its environs, has made its Euros 14m ($17m) purse available to documentary makers for the first time.The announcement was made at the Sunny Side Of The Doc documentary market in Marseilles on Wednesday.The programme will enabledocumentaries to benefit from aid previously earmarked ...
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Moreau plans programme for budding filmmakers
Frenchacting legend Jeanne Moreau has outlined plans for the Ateliers d'Angers, aresidency programme for budding filmmakers.Thoughsmaller in scale, the project is similar to the Cannes Film Festival Residenceor the Sundance screenwriting workshop, bringing together 12 young Europeandirectors for 10 days beginning July 1. The workshopswill act as an intensive training ...
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Cuaron film promises to 'remove hex' on Pinewood
After a week of profitwarnings and falling share prices, Pinewood-Shepperton studios can finallyannounce some good news.Universal's adaptation ofthe PD James' novel Children Of Men, to be directed by Alfonso Cuaron,is setting up shop at Pinewood Studios - and looks certain to shoot there fromearly autumn."I've been able topersuade the powers ...
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Brad Pitt's Plan B moving from Warner to Paramount
Brad Pitt's production company Plan B has ended its dealwith Warner Bros and signed a first-look production agreement with ParamountPictures, whose chairman and CEO Brad Grey was one of Plan B's originalfounders. Pitt and Grey are pictured together here.The production company already has several projects indevelopment at Paramount. True Story ...
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Tan heads first Singapore-Japan co-production
Singapore writer/director Royston Tan's script 0430 has been chosen byJapanese broadcaster NHK as one of the four projects for its 6th AsianFilm Festival, making it the first Singapore-Japan co-production.NHK executive producer Makoto Ueda who is inSingapore for the filming of 0430says, 'I have been hoping to co-produce a film with ...
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Sony Pictures set to board Woo's $50m Red Cliff
John Woo and Terence Chang's Lion Rock Productions is inadvanced negotiations with Sony Pictures for worldwide rights outside Japanand Taiwan for Woo's China-set blockbuster The Battle Of Red Cliff.Japanese rights have already been sold to Rentrack, whichwill team up with a studio for theatrical, and CMC Entertainment Group inTaiwan. CMC ...
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Gellar to inhabit Alice for Universal
Sarah Michelle Gellar is attached tostar in Alice, a new film based on the video game AmericanMcGee's Alice, for Universal Pictures. Marcus Nispel is set todirect.AmericanMcGee's Alice is a popular Electronic Arts computer game createdby McGee, one of the lead designers on the Quake and Doom series. Usingcharacters and concepts ...
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Greeks look to bed down tax financing initiative
Launching a film financing initiative worth up to 30% ofa budget to attract foreign shoots is probably the best thing has ever happenedto the Greek film industry.Foreign productions, which used to be welcome source offoreign exchange, have dried up in recent years dueto the lack of studios and the emergence ...
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Recording star Larson joins cast of Walden/New Line's Hoot
Brie Larson hasjoined the cast of Walden Media and New Line Cinema's children's tale Hoot.Based on CarlHiaasen's award-winning book, Hoot centres on a Montana boy who moves to Florida and unearths asinister threat to the local population of endangered owls.Logan Lermanplays Roy Eberhardt, the young boy who uncovers the mystery. ...