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VIP media fund backs Kapur's Water
Shekhar Kapur has tied up with Europe's VIP Media Fund, toco-produce and distribute his films. The first two films announced as part of this collaborationare: Paani (Water) being produced and directed by Kapur and renownedauthor Deepak Chopra under the banner of their company INTENT, and Buddhabeing produced by Kapur and ...
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Twisted, Lions Gate follow Saw with Catacombs
Following onfrom the hugely successful 2004 horror hit Saw, Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Filmsannounced yesterday (Mar 1) that the first project in their nine-picture dealwill be called Catacombs.Principal photography is set to start in Bucharest,Romania, on Mar 7 on the project, which stars Shannyn Sossamon and Alecia Moore- aka ...
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Gordon leaves Stratus to focus on sole producing career
Mark Gordon is leavingStratus Film, the company he and Bob Yari co-founded in 2003, to focusexclusively on his producing career. Under the terms of theamicable split, Gordon and Yari will remain jointly involved in existingStratus projects that are in various stages of development and pre-production. These include The PaintedVeil starring ...
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Spanish producers spread their film budget bets
A contradictory trend is at work in Spain: the country ismaking increasingly more low-budget films, yet production cranks up this monthon two of its costliest features ever, Viggo Mortensen-starrer Alatristeand Vicente Aranda's The White Knight.Average feature film budgets decreased in Spain last yearand almost two-thirds of films were budgeted at ...
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Ledoyen, Livingston head up cast of Holly shooting in Cambodia
Guy Moshe's adventure drama Holly has begun production in Cambodia,starring Virginie Ledoyen, Udo Kier, Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Thai starKovitt Wattanakul and Vietnamese newcomer Thuy Nguyen.The story centres on a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl's desperatesearch for her family and the 35-year-old American man who helps her in herquest.Moshe co-wrote thescreenplay with ...
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Italy's Buskin opens co-production outfit in China
BuskinFilm, the Rome-based sales outfit, has opened an office in Beijing with the aimof co-producing projects and getting involved in product placement andservicing for international productions shooting in China. Buskinis already co-producing a project for China's CCTV with Beijing Xin Ying ShiCulture. The 20-part drama is the third instalment of ...
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UK plans multiple co-production treaties
The UK is to strike co-production treaties with SouthAfrica, China, India, Jamaica and Morocco, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowellannounced on Monday.The treaties will be developed with each country overthe next 18 months. Jowell recently signed a statement of intent with the SouthAfrican Minister for Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan."More than 27 ...
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Gaumont profits jump three-fold
Aftera few lackluster years, fortunes at French major Gaumont are on the rise.Announcing2004 figures on Monday, the company reported revenues of Euros 88.6m ($115m), a26% increase over 2003, and profits of Euros 9.7m up from Euros 2.8m theprevious year.Ina press release, the world's oldest film studio noted that the jump ...
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Atlantic Alliance forced to put Holocaust drama on hold after Rywin imprisonment
Production on Atlantic Alliance Pictures' Holocaust drama LoveIs A Survivor was put onhold yesterday (28) after producers said there were insufficient funds tocomplete the project.Atlantic Alliance president Harris Salomon said he and Britishassociates had secured 75% of the Euros 7m budget, but added that the balanceremained "elusive".Salomon said the New ...
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Atlantic Streamline sets start date for horror movie Butterfly
The psychological horror story Butterfly, A Grimm Love Story starring Keri Russell and ThomasKretschmann is set to begin filming in Germany in March.Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline is financing and producing theproject, about a research student who descends into depravity in order tounderstand the mind of a cannibal killer.TS Faull wrote ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - March 2
PRE PRODUCTION ALATRISTE(Estudios Picasso, Origen PC, Universal Studios) Budget: Euros 20m. Intl sales:TF1 International. The tales of a 17th century adventurer and his sidekick.Dir/scr: Agustin Diaz Yanes, based on the novel by Arturo Perez Reverte. Maincast: Viggo Mortensen, Eduardo Noriega, Javier Camara, Elena Anaya and AriadnaGil Shooting from March 7 ...
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New cast join Stranger Than Fiction
TomHulce, Linda Hunt and Tony Hale have joined the cast of Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction, which is set to begin filming in April.Aspreviously announced, Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and EmmaThompson and Queen Latifah already star in the story of an IRS auditor namedHarold Crick who inexplicably finds himself ...
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Gitai's Free Zone proves hot seller for Bac
Coming out of theEuropean Film Market, Bac International has announced fresh territorial saleson Amos Gitai's Free Zone, starring Oscar-nominee Natalie Portman.Free Zone was sold to Australia's Palace Films,Canada's Les Films Seville, Switzerland's Filmcoopi, Italy's Istituto Luce,Brazil's Imovision and Belgium's Cineart. The film,currently shooting in Israel and Jordan, caused an outcry ...
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Dutch wage two-pronged assault on Norwegian war satire
Dutch producer 24fpsis working on a film version of Krig, the satirical Norwegian novel about a war betweenthe Netherlands and Norway that erupts after an incident during the Europeanskating championship.Producer AntonScholten is at the moment negotiating the project with some unnamed Norwegianproducers. Krig's estimated budget is Euros 3m. No director ...
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Rai Cinema, Ben Ammar to finance De Laurentiis's Decameron
Italy's Rai Cinema isteaming up with Tarak Ben Ammar to finance Dino De Laurentiis's upcoming $38mproduction, Decameron.Written and directed byDavid Leland, the English-language movie will start shooting in Italy inmid-July with Hayden Christensen and Mischa Barton (The O.C) in the leadroles."One year ago, I wokeup in the morning and thought ...
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Bruehl, Mullan board Cargo for Wild Bunch
TheUK's Peter Mullan, Germany's Daniel Bruehl and Spain's Luis Tosar will star in Cargo, a UK-Spanish thriller starting shooting next week for French salesand financing company Wild Bunch.Documentary film-maker CliveGordon will make his feature debut with a script by Ken Loach's longtimescreenwriter Paul Laverty. Set on a cargo ship travelling ...
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UK Production Listings - January 24
UK - February 22 PRE-PRODUCTION ANASTEZSI(Sintra S.R.L. [It], Film & Music Entertainment, Mate Productions [Sp])Supernatural drama. Young violin prodigy Valerio is summoned to study at anexclusive musical academy. During his stay he learns that the academy'sworld-famous virtuoso, Baltzer, has sinister plans for him. Prods: Mike Downey,Sam Taylor, Rosanna Seregni, Mate ...
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Italian production start-up to shoot controversial erotic drama
Cameras will start rollingon March 7 on the controversial adaptation of an erotic diary written by a17-year-old Sicilian schoolgirl, which is being produced by Italian actressFrancesca Neri.The literary sensation,entitled Cento Colpi Di Spazzola Prima Di Andare A Dormire (literally,one hundred brushes before bed time), was written by a student known ...
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Bielinski's Aura shines on Celluloid
France'sCelluloid Dreams has picked up international sales rights to The Aura (ElAura), the latest film by Fabian Bielinsky, the Argentinian director ofbreakout hit Nine Queens. Nine Queens and Son Of The Bride star RicardoDarin plays a taxidermist whose fantasies about setting up the perfect crimecome unexpectedly to life. The film ...
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Spring offers hope for Korean box office
April is not considered tobe high season at the box-office in Korea, but in past years it has shown aknack for producing major box-office hits. My Little Bride (2004, $17m local gross), Memories Of Murder(2003, $27m), The Way Home (2002, $20m) and Friend (2001, $38m)have all got off to a ...