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Wright's Macbeth to be set in Melbourne's underbelly
A retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the present-day violent underbelly of Melbourne,took a step closer to getting a green light with Romper Stomper director Geoffrey Wright at the helm.M, as it istitled, was the only feature to get production funding as part of a $787,000(A$1m) package of support handed ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Lists - November 24
SOUTH KOREA - November 24PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BEAST(Popcorn Film) Int'l sales/dist: Showbox. Noirish dramaabout a detective, prosecutor and gangster, all equally vicious. Dir: KimSung-soo. Main cast: Kwon Sang-woo, Yu Dong-geun.Contact: Showbox, (82) 2 3218 5626BLOOD SISTERS(Angel Underground) Int'l sales: Cineclick Asia. Horroromnibus in three segments by Korean women directors. Prod: Jenna Ku. ...
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Times Of India Group moves into film production
India's largest media company, The Times of India Group,has moved into film production, backing English language feature Being Cyrus.Directed and co-written by Homi Adajania, the film isbilled as a cross between a psychological drama and a comedy in which a dopesmoking retired sculptor, who lives in a secluded Indian hill ...
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Zentropa, Filmanova strike two picture deal
Spain's Filmanova and Denmark's Zentropa Productions havesigned a two-picture co-production agreement starting with Filmanova co-founderAnton Reixa's Tivoli Hotel.The second film of the accord has not yet been agreed.The deal marks Zentropa's first such move with a Spanish company. It brings 10% of the film's estimated Euros 2.6m budget.A romantic comedy ...
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Relativity teams with Asgaard on The First Vampire
Relativity Management hasteamed up with Jason Todd Ipson's Asgaard Entertainment to produce Ipson'sdirectorial debut The First Vampire.Asgaard associates JulioBove and Cari-Esta Albert will produce the project with Relativity's RyanKavanaugh serving as executive producer.The film is currently beingcast by Kate Dowd in London and the film is scheduled to begin filming ...
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Real-life stories all the rage in Spain
While Hollywood has foundinspiration in recent years culling its own archives for remake possibilities,Spanish cinema has been doing another kind of navel-gazing: bringing real-lifestories to the silver screen. There are currently a slew of reality-based filmsin the works in Spain and all the major production houses have at least onesuch ...
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Kinky Boot Factory kicks off in Northampton
Harbour Pictures/BVIproduction The Kinky Boot Factory is to start shooting at the end ofNovember with Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor to star as the two male leads,Charlie Price and Lola.Julian Jarrold (Cracker;Crime & Punishment; White Teeth) is directing, with producers NickBarton and Suzanne Mackie working again with the production arm ...
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DV8 gets ten-picture slate backing
Ster Kinekor, the SouthAfrican distribution and exhibition conglomerate, is to expand its commitmentto the DV8 digital film-making combine headed by Jeremy Nathan and Joel Phirie.Ster-Kinekor, which hadpreviously made distribution commitments to DV8 on a picture-by-picture basis,has now committed to bankroll the operation's next ten features and to bebecome an equity ...
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France's Laroque has US ambitions with three English-language titles
French actress Michele Laroque's production company OrianeProductions has optioned two books to be adapted as English-language featuresstarring Laroque - Don't You Want Me by India Knight and Caroline Bongrand's French bestseller Pitch.Oriane Productions has also acquired English-language remakerights to The Upstairs Neighbour, based on the hit TF1 French TV film ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - November 18
SPANISHLISTINGSPREPRODUCTIONAlatriste(Telecinco,Origen) The tales of a 17th century adventurer and his sidekick. Budget: $22m.Dir/scr: Agustin Diaz Yanes, based on the novel by Arturo Perez Reverte.Shooting from March. Spanish.Contact: Telecinco (34) 91 396 6902Algo Habran Hecho(Ibarretxe & Co, Dale Candela [Arg], OM Films [Fr]) Based on the true storyof a nun who ...
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Eastern European film industry enjoying bumper year
With a production boom in progress in Russia, commitmentsfor increased government funding in Poland and a major new player in theBaltics entering the field the film industry in the east is seeing its bestyear in a decade.While Latvia produces only one or two feature films a yearproducer Andrejs Ekis who ...
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More foreign productions choosing to shoot in India
Hollywood-based production company 8X Entertainment has begun shooting historical epic One NightWith The King, in the Indian city of Jodhpur.The cast includes Peter O'Toole (the Prophet Samuel), OmarSharif (Prince Memucan), John Rhys-Davies as Mordecai and John Noble as PrinceAdmanthaOne Night With TheKing is a multi-million dollar epic which chronicles the ...
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Buyers court Warner Bros' Spanish Queens
Spanish film Queens(Reinas), Warner Bros' Pictures first 100% Spanish production, has sold toa raft of European territories while the film is still in post-production.International sales handler Fortissimo Films has closeddeals to France (ARP), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Prooptiki), Israel(Orlando Films) and Hungary (Mas Kepp Foundation).An offer is on the table for ...
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McGuckian lines up eclectic cast for Rag Tale
Five weeks of principal photography begins today (Nov 16) inLuxembourg and London on writer/director Mary McGuckian's (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Best) contemporary urban satire Rag Tale.Set in the ruthless world of British tabloid newspapers,McGuckian will produce and direct from her own original story.Heading the international cast are Simon ...
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01 Distribution roars for Benigni's Tiger
RaiCinema label 01 Distribution has taken Italian distribution rights to Tuscancomic Roberto Benigni's upcoming film, The Tiger And The Snow. As aresult it can be expected to see asignificant jump in its 2005revenues.Theannouncement yesterday by Benigni's production outfit Melampo Cinematograficaand Rai Cinema marks the end of a protracted battle among ...
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Polanski praises Prague as Oliver Twist wraps
Roman Polanski concluded filming Oliver Twist in the CzechRepublic yesterday (Nov 15).Principle photography began at Prague's Barrandov Studio in July2004. The director was enthusiastic about shooting in Barrandov's stagesand on the nearby back lot, where Czech crews built the London and villagesets."I have worked in practically all the studios of ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Prod lists - November 16
EAST EUROPEAN LISTINGS -November 16RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONBLIND-MAN'S-BUFF(ZMURKI)(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Comedy. Prod: Sergei Selyanov.Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Scr: Stas Mohnachev, Alexei Balabanov. Cost des: TatyanaPatrahaltseva. Main cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexei Panin, Dmitry Duzev, SergeiMakovetskiy, Victor Suhorukov.Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817ESCAPE (POBEG)(Central Partnership) Action.Eugenii is accused of murdering ...
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Yates in talks to direct fifth Harry Potter
Harry Potter could be in fora surprise. David Yates, an acclaimed UK TV director but largely unproven infeatures, is in talks to direct the franchise's fifth instalment, HarryPotter And The Order Of The Phoenix.Yates' TV creditsinclude political conspiracy thriller State Of Play, which won a Directors Guild of Great Britain ...
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Johnnie To cranks up Election drama
Hong Kong director Johnnie To has started shooting triaddrama Election - the first project inwhich his production company Milkyway Image has made an investment - andannounced that the $6.4m (HK$50m) production will be made as two films.To expects the contemporary drama, which traces a democraticelection within a triad society, to ...
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Magimel tipped to star as career criminal Mesrine
Hot French star BenoitMagimel (The Piano Teacher) has beentipped to star as Jacques Mesrine in Barbet Schroeder's upcoming two-partadaptation of books written by the career criminal.The first instalment of thefilm, The Death Instinct, is based onMesrine's autobiography L'Instinct DeMort, written during one of the prison terms of France's Public EnemyNumber ...