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New Films turns producer on The Mermaids Singing
LosAngeles-based distributor New Films International is moving into productionwith the announcement that it is co-producing an adaptation of Lisa CareyC;sromantic novel The Mermaids Singing starring Jessica Lange,Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.New FilmsInternational will retain all worldwide distribution rights to the $10mproject, which is due to begin filming in Eastern ...
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AFM: New Films turns producer on The Mermaids Singing
LosAngeles-based distributor New Films International is moving into productionwith the announcement that it is co-producing an adaptation of Lisa CareyC;sromantic novel The Mermaids Singing starring Jessica Lange,Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.New FilmsInternational will retain all worldwide distribution rights to the $10mproject, which is due to begin filming in Eastern ...
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Storm clouds ahead for Canada's production sector
The "perfect storm" metaphor has beenflying around Canada's service production industry of late. There's nothinglike a handful of negative coincidences to put the fear into people.Item One: Mel Brooks decides to shoot theadaptation of his hit musical TheProducers in New York.Item Two: the state of New York and NewYork City ...
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Blethyn vehicle wins Oz funding
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) is to backdirector Cherie Nowlan's comedy drama Clubland, starring Brenda Blethyn.Blethynplays a raunchy Sydney club performer whose shy 20-year-old son is forced to make a decision between her and his feisty new girlfriend.The RB Films project has the backing of MovieHouseEntertainment in the UK and ...
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Jeunet linked to Harry Potter 5
AVery Long Engagement director Jean-Pierre Jeunet says he has beenapproached as a possible director for the fifth Harry Potter movie.Askedin an interview with Empire magazine whether he had been approached,Jeunet said: "They proposed me something like this, yes."Potter producer David Heyman told ScreenDaily.com that "nodecision had yet been made" about ...
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Hurt joins Short Order cast
John Hurt will join the cast of theIrish/UK/German co-production Short Order, currently in the final days of the German leg ofthe shoot which is due to wrap in Hamburg on November 5.Hurt joins Emma de Caunes, RadeSerbedzija, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jack Dee in the story oflife, by ...
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Kidman in talks with Aardman for Flushed Away
Nicole Kidman is in talks tostar in Flushed Away, the next title to roll out of the multi-pictureanimation deal between the UK's Aardman Animations and DreamWorks SKG.Kidman is likely to play astreet-smart sewer rat named Rita, with Hugh Jackman voicing Roddy, a posh ratwho is swept out of his penthouse ...
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Canada - Production Listings: October 30
CANADA - October 29PRE-PRODUCTIONMODERN LOVE(Cirrus Productions/ Les Films Locomotions) Budget: $4.1m. Backer: TelefilmCanada. Dist: Equinoxe Films (Canada). Romance. Maddie is a marriage and sextherapist but when her boyfriend rejects her marriage proposal and leaves her,she is confronted with the harsh realization that she knows nothing of thehuman heart and modern ...
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Perabo clicks with Parker debut
US actress Piper Perabo (pictured) has joined the cast of Click, a romantic comedy that has just started shooting in London.The directorial debut of screenwriter Ol Parker, the film tells the story of a woman who faces doubts as she's about to marry her long-term boyfriend.Click is produced by Cougar ...
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UK faces co-production reality-check
UK filmcommissioner Steve Norris has called for the British qualifying certificationof UK co-productions to be taken over by the UK Film Council.Speaking during apanel discussion on co-productions at Screen International's UK Film FinanceSummit in London last week (Oct 21), Norris said that the UK film industryneeded to develop a co-production ...
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Verhoeven's Blackbook postponed
Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has postponed the filming ofhis new thriller Blackbook (Zwartboek).Shooting should have started this week, but the 66 year old director recently underwenta heart operation and will be recuperating for at least a couple of weeks.Producer San Fu Maltha has rescheduled shooting of the filmfor April 2005, ...
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Emmerich strikes first look deal with German fund
Director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow) has signed a "first look" agreement withthe German private media fund VIP for his own in-house developed film projectsas opposed to those offered to him by Hollywood studios.As part of the agreement, the German-born director and VIP'sAndreas Schmid are planning to set up ...
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Trouble continues for River Queen
Director Vincent Ward is off the New Zealand shoot of River Queen and, unlike Samantha Mortonwho earlier took time out because of illness, isn't coming back.A statement issued today from the production office saidonly that Ward "has been removed". It did not give a reason andpublicist Sue May declined to ...
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...while African American specialist Lee signs with Focus
DeaconEntertainment producer Damon Lee, whose credits include the comedy UndercoverBrother, has signed afirst-look deal with Focus Features.Focus presidentof production John Lyons and vice president of production Kahli Small will workclosely with Lee to develop such Deacon projects as the comedy Holidaze, written by Richard Murphy. Focus willhold worldwide rights to ...
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Warner gets its Superman in Brandon Routh
Brandon Routh (pictured) hasbeen confirmed as Superman in Warner Bros Pictures' new as yet untitled theatricalversion of the comic strip superhero to be directed by Bryan Singer.Routh is a 25 year-oldnative of Iowa whose TV credits include soap opera One Life To Live, serials Gilmore Girls and Cold Case and ...
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Australia, New Zealand generate star power
Films of all shapesand sizes are now underway in New Zealand and, after a considerable productiondrought, in Australia - and both countries are awash with internationallyrenowned acting talent.In Australia, HeathLedger and Geoffrey Rush are to star in Candy,and Cate Blanchett is the focus of LittleFish, which also stars Sam Neill ...
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Swedish journalists question state funding choices
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has attracted localcriticism for its selection of seven new features to receive state funding.Among the seven films that received $3.1M (SEK 23M) in totalfrom the SFI, not one will be directed by a woman. Furthermore, five of thefilms are adaptations of books written by internationally ...
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Von Trier turns to Antichrist
Danish maverick Lars von Trier might be in the middle of editing his Dogville follow-up, Manderlay, but he has promised producer and Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen that he will make a more commercial film before turning to the final instalment in the USA trilogy, Wasington.While a finished script has ...
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AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND - Prod Lists Oct 21
AUSTRALIA - October 20PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BOOK OF REVELATION(Wildheart Zizani)Budget: n/a. Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, New South Wales Filmand Television Office, Film Victoria, ContentFilm. Int'l sales: ContentInternational. Distrib: Palace Films (Aust/NZ). Drama. A dancer disappearswithout a trace for 12 days, then returns just as mysteriously. Prod: Al Clark.Dir: Ana Kokkinos. Scr: ...
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Tanovic embarks on shoot of Hell
Oscarwinner Danis Tanovic will start shooting next week his latest film, Hell,which was written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz for the late Krzysztof Kieslowski aspart of his Heaven-Hell-Purgatory trilogy.The No Man's Land director begins the film'seight-week shoot in Paris on October 25. Hell focuses on three sisters whosechildhoods were marked by a ...