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Jackie Chan embarks on Hong Kong adventure
Production restarted this week at Shanghai Film Studio onJackie Chan's new project which reunites the star with Hong Kong actiondirector Stanley Tong.Produced by Chan's JCE Movies, the US$15-20m actionadventure has the working title The Mythand also stars Tong Leung Ka-fai and hot up-and-coming Indian actress MallikaSherawat.Chan reportedly plays an Indiana ...
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Japanese megahit crosses box office milestone
Isao Yukisada's mega-hitromantic drama Crying Out For Love In The Center Of The World recordedits five millionth admission in Japan on June 30, its 54th day of release,while its box office totalled $62.3m (Y6.73bn).After seven weeks in thetheatres, Crying Out For Love was still ranked number two on the KogyoTsushin ...
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Bale, Thewlis & Taylor join cast of The New World
Christian Bale, DavidThewlis, Noah Taylor and Q'orianka Kilcher (pictured) have joined the cast of TerrenceMalick's The New World which NewLine Cinema plans to release in Nov 2005.The new cast members joinColin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, August Schellenberg and Wes Studi in thefilm which is Malick's first film since The Thin Red ...
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South Africa unveils tax breaks to attract foreign shoots
South Africa plans to offer about $41m (R252m) in taxincentives to local and foreign film companies over the next three years topromote the country as a prime filming location, Trade and Industry MinisterMandisi Mpahlwa said this week.Companies would have to spend at least $4m (R25m) inproduction costs to qualify for ...
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Banderas to direct Los Ingleses in Spain
Antonio Banderas has confirmed that he will direct his nextfilm in 2006 - in his native Spain.The actor told a Madrid press conference that he had boughtthe rights to Antonio Soler's novel El Camino De Los Ingleses and he would go behind the lens to shoot it at homein Spain."Antonio ...
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Summit, Endgame kick off The Alibi with stellar cast
Summit Entertainment's The Alibi which the international production,sales and financing outfit is co-financing with Jim Stern's Endgame startedprincipal photography yesterday in Los Angeles with a stellar cast in place.Joining the previously announced Steve Coogan, RebeccaRomijn-Stamos and James Marsden are Sam Elliot, James Brolin, Selma Blair, JohnLeguizamo, Jamie King, Henry Rollins ...
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Bonham Carter, Taylor, Fox and Lee join Charlie cast
Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Missi Pyle andChristopher Lee have joined the cast of Tim Burton's Charlie And TheChocolate Factory whichhas started shooting in London for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures.Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka in the film, 12 year-old British actorFreddie Highmore (Two Brothers, JM Barrie's ...
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Buena Vista embarks on Japanese animation
Fuji TV has announced the production of a major animatedfeature based on Brave Story, afantasy novel by Miyuki Miyabe that has sold 420,000 copies since publicationin March of 2003.The production company will be Gonzo Digimation, ananimation house responsible for several hit TV series, including Hellsing and Gantz, as well as ...
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Home entertainment to drive growth of film industry
The global film business,driven by an expanding home entertainment sector, is set for annual growth of7.5% over the next five years. By 2008 it will be worth $108bn, compared with$75bn last year, according to consultancy and research firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers(PWC) in its annual Global Entertainment & Media Outlook (2004-2008).The growth that ...
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Allen cast grows as UK production activity swells
Brian Cox, Matthew Goode and James Nesbitt have joined the cast of Woody Allen's upcoming UK film.The trio will appear alongside Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers when principal photography starts July 12th on location in and around London.Financial partners in the film include BBC Films, Magic Hour Media, ...
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Telespan 2000 readies Other Side Of The Bed sequel
Independent production company Telespan 2000, headed byTomas Cimadevilla, has confirmed it is to go ahead with the sequel to TheOther Side of The Bed (El Otro Lado de La Cama).The original film was the highest-grossing Spanish film of2002, netting $15.1m at the box office and headlining Paz Vega amidst anensemble ...
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Ansorge joins Anglo-Indian outfit Inspired Movies
Peter Ansorge, former head of dramaat UK broadcaster Channel Four, has joined Inspired Movies as commissioning editor/executiveproducer in charge of new film projects.Inspired Movies, an Anglo-Indian companybased in the U.K., is currently in production with Take 3 Girls, itsfirst English language film, starring Charlie Brooks (in her first role sinceleaving ...
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UK Production Listings - June 29
UK PRODUCTION LISTINGS PRE-PRODUCTIONBITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATEFACTORY(Warner Bros) Dir: Tim Burton. Cast: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore.Contact: Pinewood Studios, (44) 1932 562 611DIZZY HEIGHTS(Theta Films [South Africa], Samson Films [Eire]) Budget: $6m. Backer/int'lsales: Vine International. Romantic comedy. What do ...
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Babelsberg Film looks to board Macdonald's Last King
Germany's BabelsbergFilm is in negotiations to become a co-producer on Oscar-winning documentaryfilmmaker Kevin Macdonald's fiction feature film debut The Last King OfScotland.ScreenDaily.com has learnt exclusively that the Studio BabelsbergMotion Pictures' production unit - whose previous credits included serving asco-producer on Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist, City Of God director Fernando ...
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New blow for Hamburg film fund
FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFHH) has suffered another blow withthe news that public broadcaster ZDF will terminate its cooperation agreementand annual contribution of Euro 1m at the end of this year.The development is a direct result of Culture Senator Karinvon Welck's proposal to cut the city's contribution to FFHH by 50% to ...
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Asian CGI producer unveils US production deals
GDC Entertainment, the content development arm of Hong Kongand Singapore-based GDC Holdings, announced three collaborative ventures atFilMart on Friday.The company, which produces CGI content at its studio inShenzhen, China, has signed an agreement with LA-based producer, EnteraktionStudios, to co-produce three original CGI features with a combined budget ofUS$60m.The three features ...
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Greenpoint Media steps in to finance African American family saga Cherrys
Greenpoint Media is to produceand finance the family drama Cherrys,which is being directed by Harry Knapp and will star Eartha Kitt, LynnWhitfield and Jurnee Smollett.The multi-generational story is based on a screenplay by DeborahGoodwin about the coming of age of an African-American teenager and the familysecrets she uncovers in the ...
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Winslet drops out of Woody Allen project
Kate Winslet has dropped out of the new Woody Allen projectwhich is shooting in London, it was confirmed today (June 25).Winslet, who has had a busy schedule recently, reportedlywanted to spend more time with her family.A new female lead is expected to be announced on Monday.Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Emily ...
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FilMart News: Three...Extremes unites top Asian talent
Hong Kong's ApplausePictures unveiled its mouthwatering contribution to the second instalment ofhorror omnibus Three at Filmart on Thursday. Entitled Dumplings,the horror-thriller brings together some of the territory's top creative talentincluding director Fruit Chan, producer Peter Ho-sun Chan and award-winningcinematographer Christopher Doyle.Scripted by Lilian Lee (FarewellMy Concubine), the film is a ...
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Edukators star signs for World War II feature
Julia Jentsch, lead actress in HansWeingartner's Cannes competition film The Edukators, has been cast asthe German resistance figure Sophie Scholl in Marc Rothemund's World War IIdrama Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl - The Last Days)which began shooting in Munich on June 12.The screenplay for the World War ...