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Best Of Youth director cooks up Kipling drama
Hot Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana, whose last film, The Best of Youth, won Un Certain Regard last year and has swept all the Italian awards, is currently preparing his next film.A drama named Quando Sei Nato (literally, When You Were Born), it is inspired by Rudyard Kipling's classic adventure ...
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Princess Diana crash feature readied by French producers
French producers Pierre Kubel and Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar have purchased the rights to Laurence Cosse's award-winning novel The 31st of August 1997 (Le 31 Aout 1997) which they will adapt for the big screen in the coming year.The titular date was the day that Princess Diana died in a car accident ...
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Spain's Filmanova seeks new co-production opportunities
Spanish producer Filmanova is beefing up its production activities thanks to the creation of private investment fund Filmanova Invest.The company currently has more than half a dozen films in various stages of development and production, many with European and Latin American partners, and is actively seeking new projects for 2005.Backed ...
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UK production sector weathers the storm
Government crackdowns on UK tax relief earlier this year may have cast uncertainty over the production sector - and led to the high-profile collapse of productions such as John Madden's Tulip Fever - but the UK is as busy as it was at this time during its record year last ...
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UK Production Listings - April 20 2004
UK PRODUCTION LISTINGS APRIL 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE AMERICAN(CTB Film Company, Tartan Films) Prods: Sergey Selyanov, Hamish McAlpine. Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Cast: Michael Biehn. Shooting in New York and Siberia.Contact Camilla Summers/David Freed, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400BITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400CARRY ON LONDON(Black ...
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Fragile's Click taps into German funding
UK-Germanco-production Click,set to star Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Thandie Newton, Dominic West and JuliaStiles, is one of four international co-productions to share Euros 3m fundingfrom Dusseldorf-based Filmstiftung NRW.The romantic comedy about a bride falling in love withanother woman is the directorial debut of Ol Parker and is a co-production withthe ...
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Japanese studio draws up mass market animation plans
Spurred onby the success of rival Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, Japan's Toei Animation hasbegun to shift its emphasis away from kid-targeted TV fare to produce moreanimation features aimed at a wide audience.Japan'soldest animation production and distribution house has produced two animatedfilms for a wide release on over ...
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Spanish box office sensation cranks up Amazing World
Spain's box office Midas, Santiago Segura, is co-producing andstarring in new comedy The Amazing World Of Borjamari Y Pocholo.A kind of Spanish Dumb And Dumber, the action turns on twothirty-something brothers who still believe they are living their heyday ofcool despite that period having come - and definitively gone - ...
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Malkovich thumbs a ride with Hitchhiker's Guide
John Malkovich has reportedly joined the cast of TheHitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, theSpyglass/Disney version of Douglas Adams's cult sci-fi novel.Malkovich will play a cult leader, created for the film bythe late Adams, according to a report on the BBC.The $50-$60m film alsostars Hip-hop star and actor Mos Def, ZooeyDeschanel ...
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River King feels heat as UK gets tough on co-productions
Myriad Pictures' The River King has been thrown into uncertainty mid-shoot after the UK government challenged its application for British status.Set up as a UK-Canadian co-production, the supernatural murder mystery needs to qualify as British in order to access tax relief under Section 48. Movision, the tax-based fund co-financing the ...
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Berlinale winners embark on host of projects
Director Fatih Akin and actor Birol Uenel have had a busy March. After winning the Golden Bear at this year's Berlinale for Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) the film's opening dates and the respective promotional tours in Germany and Turkey were brought forward to mid-March. But both of them have still ...
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Oz film set for radical funding overhaul
In an attempt to drag Australian films out of the doldrums, Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has unveiled a plan to radically overhaul its funding procedures.The proposals would give the government-owned financier much more control over which films get funding.Under the existing model other industry players make the decisions and ...
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Fortissimo earns Forgiveness
Hong Kong and TheNetherlands-based Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up international rights to Forgiveness,a timely South African drama from the DV8 stable.With a cast headed by TheMummy star Arnold Vosloo, the story is that of an anti-hero. A former Apartheidpoliceman is psychologically tormented by the atrocities he committed in hispast. ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod Lists - April 14 2004
AUSTRIAIN PRE-PRODUCTIONCACHE(Wega Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien. Thriller. Prod: Veit Heiduschka. Dir/scr: Michael Haneke. Cast: Juliette Binoche.Contact: Wega Film, (43) 1 982 57 42CRASH TEST DUMMIES(Amour Fou Filmproduktion) Co-prod: Catpics Co-productions (Switz). Backers: OFI, ORF, Filmfonds Wien. A Romanian couple are stranded in Vienna without any money, drift apart and have ...
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Period epic Kisna wraps Himalayan shoot
Hindi film producer-director Subhash Ghai has completed a forty-day shoot of his period epic Kisna in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas.The US$5m Kisna is the most expensive film made by Ghai's Mukta Arts. The company's credits include Taal, which was the first Indian film to feature in both the ...
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Swedes back English language features
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has greenlit six new Swedish feature films and given financial support to Lars von Trier's Manderlay.Colin Nutley's English-language drama The Queen of Sheba's Pearls won most backing. $1.04m (SEK 8m) has been allocated to the film, which is being produced by Maritha Norstedt of Sweetwater ...
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The Truth About Love located in Bristol
Romantic comedy The Truth About Love, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dougray Scott and Jimi Mistry, begins filming in the UK this month.Directed by John Hay (There's Only One Jimmy Grimble) and produced by Tracey Adam at Lex Filmed Entertainment, The Truth About Love is billed as a film in which ...
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Japan's production sector resorts to violence
Best known in the West for the films he has directed, including the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or winner Hana-Bi and the 2003 box office smash Zatoichi, multi-talented Takeshi Kitano has had a longer career as an actor, going back to his breakout role as a brutal prison camp guard in ...
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Grosvenor Park's Taylor to spearhead TriMedia feature push
DanielTaylor, managing director of UK tax financier Grosvenor Park, is joiningTriMedia Entertainment, the entertainment company of 90s rap mogul ChrisSchwartz, to spearhead a push into producing youth-oriented, music-drivenfeatures with European music stars.Taylortakes up the post of president at TriMedia in addition to his Grosvenor Parkduties. The two companies are hatching ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - April 7 2004
JAPANPRE-PRODUCTIONASHURAJO NO HITOMI(Shochiku) Int'l sales: Shochiku. Dist (Jap): Shochiku. Samurai action drama. A samurai battles with monsters that haunt ancient capital Edo. Dir: Yojiro Takita. Scr: Masashi Todayama. Main cast: Somegoro Ichikawa. Release date: Spring 2005.Contact: Kiwamu Sato, Shochiku, (81) 35550 1623CHI TO HONE(Be Wild, Artist Film, Asahi Hoso, Eisei ...