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LA's Panettiere, India's Biswas team to co-produce films
VincentPanettiere's new LA-based production company Thistle Productions is teaming upwith Indian producer Anamika Biswas and her AB Exports to co-produce at leastthree films.The films willbe financed by Biswas through AB Exports and she will serve as executiveproducer on them; Panettiere will act as producer.The titles are: TheAgenda, a thrillerwritten by ...
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Icon takes on sales of Artisan/Tribeca's Stage Beauty
Shooting starts today in London and at Shepperton Studios on Compleat Female Stage Beauty, an adaptation of Jeffrey Hatcher's play directed by Richard Eyre. Icon Entertainment International has come on board the picture to handle international sales; Artisan Entertainment is the domestic distributor.The film is set in the 1660s and ...
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New Spanish production company prepares debut film
Newly formed Spanish production company Bruta Escena has signed on the UK's F&ME and Portugal's FBF Filmes to its first feature film, Joao Costa Menezes' Penta.Each has committed to 10% of the estimated Euros 2.8m budget, according to Bruta Escena founder Rebeka Biguria: FBF as an advance for distribution rights ...
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Pineapple Bun Prince to follow animated McDull
Bliss Concepts, the Hong Kong animation house behind popular animated feature My Life As McDull, is producing a second film - Pineapple Bun Prince - which it plans to release in Hong Kong this Christmas.The first McDull movie, directed by Toe Yuen and written by Brian Tse, recently scooped the ...
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Pippin to get the Miramax musical treatment
Miramax Films, which earlier this week announced that it hadsecured film rights to one of Bob Fosse's classic stage musicals DamnYankees, has picked uprights to another - Pippin.Pippin,which has never been filmed before, charts the life of the eponymous son ofCharlemagne who dabbles in sex, politics and war before realising ...
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French comic book to get feature adaptation
Continuing the trend, France's latest comic book character to make a jump from the page to the screen will be Rene Goscinny's Iznogoud. Patrick Braoude will direct a cast that could include comedian Michael Youn and beloved comic actor Jacques Villeret.The film will begin shooting in early 2004. Canal Plus ...
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Pandora to produce Nalin's Valley Of Flowers
German production house Pandora Filmproduktion, producer of Indian director Pan Nalin 2002 feature debut Samsara, are to team up again for his next project Valley Of Flowers which is set to go into production in the Himalayas, Tokyo and a Cologne studio from summer 2004.Currently budgeted at around Euros 4m ...
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Cruz steps up to Castellitto's Don't Move
Penelope Cruz has signed to star in Italian-Spanish co-production Don't Move (Non Ti Muovere) for actor-turned-director Sergio Castellitto. The film, which begins shooting in Rome on July 28, would mark Cruz's first Spanish co-production since 2001's No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios) and her third film in Italian. ...
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Mosaic to produce six urban movies for HBO Films
LA entertainment groupMosaic Media Group has pre-sold a series of six urban films to HBO that will bewritten and directed by new film-makers.One of the first ideas underdiscussion is an untitled surreal love triangle and musical inspired by hip-hopduo Outkast's upcoming album SpeakerBox/The Love Below.The project will mark thefeature directorial ...
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Ireland gears up for renewed production activity
A stagnant period of film production in Ireland comes to an end this week with the start of shoot on Pierce Brosnan's Laws Of Attraction, followed next week by Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur .Arthur, which has a budget of $85m, is the biggest production ever to come to Ireland, dwarfing ...
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Sarandon, Tucci join cast of Miramax's Shall We Dance
SusanSarandon and Stanley Tucci will join Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere in thecast of Peter Chelsom's remake of Shall We Dance for Miramax Films and Spyglass Entertainment. Miramaxis handling domestic rights on the film, Spyglass has international exceptJapan where Gaga Communications has rights.Thecast also includes Bobby Cannavale, Lisa Ann Walter, ...
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Italian company produces French Crime
French stars Daniel Auteuil and Anna Mouglalis are currently working on the set of an Italian film, A Strange Crime, which is being shot entirely in French and produced by The Hundred Steps producer Fabrizio Mosca. The Euros 6m thriller is directed by acclaimed stage director Roberto Ando, whose first ...
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Peter Sellers on hold as Rush returns to Australia
HBO Films has reportedly put The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers on hold after star Geoffrey Rush was forced to return to Australia for personal reasons.The biopic was shooting at Shepperton Studios in the UK, but, according to UK reports, Rush took an emergency flight to Australia to be ...
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Kidron close to Bridget Jones sequel
After months of speculation, UK director Beeban Kidron is close to a deal to direct Renee Zellweger in Working Title Films' Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.Kidron has long been linked to the sequel to the 2001 hit but negotiations have stepped up in the last week. Zellweger, who starred ...
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Jeunet re-teams with Tautou in Euros 46m Engagement
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has confirmed the casting of Audrey Tautou in his next project, Un Long Dimanche de Fancailles (A Very Long Engagement). The film is adapted from the book by Sebastien Japrisot and will be produced and distributed in France by the local Warner Bros. outpost.Shooting on the project, which ...
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Serbian black comedy CiviLife for Belgrade shoot
Principal photography on Serbian-German-French-Dutch co-production CiviLife is due to start in Belgrade on June 22 for eight weeks. The dark comedy about a Serbian black-market gangster shooting down an American pilot during the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999 is written and will be directed by Milos Radovic. Radovic enjoyed ...
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Columbia Spain prepares first local production shoot
Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas, Sony Picture Entertainment's Spanish production unit, has announced its first project to shoot this summer: Tam Tam, a co-production with local outfit Zebra Producciones. Starring Paz Vega (pictured) (Sex And Lucia) and Santi Millan (Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health), principal photography starts August 4 in ...
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Colour Me Kubrick is Studio Hamburg's first project
Brian Cook's Euros 8.5m satirical comedy Colour Me Kubrick will be the first project for Studio Hamburg Produktion's English-language division Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) which was launched shortly before this year's Cannes Film Festival.The screenplay by Kubrick's long-time personal assistant Anthony Frewin centres on the true story of a ...
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Hou Hsiao Hsien to direct Ozu homage
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japan's Yasujiro Ozu, Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao Hsien (City Of Sadness, The Flowers Of Shanghai, Millennium Mambo) will direct a feature-length Ozu homage. Shochiku, the studio where Ozu spent his entire career, will head the film's production consortium. During a recent ...
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Nowhere In Africa producers team for Sergeant Pepper
MTM Medien & Television Muenchen and Constantin Film, who were co-producers on Caroline Link's Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa, are teaming up for Sandra Nettelbeck's second German-language feature Sergeant Pepper after her international hit Mostly Martha.The comedy about an unusual friendship between a six-year-old boy and a talking dog called Sergeant ...