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Swedish Komedy to be remade by Columbia
Swedish comedy Kopps is to beremade by Primal Pictures and Adam Sandler's companyHappy Madison for Columbia Pictures, under a deal signed this week. The film, originally directed byJosef Fares, is a tale about policemen who go on the rampage in a small town inorder to boost crime figures and keep ...
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More sex please, we're British
There is a distinctly saucy atmosphere in the country which spawned the Carry On films and The Full Monty, with two cheeky British comedies starting shooting and a third tipped to become a hit when it opens later this year.UK distributor Helkon SK and Angad Paul, one of the financiers ...
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Danish director scores production hat trick
The Danish Film Institute has put writer-director Jesper W. Nielsen (pictured) in a highly unusual situation for a Danish filmmaker. With its $792,700 (DKR 5.5m) backing for his new comedy Don't You Know John Lennon (working title), Nielsen will have had a new film released three years in a row. ...
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Constantin prepares big-budget Hitler feature
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger (pictured) is producing a film on the last days of Adolf Hitler with director Oliver Hirschbiegl in his first feature outing since the award-winning Das Experiment.The screenplay for Der Untergang - Hitler Und Das Ende Des 3. Reichs (The Downfall - Hitler And The End Of ...
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Polish producer hopes for new blockbuster with Old Tale
While the Polish film industry is still waiting for promised funding from new minister of culture Waldemar Dabrowski to revive the stalled industry, some producers are still managing to make films. Director Jerzy Hoffman who ushered in the era of the Polish blockbuster in 1999 with With Fire And ...
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Gurinder Chadha finds her leading man
Pathe UK's white-hot Bollywood musical version of Pride And Prejudice has finally found its Darcy.Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha has cast rising New Zealand star Martin Henderson (pictured), who played opposite Naomi Watts in The Ring, to appear alongside Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai.Pathe is likely to fly Henderson ...
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Sony's Spanish production arm confirms first projects
Just a month after the company closed its German production division, Sony Pictures Entertainment's new Spanish production operation, Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas has confirmed two of its first projects in development.Iona de Macedo, head of the Madrid-based unit since its September 2001 launch, confirmed that writer-director Juan Calvo's Tam Tam, ...
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Maynard, Kelly team for Australian/UK co-production
Film producer John Maynard, who has just been presented with an honorary degree from the Australian Film, Television & Radio School, is working with UK producer David Kelly on the financing of an adaptation of Randolph Stow's novel The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea. The co-production has been scripted by Peter ...
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Jackie Chan to join Mandarin's $10m Sword Searchers
Hong Kong's Mandarin Entertainment has lined up Jackie Chan and hot local singer-actor Nicholas Tse to star in The Sword Searchers, a $10m action adventure film to be directed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung.The film, which will be set up as a co-production with a Chinese studio, is based on the ...
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Schepisi lined up for Australian project after 15-year absence
Two expatriate Australian directors, Fred Schepisi (Last Orders) and John Polson (Swimfan), may be among those to benefit from the second fundraising by Australian partners the Nine Network and Macquarie bank, it was revealed last night. Schepisi was presented with the highest honour at the Australian Screen Directors Association awards ...
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Hong Kong's Universe sets sights on mainland market
So far the killer virus that has recently hit Hong Kong doesn't appear to be affecting production. Several studios, encouraged by the growing potential of the mainland market, are continuing to line up busy production slates for the coming months. Universe International Holdings plans to put into production at least ...
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Catherine Zeta-Jones ready for Getting And Spending
Catherine Zeta-Jones' Milkwood Films has teamed with UK National Lottery franchise Pathe Pictures and Starboard Entertainment to develop and produce a feature based on the stage play Getting And Spending.The romantic comedy, written for the stage by Michael J Chepiga, will be developed and produced as a starring vehicle for ...
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L'Homme Du Train joins Monsieur Hire for Leconte remake
Not one, but two films by French director Patrice Leconte are set for English-language remake treatment. According to multiple US sources, Leconte's most recent effort, The Man On The Train (L'Homme Du Train) is poised to be set up via Warner Bros, while earlier drama Monsieur Hire is likely to ...
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Cohen remakes hardcore anime classic for Distant Horizon
DirectorRob Cohen, whose recent filmmaking credits include the international hits XXX and The Fast And The Furious, is teaming up with Distant Horizon to rework the acclaimedbut controversial 1998 Japanese anime shocker Kite into a live action version that will water down theoriginal's explicit sexual content.Inaddition to signing on direct ...
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Dobermann director plans eco-friendly documentary series
Jan Kounen, the French director behind the stylish and hyper-violent 1997 comic-book adaptation Dobermann, is to show another side of his character with the launch of a new series of spiritual and eco-friendly documentaries. Kounen, who is just completing post-production of Blueberry, a stylised fantasy Western, that weighs in ...
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Production starts on The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Principal photography gets underway today (Friday) in Madrid, on The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, a Spanish-French-UK co-production being sold internationally by Senator International.The film's star-studded cast is headlined by Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Kathy Bates. Irish director Mary McGuckian (This Is The Sea) wrote the screenplay and ...
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The Punisher catches Dream star
Thomas Jane, currently starring in Warner Bros' Dreamcatcher,has signed to play the lead role in Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios' superheroadaptation The Punisher.Set to start shooting in July with a view to a Summer 2004 release,the project is the latest example of the joint venture between Artisan andMarvel to develop, ...
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Italy follows France in big budget stakes
Taking a lesson from the French industry, Italian producers are lining up a string of big budget features in a bid to wow local and international audiences.Cast an eye over many of Italy's forthcoming films and one things stands out: despite the financial woes of the local industry, a slew ...
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Italian producer seals landmark international co-production deals
Veteran Italian producer Leo Pescarolo has sealed two landmark multi-million dollar international co-production deals with China and Canada.Fred Wang of Hong Kong's Salon Media Films has taken a 50% stake in the $18m English-language fantasy tale She, which Pescarolo developed through his Rome-based development outfit Imago Film.Salon Media Films, ...
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Plans unveiled for Scottish facilities centre
Scottish producer Gillian Berrie of Sigma Films has revealed plans to develop Film City Glasgow in the city's Govan Town Hall. Backed by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, Glasgow City Council and the European Regional Development Fund, the £3m project was inspired by Zentropa's facilities in Denmark - Film City Copenhagen. A ...