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Australia's Film Finance Corp backs Deck Dogz, Scarlett
Writer/director Steve Pasvolsky's short film Inja failed to win an Oscar in the live action category for which it was nominated, but yesterday he got a very significant consolation prize: the Film Finance Corporation (FFC) agreed to invest in his debut feature Deck Dogz. Pay-TV outfit The Movie Network is ...
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Madragoa Filmes awarded Portugese production support
Paulo Branco's Lisbon-based production company Madragoa Filmes has received two of the three latest feature film subsidies granted by the Portuguese Film Institute ICAM.The ICAM (Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimedia) announced the three winners of the newest bid for direct financial support to fiction feature films out of 13 ...
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Istituto Luce re-focuses on documentaries
Italy's 79-year-old state-owned Istituto Luce has decided to re-focus on its original role as Italy's leading maker of documentaries."We want to revitalise our role as a documentary-maker and give it new impetus. We will no longer just make "montage" documentaries, but will produce new ones too," said Istituto Luce ...
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Oscar Moore screenwriting prizewinners secure production co, director
Jason and Brendan Butler, the new Dublin-based screenwriters who won last year's Oscar Moore Screenwriting Prize, have secured a director and a production company for their script Ton Of Money.Irish production outfit Octagon Films has optioned the project, a comedy about a group of criminals who come across £1m in ...
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Marleen Gorris to direct Bronte
Academy Award-winning director Marleen Gorris is to direct Bronte, the story of the Bronte sisters.The Dutch director, who won the best foreign-language Oscar for Antonia's Line, is to go into pre-production in May for Random Harvest, the UK producer and tax-based financier which acquired the screenplay from DreamWorks SKG.Angela Workman, ...
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Shooting starts on Taviani bros' Luisa San Felice
Production has got underway on Luisa San Felice, a Euros12.5m picture directed by the celebrated Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio.The cast is headed by supermodel-turned actress Laetitia Casta (pictured) and Adriano Giannini in a romance and revolution story adapted from the Alexandre Dumas classic novel La San Felice. Principal photography ...
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Media Asia boards Masked Crusader
Hong Kong's Media Asia has boarded Han Entertainment's futuristic action movie, Masked Crusader, starring Michelle Yeoh and Richie Jen, which started shooting today (March 27) in Beijing. The $15m film is a co-production between Han, Media Asia and China's Tianjin Film Studio with the assistance of China Film Co-production Corp. ...
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Silverscreen Films launches in New Zealand
Sydney-based producer Don Reynolds, who made a raft of New Zealand films in the 1980s, has created Silverscreen Films, a feature film and television production company with Geoff Dixon, a giant of the New Zealand commercials production scene. Already on the company slate is Spooked, which Reynolds and Dixon hope ...
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Two novel adaptations to launch Arclight's Australian production slate
A literary adaptation looks certain to kick off Sydney-based sales agent Arclight Films' career as a producer of Australian films but which one is the question. Arclight has announced it has started selling distribution rights to the schoolgirl teen comedy Hating Alison Ashley, from the children's classic of the same ...
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Western productions head to the east
With fully-booked studios in Prague, Cold Mountain in Romania, and Hungary and Russia making steps to woo foreign investment, Eastern Europe is becoming an increasingly desirable location.Foreign filmmaking in Prague is going strong, despite fears of a post-boom hangover following the heady days of 2001, when three US studio shoots ...
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Asian Pictures Int'l announces first Bollywood projects
London-based Asian Pictures International has announced its first Bollywood productions.Producer Sevy Ali told Screendaily.com, "the trend in Bollywood is to make international quality co-productions and we are already working with Troika Productions of Mumbai for our first two films". The first film, titled White Noise is to be directed by ...
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Hong Kong distributor moves into production finance
Hong Kong distributor Panorama Entertainment has unveiled plans to co-finance up to five Chinese-language movies this year, starting with comedy-drama Ho Qing (Erotica), a co-production with China Star Entertainment. The $2.5m film, which started shooting today (March 24) in Hong Kong, stars Louis Koo and Eason Chan as a pair ...
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Nakata's Don't Look Up in remake deal
South Africa-based Distant Horizon has picked up remake rights to Don't Look Up (Joyuu-Rei), a Japanese horror story originally made by Ringu-director Hideo Nakata. Distant Horizon CEO, Anant Singh told Screendaily that a number of Hollywood studios have indicated an interest in the remake and that a top horror screenwriter ...
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Alfonso Cuaron's production company unveils new titles
Anhelo, the film production company forged by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron and partner Jorge Vergara, has unveiled three international projects in the pipeline. Cuaron and Vergara initially launched Anhelo to produce the Cuaron-directed international hit Y Tu Mama Tambien which is currently in the running for a best screenplay Oscar. ...
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Rising Danish star takes on Norwegian thriller
Hot Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is to star in Erich Hortnagl's Norwegian psychological thriller A Cry In The Woods (Den som frykter ulven). Mikkelsen will play a Danish police detective investigating a horrific murder in a small Norwegian town, which turns out to have a personal significance to him. Mikkelsen ...
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Location Prague attracts two new US productions
Two US studio films, Brothers Grimm and First Daughter are close to confirming a shoot in the Czech Republic, joining a spate of other planned location shoots, according to sources in Prague. MGM and Miramax are expected to give the go-ahead to Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm for a Prague ...
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Endgame Entertainment launches production and financing outfit
James Stern, the Tony Award-winning producer of stage hits The Producers and Stomp, has announced the formation of production and financing house Endgame Entertainment.The company comprises development and production division Endgame Productions and The Endgame Fund, a financing source for third party producers and distributors covering a range of ...
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Italy close to signing major production/distribution deal with India
Italy is close to signing a landmark co-production and co-distribution agreement with India, which is also expected to encourage Indian crews to shoot movies in Italy. The deal is one of the latest initiatives spearheaded by new Italian state Film Department chief, Gianni Profita."We are collaborating with Indian Film Commissions ...
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Bille August gets Hans Christian Andersen Award, prepares biopic
Danish expatriate filmmaker Bille August will receive The Hans Christian Andersen Award 2003 from the city Odense, where the world famous author was born 198 years ago, on April 2. August has just returned from Hollywood after financing collapsed on his Without Apparent Motive with Oscar-darlings Richard Gere and Julianne ...
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Entertainers launch Oz film outfit
Ned Kelly producer Nelson Woss has joined forces with live entertainment specialists Sports & Entertainment Limited (SEL) to form a new Sydney based film outfit.Called Woss Group Films/SEL, the company is looking to produce Australian projects with international ambitions as well as other international projects.Woss is one of the producers ...