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Theron, Townsend put heads in Duigan's Clouds
Reallife couple Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend have joined Penelope Cruz andThomas Kretschmann in the cast of John Duigan's next film Head In The Clouds which Gary Hamilton'sArclight Films is representing for worldwide sales. NataliePortman was originally attached to star in the lead role with Cruz, but Theronhas taken her ...
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Australia's Film Finance Corp greenlights two new films
Writer/director Chris Kennedy and his co-producer John Winter, the Sydney-based duo behind Doing Time For Patsy Cline, are to get a second outing together on A Man's Gotta Do. One of Australia's busiest and most versatile actors, John Howard, has been cast in the lead role of Eddy, who "has ...
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Kim Basinger boards John Irving adaptation
Kim Basinger, last seen as Eminem's mother in Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, has joined Jeff Bridges in the cast of Door In The Floor, Focus Features' film adaptation of John Irving's A Widow For One Year. Tod Williams (The Adventures Of Sebastian Cole) has adapted the novel for the screen ...
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Bloody Sunday director prepares Jimi Hendrix project
Paul Greengrass, the award winning director of Bloody Sunday, is preparing to shoot a film about the last days of rock-legend Jimi Hendrix.Called Cross Town Traffic, the film is to be scripted by Oliver Parker (It Was An Accident) and produced by Number 9 Films' Elizabeth Karlsen (Little Voice, The ...
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Producers team for Nettelbeck's Helen
Sandra Nettelbeck's next feature Helen is to be produced by MTM Medien & Television Muenchen's Andreas Bareiss and co-produced with Pandora Film's Karl Baumgartner, who produced her international hit Mostly Martha.Helen, which will be shot in English, centres on a law professor fighting to save her life and her family ...
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UK animation grows up
A clutch of major UK animation features are cranking up, most with US Studio backing. Aardman aims to start shooting a new spoof-horror Wallace And Gromit movie with backing from DreamWorks SKG by September. Pathe is already in production on The Magic Roundabout, while Walt Disney Co has North America ...
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Verhoeven, Hauer classic to be remade by van de Velde
Classic Dutch cult TV series Floris, that first united director Paul Verhoeven and Rutger Hauer in 1969, is to be remade for the cinema. Jean van de Velde (Leak, All Stars) is set to direct the adventurous epic, about the heroic knight Floris and his sidekick Sindela. The original series ...
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Blind Shaft director readies debut follow-up
With the applause still ringing in his ears from the screening of his first feature, Blind Shaft, Chinese director Li Yang (pictured) has already put together most of the pieces for his follow-up, set during the Cultural Revolution.As yet untitled, the new film will, said Li, be "much closer to ...
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Minghella promotes location Romania
Ever since director Anthony Minghella finished his shoot of Cold Mountain, he's been asked one question repeatedly by fellow directors: what's it like to shoot in Romania.The $80m Civil War epic starring Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Jude Law shot late last year in the Carpathian mountains of Romania's Transylvania. Speaking ...
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German media fund takes 'hands on' approach
Private German media fund Cinerenta is to become more "hands on" in the development and production of the features it finances - moving away from the previous strategy of coming onboard projects developed by other producers."We are to become more involved in development and are expanding our production department in ...
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Splendid lines up 2003 production slate
Germany's Splendid Medien, which co-produced Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York through its then subsidiary IEG by stumping up $65m for the worldwide rights except for domestic, is lining up a number of new productions for shoot later this year.Splendid's CEO Andreas Klein told Screen International that the outfit's production ...
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VIP aims to raise Euros 500m for 20 projects
German private media fund VIP is aiming to raise up to Euros 500m this year to fully finance or co-produce up to 20 features.Initially, the Munich-based outfit set a target volume of between Euros 105m-150m to finance or co-produce up to ten projects, but VIP managing director Andreas Schmid told ...
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Argentine Patagonik kicks off 2003 with strong slate
Argentina's leading production company Patagonik Film Group, in Berlin with Panorama entry Kamchatka, has a strong start to 2003, with a six-title slate of feature films.The three-way joint venture - between Buena Vista International, Spain's Admira and Argentina's Clarin Group - is in the process of selecting a director to ...
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Bigelow set for VIP treatment
A new film by Berlinale competion jury member Kathryn Bigelow is one of ten features being produced by the second tranche of the private German media fund operator, Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds .Bigelow's 1930s-set drama Scottsboro Boys is being co-produced with Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide, as is the thriller ...
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Schumacher to direct Phantom
Joel Schumacher is to direct The Phantom Of The Opera, a feature version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit stage musical which UK-based sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment will launch at next week's AFM market.Warner Bros. Pictures, which owned the film rights until Lloyd Webber recently bought them back, retains the option ...
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Cast takes shape for Joffe's epic Invaders
Bollywood star Vivek Oberoi is to play the lead Indian role in Roland Joffe's upcoming The Invaders, which is due to shoot in India later this year. Oberoi is one of India's fastest-rising stars, having been catapulted to stardom by his debut film, Company, which was released in India last ...
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Yugoslavia, Slovenia co-produce Red Coloured Grey Truck
Hot Slovenian production house E-motion Films, producer of Damjan Kozole's Spare Parts which premieres in Official Competition in Berlin, is to co-produce feature debutant Srdan Koljevic's Red Coloured Grey Truck as the first collaboration between Yugoslavia and Slovenia since the Balkan War. Koljevic's Euros 1.2m roadmovie - "in the tradition ...
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Giannini, Roth to star in Taviani brothers' Dumas project
Italian heartthrob Adriano Giannini (Swept Away) and Argentina's Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) are set to star for the Taviani brothers in Luisa Sanfelice, an ambitious Italian feature film and miniseries, Rome-based producer Cattleya announced in Berlin.Originally planned only as a miniseries, Cattleya, which is producing for Germany's Victory ...
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Spain's Tesela readies three new films
Spanish production company Tesela is preparing three new feature films including the next project from Argentinean veteran Adolfo Aristarain (Common Places).The films are the first new projects following Achero Manas' Noviembre (now in post-production with an eye to a Cannes release) since Grupo Prisa-backed Plural Entertainment bought out 80% of ...
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Tele-Muenchen ups German feature production
Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen will step up its German-language feature production as a way of filling the gap left by the bursting of the Neuer Markt bubble."We are currently speaking with all independent producers and talents we didn`t have a chance of working with in the past because they ...