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Paxton cast as Thunderbirds patriarch
Continuing its strategy of non A-list casting on Thunderbirds, Working Title Films has cast Bill Paxton as Jeff Tracy, head of the International Rescue.Joining him on Tracy Island are his sons: Philip Winchester (The Patriot) as Scott and Lex Shrapnel (K-19: The Widowmaker) is John. Virgil will be played by ...
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Swedish Film Institute greenlights new projects
The Swedish Film Institute has awarded funding to three new feature films and a number of documentaries.After 17 years abscence, critics' favourite Kay Pollack is set to make a highly-anticipated comeback. The director, best-known for his coming-of-age drama Children's Island (Barnens O), which was nominated for the Golden Bear at ...
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Mexican Sex blockbuster gets Brazilian treatment
Principal photography of the Brazilian version of Mexican blockbuster Sex, Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas) kicks off February 1st in Rio de Janeiro The movie boasts a stellar cast led by Murilo Benicio whose credits include Sandra Werneck's Possible Loves and Fina Torres' Woman On Top opposite ...
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Oil rig drama Blasts off in Cape Town
Principal photography is currently underway on Blast, one of the biggest action features to be shot in South Africa's Cape Town to date. The film - described as Die Hard on an oil rig - also marks the first time, anywhere in the world, that an oil company has granted ...
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Danish Film Institute backs four films
The Danish Film Institute has backed three new Danish films as well as a Danish co-production. Shooting from late April is Anders Ronnow Klarlund's puppet tale Strings. It tells the story of royal heir Hal Tara, who goes in search of his father's murderer, but end up discovering the truth ...
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Goats, Goddesses and AC/DC feature in Lolafilms slate
Spanish production company Lolafilms is readying several new films for production in 2003."I foresee making four or five films this year," says Lolafilms CEO Andres Vicente Gomez, co-producer on Aisling Walsh's Sundance title Song For A Raggy Boy and this season's biggest domestic hit in Italy, Christmas On The Nile ...
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Kirk Douglas signs to The Illusion for Entitled
Kirk Douglas has joined the cast of The Illusion for production house Entitled Entertainment, it was announced today (Jan 22) by partners James Burke and Scott Disharoon. Burke and Disharoon, along with Kevin Weisman and Anahid Nazarian, will serve as producers on the film, which marks actor Michael Goorjian's directorial ...
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Takeshi Kitano eyes blind swordsman project
Takeshi Kitano will direct and star in a feature film version of the Japanese Zatoichi film series, playing the title role of the blind masseur and master swordsman. The original series of films, starring Shintaro Katsu, began in 1962 and ran for 26 episodes, until 1989. It has long been ...
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Trainspotting sequel has problems with E
Other than the original cast's lack of ageing, the sequel to 1996 runaway hit Trainspotting is taking shape, said director Danny Boyle at the Sundance Film Festival.In Park City for the North American debut of UK box-office sensation 28 Days Later, the director said the sequel, based on the novel, ...
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LaZona launches into Spanish production sector
Three producers are braving the choppy waters of the Spanish film sector to launch new Madrid-based production outfit LaZona Films.Merging their combined experience in some of Spain's top media companies, LaZona partners Douglas Wilson and brothers Ignacio and Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson (pictured, left and right) say they aim to produce two ...
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Breillat starts phase two of Anatomie d'Enfer shoot
Controversial director Catherine Breillat (pictured) heads out to Portugal this weekend to begin shooting phase two of her latest film, Anatomie d'Enfer. The film is based on her book Pornocratie and will once again examine the depths of sexual compulsion.Working with porn star Rocco Siffredi for the second time since ...
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Vanity Fair faces production setback
Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair's upcoming production of Vanity Fair faces uncertainty after it emerged that US star Reese Witherspoon may have to delay shooting.Producer Janette Day said that the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel might only be delayed for a few weeks if a compromise can be reached, ...
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Hot German director announces next two projects
German filmmaker Oskar Roehler, whose Angst (Der Alte Affe Angst) is a competition entry at year's Berlinale, is developing his next two film projects with X-Filme Creative Pool and Constantin Film.Roehler (pictured), who will have Angst distributed this spring by X-Filme's distribution arm X Verleih, told screendaily that the ...
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Til Schweiger to star in Star Trek spoof
Til Schweiger is to take one of the leads in (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1, Michael "Bully" Herbig's follow-up to his surprise 2001 hit Manitou's Shoe Schweiger, who appeared in last year's Was Tun, Wenn's Brennt and Drive, will play opposite the Manitou acting trio of Herbig, Rick Kavanian and ...
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Ermanno Olmi wraps $9.5m pirate epic
Veteran Italian director Ermanno Olmi (Profession Of Arms) has wrapped shooting on his new Euros 9m epic, Cantando Dietro I Paraventi.The film is the first production to have been shot in part at Roma Studios, the recently renovated studios built by producer Dino De Laurentiis in the 1960s.Based on a ...
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StudioCanal faces crippling staff losses
France's StudioCanal, which once boasted ambitions of being Europe's biggest film production outfit, looks to be heading towards total meltdown.It had recently been rumoured that hefty job cuts lay ahead at the company as parent Vivendi Universal sought cost cutting measures - and reported figures placed that number at around ...
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Neil Jordan plans Odysseus' Return
Neil Jordan's Borgia may have failed to start shooting, but the Irish director appears to have found another European epic, Odysseus' Return.Michael Kuhn's London-based production company is understood to be finalising a deal to board the production, which is set up with producer Uberto Pasolini, best known for The Full ...
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Constantin Film retreats from TV to focus on features
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film plans to concentrate its energies even more on the feature film sector in future.Speaking to the German daily newspaper Die Welt, Thomas Friedl, Constantin's board member for distribution and marketiing, said that his company was "assuming that the TV market will remain weak in ...
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Expat Indians plan to raise funds for Bollywood productions
Indian IT Millionaires settled in Silicon Valley are looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in Bollywood. Over 600 venture capitalists, angel investors and bankers including Kanwal Rekhi, Shailesh J Mehta, Rahul Bhasin, Raj Dugar and Brajesh Mehra participated in a Media and Entertainment conference in ...
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Inward investment in UK production sees slender rise
UK production levels from inward investment and local films limped to $696.6m (£433.1m) last year, only slightly up on 2001's disastrous tally of $660.4m, according to figures from support body the Film Council.Inward investment from overseas films and TV productions shooting in the UK such as Lara Croft And The ...