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Gong Li takes on Blake & Mortimer's M
Chinese superstar Gong Li took time out from her duties as Venice jury chief, to announce her role in big-budget, English-language thriller M, being put together by French producer Charles Gassot for TF1.The film is a 1950s action adventure adapted from The Yellow M, one of 12 books in the ...
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Gong Li takes on Blake & Mortimer's M
Chinese superstar Gong Li took time out from her duties as Venice jury chief, to announce her role in big-budget, English-language thriller M, being put together by French producer Charles Gassot for TF1.The film is a 1950s action adventure adapted from The Yellow M, one of 12 books in the ...
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Buena Vista Spain boosts local co-production slate
Having officially entered the local production sector last year, Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS) is negotiating a potential slate of five to six new co-productions for 2003.The multinational, which distributed the country's top grossing domestic hit this year: The Wrong Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama), ...
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Six Korean directors to create human rights omnibus
The South Korean Human Rights Commission has announced plans to assemble six high-profile Korean directors to shoot an omnibus-style collection of short films dealing with themes related to discrimination and human rights.Five directors have already signed on to the project - Park Chan-wook (JSA), Jeong Jae-eun (Take Care Of My ...
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German producers reach 'voluntary' agreement with public broadcasters
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have reached a voluntary agreement with the national producer associations which will see the first exploitation cycle for TV rights on funded cinema co-productions reduced from seven years to five. Following the signing of the agreement with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neuer Deutscher Spielfilmproduzenten e.V. ...
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Disney boards John Williams' $40m Valiant
Walt Disney Studios has boarded Valiant, the $40m animation film to be made at the UK's Ealing Studios.Although the studio is reportedly paying only 25% of the $40m budget for North American rights to the project, the deal may lead to Disney backing three more films from Shrek producer John ...
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Red Light Runners faces financial greenlight hurdle
Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen, has hit another financing roadblock.A spokesperson for the film confirmed that Germany's Fierce Entertainment, which purportedly stepped in with a deal for 70% of the funding, was no longer part of the project. Madsen ...
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Fierce Entertainment denies Red Light Runners deal
In a further bizarre twist to the film's financing - or lack of it - Fierce Entertainment has denied any commitment to Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen.Producer Clark Westerman had announced that the financier had stepped in as an ...
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Working Title's WT2 begins to shoot The Calcium Kid
Working Title Films' low budget division WT2 is set to start principal photography on The Calcium Kid, starring Orlando Bloom, who plays Legolas in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.The off-beat comedy is a mockumentary about a young milkman who is also amateur boxer and ends up fighting the world ...
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UK Film Council invests in four new local projects
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund has announced four new investments, including new projects from Under The Skin director Carine Adler and One Day In September producer John Battsek.Carine Adler will write and direct Finding Out, a love story set in a small English seaside town about a lonely ...
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Star Line, Parallel, Planet team for Aranda's Carmen
Madrid-based producer Star Line has signed up the UK's Parallel Pictures and Italy's Planet Pictures to co-produce the long-planned ambitious new feature film version of Carmen.The Euros 7m-plus film, from director Vicente Aranda (Juana La Loca), will begin principal photography in Andalusia on September 16 with actors Paz Vega (Sex ...
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Kuhn & Co.'s UK debut production begins shoot
Wondrous Oblivion, former PolyGram chief Michael Kuhn's debut UK production through his Soho production company Kuhn & Co, has started shooting with a cast including Delroy Lindo, Emily Woof and newcomer Sam Smith as the star.Smith, whose credits include BBC TV's Oliver, plays eleven-year-old David Wiseman, a Jewish boy in ...
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Japan's Sony Pictures turns cinemagoers into film bookers
Japan's Sony Pictures is to overturn the established practice of film programming by inviting audiences to chose which movies to screen - and at which venues, as well as at what times.Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) will launch a new service offering special screenings of Sony films, based on Internet polls. ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...
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Norway goes crazy for documentaries
Following the runaway success of Knut Erik Jensen's 2001 musical documentary Cool And Crazy, a slate of new Norwegian documentaries are enjoying both critical and commercial success at home.The Norwegian Film Fund has just awarded $371,000 to local production outfit Barentsfilm for director Knut Erik Jensen's (pictured) new theatrical documentary ...
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UK documentary scheme emerges from Edinburgh
A proposed pilot scheme to boost UK theatrical audiences for documentaries was unveiled at Edinburgh during the closing weekend of the Film Festival.Inspired by the Docuzone initiative in the Nederlands and growing figures for the Sheffield Touring Festival, the scheme, titled Docuspace, is ultimately intended to devise a dedicated exhibition ...
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Epic Matrix shoot wraps in Oz as runaway production levels rise
The 12-month Sydney shoot of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions has just wrapped, leaving the legacy of a $110.6m contribution to the state economy and a host of titles lining up to shoot in production-friendly Australia. Brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski shot the futuristic films simultaneously and will ...
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Vinterberg to direct von Trier's Dear Wendy
Two of Denmark's most acclaimed filmmakers, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg - who together fathered the influential Dogme95 movement - are once again joining forces. Vinterberg is to direct the von Trier scripted Dear Wendy, a contemporary English-language film set in the US about a group of youngsters ...
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UK's Ealing Studios to revive St Trinian's comedies
Ealing Studios, the historic UK film studio at the centre of a £50 million redevelopment plan, is reviving the classic British comedies of St Trinian's.Producer and Ealing co-owner Barnaby Thompson confirmed that Rupert Everett may play the dual roles originally played by Alastair Sim in 1954's The Belles Of St ...
