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Geisler/Roberdeau option McCain POW memoir
Bobby Geisler and JohnRoberdeau, the New York producing duo who were last involved in TerrenceMalick's The Thin Red Line, haveoptioned the movie rights to Faith Of My Fathers, the best-selling Vietnam prisoner of war memoirwritten by John McCain, the high-profile US Senator for Arizona.Written with Mark Salter,McCain's book is the ...
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Austin Powers allowed to display his Goldmember
Austin Powers will get his Goldmember-ship after allcourtesy of an agreement reached yesterday between New Line Cinema and James Bondstudio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) The film, AustinPowers In Goldmember,will be released as just that on July 26, but according to the agreement, all futuretitles will be subject to MGM's approval if they ...
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Parkhill has start date to dot the i for Summit
Summit Entertainment has scheduled April 21 to start production on dot the i, an urban love triangle story starring rising Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros).Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Matthew Parkhill makes his writer-director debut on the project, from UK production company Arcane Pictures. The ...
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Verhoeven receives Lifetime Award, reveals new projects
Accepting his Lifetime Achievement Award during the 18th Festival of the Fantastic Film in Amsterdam, director Paul Verhoeven revealed his next planned project, having had his latest feature, Official Assassins, cancelled post-September 11.While he claims to have several projects up his sleeve, convincing Hollywood studios has become increasingly difficult "Since ...
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Verhoeven, FilmFour partner for historical epic
Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director of such US blockbusters as Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers, and the UK's FilmFour have partnered on an epic film adaptation of one of the most shocking episodes in Dutch history. The partners are to shoot a film about the murderous aftermath of the ...
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Former Canton executive joins Senator in LA
Former Canton Coexecutive Nathan Kahane has joined LA-based Senator International as executivevice president, motion pictures, following the conclusion this week of asyndicated loan of 230m euros ($202m) by parent company Senator Entertainment.Kahane will headthe development and acquisition of feature films for Senator Internationalreporting to president Joe Drake and Senator Entertainment ...
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Female director is Korea's youngest ever
South Korea's Ahn's World Production has begun principal photography on its first feature in three years, a romantic comedy to be shot by 25-year old female director Moh Ji-eun. Moh, a graduate of the prestigious Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), is believed to be the youngest Korean ...
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Bad Eggs smell good to Village Roadshow
While the comedy thriller Bad Eggs does not have a particularly large budget in terms of the norm in Australia, it has attracted the single biggest financial commitment to an independent feature in entertainment conglomerate Village Roadshow's long history. "Mass audiences demand big laughs and we believe that Bad Eggs ...
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Italian publisher buys into Mikado Film
Italian publishing giant De Agostini has taken a majority stake in local arthouse production and distribution outfit Mikado Film, which recently co-produced Otar Iosseliani's Lundi Matin and released Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing. The move, which represents De Agostini's third major venture in the Italian film industry in ...
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Goldfish Memory wraps first digital production
Goldfish Memory, the first of four feature films to begin shooting in Dublin in March, has wrapped after a 24 day shoot, notching up 23 set ups a day according to producer Breda Walsh of Goldfish Films.Financed by a combination of Irish Film Board finance and deferrals, the Euros1.3m contemporary ...
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Dutch incentive to re-make European films
The Dutch film industry has turned to European films as a source for re-makes in an attempt to foster local production. Three titles - 14 Tage Lebenslaenglich and Sex Oder Liebe (both German) and the Swedish comedy Gossip - have been selected to be given a Dutch make-over.The Dutch industry ...
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Iain Glen chosen to star in Japanese spy thriller
Scottish actor Iain Glen is to star in veteran Japanese director Masahiro Shinoda's final film project: the $15m thriller Spy Sorge.The 71-year-old Shinoda has been trying for more than a decade to get backers for the film, which will require two months of filming in Shanghai and Berlin, as well ...
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Ulrich Thomsen to star in Fly's Arven for Zentropa
One of the most well-known Danish actors working abroad, Ulrich Thomsen, has returned to home turf to play the lead in Arven (literal translation The Inheritance), the eagerly awaited new film from writer-director Per Fly.Fly swept the national film awards last year with his strong social-realist drama The Bench. The ...
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Singing Horse strikes right note with China Star
Singing Horse Productions, a company owned by director Joe Ma Wai Ho International Pacific Artists head Thomas Leong and producer Ivy Kong, has struck a deal to produce three pictures for Hong Kong powerhouse China Star Entertainment.All three will be directed by Ma, who has notched up a string of ...
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New Emperor chief sets out on twin-track course
Taking over last week as chief executive of Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG) Carl Chang has set out a twin track strategy stressing regional Asian film-making and smaller Hong Kong productions."We will be making big-budget action pictures, but I cannot promise to greenlight another Highbinders inside the next six months," said ...
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Miramax joins kids craze with Pokemon sequel
As part of a visible pushinto producing and distributing family-friendly entertainment, Miramax Filmshas acquired the worldwide rights outside Asia to the next Pokemon movie sequel, out-bidding Warner Bros to the fourth film in the Japanese anime cash-cow about evolutionary pocket monsters. As reported in the LosAngeles Times yesterday, Miramaxpaid an ...
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Cinerenta offspring forges own path in LA
Michael Ohoven, scionof the family behind Germany's long-established Cinerenta productionfund, is striking out on his own as a Los Angeles-based producer. His InfinityInternational Entertainment will now start entertaining production ties withother European film funds while at the same time retaining its umbilical links to Cinerenta.Ohoven (pictured here) says he isrelocating ...
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SAG downplays international impact of Global Rule
The US Screen Actors Guild(SAG) says its controversial Global Rule One will only apply to that small cadre of internationalactors primarily living in the US, and not those many foreign SAG card-holders who have worked on US films but remain overseas residents.International producers,particularly those in the UK, were in uproar ...
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Hurt to star in Lea Pool's Blue Butterfly
William Hurt is set to star in the $7.8m Canada-UK co-production BlueButterfly, opposite young US actor Marc Donato and Canadian actress PascaleBussieres under the direction of Swiss-Canadian director Lea Pool. Based on a true story with a script by Pete McCormack, the film tells of a terminally ill boy ...
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Film clean-out begins at Vivendi Universal
The corporate cleansing hasbegun at Vivendi Universal's film operations in the wake of strategic re-evaluation meetings that have taken place in the French town of Deauville. Three months after mergingwith Barry Diller's USA Networks, the French-owned studio has shut downits specialist division Universal Focus and also severed StudioCanal's co-production venture ...