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TRP teams with IAC for The Mammoth Hunters
TRP Prodcutions, the production venture set up last year by former CLT/Ufa sales chief Heinz Thym and writer-director Stewart Raffill, has partnered with UK-based sales agency IAC Film on its debut picture, the tentatively titled $17 million prehistoric adventure The Mammoth Hunters.The effects-laden family film, which is to recreate the ...
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Pandemonium to remake Japanese horror film
Kadokawa Shoten, a leading Japanese publisher with extensive media interests, has reached a agreement with Pandemonium, former Fox president Bill Mechanic's production company, to remake Dark Water, the latest film by horror-meister Hideo Nakata, who was responsible for the hit Ring series. The rights fee is reported to be $400,000, ...
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UK production continues despite actors' dispute
The dispute over secondary payments for actors between UK performers' union Equity and UK producer's body PACT may be entering its eighth week, but as yet there is little sign of any ill-effects in the UK production sector.Equity has so far agreed 14 separate feature film strike waivers with producers, ...
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Spanish production's 'endemic structural problems'
Despite record production levels and a near-doubling of the domestic market share to 19%, a report on the Spanish film industry describes the production sector as suffering from "endemic structural problems" and an enormous gap between the haves and have-nots.In its annual report on the industry, the Spanish Film Academy ...
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Scherfig commits to English-language Suicide
Lone Scherfig, director of Denmark's foreign-language Oscar hopeful Italian For Beginners, is to make her first English-language film.Vilbur Wants To Commit Suicide will be produced by newcomer Sisse Graum Olsen, who recently made her debut with Niels Arden Oplev's black comedy Chop Chop (Fukssvansen) for Zentropa. The film will shoot ...
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Hamburg's public film fund under threat
The German city of Hamburg's status as a film and TV production location is under serious threat following plans by the new Senate to slash almost $915,000 (DM 2m) from the 2002 budget for the city's public FilmFoerderung film fund.Until now, the city's cultural and economic senates had each contributed ...
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California proposes production tax incentives
An apparently escalating decline in local production has prompted the state of California to propose a tax incentive to encourage film and TV producers to shoot in the state. California governor Gray Davis has announced that, if instituted, the labour-based tax credit would return $230m to the production community over ...
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Javier Bardem tipped for Scott's Pancho Villa role
Oscar-nominated Spanish actor Javier Bardem is in the running to play Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa in a forthcoming film for director Tony Scott.Scott told Mexican newspaper La Jornada that he is considering Bardem for the role of the turn-of-the-century icon in a project he hopes to begin shooting in ...
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Pony Canyon launches sci-fi extravaganza Returner
Production has started on Returner, a CGI extravaganza that promises to be one of the biggest Japanese releases of 2002. Directed by Takashi Yamazaki and starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Returner is a sci-fi thriller about a killer for hire who boasts a matchless martial arts technique but has a soft spot ...
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Brosnan stays on board for Bond films 20 and 21
Pierce Brosnan has revealed that he plans to play James Bond in another film, which will take the Irish actor's tally of Bond appearances to five.Speaking at a press conference at Pinewood Studios, where the still-untitled 20th Bond film is gearing up to start shooting on Monday (Jan 14) Brosnan ...
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UK film production spend down in 2001
UK production spending fell by nearly 10% in 2001, with much of the drop blamed on the shadow cast by the threat of a summer SAG strike, according to research compiled by Screen International.Screen International's 2001 figures - which include every feature shot in the UK or abroad produced by ...
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ApolloProMedia fund to back Borderline
Evelyn Purcell's psychological thriller Borderline, starring Gina Gershon (Driven) and Chris Noth (Sex And The City), is to be backed by the German ApolloProMedia private film fund.This is the second feature to be backed by the new fund after it committed to back Michael J. Bassett's Untitled Great War Project ...
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Local industries boost world film production
Global film production totalled some 3,540 films in 2000, an increase of 76 films from 1999, according to research by industry periodical Screen Digest.With some of the smaller territories still to release production data for 2000, the figures are not exhaustive, but the trend is unmistakable: world-wide film production is ...
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Untitled Great War project wraps in Prague
The as-yet untitled World War I thriller starring Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell wrapped in the Czech Republic in December, a UK-German co-production and the first from UK-based Film & Music Entertainment Ltd. The $5 million shoot finished on time and on budget, according to producer Mike Downey, who explained that ...
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Untitled 03 among recipients of UK Premiere Fund
The UK Film Council's Premiere Fund is investing £500,000 in acclaimed director Mike Leigh's Untitled 03, currently in development. Details of the subject of the film, produced by Simon Channing-Williams of Thin Man Films and set to shoot in 2003, are typically sketchy. Traditionally, Leigh does not work ...
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UK's Working Title options boo.com story
Working Title Films is to make a film about the spectacular boom and bust story of on-line fashion store boo.com.Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's UK production company has optioned the rights to the book boo hoo: a dot.com story from concept to catastrophe. The story offers an eyewitness account of ...
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French film production on track for record year
French film production has reached a massive 162 titles during 2001 (compared to 150 last year), and will top a record 200, including films in which French partners are minority co-producers (against 171 last year) according to the CNC (Centre National de la Cinematographie).Fuelling the growth, the bullish trend for ...
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Bacall, Gazzara join von Trier's Dogville
Hollywood veterans Lauren Bacall and Ben Gazzara have been the latest additions to the all-star cast of Danish maverick Lars von Trier's highly anticipated follow-up to the multiple award-winning Dancer In The Dark. His new project, Dogville, has already attracted high-profile talent, including: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Chloe Sevigny and ...
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Helkon SK ventures into production
Children's fantasy comedy Tooth and comedy thriller Max Dark are among the first projects at the newly-launched production operation of UK distributor Helkon SK. Emma Berkosfky, former head of development at BSkyB film arm Sky Pictures, will head up development at the outfit.Berkosfky, who was also previously at British Screen ...
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Maipo opens new chapter on literary adaptations
The Norwegian production outfit Maipo Film hit gold with its first feature film production Elling with more than 740,000 local admissions - the highest figure in 25 years - and is now planning a run of literary adaptations.Veteran producer and head of Maipo Film, Dag Alveberg now has several other ...