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TF1 set to board Kino Vision's Devil's Beauty
France's TF1 International is in negotiations to co-produce and handle world rights on Spanish production The Devil's Beauty, an ambitious English-language project in development at Madrid-based Kino Vision.The $35m project has attracted international attention since it was announced last year. The script, which is being adapted by Enrique Urbizu, who ...
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Jackie Chan launches rival Art Of War project
Hong Kong-superstar, Jackie Chan has set up a gladiatorial contest to produce an epic film based on classic Chinese tract The Art Of War. Chan announced yesterday (May 28) that he will star in a mega-budget adaptation of the philosophical works by Sun Tzu for Golden Harvest. Earlier this month ...
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Ireland enjoys unexpected production boom
Feature production in Ireland is heading for an unexpected upturn. It comes after a hesitant start to the year prompted by the threatened Hollywood strikes and exacerbated by industry anxiety that the UK's foot and mouth disease outbreak might spread to Ireland.Spyglass Entertainment's epic fantasy Reign Of Fire with ...
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Director Khudoinazarov sets up two more pictures
Luna Papa director Bahktiar Khudoinazarov is planning to shoot a low-budget feature Faraway Gochi on location in Russia this September ahead of his $4m-$4.4m (DM 9m-DM 10m) feature Leo which is being slated to shoot in and around Vienna for 12 weeks in spring 2002.Budgeted at under $440,000 (DM 1m) ...
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Warner plans Spanish, Italian local prod ventures
Warner Bros International is readying its first Spanish-language pictures in the next phase of its drive into local-language production in Europe.According to Simona Benzakein, Warner's newly appointed vice president of European production, the multinational is studying the possibility of opening a Spain-based production office, much like it has done in ...
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Australia unveils $16m funding boost
Australian film-makers and Australia-based productions have secured a funding boost worth $16.6m (A$31.6m) for the next four years from the state government of Victoria.Film production secured an extra $8.2m over the period, bringing the toal available to about three times current levels. Local film administration and support agency Film Victoria, ...
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Iceland's Kormakur readies trio of new projects
Hot Icelandic actor-writer-director Baltasar Kormakur is going to follow his festival and crowd pleasing feature directing debut, 101 Reykjavik, with two new films from his own hand as well as one as producer. Kormakur, who is in Cannes acting in Hal Hartley's No Such Thing, has set up his own ...
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Iceland's Kormakur readies trio of new projects
Hot Icelandic actor-writer-director Baltasar Kormakur is going to follow his festival and crowd pleasing feature directing debut, 101 Reykjavik, with two new films from his own hand as well as one as producer. Kormakur, who is in Cannes acting in Hal Hartley's No Such Thing, has set up his own ...
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Concorde, StudioCanal, USA back Zentropa Zhillers
Germany's Concorde has joined Studiocanal and USA Films in backing the 3-6 picture Zentropa Zhillers slate from Denmark's Zentropa. Produced by the company's international arm, Zentropa Internationale, the films are budgeted around $5m. The first, Saying Goodbye To Mr Welcome, is set to shoot in Oct on location in Scotland ...
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Alta, Celluloid team for Noriega starrer Nova
Spain's Alta Films is prepping feature film Novo with France's Celluloid Dreams, set to star heartthrob Eduardo Noriega in his first non Spanish-language role.The $4-5m film, which will shoot in Paris beginning in August, is about a man whose memory problems get him in trouble with women. Jean-Pierre Limosin directs.The ...
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CANNES: WEEKEND DEALS AND NEW PROJECTS
TF1 International has boarded The One And Only, a romantic comedy produced by the UK's Assassin Films and to be directed by Simon Cellar Jones.The world-wide acquisition and sales arm of TF1 Group, which is co-producing the title along with Pathe UK, will be handling worldwide sales with the exception ...
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Hammer teams with Sturridge to scare up six films
Resurrected UK horror brand Hammer Entertainment has partnered with FirstSight Films, the production outfit of Charles Sturridge, Francesca Barra and Selwyn Roberts, to make a slate of six films over the next three years.The deal is the first step back into feature film production for Hammer after it was bought ...
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Tokuma mounts new project from Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tokuma International has moved quickly to capitalise on the intense heat surrounding Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, following the acclaimed Un Certain regard screening of his Pulse (aka Kairo).Tokuma is to handle world sales on his next directorial effort, an untitled drama about the uneasy relationship between two men. ...
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Hundred Steps producer lines up Palestinian movie
Fabrizio Mosca, producer of the Italian Oscar candidate The Hundred Steps, is lining up three English-language pictures, including Return to Haifa - a breakthrough Israeli-Palestinian-Italian film about Middle East tensions. Return to Haifa is based on a book by a leading Palestinian author, Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed by Mossad ...
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UK's FilmFour takes on Borgias, Che Guevara
Joining a pack of film-makers taking on the same ambitious material, the UK's FilmFour is tackling two historical subjects of world-wide renown - Che Guevara and the Borgias.FilmFour's Che will focus on the relationship between Guevara and Fidel Castro, ranging from the Cuban revolutionary's rise to power to his death ...
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Vine teams with Samaha brother on Spheeris comedy
Samaha Productions, the LA production outfit run by Elie's brother Demetri Samaha, has teamed with Marie Vine's London-based Vine International Pictures to co-finance Penelope Spheeris' Spam On Rye which will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Vine will handle international sales.A dark comedy about an unambitious young man who unwittingly ...
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Gilliam, Thomas trip out together on fantasy film
Terry Gilliam, in Cannes on the main jury, has teamed with producer Jeremy Thomas on Tideland, an adaptation of US author Mitch Cullin's dark twist on child fantasies such as The Wizard Of Oz and Alice In Wonderland.The often surreal story of a girl who flees from Los Angeles to ...
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Chan, Hung replace Hudlin on EMG's Highbinders
Hong Kong star directors Gordon Chan and Sammo Hung are to jointly replace Reggie Hudlin behind the camera on The Highbinders, a $35m sci-fi action adventure that breaks the international financing mould by being structured as a Hong Kong-Irish co-production. Jackie Chan is attached to star in this English-language project, ...
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Mueller creates new film production company
Marco Mueller, head of the Benetton-owned production company Fabrica Cinema, is planning to create a new, autonomous production company at the end of this year. Mueller said he will maintain his role at Fabrica, which will continue to build on its reputation of fostering new talents from around the world. ...
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Zefirrelli lines up next project with Italy's RAI
As part of its drive into high profile film production, Rai Cinema is set to produce the next project by Franco Zeffirelli after the Italian director completes his widely anticipated upcoming film, Callas Forever, for rival mini-major Medusa Film. Although it is not yet clear what the next Zeffirelli project ...