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Firth, Shepard, Rossellini join Thurman in Accidental Husband
Colin Firth, Sam Shepard and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have joined Uma Thurmanon Yari Film Group (YFG) and Team 's romantic comedy The Accidental Husband.Isabella Rossellini, Lindsay Sloane and Justine Machado are also onboard the project, set to start production in New York today under thedirection of Griffin Dunne.Bonnie Sikowitz, Mimi ...
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Blockbusters boost Skillset UK training fund
The UK Skills Investment Fund (SIF) has reached the £4m ($7.6m) mark thanks to the success of blockbusters such as Sony's Casino Royale, Working Title's Bean 2 and Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix.The SIF is a levy on theatrical productions, collected by UK body Skillset, ...
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Borat leads international with $15.6m from 20 markets
The outrageous antics of a socially gauche faux Kazakhreporter continued to dominate the international marketplace as Borat stayed top on an estimated $15.6m haul.Impressive weekend business from 20 markets raised the tally to$42.8m and ensured that, with a strong domestic hold, Borat remained the top global picture, soaringpast $100m in ...
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Benson joins The Agency
Confetti producer Ian Benson has joined The Agency in a new role dedicated to new and established film and TV directors. The London-based business represents writers for film, television, radio and the theatre. It also represents directors and film and television rights in books."Having worked as a producer for a ...
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Benson joins The Agency
Confetti producer Ian Benson has joined The Agency in a new role dedicated to new and established film and TV directors. The London-based business represents writers for film, television, radio and the theatre. It also represents directors and film and television rights in books."Having worked as a producer for a ...
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Inferno sells The Women to Constantin, Hopscotch, IIF among others
Inferno Distribution has closed a raft of major sales on itsupcoming comedy remake The Women from Diane English with Meg Ryan attached to star.Rights have gone to Australia (Hopscotch), Germany (Constantin),Italy (IIF), Mexico (Quality), and Brazil (California Filmes).Deals also closed in Spain (On Pictures), South Korea(Unikorea), Eastern Europe (Ablo), Benelux ...
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Eichmann biopic begins shooting in Hungary and Malta
Shooting begins in Budapest and Malta next week on E-Motion's biopic of Adolf Eichmann.Eichmann, starring Thomas Kretschmann, portrays the events leading up to the capture of the Nazi war criminal by Israeli agents and his 1962 execution.Principal photography on the UK, Hungary, Belgium and the US co-production, directed by Robert ...
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Producers warn next Bond film may be shot outside UK
There is no guarantee that the next James Bond film will shoot in the UK. That was the message today from Casino Royale producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli."We're going to have to make that decision again," Wilson toldScreenDaily. "London is the most expensive city in the world ...
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Starz launches Overture under McGurk, Rosett
Starzhas launched its long-awaited theatrical division Overture Films, which willproduce, acquire and distribute eight to 12 full-length films a year.ChrisMcGurk is named chief executive officer and McGurk's former colleague at MGMDanny Rosett becomes chief operating officer.LosAngeles-based Overture Films, a wholly owned subsidiary of Starz, which itselfis a part of John ...
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Grbavica, Vitus lead AFI FEST honour roll
Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica from Bosnia-Herzegovina won the AFI FEST's International FeatureCompetition Grand Jury Prize, while special mention went to Peter Schonau'sDanish film The Art Of Crying.The International Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize went toMark Verkerk's Buddha's Lost Children, and the shorts prize was awarded to Stefanie Berk's Disappearing.In the audienceawards, ...
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Borat continues to dominate North American box office
TwentiethCentury Fox expanded Borat from837 to 2,566 screens in its second weekend and reaped the rewards as feverishword of mouth generated an estimated $29m number onehold.After two weekends the picture has amassed $67.8m, a remarkableachievement by the distributor. Fox has taken a character that was virtuallyunrecognizable before the summer and ...
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Financier Das backs development fund for GreeneStreet
GreeneStreet Films (GSF) is going into business withprivate financier Sriram Das in a deal that will see Das will finance thedevelopment of a slate of films with the company.GSF's director of development on the West Coast Melanie Shanleyintroduced Das to the company. GSF will take the lead in creative developmentand ...
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Cutler leaves CAA to become president of Winkler Films
Jill Cutler (pictured) has left CAA to become president of IrwinWinkler's Winkler Films. While an agent Cutler worked with Winkler on a numberof films including the upcoming Iraq War drama Home Of The Brave, which opens through MGM on Dec 15."We've had an opportunity over the last few years to ...
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Irish film production dropped 50% in 2005
Feature film production in Ireland in 2005 dropped 50% on the previous year, according to the Audiovisual Federation Review produced annually by Irish state and industry bodies.The loss of feature production was more than compensated for by significant growth in television production, much of it single and serial drama.Ten feature ...
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Welsh film agency launched in Cardiff
The Film Agency for Wales will be officially launched in Cardiff tomorrow (Tuesday).The body, established to support the industry in the Principality, will also announce its first co-financing venture for first-time feature director David Howard's Flick.The project has support from the lottery fund of the Arts Council of Wales. The ...
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Welsh film agency launched in Cardiff
The Film Agency for Wales will be officially launched in Cardiff tomorrow (Tueday).The body, established to support the industry in the principality, will also announce its first co-financing venture for first-time feature director David Howard's Flick.The project also has support from the lottery fund of the Arts Council of Wales, ...
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Bradford Animation Festival attracts international names
The Bradford Animation Festival (November 15-18), based at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in the Yorkshire town will include a number of majhor international names .They include Dave Burgess, supervising animator on Over The Hedge. Bafta award-winning film-maker Joanna Quinn and Marc Craste who picked up a ...
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Five films make Louis Delluc shortlist
Five films have been shortlisted for France's pretigious Louis Delluc prize. Cannes winner Flanders by Bruno Dumont, Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran, Jardins d'Automne from Otar Iosseliani, Bled Number One by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche and Quand J'Etais Chanteur from Xavier Giannoli have all made the cut.The winners will be announced in ...
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The Red Cockatoo takes top prize at Marrakech
Germany's Dominik Graf picked up the top prize at the 6th Marrakech International Film Festival for his The Red Cockatoo this weekend. Max Riemelt also took the Best Actor prize for the same film.The Jury Prize went to Romania's Radu Muntean for The Paper Will Be Blue while Best Actress ...
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Norway continues local production revival
2006 is set to follow 2003 in taking local films in Norwegian cinemas back to a level not seen since the 1970s.Stein Slyngstad, managing director of the Norwegian Film Fund, said ticket sales for domestic productions over the last week reached around 1.9 million, with three Norwegian features close to ...