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Bollywood reaches Ireland
Shooting has started in county Wicklow on Ayodhiya, Ireland's first Bollywood co-production. Having shot for five weeks in the southern province of Tamil Nadu in India, a 36 person cast and crew have travelled to Ireland for the final two weeks of principal photography.The story is a 'love divided' tale ...
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UK to have strong presence at CARTOON Forum
Animation shorts from the UK and France have been nominated to the final five for this year's Cartoon D'Or prize which will be presented at the CARTOON Forum in Varese, Italy (September 17-20).The five nominees are: Dog by Suzie Templeton (UK)Ligne De Vie by Serge Auedikian (France)NSPCC: Cartoon by Russell ...
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Slovak epic production halted by cash shortfall
The Euros 5.5m Slovak epic Juraj Janosik - A True Story has been halted mid-way through production while producer Rudolf Biermann waits for his US backer to hand over Euros 3m of overdue cash.The film, directed by mother-daughter team Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik, has been hyped as the Polish-Slovak ...
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Hard Word director commits to Quiet Man
Writer/director Scott Roberts has joined the team behind The Quiet Man, a vehicle for Australian comedian Alexander Gutman, better known under his stage name Austen Tayshus. Roberts' debut film The Hard Word, starring Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths, has just opened in several key US cities. Robert Lewis Galinsky describes ...
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German tax incentives could double local production spend
The introduction of tax incentives similar to the UK's sale and leaseback model or the Canadian tax credits system could result in a doubling of production expenditure in Germany over the next five to seven years, according to the producer pressure group film20.In a study commissioned from the economist and ...
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Italian exhibitors seek to limit multiplex growth
Following a three-day meeting Rome, Italian exhibitors, led by trade association ANEC president Walter Vacchino, have begun lobbying the government to prevent the construction of new multiplexes in and around metropolitan areas. The rise of multiplexes has helped fuel an increase in admissions in Italy. 200 new multiplex screens were ...
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Wolfe goes theatrical with Poco Piu Di Un Anno Fa
Wolfe Video, the US videodistributor specializing in gay and lesbian product, is to enter the theatricalmarket in early 2004 with Italian drama A Little More Than A Year Ago (Poco Piu Di Un Anno Fa) directed by Marco Filiberti. Film consultant OrlyRavid will head up Wolfe's initial theatrical distribution efforts.The ...
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Qwerty takes on Kinsey, Searchlight, Myriad to distribute
Michael Kuhn’s Qwerty Films has boarded Bill Condon’s Kinsey which is set to start shooting on July 28. Qwerty will produce and finance the film which stars Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, with Fox Searchlight Pictures taking rights in North America, UK, Italy and Latin America.Kuhn closed a ten-picture distribution ...
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Paris court rules against Messier severance
A ruling Wednesday by the president of the Paris High Court has blocked Vivendi Universal from making any payments to former chairman Jean Marie Messier. On June 27 Messier was awarded upwards of 20 million euros by an arbitration court in New York, permitting him to recoup a hefty severance ...
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Young Adam to open Edinburgh film festival
David Mackenzie's critically-acclaimed Scottish drama Young Adam will open next month's Edinburgh International Film Festival. A dark, disturbing adaptation of the Alexander Trocchi novel starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton, the production is part of a strong line-up of premieres that underline the event's importance as a showcase for British ...
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Arndt to produce Roehler's Agnes
X-Filme creative pool's Stefan Arndt, named European Producer of the Year at last month's Cinema Expo in Amsterdam, wasn't planning to produce any features this year after the demanding production history of Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!But Arndt was tempted back into the producer's chair by Oskar Roehler's next feature ...
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Hong Kong/China trade agreement heralds production boom
The Hong Kong film industry is looking forward to a surge in production activity following the signing of a trade agreement that exempts Hong Kong movies from the mainland's import quota of 20 foreign films a year (Screen Daily, June 26). The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), signed by the ...
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Michel Gomez named director of French body, ARP
Following a meeting of the board, Michel Gomez has been named as director of France's authors-directors and producers association ARP. Gomez will succeed outgoing director Pascal Rogard who is heading off to run the writers' syndicate SACD. Gomez, who moves up from his post as ARP's deputy director, was formerly ...
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Rising ticket prices to drive European box office
Pan-European cinema admissions will reach 1 billion in 2005, rising from 910 million in 2002 - 20% over the three year period - according to a new report by research house, Screen Digest. Box office revenues will rise at an even faster rate over the same period - by 33% ...
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CineMedia shares soar as Tele Muenchen ups stake
CineMedia Film's shares soared by over 29% on Tuesday from 93 cents to Euros 1.20 on the news that the Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) has reached agreement with Amsterdam-based German Equity Partners BV (GEP) to acquire all of its 905,000 shares.This transaction, which is expected to be completed in the ...
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New German production outfit targets Czech talent
Pandora Filmproduktion's Karl Baumgartner has launched a new production outpost, Pallas Film, in the east German town of Halle to focus on projects with filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe.One of Pallas Film's first projects will be a feature film entitled Happiness by Czech director Bohdan Slama whose quirky Wild ...
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Spurgeon named finance director at UK's South West Studios
Former FilmFour finance director Chris Spurgeon has taken up the post of finance director at start-up UK film and TV studio South West Film Studios.Joining Spurgeon at the $9.4m (£5.76m) Cornwall facility is Kate Hughes, former head of corporate marketing & publicity for FilmFour. Hughes becomes marketing director at the ...
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Norwegian Film Fund greenlights seven new features
Seven new local features have been greenlit with backing from the Norwegian Film Fund (NFF). The films come from all over the country and a number of them are feature debuts - aswith Tore Rygh's romantic musical melodrama Alt For Egil (Everything For Egil), which is set in and around ...
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Phileine Says Sorry to open Netherlands film fest
Phileine Says Sorry (Phileine Zegt Sorry), anticipated as one of the highlights of a big year for Dutch films, has been set as the opening picture for this year's Netherlands Film Festival (24 Sept-3 Oct) in Utrecht.The film is a romantic comedy, adapted and directed by Robert Jan Westdijk from ...
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Wellspring buy worldwide rights to Revolution #9
US distributor Wellspringhas acquired worldwide rights except North American theatrical and TV to TimMcCann's psychological thriller Revolution #9 and has set a video/DVD release date in the US forOct 7.The film, which played atlast year's Toronto and Telluride film festivals and won the top juryprizes at the Nantucket and Mar ...